Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-02-09


every yoke--lcs the oppressed 90 free Proclaim
4 liberty throughout the land unto all the inbabi
tauce epeating, by his piovidential re
] Dukes, the commands of his word. To every lsy
of ex1ottaton based on the word and Proyidepc,
Of God, besotted Priesthood, like that Of rebel
lious Irael, cries peace peace Heresy Inf
! delity Slavery is Bible Institution. At least il
is innocent. Though It annuls marriage with
holds the Bible extorts labor without wapes-it /,
not matum an Sc" To this the Compiling Hone,
0 OF Mammon and the Senate Chamber of Moloeh
: respond, amen Abolition is treason. To hide
' the outcasts Is rebellion Pot it down BY mobs
S by bludgeons, or by statutes"
0 Such is the wisdom Of this world, in It's treat
ment of those who bear testimony against oppres
Q sion. For thirty years the worldly wisdom of The
; ruling politicians and ecclesiastics has been en-
} ployed to settle the vexod question, to silence the
agitation "Finality" alter fnality has heen pro-
! Claimed then ripped up by them and cast to the
} winds. Compromise measures have been adopted
} Compromises have been repealed. Compromises
are again proposed. Yet the agitation RACES more
hercely shan ever. Is not "the wisdom of this
world foolisLness with God? ?" Has lie ever been
found to rauIy their corrupt and wicked eomrro-
misses?
When the "oggressions oG the slave power" as.
sailed the interests of the ",ohlc" race. ',ckde"
mans party came up not to overthrow the poccr Of
slavery by killing slace,y ITSELF Oh! no. But by
promising to let it live and exhaust its strength
on the black man, in the slave States, but forbid
ding it to extend itself into the new Territories
claimed for the exclusive use and benefit of the
bchite man! The selfshness and meanness of the
claim was scarcely less than that Of the Slave
Power itself. Such movement could not reach
the conscience of he Stakeholder nor oyer-Gwe
him, nor inspire him with fear. Il left the
strength of the Slave Power un;mpaired, and
promised to leave it untouched. Ii only irr,ated
and embodoned the Shareholders to put forth their
power, and to urge new demands as they are
nlw doing.
Gods command to execute justice for The op-
pressed" was ignored, deried and spurned. The
aid OF the God Of the oppressed, it was thought
could be spared. 1t would be unsafe to attempt
obedience to his commands. 1t would irritate the
Shareholders and to conciliate Men and propitiate
their favor, was deemed of more i'm mportance, than
to secure the cooperation and protection of God
Has not the event proved that their wisdom was
foolishne5s with HIM
Had Mr.. Lincoln been elected on Coda noli,i-
cal latiorm--the platform of the Bible of the Dec
laraton of Independence and of the Constitution
the platform of equal justice and liberty to all
men, the conscience of the Shareholders and of the
whole nation would have been reached and i'm
pressed. Every man. woman and child, would
have known that it was right. The KNOWLEDGE of
this, during the campaign and afterward, would
have beer tower of strength. The irritation of
the slnvehollers would have been loss-their cour-
age nothing at all! What would they have though,
0! attempting? Less than two hundred thousand
Shareholders among four millions of slaves, six
millions of Southern non-slavoholding whites, and
againstt the majority in the free States The tele-
graphic announcement Of the election Of thorough
abolition President would have settled the oues {
ton, without eommoton, without secession, with t
out threat of secession. Every intelligent, re- 1
aecting, well-iniormed man; with knowledge Of c
history and of human nature, will admit this. t
Here then we have the sacrifice Of conscience q
truth, tight liberty, and obedience to the plain {
commands of God, for the purpose of securing il
quiet the absence of agitation, of t
civil eommcon and disuuiOn. Yet the result c
turns out to be the reverse of all this. 4
The very evils dreaded by the Republican lead v
ers, TO arrest which they failed to fulfil the high
mission of statesmen and deverers, have been b
brought upon them by the "wise and prudent il
policy they have pursued Even now, in the midst Il
If the Developments which reveal their lack of sa p
,acity and forecast they renew and redoube their
xpediens and proffered compromises, which only iu
nviie bolder demands and incite to more audac- ST
Gus aggressions. Even Seward, in the Senate, til
Ike weak minded mother with her spoiled child,
seen feeding the South Carolina shareholders er
7ish sugar-pumbs to stop their crying and put Sc
ng hammers aud mirrors into their hands, 20 Vi
reven: them from doing mischief OK
Surely "the wisdom of this world is fooishness th
ith God" re
For seventy years, the wisdom of this world, ar
the Church, in the State, and in the Comptinp Cc
has been taxing its resources to the utter be
ost, in every direction, and in the use of every ar
nceivable expedent, to stave off the heaven "r
duty to break every yoke and let the til
pressed 90 Free They have talked of slayerv's "
yng out bf ITSELF of cutting off its supplies by .h
opping the slave trade of draining it off by colo by
cation, of limiting its boundaries by compromis. an
of shutting it out of Territories, Of refus- KC
to edmit slave States of thus surrounding fot
e old slaSe States with new free States, and 10 VIC
at way compelling it 20 decline and die Every an
e OF these expedients has failed. The slave Ur
ldo has never been entirely suppressed. It's blC
rtia suppression instead of causing the decline co.
slavery has not prevented its growth to such ow
nensions that it demands that the restriction be Til
moved, and is, ITSELF in defiance of this laws an rie
ling it, Though excluded from the North West in,
rriIory, slavery has added Louisiana Texas and pa
'rida, and has procured decision of the high. SCI
Federal Court, legalizing it in all the Terrific.
$. and virtually in oil the States, a measure Ur
lSn Is approved by the President, and it's sup cal
~ Is now made condition of the continuance an
Ihe Union! One by one, the demands of free tha
m have been, by compromise abandoned, till it Gin
ditheult to tell what remains-except i. 30 that the
President elect shall be permitted to be nau- Ger