Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-06-02
WHOLE No. 1i6.

the slave, and he should rise NJ q nan. 1t
was to be In 1907 when the slave trade was
to be abolished. Indeed this was the reneral
conviction, and so The people went into part.
nrtship with Georgia and South Caiolina, an
III that event should come TO pass. The alb.
ollilon OF the slave trade came at last, but an.
fortunately 1t found an unexpected guest at
The board. The cotton interest was seated
there. The value Of slave property had SO
greatly INCREASED that the exiPrmination Of the
cyIl was out Of the question. But they said
again let US look Il little ahead. When slave.
~ gets cooped up IN narrow limits, and has
no more virgin SOIL 10 burn out, then sand Ran
dolph, 1.-The slaves will accumulate SO fast
mat their masters will run away from them"
(Laughier.) This would have been a capi-
tai way OF getting rid Of slavery, but I%ntofiu-
nalely the masters have not yet concluded TO
run away from the slaves, and they are equal
" unwilling TO let the slaves run away from
them. (Laughter.) Wei they said the Mis-
sl5slppl Will shut slavery in. II cannot 90
beyond that river. Butwhen slavery Arrived
at The Mississippi, and found it was hard
pressed from behind, it very quickly lrdped
over the Mississippi aud established itself on
lhe othtr side OF that mighty stream. And
now they tell US that slavery 10 to run away,
away oil TO Mexico, so far that it will never
get back. (Laughter.) 1t will be time
enough to believe this when we see slavery
running. But that will never he if YOU let it
take its own time for it,. Ii is needless to
talk OF the STAKEHOLDER giving up his slaves,
or OF slavery running away. Slavery can be
ovetthrown only by uniting against II the re-
llglOus sentiment of the land. To DO Ibis
We must agltate, must speak, must write
Portly men with a great deal in their pocket,
and very little in their heads, laugh at tract,
and books and abolition speeches, and pre-
tend TO despise their influence. and perhap,
in their Ignorance they do despise it.
George Sand and La Menais began TO tall
to the inhabitants Of Paris, TO write tracts an,
scatter them among the people. And Louis
Philippe and his government laughed a
George Sand and La Menais and their tract,
and speeches, but one morning the rich an,
wise monarch. tue Napoleon of peace, saw
before his palace the biortseS who had countet
their number, and heard them ut,efing til,
words of George Sand and la Menais, an,
IN a few minutes you might have seen an oil,
gentleman with a woman packed under hi
arm and an umbrella in his hand, marchin.
AT d brisk pace towards the railway station
They had talked him out OF his palace, the
had talked him out OF France, they had talke,
France into a republic. (Applause.) So lie
us talk everywhere, aud talk in season an
5 out of season. Let us say everywhere an
on all occasions, the negro isanlan, and la
a right to life, liberty, aud the pursuit Of haI
} pln.ss-he has a light to himself, and let II
, say we will help him to gain his rights, tia
we Will help him to escape the prisou-hous
OF bondage. Let there be no shrinking. lie
rs come boldly up to the mark. | am re
minded OF what Doctor Howe told me tbi
afternoon in relation to an interview lie la,
with Captain Sayres in the prison at Wash
lngion. The Captain remarked, 1t is tine
have violated the law Of this little plot o
ground which you call The District of Colum
bla, but | have not violated the law of the
Kingdom above. (Applause.) Let US re-
member this and act upon it, and not cease
our efforts till the land shall be rid Of this
foul curse; till our national escutchcon shall
be pnrged from this foul blot which has SC
long dlsgraced it, aud our country shall in.
deed he 1.-THE home of the free aud the land
OF the just" (Applause.)