Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-05-29

.(Applausr.) And, as England and Scotland
had something to do in the enslaying Of his
race, he came to ask them to lend a hand in
destroying this horrible relation.
But, possibly, he was not asked why he
came here; but he had been asked in other
places that question; and he stated this to
.satisfy them that he had not been fighting a
man Of straw. 4 question had been put to
him, on the part Of sorne Of :hose who had
been styled aboliiionisls-men who labored
a%rdently for the emancipation of the slaves in
the West India Islands-men who had stood
on that platform, who had come forward, pro-
m|inently. when the caaso of West Indian
slavery was the qrestion-and why were they
not still amongst them, giving their blows
and dealing their thuuderbolts Of destruction.
as they once did, in a Similar cause! He
had been asked why he came to them, when
the question was one belonging to America !
Why, that kind Of reasoning would reduce
their sphere Of action to very narrow bounds,
and would, in effect, leave it to be decided
by the slave and the STAKEHOLDER. Discussion
was its death-it could not live in the midst
of discussions; hut he wished to encircle
America about with a GORDON of Anti-Slavery
feeling-bounding it by Canada on the north,
Mexico on the west, and England, Scotland,
and Ireland on the east, so that wherever the
STAKEHOLDER went, he might hear nothing but
denunciations of slavery, that he might be
looked down upon as a man-stealinr, cradle
robbing, and woman-whipping monster, and
that he might see reproof and detestation on
every hand. (Applnnse.) Were they the
friends of slaveholders-tSero they apologists
for slavery-were they IN fellowship with the
acknowledgements they belong to a church
which held fellowship with SHAREHOLDERS
would they enter into fellowship with the man
who would hold fellowship With the slave
holderl No; they would not enter into fell
lowship with the man who would hold fell
lowship with such a man. Who would hold
fellowship with the man-stealing, era lle-rob-
bling, woman-beating American STAKEHOLDER !
(Cheers.) lfthey We're toassuma this ground,
they would soon see slavery trembling to its
fall. If the people of this country, he main
tanned, took the stand they might take which
they ought to take, and which the slaves
were entreating them torako, by their groaus
and cries, by the clankiigg oftheir letters, and
rattling Of their chains. by their own sense
of virtue and of compas ION, and which they
soon might take-the Aolition of slavery
in the United States might be a matter Of his
tory in six months. (Cheers.)
The churches Of America were responsible
for the existence Of slavery. Her ministers
held the keys Of the dungeon in which the
slave was confined. They had the power to
open and to shut-they had the heart Of the
nation in their hands-they could mould it
to anti-slavery or TO pr0-slayery, and they had
put the pro-slavery impress upon the nation
al instrument which spilled his sisters blood.
To hear a man preach, : Love your neighboi
as YOURSELF and keep his fellow men in the
most cruel bondagc-to hear Il man preach
Thou shalt not steal who robbed whole
hundreds Of people of their liberty, and every
thing else which was worth pos5essing-and
10 hear a man tell them to search the Scrip
tures,' who made it death for the second of.
fence, to teach a child to know the letters
which formed the name Of the God who made
him-(Great sensation and appllusc)-ho"
horrible was it to hear imam using Scriptur.
in justification of his crnrlties, as 4 certain
Captain Thomas Aud did, and saying. HJ
that knoweth his masters will and doeth /
not, the same shall be beaten with many
stripes. (Cries Of Shame.'O He had hear,
all this with his own ears, and seen it witt
his W eyes. He meant in a future lectur
10 give 4 specimen Of American preaching il
the peculiar cinting tone OF these pro SLAYER,
preachers; but, in doing so, he wished to b
distinctly understood, that, in exposing tn
religion Of the United States, he had 10 in
"tention Of aiming a blow at Christianity pro
per. OIear, hcIr.) After making a tcw OBJ
servations on the Importance Of the mlssio.
in which he was engaged, to plead the caus
of the poor oppressed slave, he conclude
his address amidst the most enthusiast
applause,