Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-03-12

49, HN Nho VI
Ii Is not enough that there are fifteen slave
States, aud three million men here who ha We
no legal Hgits-not so much as the horse and
the OK have in Boston; it is not enough IN at
the Shareholders annexed Texas, and mado
slavery perpetual therein, extending even
north ct Mason and Dixon's ine-costrfno
a territory f~orly-fve times as large as The
Stale Of Massachusetts. Oh, no, we must
f have yet more land TO whip negroes in
The war had a mean and infamous Begin
ming. II began illegally. unconstitutionally.
The Wings say, 'the President made the
war; Mr.. Webster says so 1t went on
meanly and UNANIMOUSLY. Your Congress lied
about it. Don't lay the blame on the Dem
ocrdts the Wings lied just as badly. Your
Congress has seldom been SO single-mouth~
ed before. Why, only sixteen voted against
the war, or the lie. / say this war is mean
and infamous all the more, because waped
by a people calling itself Democratic and
Christian. ] know but one war So bad i'm
modern times, between civilized nations; and
that was the war for the partition Of Poland
Even for that, there was more excuse
We have come 10 Faneuil Hall to talk
about the war; to work against tho war. II
is rather late, but better late than never
We have let two opportunities for work pass
unemployed. One came while the annexa-
ton Of Texas was pending. Then was tho
time TO push and be active. Then was the
time for Massachusctts and all the North, to
protest as one man against the extension Of
slavery. Every body knew all about the mat
ter, the Democrats and the Wings. But how
few worked against that gross mischief
One noble man lifted up his warning voice,
"a man noble in his father,-and there no
stands in marble noble in himself-and
there he stands yet higher up-and ! hope
time will show him yet nobler in his son, and
there he stands, not in marble, but in man.
He talked againsti it, worked against it. fought
against it. But Massachusetts, did little.-
Her tonguey men said little ; her handy-men
did little. Too little could not be done or
said. True, we came here TO Faneuil Hall,
and passed resolutions; good resolutions they
were, too. They did the same in the State
House; but nothing came Of them. They
say hell is paved with resolutions > these
Were of that sort Of resolutions which resolves
nothing, because they are Of words, no works !
Well, we passed the resolutions you know
who opposed them; who hung back and did
noiling-nothing good | ~mean-quite enough
not good. Then we thought all the danger
was over; that the resolutions settled the
matter. But then was the lime 10 confound
at once the enemies of your country to show
: an even front hostile TO slavery.
y But the chosen time passed over, and no.
thing was done. Don't lay tire blame on tho
D Democrats; a Wing Senate annexed Texas,
and so annexed a war. We ought to have
: told our delegation in Congress. if Texas
were annexed, to come home, and we would
breathe upon it and sleep upon it, and then
see what to do next. Had our resolutions
taken so warmly here in Faneuil Hall in
lS45, been but as warmly worked ont, we
had now BEEN as terrible 10 the Slave Power,
80 IL. Sl,,-, b.,,-,. -.-- i.
to us
Why was it that we did nothingl That
is a public secret. Perhaps | ought not To-
tell it to the people. (Cries of tell it.')
The annexation Of Texas-a slave terrific
ry big as the kingdom of France-would not
furl a sail on the ocean; would not stop a
mill-wheel at Lowell Men thought so.
That time passed by, and there came an
other. The government had made war the
Congress voted the dollars, voted the men,
voted a lie. Your representative, men of Bos-
ton. voted for all three the lie, the dollars,
and the men; all three, in obedience 10 the
slave power! Let him excuse that 10 tho
conscience of his pariy,-'tis an easy matter.
| do not believe he can excuse it 10 his own
conscience. To the conscience of the world
ii admits OF no excuse. Your President CALI
ed for volunteers, 10000 of them. Then
came an opportunity such as offers not once
in one hundred years,-an opportunity TO
speak for : Freedom and the Rights Of Man
kind Then was the time for Massachu-
sets 10 stand up in the spirit of &c, and say.
: We won't send a man, from Capo Ann TO
Williamstown-not one Yankee man for
this wicked war; Then was the time for
your Governor to say, Not a volunteer 70.
this wicked war; Then was the time for
your merchants TO say, MOI a ship, not a
dollar for this wicked wars for your manu-
f%acturers to say, I'VE will not make you a
, cannon, nor a sword, nor a kernel of powder,
l nor a soldiers skirt, for this wicked war
t Then was the time for all good men 10 say.
3 This is a war for slavery, . mean and lnfa-
y nous war; an aristocratic war-a war against
the best interests of mankind. II God please
r we will die a thousand times-but never draw
, blade in this wicked war; (Cries of throw
, him over &c.) Throw him over-what
rood would that do! What would you do
next, after you had thrown him over -
drag you out of the hall } What good
would that do? II would not wipe off the
infamy of this war would not make it less
wicked!
That is what a Democratic nation, a Chris
tian people, ought to have said. But we did
not say so; the Bay State did not say so;
nor your Governor, nor your merchants, nor
your manufacturers, nor your good men!-
Your Governor issued his Proclamation for
soldiers; accepted the Presidents decres;
recommended men TO enlist, by appealing to
their patriotism and HUMANITY
Gov. Briggs is a good man, and so far I
honor him. He is a temperance man-strong
and consistent-I honor him for that. He 10
a friend of education; a friend Of the peoplel
| wish there were moro such. Like many
other New England men. he started from
humble beginnings. but unlike many success
full men Of New England, he is not ashamed,
Of the humblest round no ever trod on! I
honor him for that, But there was a time
Rh.c'4 ;:.ea raen's souls, ant his SOU! could