Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-08-07
Farewell Meeting.

Farewell Meeting.
The colored people of Boston held a large
and deeply interesting meeting in order to
take public leave of VIM. LLOYD GARRISON
on the eve of his departure for England
From the response which he made his friends
on that occasion, we take the following ex-
tract:
tits sixteen years since | began to plead
the cause of the enslaved. ] began in odium
and disgrace, and truly | have not made much
progress out of them ever since. Not until
the jubilee, can | expect to be thought well
of among men; and | care not TO receive their
appreciation, till they have washed their hands
of slavery. | believe | have not ALTERED
since the first breaking of the ground, have
never advised to stop the agitation. | have
never counseIled you to give back. | do not
feel as if | ever should do so. Where we
had one motive to go forward ten or fifteen
years ago, we have now a thousand. Where
we had then one fact to encourage us to do
and dare and suffer, we have a million now.
Where VT had one voice to cheer us onward,
we have myriads now. 1t is not the aboli-
tionists who are d~iscouraged-it is not the
abolitionists who prophesy danger and dis
comfture. 1t is the Shareholders who are in
trouble, is it not ?-tho Shareholders who
fear the abolitionists as the Jews Of old fear
ed the Romans-and who, fearing lest we
take away their name and nation, want Tex
as, that they may get as far from us as pos
sible. There is no terror in our camp: butthey!
they have not one man of courage in their
ranks for there is not one of them who does
not know he is in the wrong; and this is the
consciousness that makes a man a bastard.
We, on the contrary, who are in the right,
feel invincibie.
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel
just,
And he butnaked, though cased up in steel,
Whose conscience with i~njnstico is cor
rupted,'
1t is the righteous only who are bold as
a lion-it is the wicked alone that flee,
even though no man pursueth.' (applause.)
Many are the charges that have been
brought against mel am harsh, severe, de-
mandatory, unconciliating. | am thankful
that the charge has never been brought
against me, that | have asked too little for
liberty. | hear no one say,-' All! you are
an abolitionisL! Why did you give in, on
that, or that occasion Why did you yield
on this point, or At that iuncture, when you
should have stood firm! Georgia, as you,
Sir, have observed in your remarks, still
bears her testimony to my fidelity to our
principles. But | am 'too rigid, too uncon-
ciliating,' | have heard it said. ills, at least,
a rare fault. | know not but it may be so;
and ! pray God that it may be so, rather than
that | should yield one jot or title Of moral
principle. | have put back the year of iubi-
lee fifty years, it has been said, by those too
who pretend to be the friends Of our enter
prise. We have a graf many parrots here
at the North, without any feeling except that
Of hatred to our enterprise, who merely echo
this cry from the South. Is any one so
senseless rs TO think the South believes it
If it be true that | have put back emancipa-
ton fifty years, | marvel that | have not re-
ceived an elaborate panegyric from George
, McDufie: | wonder that John G. Calhoun
| has not become thc liberal patron of the Anne
rican Anti-Slavery Society and that the
Liberator has not an extensive circulation
South of Mason's and DiXon's line. No
the shareholders are to a man against these
individuals and instrumentalitics {; while the
abolitionists bless them, the slaves rejoice in
them, and you. beloved ones, are continually
upholding them and sustaining them, with
every pulsation of your hearts. Ii we had
been putting back the day of jubilee, depend
on it neither you nor the slaves would have
been with us, while Shareholders would have
been our truest allies.
Few Of us are able at the first glance &c
take in the whole scope of the great princi'
pie on which our enterprise is founded.-
Technically, it has respect to three millions O.
slaves; but in reality, there is not a man
there is not a woman on this brold cont
nent, whose interests are not bound up with
the triumph of this principle. In order tt
attain its present tremendous growth, slave
~ has outraged all right, it has overturned
the government, it has Frustrated the church
and has made of their ruins, its bulwlrks anC
supports. IL we would carry the citadel, W,
must storm the buIwarks if we would abol
ish the system of slavery, its supports o
course must fall. Hence it becomes legiti
mate to attack the government; and when
because you do so, men say you are no-go
yernment men, never hesitate 10 say it is
foolish and malicious charge. lie who will
90 for a government of wrong-a slavehold
inr povernment-he it is who is an anarchist
So long as we worship at the shrine Of Righ
and Liberty, we shall be good neighbors, an,
good members of society. God Is evIdentll
making use OF this enterprise TO do some
thing more than to abolish slavery to shov
us something that peradventure we nigh
not else have seen and what IT we do &c
higher and better views on other points 0
moral truth What if we do come to Sc
the beauty of love and peacel Have we no
had war and bate enough What if we d
come to find out that moral principle is c
universal obligation ?-that all tbs world i