Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-09-15

From the Free Church Portfolio.
INSURRECTIONARY PRINCIPLES ADVO-
GATED BY THE NEW YORK WORLD"

How true it is chat every claim urged for op
pressed humanity in one part Of the world MAY
be useC as an argument against wrong everywhere
Principles ere dangerous things. Like edged tool,
they cut tho very hands Of those who unskillfull,
use them. We have an instance of this in thr
'WOrld' the new religious daily which pattern,
alter the morality and pioty of the Tract Society.
THE indignant sympathy of all christendom
was lately awakened by the outrage which remoy
ed n Jewish child from his parents. 1t is moi
likely that it will slunber now that q host oil
christian parents and children have been overwhcl
med BIZ a common destruction, and the like de-
structiOn impends over the large christian popula!
ton OF the Turkish provinces. Some thousands
have persisted already. But 10 Syria alone there
are upwards of COO. 900 christians, who are now
probably trembling in apprehension of O similar
Tate. 1t is no time to stand upon technicalities
nor to consult presidents. Charity said good
Archbishop TillO!son, is above rubies; and hu.
mainly is higher Mqn national lqtc. In fact, the
necessity and duty of protecting the christian pop.
%ulatiops, under the fanatical despotism of the OF.
toman Empire, has come to be an admitted princi.
pie Of general law. The last treaty between the
christian powers and the Porte recognised it.
Russia has since assumed still more boldly the
attitude Of protector to the Greek christians, end
Europe has admitted her right to do so. 1t is not
likely that France will be more slack to protect
the Catholics, nor that England will leave either
to Russia or France, or both combined, the Office
OF protector and avengcr under circumstances
where it might so easily be made the means of
turthering their ambitious eDcroachments or en-.
dangering her own Asiatic possessions. Our own
country has an interest in this matter not the
mere interest of humanity, though a free and pow
erful state might well allow such generous instincts
to influence her policy"
Now, in this quotation we see principles laid
down intelligently and deliberately which justified
John Brown in his effort to free the slaves o:
Virginia. If it is on admitted principle of gener-
al law that the christian populations under the
faratical despotism of the Ottoman Empire should
be prOteo,ed,-i Tillutson's maxim is good and
christian, that humanity is higher than national
laT'-who can dare blame the five heroes who
persisted on the scaffold of Virginia in on abortive
effort to redeem from q bondage worse than death
the millions Of slaves in this land E? Rid the
poor and needy out of the land Of the wicked is
a divine command; and it lie also a dictate Of hu-
manly as is proved By the thousands Of swords
that havc lcaped from their scabbards to avenge
the wrongs done to the christians in Syria. The
great sin and fault for which John Brown forfeit
ed his life, was thai he endeavored to obey this
divine command There are four millions of
American citizens, condemned by the laws of the
~piratical oligarcics of the South to perpetual
slavery for no crime. Their labor is pludered
from them. Their wires and children are torn
from them and sold away to a returnless distance.
They are treated like chattels PERSONAL in the
hands of their owners. They long for freedom
and would willingly exchange their bondage for
death. John Brown regarded the slavoholdiug
states as piracies, and he did on a small scale
what the WOrld wants all Christendom to do, in
rescuing and protecting the Syrian christians from
Mohammedan despotism. IlJw dare the World
then, in the face and teeth of its avowed principles
concerning Intervention, say one word in re-
buke of John Brown and his associates for their
heroic deeds 10 Virginia?
But you will not find the South endorsing the
policy of Intervention in Syria, They watch
principles with the eye of q basilisk. They were
u uehniy entinleo u hUssutu anu tue cause oil
the Hungarians because they knew that the Mag
yrs principles if applied to the dcspotisns of the
South as well as of Austria, would STRIFE The
chains from the limbs of every slave. They are
consistent. But the World is bleareyed, and
doe not see where its principles would lead. If
it did, we fear it would adopt the do-do,hing prin-
ciple and policy dicta'ed by the Tract Society.