Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-12-29

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Decea,Jcr 2ad, 1850.
BY D. N. ALLEN.
ave have law, pnd by our law he ought to de"-JouS
Il chapter Q vsrsc.
Ia the ever changing drama of human history,
it always occurs that the most atrocious and da-
bolica deeds Of human wickednoss are commit,
ted by the sacred name, and under the protection
Of ialc. The erowning act Of Jewish iniqoi!y was
the crucifzion Of the Son IF Man. For his puri-
y Of lie, aud faithful testimony against the COR
ruption Of the times u which he lived, be died n
painful and ignominious death at the hands Of
The executors Of Roman lasc I'VE have law
and hy our law lie Ought to die!" ON the exc
cuuon of the Nasereue Relormer, on Calynry's
CORY mount, to the Martyrdom of } JJhn Brown,
BY order OF blrbarous and heather State thot
loolishY thiuks itself cieiiized aad CHRISTIAN, the
world has always slain its truest redeemers. Eve
Try eye is retrospective: it builds the tombs Of the
prophets aad Garushe9 tho sepulchres Of the right
eous Of long ago, but stones the saviors whom God
sends to call IL to repentance, and digs tho graves
Of the just and true, whom it's gibbets have hung.
Past generations may have had sayors and redeem
ers,-the present none. The jews believed in
Moses and Joshua; they could talk "face to face"
with God, or cause the obedient sun 10 pause mid
way in his durnal course, while flibustering
prophet carried on the work of devastation and
ruin it his enemies ranks. But tho sent of God
who should have redeemed Israel, compared with
whose teachings the highest wisdom of Moses was
Ioulishness him. the "stif necked and rebeilions
people" would not have to rule over them. Why
The Jews Of Paest me- as well as the Israelites of
Egypt, should not have religious teacher from
on bigh, SCENE not to have occurred to them to
inquire. Surely it could not have been that their
wisdom and virtue superseded the necessity of
further instruction, though doubtless then as now,
there was no lack Of sell-rjghteous scribes aud
pharasoes, who were abundantly satisfied with the
good old ways of the fathers ever willing TO grope
among the dry bones of tho past, aud put ths liv-
ing generation into masquerade, OUT of its cast off
wardrobe. But the FIRST century Of the Christian
era not more ready TO worship Muses. aud slay
Jesus, than is the ninotcnth to revere CsIvsry's
Martyr, and raise gbbets for all who follow his
precepts too closely.
"Inasmuch as yO did it not unto the least of
these my brethern, ye did it not unto me-"
$50 long as human lips remain unled,
Men starye their Christ for lack OF coarsest bread
WhereeT a single bond nan fetered stands,
Men chain their Christ and bind their saviors
bands.
Whereer single orphan inly dies,
Or grows imbru!ed in our factories
Like old king Herod we again condemn
TO death, the infant Lord of Bethlehem"
In the light of this great truth, how des picably
mean, and basely hypocridcal are all our protes
sions of pcty and devotion to the cause Of Christ,
while trampling on the rights Of the defenceless!
Pure religion and indebted, Jefure God the Faith
er is this that ye visit the widow and fatheress
in their affection, and keep yourself unspo!ted |
from the world" Blu, the most patent fact Of the
American nation is that in its support Of slavery,
it plumbers the widow of her dearest and most sa-
cred rights and degrades the orphan from the dig
nifty of manhood into a chattel, having no right
he dominant class is bound to respect. And This
Is not true of one individual single height or
hood, but of four millions Of beings formed in the .
same image as ourselves and born to a like inher-
tance. But who is guilty of this heaven daring
niquity? Amos! tho entire American people -
rne late presidential election shows how fearfully
he plague spot has spread and how terribly the
,orrOding career has done its work OF Intellectual
and moral death. After all the light
hat has been shed upon the avowed principles of
he several parties, together with the well known
'iews of the standar1-beaIers of each, no sane
nan will put in the plea of Ignorance TO
creen himself from the foil responsibility of his |
Ict What then, is the decision Of the "model re-
'ublic," on the question of human rights? AL
most unanimously ly-with scarcely q dissenting
oice-as compared with the whole people, it has
,een declared that this viest Of iniquities must be
defended and perpetua'ed so long as the avarce or
uqidity Of the oppressOrs shall demand its exs-
ence. This decision has been made thus emphat-
c, by men, multitudes of whom, realize the enor-
nifty Of the crime, and who acknowledge the obli-
cation of the Higher Law Theoretically they be-
ieye in justice, truth, humanity;-practiea they
erve the devil with "alacrity," to do his dirtiest
work. Among all the millions who have lust vo-
ed scarcely sane mind but believes that were
&c slave he would Ge justified n cutting his way
o freedom, though in SO doing he must needs walk
'er the dead bodies of oppressors, from the ever
!ades Of Fiorida to the lair of the British Lion.
And yet, amazing as it may SEEM tie highest
ype Of political Anti-Slavery, only asks that this
five fold barbarsm," shall not pollute with it's
eslilential presence neo territory. More than
90 600 square miles of this country are cursed
y the presence Of the ylest system of tyrany the
un ever shown upon. and sham democracy and {
weak republicensm swear, by all the gods &
uown to the constitution, that it shall be mo-
,sted therein; that murder, theft, coucubinage, :
nd wholesale pluuder shall have free course and 1
e protected by the entire force Of the nation
Iay more! Jnbilant politicians, who plume them :
elves on being "as much Anti-Slavery as any ?
ody' are exultant over their recent success and .
anfest their excessive patriotism by torchlight Il
grand ilIumina,ions, the burning of a
lnpowder, drinking champagne, ("all sham but il
e rain,"l eeiing late sGpperg &C., and all be- i,
lase their party has succeeded in electing man 81