Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-10-06
THE ANTI-SLAvERY BUGLE.


as Of old; and the country If saved bv him
ut oil muGt be saved by his blood, But we
cannot be saved even by such a sacrifice.
And fer one, l have no such desire,
and will not trust my salvation either to the blood
of him who died on Mount Calvary, or that Of the
Martyr Of to-day. We must work out our own saliva.
ton; for snless we have a character and being Of
our own. there is nothing to save.
Our Colleges have done what they could to affect
the ruiz of the land. Our worse Schools, tho
government and politics, have added their blight
ing influence; ard what these have not done, the
church has accomplished. I tell you the sort of
culture we have had, has proved our ruin. The
schools, the government, and the church have ful-
filed the terrible vision of the old prophet. That
which the palmer worm hath left, hath the locust
eaten; and that which the locust hath left, hath
the canker worm eaten, and that which the canker
worm hath left hath the catterpiller eaten.' Truly
We can go down, as with the old prophet into the
valley Of vision and find it is full of bones, And
behold there were very many and 10. they were We.
ry dry And the question as Ct old comes before
us can :heso dry bones live?'
This age has put to death the bravest man il
has produced; and the best political party in the
land sanctions the deed. When it declares that
any invasion of one state by the citizens of another,
no matter upon what pretext-is the gravest Of
crimes; it thus, pronounoes John Brown the
greatest of criminals. SEQ then the prostration OF
soul, as well in the politics as the religion of the
time. Your school houses may be of use some
times but they are almost useless now. 1 see you
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the use2 Nobody requires it. Haven't you chur.
cbes enough to s%snctify slavery and teach Rufus
Choate to carry back the switch to the parent tree,
and also to carry back the slave to bondage. / tell
you if slavery is ever abolished, or ever abolished
on any other principle than that of John Brown,
it must be after we have had an entire revolution
in our schools, as we'll as our churches; for you
must educate the age to believe q man is better
than a sheep; and have q better religion than that
which sends Rufus Choat to Heaven, for saving q
tumble-bug, and me to hell, for saving Margaret
Gamers child. What Doctor of Divinity, today
does not invite tie slave holder to his communion
What Church does not ? No one of any inaiu.
ence ; or if any refuse the slave holder, they ad
nit his apologists. When the church and til,
people oan thus falsify humanity and trample or
the laws of Jehovah, and stultify their immorta
souls, you may think as you will, but / thinl
the American Church and Harvard College fai
utterly in the salvation Of the Country. l thinl
there is not power enough in the gospel of ouI
country to save the church let alone what she CALI
the world.
But the question is what shall we have There
is not time to answer the question. But unles,
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do nothing at all. Slavery has increased under
our government from half q million to four mil
lions, and slave territory in the same proportion
We began with Washington and have gone on fol
sixty years, and, to-day, we have James Buchan
an Instead Of John Jay, we have on the Su
preme Bench, thai Embodiment Of cruelty and cor
%ruptiOn, the author of the bred Scott decision.
So we have slavery here, and James Buchanan
The Bible says that Adam begot a son in his OWL
likeness. So our American institutions bega
James Buchanan, and who can doubt the paren
tage? lie exists because he could not kelp it
And ycu took him and made him president. Oul
institutions grow out of the character of the PEG
pie; and while that character remains we can hav,
no other but these and similar institutions. w
must drain these filthy sources Of poisonous mias
ma, as have seen men draining stagnant pools
Our country is a lake Of ssagnant corruption, PEG
pied with terrible monsters which batk upon it
shores, devOuring their victims by thousands ant
millions.
We can never abolish slavery unless We cal
reach down and take hold of the primary humani
ty of the people, and rescue it from the crushing
Influences of our Institutions. There is death il
the pot; it is ~bubbling and boiling over with death
Could / stand 90 a mount Of vision, what she I'D
see' Anybody doing anything nobel Nol u
Of the kind. Men think the age of heroes is p,
and look back to Homer, and Shakespeare, an
Milton. They think the milky way, over whic
Newton drove his chariot, in glory, is never MOI
to be trodden; go they sink down in inactivity
think Of Homer and the Heroic ages, and sir
their lullaby, now l lay me down to Sleep 70
cannot become poets by thinking Of Homer; no
philosophers by setting up with Bacon, or trave
ling with Newton among the stars; unless 20
exercise your power Of thought, live out the ez
perieuce those men lived, and toll and ponder o
they did.
If speak tonight to half q dozen men and WI
men and am understood, l have done a work wol
thy of the highest angel. Nay, if l speak to on
soul, am doing a creator work, tonight. tina
vas done in the creation Of sun, and moon an
j stars, for l am tanning that into q fame, that shal
. shine with immortal s~plendor. when all the star
{ of heaven shall De extinguished. If there be
{ man or a woman here who feels that spark begi
. to glow, may it burn brighter as you press on
ward, and lead you safely through the danger
" that beset your path.
b SUNDAY MORNING SESSION.
SPEECH OF II. FORD DOUGLASS,