Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-06-08
WHOLE No. lDS.

P'".'e'J i"dnk MN Tor every thing he has
said, and would to God that he would 90 A
step farther and tear asunder the parchment
bond that keeps his really true soul from be,
ing a guide TO the people. Let him say, -.
tranple under foot your Constitution anil
Laws, for | will obey the law of God which
is contrary to them" When he will say
that, there is no danger in bad men-,here is
no danger in Calhouns of the South.
There is no danger in Decided men; there
is no danger in fanatical men. They are
honest John Bull fellows, ass 1rtinp theft
original right 10 %grumble, and it is a glorious
right. (banghter and applause.) But I
VIII tell you where the danger is. There
was a carrIcature about two years ago in Pa
rs mat was Intended to represent Louis
philippe, and it did il most truthfully. IL
was a man in kings garments, with hi,
whIskers and his stock, and everything ar
ranged exactly as he dressed. A l,rle eha
pedu bras, such as he sometimes wore. T, sted
not upon his head but upon his neck there
were no brains. Underneath the picture was
written jtste %5,iiits, " the moderate maa."-
Now that is just the character of the mode
rate man OF the American political world, n
Is Just The character of the man that means
to "cheat the devil" as old DR.. Beecher
says. lie Is going 10 reform the world with
Cologne water, lie is going 10 do it so cum
80 $3.50 aSCOu1 VIII hlOW u uulll lH6V
wake up next morning and find Slavery Is
gone. He would not offend anybcdy-t eS
Is no doubt of it.. Only select the smoothest
SIDE OF a Northern piRe board-only select
the soit words OF the dictionary, and you can
carry all before you, and so you gain every
thing. Daniel Webster speaks so softly that
the world does not hear him. There are 9TH
er men who are speaking SO dubionsly that
The world is disputing as TO exactly where
they stand. Moderate men are the men that
win all sorts of people to them, who think
mat such a one IS a very good man, certain
", and so they pin their faith to his sleeve.
Bless God, there have been families in the
world through whose agency the moderate
mea have been sometimes called forth to lie
moderate men no Longer. There was John
Quincy Adams; he would have been a mo-
derate man TO the day Of his death, il we
had not provoked the South into gagging
nun. They tried to Smother the old man,
and he rose'up and was a moderate man no
longer. There was q point at which patience
ceased to be a virtue, and he found it, and
SO he became the glorious old man that he
was ior the last ten years. And he had the
beautiful eulogy pronounced By two South
efnefs, ana two Northerners, in which they
undercok to perform the play Of Hamlet,
"iIh The part OF Hamlet LEFT out-omittcd by
T quest They stated the exact date when
ne went 10 Russia, also when he was Presi-
dent, when he went to Quincy, when he
came back, but they entirely forgot to mem
ton when they tried 10 censure him AMI
when he made that speech against being
censured they forgot his Anti-Slavery cha
racief-the part Of lIamlet-but they made a
beautiful eulogy.
But the Antl-Slavery cause has prospered
glorlously it has attacked and pulled down
the DTIprps of tho land mad, III. onr,,-
ton OF no account ii directed against it,
thVre was Henry Clay the pet of the Ameria
can people, set himself against the Anti-Sla-
very splrit of the age and he was nothing
ness. On the other hand there was John Q.
Adams, the calumniated Of all parties. the
exile sent TO Coventry, the old man of Bran
ton whom The iittlo puppy ours of Congress
could with impunity insult, who followed
him IN sorrow to his grave; for he had spol
ken one true word before he died! Cap
plluse.) 1t was an Anti-Slavery reputation
that bla!Ied out all his past life aud made
him what he was.
Yes, these principles of ours that you
charge with being so fanatical, have done a
mighty good. They have forced politicians
into something like good conduct, they have
at least persuaded the political world to try
In do something better in time 10 come
Calhoun has changed his tone already has
the bullying thunder Of South Carolina ceas-
ed To roll across tho land, and Calhoun be-
gins 10 discuss. Let US only 90 on with
I the same principles as those with which we
begun, appealing not to the Constitution and
: The law, but to the popular sentiment Of the
j country, and eNempllfying our principles ii
J our lives, disfegarding the cry Of infdel, dis
regarding the question whether we have put
! back the cause of emancipation or not, and
! our c1uSp will pODtTDup IN urDEDPT UIOTIOus.
d ly. Why, my friend who preceded Inc said
G that we are charged with putting back the
cause Of emancipation. What OF that. That
we are charged with putting back the cause
| of abolition! What Of that. We were not
sent here To be abolitiOnists, such as he de.
| scribed The young men and women who ~rere
SENT here to be Presbyterians; not at ALL
We are sent here 10 do our duty /; God will
take care Of the consequences. Aud il The
performance OF our duty puts back the car #
emancipation The consequence rests mon that
infinite Redeemer who made duty the high
est and only law, and he will settle its con-
sequences for us without regard TO our acts,
so long as the American parties put L Mon
first and Liberty second, there never can be
Liberty. The moment you begin to halt beS
tween freedom and that piece of machinery f,
The MON, the hope Of accomplishment ha'
gone from yonr hands and you have sacrihc.
ed your hold on the public heart. You ate
appealing to, aud holding on to nothing But
superficial associations. partialities OF yoni
day, aud you never can be successful
| This is the etrot of American politics.
. We have rotced the democratic party out III
the field, the original ally Of the slave PoFet.
+ We have sent the Wings into an alliance
with Southern Shareholders it is a natural
; alliance. 1t is The Lords Of the Lash and
The Lords of the Loom associated. Zap.
plause and hisses.) 1t is the capital of The
! country and The conservatism Of the country
,t.inr thc ilras of Iha rnnniIN ; fnI lie De.