Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-04-20

God blessed them, and cursed Ham, and had a
right to do go. So mon was no, "born equal",
though Ward Beecher had preached q hundred
sermons from the text. 'Some men were born to
long life, and some to short some to riches, oud
some to poverty some to honor, and some to dis
grace p and it was no mans business. The slave
should be returned to his master in the South
That was the best condition for him many q poor
"nigger" in the free States would be glad to ex-
change places. The slaves Of the South were the
only men 10 this nation, who could obey the
scriptural Injunction, Take no thought Tor The
morrow, for he knew where his bread would come
from, which was more than the speaker knew
Bot he ought not to be returned to Africa that
was hea,hen slavery, and "God had forbid that
lie said it was a theological fact, that God did
not make the African for a man he had no
BRAIN. There is now q hundred million Of
slaves, in Africa, held by their own brethren".-
Egypt had always been the hot-bed Of slavery
it was part Of Africa" Abraham was so faithful,
that God called him his most faithful he held
more slaves than any other man. Wives were
bought then like any other property, and belonged
to sheir husbands as much now, as then. The
true sphere Of woman is to stick to man, and take
SaiO I bio ObliuECus OUu nAou tuNuS NuihBo tiRut,
The South had cause to seeede. The abolitionisIs
had talked against slavery the pulpit had formed
10 to berate their own brethren in the South, and
the Gospel had been overturned oil this had been
going on for thirty years, until the spirited men in
the South, who had divine inspiration on their
side, had gone away by themselves, to enjoy their
rights and to 6gbt them back, was to fight
against God. Sympathy, the great forte Of the
abolitioBists, was a term convertible With pr9u-
dice and this green-eyed monster, with but one
ear, listens to tho heart.rending scenes of the
slave, and longs to shed the blood Of his faithful
master. 1t weeps tears of pity for the slave moth
er, but can forsake and teggar its own children =
1t is forever pray ing for freedom aud equal rights
for the poor Niger, but as wind is not prayer, il
will blow;some time, before God will hear. He
closed his remarks Of general application with the
maxim, ga man is known by the company he
keeps when you see the color CT a tree-toad, you
can tell the color Of the cornstalk upon which he
croaked. So is every abolitionist saying what
Ward Beecher has said, ard what God and their
country despise them for saying"
These very facetious remarks were applauded by
the back rows while the more considerable Demo
Gratis in front said, ut is sufficient.
The casualty of this demonstration will license
a personal independence of thought and action be-
fore unknown to this people who have Lot before
heard the enunciation of abolitionism, as the car
dinal doctrine of Christianity.
My letter, already 100 long, will suggest the i'm
portance of prosecuting this work here, and in the
northwest, where the mass Of tho people are al
ready tolerant of immediate emancipation, and
the recognition Of this right in The Federal Constr
tuition. JOSEPHINE S. GRIrFING.