Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-06-16

the poor man went down to Marsh1eld, and,
| suppose, as the clergy say, "wept in secret
since | never heard Of his weeping
before in public on this account. All this
the great leader Of the Wing party relates 10
the Senate in lS4S; being what he intended
to have done against the annexation of Texas,
some four or hve3years before. 1t reminds
me OF the story of an old revolutionary sol
der, who came down to Boston at the time
Webster was going to declaim over the cor
ner-stSne of Bunker Hill Monument. There
was a Committee appointed TO examine GER
tain persons claiming to have been present at
the battle, who were to ride in open carriages,
and be the special object of part Of the address.
There was one of them who entered the room,
wishing TO have a certificate and when ques-
toned az to his being present at the battle,
he said, "Ill tell you all about it. ! got up
very early that morning, and Lsaid ]. wife,
we'll have an early breakfast; so we sat
down, and then | got my gun out" "Stop,
Sill" said the Chairman, "wepwish simply
to know whether you were in the battle."-
:" Let me tell, >" said he. I'VE sat down to
breakfast, and after we had been there awhile,
We got on the subject of the fighting" but
were you present, that is all we wish TO
hubN' lGl me ltll' cdlu l., NIlts 1 dAl
going down to Charleston" "You shall do
such thing said she, and she hid my hat.
Then you were not there 7" "No; but |
fully meant to be there" (Laughter.) So
Daniel Webster meant to oppose the anneXa-
ton of Texas by a public meeting, hut some
body hid his hat! We are very much OBJ
liged to him for the information, though it
comes rather late in the day.
was abiding to the subject of the progress
Of the political strength of Slavery. Now
you will observe that Slavery gains strength,
not only in the slave States, but still more in
the free States. After the free States have
abolished Slavery through motives of econo-
my, they still retain the virus Of pro,slavery
prejudice, which upholds the system more
strongly than any strength Of the slave States
themselves. Illinois, in her virgin pride, for
bids coIored men to set foot on her soil under
pain of a large fine and Imprisonment. Wis
consin forbids the colored man TO vote. Ohio
disgraces herself by her black laws. Penn.
sylvania, that once permitted 10000 black:
10 vote, shuts them off by her new Constitu
lion, from The ballot-boX. New York still
DISTINGUISHES them. Connecticut, the it'll
State that exports schoolmasters and woodel
nutmegs, stepped to the lips in orthodox di
yinity, by a large vote refuses the colorev
man access to the ballot-boXes. These ar
the free States of the nation. Now there wa
nothing in the public sentiment of the day
Fof the Revolution, in the sentiment of any
the old parties that augured any such resu
as this. Why a friend told me yesterda,
that Timothy Pickering, in 1905, moved fC
an alteration in the Constitution, to strike o,
the lhree-ffths slave basis. II you will pas
your eye along the Senate and House docr
ments, you may find a similar motion of Ru
fus King, and those of others, TO abolish Sla
very in the District Of Columbia. Now l.
berry party President sits in the Senate {
the United States, and has not yet opened hi
mouth on the question of abolishing Shaver
in the District of Columbia. | might 90 OF
and you may increase them for yourselve:
and allude to another aspect, respecting tn
great men of the Revolution. Wythe, Jay
and Jefferson, when he almost forfeited tn
confidence of Virginia, in order TO bring fol
ward a plan of emancipation, respected tn
current sentiment of the revolutionary party
Where are your Gods, o Israel, now ! tn
successors OF these men-their Anti-Slaver
sentiments. Echo answers, where? Wher
is the proposition on the part of any party, {
dnNlIlDD lDdl OBSERVES llb Idlllt VI UdIlN,
put down Slavery itselfl The great parlie
of the country propose nothing more Than
drive Slavery back into lis Constitutional lin
its! The lion has broken out of his cage an
torn his door to pieces, and the purpose
the keeper is not TO provide for him a strong
er cage, but to induce him to retreat into hi
old one. What is the guarantee that he wi
stay there : that things will be any better f
the fifty years to come ! Have we a bett,
man than Jay 10 lead US against the compr
t misses of The Constitution Any honest'
r men than Wythe, and holder men than Ell
, worth and Rufus King? | trow not. VIII
Try over again an experiment, tried alread
? under the best of leaders and best of auspice
! and which has failed? This bringing 81
! very back into Constitutional limits reminC
me of the story of the Arabian Nights.
= fisherman drew from the water a casket {
which was the seal of Solyman. FOOLISH
listening TO entTeaties from within, he brol
/ the seal, and there came out a genii, who d
lated his proportions till he filled the who
n horizon and reached the heavens; and bega
T TO threaten the man with vengeance, thong
4 he had been his deliverer. The story 90
OH that the cunning fisherman wiled him bat
by appearing to doubt whether SO monstrol
; a being was ever in that casket; to %convin,
J him of which, the genii again entered, al
r the fisherman shut him up again. Slave
S was admitted into an obscure corner of Il
Constitutional limits, and | said we broke Il
sacred seal of right God had set upon o
hearts by and by the monster began to e
! pand, it looms up, ii covers the horizon; no
I it plants one foot on Wisconsin, and eXil,
the colored man, the other on South Caro-
ma, and kicks Massachusetts out of Charlie
g ton, in the person of Samuel Hoar-strangl
: the Mexican eagle with one hand, and gal
; with the other the free lips of Faneuil Ha.
/. Seeing all this, foolish politicians say-'wa
e a little, and | will vile her with a cunniI
# tale-wait a little, you shall see her go dow
e again into the same little chamber when
S she came.' Suppose she should. VIII
It then! Can you keep her theTel But b
il think you, have you better means TO conleI