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

would find in his path. On the contrary,
with a ready faith, which amounted almost
to credulity, he appealed with undoubting
confidence 10 the Church, to the State, to par
ties and sects, to ally'around him he at last
had found a panacea for the griets of enslaved
humanity, a pearl of great price. But slow
" and sadly he awoke to the conviction that
our institutions are all hollow; when he
knocked at the door Of The Church, emptiness
answered and nothing more. Gradually did
the conviction force itself upon him that Sla-
very was not a mere superficial eXcrescence, |
but, like al 'oak of a thousand years growth,
had struck its roots through the strata OF a
sousand customs, reaching the very iunda-
mental granite of the national character and
institutions that il was 10 be rooted up only
by a convulsion that should r%e-organlze So
cietv and make its great interests clash and
iostle against each other like mighty vessels
in a storm. (Applause.) The Aholitionlsts
from year TO year have been more and more
deeply persuaded of this truth, and we draw
it not only from the conviction Of our own
| minds, but the strangely frequent defence Of
the Union, which comes to us from every po-
litical gathering, shows how deep the alarm
created by our proposing TO seek the dissolu-
lion of the Union. Vt the Irish Wake held
in my own city, (Boston,) by the Congress
sional Committee that brought the remains OF
John Quincy Adams to Massachusetts, Abbot
Lawrence is said to have observed that the
Union was stronger on that day than i. had
been for fifty years. lie may be right. AT
that board was met a strange mlXture: the
men who had attempted to censure and TO eX-
pel Mr.. Adams from the House, were per-
mitted to come 10 Boston and meet with those
who had lust been relieved, by his death.
from the hard task OF appearing to support
him abroad, while they were undermining
him at home. That day PLATE and Herod
were agreed and if there be any real union
between a naughty master and a'willing slave,
the link that binds Abbot Lawrence to the
chariot of John G.. Calhoun may have been
heavier that day than ever before. Daniel
Webster goes to Springfield and labors an ar
gument for the Wings on the value OF the
Union, and so Congressional debates, and
party caucuses, the pulpit and the press, la
bor on all occasions to eXtol the value OF the
the Union; and like husband and wife, as
; affection begins to cease, they %reiterate pro
iesiations OF love and devotion. daughter.
? Now Dissolution has been hy no means 1
rare word in our history. Why does it ere
l ate so much excitement now! Dlsunion Il
no rare word on the American page. Why
the very men VINO IdulCUtu lht SUiSbINu'lon
D and watched it with a feeling made Of two
T thirds of doubt, and one of hope, and nothing
! Of expectation, as a boy launches his shlnglt
Y boat on the pond, hardly thought it woulc
swim. And since that parties in the mad
? ness of defeat, have cried eutfor Dissolution
: when Dissolution was their only hope of sue
: cess. Presidential candidates have clamorec
: for dissolution, knowing that Dissolution
would bring more presidential chairs than one
and sometimes a State has seemed ready Il
shoot madly from its sphere; but the AboIl
=. zionist has this marked difference he is the
f, first who has ever calmly and beforehand an
nounced his purpose to seek the dissolution
of the Union, not in consequence oil party DIS
= appointments, but as the dictate OF duty. l
is on this ground, | think, that you receive
and the country receives, with such alarm
and disapprobatlon a sentiment puTpoTl'ns
that the anti-Slavery world deems the dlsso
luton of the Union a necessary preliminary
as far as we can nd ge by the light OF expert
ence. | do not know but our country una,
h falsiGy all probabilities, and from evil see'
reap a good harvest: but if effects are 10 fol
h low causes /; if the past be part and parcel q
IS The future, as leading to 1t, as toresladowlnI
n its character, the experience OF the last hal
l. century does justify the conviction that ther
"a is no salvation for the slave but in DIsunlor
Their are but two sources OF ideas IN lhl
country, but two great institutions that orig
lie nate the governing ideas, the Church and III
10 State two great forms which public convlc
is ton takes, political and religious organize
is lions. Now | have talked heretofore, an
b, our friends have always talked, on the last {
these. 1t were as hard to eXaggerate The pre-
n slavery tendencies of the American Churct
as 10 "gild fine gold or paint the N.Y.
a always reminds ue of Johnson'S description
id of Shakespeare" painting time tolled alie
him in vain - so of the Church. pantln
e truth tolls after it in valn." a Connecllcu
clergyman transplanted to Carolina, VIII 81
~ through the whole gamul, while the SATIRE
rr Swift and Byron united would be put TO il
- trumps to describe fly his first note. 1t
> not possible, therefore, for the Abolltionist /
y use invective when he attempts to describ
the American Church and its leaning to Sls
- verv. | always thought the English languag
a had a broad compass of denunciatlon; BIT
" the ANGLO Saxon race beat it all hollow i
N capacity of SHINING.
- But want to examine this point SlS
10 very any stronger to-day than fifty years age
=, and if so, what has made it strongerl and
l. the Union has made it stronger, is there an
reasonable prospect that we can reverse III
- paddle-wheels Of the nation, and make thel
~ 90 counter to all the past and its preseT
y course! Now, what was Slavery fifty veal
ago! True, we had the same relative pre-
!, portion of slaves as now, one in six of III
~ population but look at the relative CONNIE
" cial value of slave property. They were the
= valued at twelve millions of dollars now
ii twelyed hundred millions.
g. This is the first element Of strength in II
r commercial nation. Slavery has united itse
a to the great governing powers of modern s
,e ciety. 1t presents itself not as it did whe
n the Constitution was framed, a rotten system
II, growing less and less in value, butas a mig
,a ty institution, monopolizing half the veal