Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-04-07

much like JIhn Browns pikes--nnd other coonlly
tangible AMI penetrating and con nvincing weapons.
In 40 book, not profes.ed military. are there moro
frequent md less cquivncai approval Of war. as a
moral agency, than you will find in ;he IIoly
Scriptures. Ether, then, the Bible is lie. or
war. for righteous purpose, is justified Of leiv.
en-, and n Christian duty to those helpless child.
rem Of Col in this Cjntatcrtcy, which Southern
iniq"ity MS it i. enaoted into laws, convert in,o
articles OF commerce and classify with tho beasts
that perish
In profhne history, where did ever talk only
iiherl'e tho hondm.n, or. unaided hy physical
nuSierieS greatly ndtancc the cau,e Of freedom
Was Mag"a Charter granted to po'itOnsY Wa,
King John converted by peaceful nrgnman,-. .ur 10y
the PRAYERS or the votes Of his penple Not ho
it was not until their arguments we're beaten into
the form OF hatucuxes. iha, he tonk up his pen
and signed the Grcnt Charter uf the freedom o!
England, and, by 50 ding. laid the foundation
stone Of American ReruLlicanism. Was chatte
ism in England abolished b7 the pelctlul pro
gresS of Commerce AMI civiliza alton alone? L.,
the memory of thu brave men, 80 lnng aad cru
ely calumnia'c l-Wlt Tyler. jock Straw. john
y
G"rs not cinyin1e vat thl; physical frs, was an
important elo neht of Eng,h progress, call up the
great shades Of Cromwell IIanpdpn, pym, and
'he other statesmen of the Puritan prfect,,ate
Is IL necessary to refer to France It is not
necessary if wished only u provo that young
liberty must be )iptizad in the blrpd of Je>po,s
but it may he proper for another reaSon-becnusp.
nrnely,it is so often held mp MS n terrible exam, l..
OF the horrors of n physical Resolution ainst
Tyranny. History needs 10 be rewritten frr US
All EIs'i1h hs'orilns have their Suite. in
the observatory Of Windrr Castle. When rnl
justice shall he done to the Republican crnse our
historians must 90 To Banker lin. aud from tim.
sacred emiuenee regard the notions Of maukird
Then. 'i"d not IN then. will the memory Of the
French Revolu Jun:sts be vjndicated and revered
Who among you have not been taught to regard
pierre, and D D,non an Mur.t as demons ?
Yet Know norhing thar they did which it was nor
their dutv TO liberty to do. To SECURE the liher.
ties OF England, it wds mteratvely demnnded
that The head of king should he flung du.n as Il
suhntlet of defiance n the allies Of despntsm hy
the friends nf freedom aud progre,s. They threw
il down nud by this administration 70 munarchs
that a Dissolution ui the Union letwcen their
h0ads and bodies possible ereGt. il taught
them through a.! future ages to respect the right
"f rie people, aud the integrity Of their on wind.
pipes.
In France it vas necessity that q whole class
should he hehelded. in urder that rheir orrrcs
-i1n %! the people mi sht be Abn.i,hed That class
was the nri.tocracy. lIInjreai- h,usanis-|
we're guillntned. They werG rich and had para
lies of G,d families and had mourncrs: ef his.
oric repmtariuns. and hal loving !iosraIbers
Every time therefore that lI-ul fen, II book
,rruUg lip; M ,litis tie country. for half a ecu
ury, has been filed with :he DIVING cries Of these
desp,is Bat, for centuries before, by
hunger aud cold, and urjust im,risorn.outb by cro-
=! in"s, 10y arbitrary vip eu,e, trouSanrs annually
"ere nusclo>sv mnrrlred that these de,puts might
i've in ease aud have complete duminion Their
1nldces were Luiit On the quivering hearts of the
'eOple, which ionrulIy struggled and groancd
md wePt big drops Ut looi under the grieyuus
oad aud behind the gilded walls nnl rich tapcs-
ries cG their roman chareGux, the seer berl /
,nbe1 pining FOR Of tood aud nintIicrs perish
~ from cold, and young maidcns, pure in heart /
riven in:o ii e SGine and streets, tn save them
elves from iripendng stGrvatun. Like the for
ed and rrshttnl laugh OF the cnurtpz a. the Splan
ur Of the Court and the Palaces Of Francs, to him
who lnoked wisely shnwed how Gttrr ind com plclc
vas the moral wreck behind it. 1t never man
aid it before. il never man utters il again, here
nd now. with all my heart and ia all sincerity | |
ay-thank God for Rolesriore ! England was
Ived from ',he hnrror,' (sn styled by the syrn.
hahrs Of despoIsm) and the terrors' of n civil
var What has been the result? Mark it welt
u England, which has never been invaded by
nregn foe, since the d ,ys OF William called the
)pnquerer in England where so-cailed rGace and
-salled freedom have walked hand in hand mr
Iany centuries; in England which bnasts Of the
inst Industrious that the world has ever seem
n whose colonies and possessions and ships and
ulers the sun never sets in England, which
casts, and not wholly without cause of it's moral
y and Christianity and philanthropy -there i,
'.day more tuFering by reason Of excessive taxa
ION, more involuntary prostitution, more ngeni-
ing deaths. from hunger and coli and want of
Heller. I!inre instances Of suicides ana Of crimes
ommiued under the pressure Of starvation, than
, France. the h0t bed according to the English
"
rance which, within the present century, has
epentedly seen hostile armies on its soil and
,reign conquCrs debating terms to its people in
g Capital; in France Which has neither the work
" energy nor the accumulated we ,lh, nor the
zerded empire, nor tie lucrative commerce Of
ngland Ibis truth can be proved by statistics
Again. We lave the high authority Of Thomas
arlyle, for saying that here was less suffering
France during the Reign Of Terror, than during 7
ny period Of similar duration in the centuries pre-
,eding. But it was the shreking hundreds who
lffered now, not the dumb millions as then. Yet
take it that the fate of the street-sweeper was
nigh to tie God-lIeart, as the condition of the ,
rince Of the Blood
Since the French Revolution. what dazzling or (
hat glorious work Of Freedom has been accom- t
ished by moral suasion onlyi Has any such r
ork been done in tie United States 7 Reply n