Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-01-28
every manner that sslashness, and lust. and re.

every manner that sel6shness, and lust, and re-
vepge can dictate. Among them he saw
churches, ard ministers, and statesmen claiming
to be Christians while the statesmen said, that
religion and humanity have nothing to do with
politics interest alone is the governing principle
with nations And the priests said, that slavery
is a divine institution, ordained Of God from the
beginning So they proppcd The auction block
with Bibles; and trafickcd in women aud chill
drcn according to religion and wrote texts upon
their letters and bred human Beings for the
market by Scripture rule aud drove them in
gangs to the riccswamps to the cheering music of
devout psalms
lilo saw that these 10000 0 men aud women
were claimed as the property Of three hundred
Eshousand other men and women i e., that the
oppressed wero thirteen times more numerous
than the oppressors. And yet, the will of this
handful OF tyrants was the power and the law of
the land Every oec ofMem, including tho wo-
men and children, being equal in political power
TO sepen freemen Of the North.
lie saw that every officer Of government, from
the %littlost Postmaster of the i%ittlest to Tn, up to
The President, was the creature and the tool OF
this slave-oligarchy And over all, he saw a
Supreme Court, whose members have lived until
their locks are whitened by the SHOWS of many
winters, but W oe frosts, alas have frozen the
humanity in their hearts, so that they can pro-
mulgate sentiments which pirates everywhere will
approve, and the most rufian and brutal selfish
ness rejoice in; a court in which oil political fogy-
ism seems to eliminate and petrify, which says
shat every seventh human being among us has no
rights which we are bound to respect! While
under all, he saw the brutalized and helpless
slave.-now we'll clothed and fed, with home, and
wife, and cbildren,-now chained in the market
place. and sold to the highest bidder,-now pamp-
cred and caressed, then beaten with rods, mangled
by tloodhoun6s, burned at the stake,-torturedb by
every process that fendish souls can invent. And
he heard the low prayer from a thousand huts, ask
ing Heaven again and again how long the night
shall last! And he heard, too, the despairing
wall oil the helpless mother and child flying
through the trackless forests, as they heard the
bay OF tho savage dogs upon their track
And in view Of all these wrongs,-these i,co
hundred years bondage of an outraged people,-in
chains without q crime,-stricken without a pro-
vocation, --Plundered and degraded for no other
reason than that God had colored their skins lin
view Of these horrible wrongs, l say, John Brown
asked. not politicians or churches, Blu. God, what
was his duty in the premises
And God said to him, 1t thou undo the heavy
burden, and break every yoke, and let the oppres.
sed 60 free, then shall thy light rise in obscurity,
nrd thy darkness be as the MONDAY thy right
eousness shall go before thee, and the glory Of
the Lord shall be thy rear-ward.' And, looking
oil the consequences in the face, he gathered o
few friends around HIM, and deliberately prepared
for the encounter, and went calmly down into
che shadow of slavery, and struck as he was able
fer the freedom of the oppressed. n
But, whether wise and expedient or not. was it
right for John Brown to 60 into Virginia, sword
In hand, to free slaves l do not ask if it was le-
gal, constitutional, polite, but only if it was righte
II the logic Of Bunker hill was sound. then John
Brown Was right. II the Massachusetts, Bill Of
HssSAts nNssumon ssnse, off shs Declaration Of
IudsPendencs Il true, then John Brown was
ritbtF q sqiIGE .s3a.tW p#e9 eIefd eA
IF Lafayette was a hero, John Brown is more
shcro: If Rogers, Ridley, Latimer. were mar
tyrs, John Brown was more q martyr. THEY died
tor religious rights only, but he for every right that
man can exercise.
III their aim was noble, Browns was Christ-like:
for they died for their opn rights, but he for the
rights of the friendless and oppressed.-Rer. W.
n Fisk.