Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-09-01

ton Of victory, that that current was no other
than the full tide Of Gods almighty energies,
rolling on to the accomplishment Of his pur-
poses, 10 the blessing Of the world. We felt
it, and knew it, and rose up in that confidence
to do battle against oppression, whatever
might oppose us; wealth, talent, learning, or
whatever else should be arrayed on the side
Of the Institutions Of the land.
THEODORE PARKER.
In every great movement, there are three
periods; and the first is the period OF SENTI-
MENT. Men feel that there is something
wrong. They feel that there is. likewise,
some where, something right, the antagonist
Of the wrong, and its antidote besides. But
all is vague, all is uncertain. Sometimes, in
the period Of SENTIMENT, men rush instantly
into action. The action is always a failure.
After the period of SENTIMENT comes the
period of IDEAS. Then, what was feeling
has been translated into thought; and men
are striving TO make the idea perfect, repre-
seniing facts, TO make it complete, represent
ing every fact. This is a long period, and a
period Of hard, and earnest and stern work.
Idea is brought into collision with idea,
scheme with scheme, plan with plan; and
the two ideas struggle, each for victory, both
for existence.
hiNt u lClibu v ibEho1 Nv NV iNNU ~
comes perfect and complete, then men pass
to the period of ACTION,
We are at this moment in the period Of
IDEAS. The period of AcTIoN has not vet
come. Men that have the idea, seek to gain
the sentiment. They seek TO diffuse the dea;
and when the sentiment has kindled wide and
deep in the nation, when the idea mas been
difused perfectly among the ~,eople, then
comes the period of action. But while men
are withou; the sentiment, or with il have not
the idea, il you propose TO them your plan,
and you say, : No more Stare territory they
cannot understand yoa. You say, limit ar
annihi2dfe The STARE rade beticeen The Siaies.'-
they cannot comprehend that. .abohsh sh-
cery IN the z erritories and The District, they
cannot take IN even that. You say to them,
No UpsGn scih Slarekolders,'-o course,
they c.nnot understand that. They have not
been through the preparatory stage Of senti-
msht and idea. TO grapple with the harder
practical lessons that come afterward.
i And vet, during this time. vastly mrchahas
been done in the way Of k~indIihg sentiment
and spreading the idaa. Look at the state OF
n feeling not long since. 1t is not a great
, while since the Representative Of MlddleseX,
, Edward Everett, on The floor of Congress,
, justified slavery out Of the New Testament,
declaring also, that if any cause would lead
, him 10 put on his knapsnck and shoulder his
I musket, it would be to put dow an insur-
=, rectiun of the slaves. That was The voice
: that went from Lexington aud Bunker Hi,
p was it! No; Lexington and Bunker Hin
have since sent another man there, Mr.. Pal
, Crey, made of other stuff, and who makes
= other speeches, too. Since that time, | say,
there has been a great change. A little while
after that, when the ant slavery Of Massa-
=. chusetls was incarnated in one man,-other
prophets there were, other apostles, but | am
+ not doing more than historical Justice when |
q say, it was incainated in one man,-and that
one man so obscure, and so unknown 10 fame,
v that the Mayor could not find him, until he
called in the police to aid,-and then the on.
" visible auxiliary Of anti-sIavery was a ne
Gro hoy-(laughter aud applause)-Since that
day, there has been a little change in anti
v slavery feeling, in anti-slavery ideas. Ii i
not long since the Governor Of Massachnset,
(Mr. Everett sugg sled to the Legislature
II whether it was not proper that they shoul'
70 IegisIate to prevent anti-slavery discussion
we have changed that a little.
The growth Of this great, this mighty Ere
Soil party! All over the North, the %antl-sla
very sentiment as been kindled. All owe
the North, the anti-slavery idea has been dit
fused. | know the sentiment does not buI.
st strong, and the idea has not taken hold dee
ii of the whole mass Of men but there ar
Vi spots where it burns like u fire in the wood
9. where the idea sends out its light into til
~. darkness, and it is needed even al noon-day
| might call to witness a recent convention
nf Cleveland, as one proof of it. | might poiI
to the numerous newspapers, avowedly ant
nd slavery. l might point to the clergyme
II whom | see, thinly indeed, scattered througI
nv out this assembly and you all know til
M the clergy,-l myself am one of them,-a
not the first to move in any Christian or pu
f. lie enterprise, where popularity is not ensure
as beforehand. A voice-True True
AT know it to be true. l consider the presen,
n of those men, lhinly scattered, one proof, al
ms not one of the least striking and signifca
proofs but here is another.
40 They say,-pefhaps it is a fable, do n
give it as a fact,-they say that scorpion
nat when girt about by a ring Of fire which thu
cannot break through, turn upon each othC
The and Join fang to fang, and poison comes
ms, poison. So we see-and those gentlemen
led whom ] allude shall have all the benefit
on the comparlson-so we see two nigh
ON southern politicians, surrounded by a ring
out anti-slavery fire which they cannot brei
We, through, Benton and Calhoun, joining fdl
pe- to fang, and poison tooth 10 poison tooth.
an (Applause,) This is not without its signi
,m- canoe. As Mr.. Benton is a Democrat, "
you say that Mr.. Benton abhors slavery !
NAV be so, and before God | wish it mig
be true but it is not the sin Of POLITICIANS
of be righteous over-much. daughter and a
da, plause.) There is nothing that know
test the past history or present character OF Il
to distinguished man, whom certainly l hor
ga for many wise counsels and some noble dec
our nothing in his past history or present CHI
in aeter, which would lead me to suppose Il
for he sets a higher estimate than Sir Rob
be. Peel, on disinterested philanthropy. ia