Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-10-03
EXTRACTS FROM A SPEECH OF
VIM. LLOYD GARRISON.

After a few words expressing his happi-
ness in meeting the abolitionists of Eastern
Pennsylvania, his brethren as the children of
n common father, and his brethren also as en-
gagged in a common cause aud impelled by
common desires for the triumph Of truth, aud
right, aud for the slaves deliverance, the
speaker went on to remark upon the solemni-
ity and importance of the question before
them. We should not act rashly, he SAID, there
should be nothing impulsive in our move
ments. Not that we should wait to know
what affect our course may have on ourselves
--our ease or prosperity or good lame. IcH-
ABoD, will be the motto of our banner, in the
day when such considerations can make us
hesitate about advancing in the path of duty.
We should ask only what is right!-not what
is politicl--or popularl We are not to fol-
Low the multitude to do evil.
/ see a large portion of those before me,
who ought 10 be disuniouists; who, though
their rights are as dear and as precious as
ours, are treated as n~on-entities by your gov
srumeut. aud by your political parties
Wings and Democrats profess with equal
zeal to GO for equal. political rights, but both
unite in depriyiug half the race of their rights.
And Liberty party differs not in the least
from the other parties, as to Its practical con-
tempt of women. That government has no
just authority but what it derives from the
consent of the governed, is a principle laid
down, not by reckless fanatics, but by the
greatest statesmen of the country. 1t is the
Nations avowed doctrine, yet in defiance
the government claims and exercises authori-
ty over those whose consent has never been
given or asked. How can christians or pa
triots support such a government
Who are most likely to be blinded in re-
OaPd To thia ouastiOp1-an wha ara moSt
likely to be impartial, For the union arc
those who are willing to remain in political
association with the profigate and the I'M
principled, that they may obtain political
power. They want the power, they say,
which cannot else be obtained, but they want
it to make a good use of it. BE it so, yet |
fear the man who wants power. For what
does he want it! To make me do what Hi
thinks is right, not what my own conscience
requires of me. They who defend the Con-
~stiution are on the side of holor and emol.
ument, and men love these. Their course
puts them in the way To their own prefer
ment, ours cuts US off from all chance of pre-.
ferment, with its emoluments and honors,
other things being equal then, they are like
~ to be blinded rather than we.
1t has been said or intimatej, that we have
no right to introduce the Non-resistant quest
tion here. But they who say this, have in
troduced it; We have not. The Non-Resist
ance question is not involved in that which
we are now discussing. 1t is not whethel
we shall go for no government, but whethe.
we shall support this government. We stunt
in regard to this matter, where the Coven
anters do, and they are far enough from be
ing Non-Resistants.
Ii any are here who are not abolitionists
If any who are abolitionists only when it i
popular to be such, if any who are abolition
lists only so far as they can thereby promot
their own interests, or any who instead G
taking truth for their guide, follow any ma
as an oracle; to them make no appeal;
speak only to those who mean tn follow tn
truth at whatever cost, for there is need nov
of a firm trust in God, and r~csolute purpos
70 abide by the right. Times more t7yin
than our fathers saw, await us, and we are
pa rs through a more severe ordeal of our fAit
in God and trust in man, than any to whic
they were calle.l. Hence none will rail-
with US around this banner but those VIII
pre- ready to bear it onward through perseci
ton and reprolch, for if the cIuse is to az
vance they must go forward.
All abolitinnists are agreed as 70 the prfI
eipIes of abolitionism; the right Of all men
he free, the sinfulness of slavcholding, Il
duty OF inmcdi IT, emancipation; but in Il
application Of these principles we are not a
agreed. There is a wide and honest dilla
snce Of opinion; and this should not excl
surprise, for the minds of men arc not all
In their growth. Though all should start I
gether, yet some must go forward. There
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