Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-05-12

bis only refuge from the consuming heat, to put
this asp at his heart, to plunge the sting Of this
death into his own being, not for himself alone,
but for his wife and children, and the race that is
to come after him ? You compel him to choose
for them as we'll as himself this protracted living
Heath, that he may escape, as, in his ignorance,
he thinks he may, from worse social torments.
And the free States take part in this work OF tor
ture, and wherever there seems to be a door OF
escape for the miserable victim, you hasten to kim
die a new fire in that gap in the circle. You pro-
nounce free negroes a nuisance; you bristle
against them the bayonets Of ostracising statutes
you hold prepared in your leash, for a guarantee
to the owners Of escapin slaves, the lnarshals and
bloodhounds of the Fugitive Slave bill, which you
sre ready to let loose upon them. Your candi-
dates for the Presidency declare that they 90 for
that guarantee, and that if the torturing code Of
inhumanity and cruelty as it stands now is found
insufficient for the protection and security of this
crime Of man.stealing, or should by any possibilii
~ be repealed, they will go in for another and 4
strongerl If the glare and heat and death of slE-
very within the Gil Gle of fire are terrible, you will
compel the victims Of the syoter1, should despait
enable them to break through, to run the more
dreadful gauntlet Of your professedly Christian
AMI penal infections upon men guilty of such
treason against 50 sacred a domestic institution.
And to whom is this bid for the Presidency
made 7 to whom is the promise held forth, that IL
you will carry them into the Presidential chair,
they will see to it that the vested interests Of the
slave States in the bodies and souls Of four millions
Of human beings, and of thousands that even now
may be added to the number Of such screws aud
CarTotinus of rncinl fnrtnra ne tre hava -ararrad IN.
that the vested interests and rights of the slave
States in this slave property shall receive no det-
riment, but shall be secured to them forever Z To
Christians, not to savages, to men who profess to
believe in a God, aud a Divine Revelation, and o
law of mercy to the stranger, and of love to thy
neighbor as thyselfl To Christians is this promise
and persuasion held out, that if they will elect to
sovereign power a man available by right PROBES.
sions, that power shall be exercised to keep the
, slaves within their circle of fire, and to secure
their being so held and kept forever
Thus, through another year, along with the in
gathering of souls iuto the Churches, The work Of
t this remOrseless cruelty has been going on, those
? outrages against God and man SO multiplying
r that tho very sensibiliiies and conscience of tho
pooplo are becoming Indifferent to them, harden
] cd by them. Borne in silence by the Church and
: Ministry, they seem to be accepted and sanction
$ ed. Even the constituencies of a living piety, that
ought to have awakened q universal horror and
|, hatred against such wickedness. is p~aralyzed by il.
] And these evils, wrongs, outrages, nggreFsions, do
: not seem to haze been checked in the least, nor
! lessen0d, nor even shamed, by the REVEALS of re-
i ligion. Like too rival steeds, neck and neck, the
] two agencies of God and Mammon, Heaven and
r He'll, race together in the same Church.
D Religion has no more perceptible influence in
D checking this sin than the warmth Of the Arctic
d summer, or the glory Of the Northern lights, in
Q counteracting tho glaciers of December, or than the
g frosts of the winter in stopping the cataract Of
o Niagara, 1t has no more effect upon the defend.
u es Of this sin than the light of the moon upon
Barnum's menagerie at monday. 1t has no more
a to do with staying its progress than the running
of the water of the CrotOn Reservoir by pipes In
; to our dwellings has to do with the stopping of the
a cars on the Hudson River Railroad, or the regulat
e ing of the time table between this city and Phila'
II delphia, No man loses his reputation by defend
n friends who apply tho Word of God against it
The man who goes for the abolition Of this wicked
ness is declared to be a dangerous radical, and hi
who attempts to agitate society on the subject o
N slavery in the slave States, is meddling with tina
which is out of his province, and is injuriDg tn,
peace and prosperity of the free States.