Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-09-08

thors and philanthropists, the church and minis
tiers OF .he future, may preach hope to the despair
ing, consolation to the afflicted, Joy to the joyless,
delivsrance to the captive, liberty to tho enslaved,
and light and life to those who sit in darkness and
the shadow of death.
How many will visit Mount Auburn between
1860 and 1867 Not less, probably, that $1,000
per year. How many would visit it, and 20 away
without reading that Anti. Slavery lecture from the
lips of John Brown, delivered to this nation and
the world. in the dun geon and on the scafold ?
Few, very few,
American slaves now count four millions. In
the future oS this republic, their ~posterity will be
counted by tens if not by hundreds Of millions.
These will repair to the placo where shall rest the
remains Of John Brown, and Of the Man that first
inaugurated the movement that shall then have
issued 10 the abolition Of slavery, and the emanci-
patton Of the last American slave, and there they
will worship the God Of Liberty, and in their
hearts and with their tongues recognize the power
of Truth to conquer Error, of Love to subduo Hat
red, of Good to overcome Evil, and of Suffering
to triumph over all Unrighteousness.
Resistance to tyrsnts is obedience to God and
that, too, by such means as each one shall deem
right, and best adapted to accomplish the end
sought. That John Brown was honest, sincere,
earnest, and perfectly true to h himself, in the course
he took against slave .olders, all will admit. That
be acted 10 accordai se with the Declaration Of In
dependence, and W til the fundamental principles
of the Republican and Democratic parties, and of
the Government. and with the spirit, the prayers,
the teachings and practices Of the American cler-
~, church and people, in invadiny Virginia 10
free slapes, must also be admitted by all. Why.
then, should not Massachusetts, as a State, remove
the remains of John Brown to Mount Auburn,
and there erect a monument over hem, and have
engraved on it an Anti. Slavery lecture, to be read
by her ~posterity in ali coming time When the
names of Warren and Hancock, Washington and
those who fought against mere political thraldom,
are forgotten, and their monuments, with thei-
bones, become dust, the memory of Jvbn Brown,
and Of those who have shown their fidelity to and
reverence for Humanity by resisting, unto death,
American chattel slavery, will be affectionately
and reVerently cherished, and their spirit and
teachings gladly and practically obeyed.
Who will move in this matter ? Will Republi-
cans Their leaders, though many, perhaps most
of them, would in their hearts rejoice to see the
deed done, yet will they not dare to move in it--at
least, till after election. The masses of the party,
who embody all that is Of value in it, would open.
ly interest themselves in it, a they did in properly
observing the day Of execution, and that of his
funeral obsequies. Five thousand, or ten thous-
and dollars, if need be, would readily be contrib
uted. Who would not give his dollar TO forward
an object so i'm portant 20 the cause Of freedom in
the worlds future? In what could money be bet
ter spent than to write, in GRANTEES lecture against
slavery, and for freedom, to be read by unborn
millions ? Slavery has it's EUerett to collect funds
to erect q monument to a STAKEHOLDER, because he
resisted political oppression. Who will raise the
means to build a monument to perpetuate the mem
DRY Of Resistance, unto death, of chattle slavery,
as i. was embodied in John Brown before the
court, in the dungeon, and on the scaffold Of Vir-
ginia2
Yours, HENRY G. WRIGHT.