Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-06-08

"hich ne looks up to as his star i'm the frma-
neh,' Now we must address such a people.
hSeu IN their worship of a false Ieliuion and
ol aunerence to a corrupt Constitution, and
now shall 1t be donel We will saw TO the
save, Our doors are open to you this law
Is no'hlng to us we will never obey IL; we
WIN appeal to the people by the voice of re-
l!ons'dnce' ga, we will appeal by more
distinct protest than that; we will apneal nv
the voice Of disobedience, riskinr its conse.
qnences. For example: there was Thomas
Garrett, Of Delaware. He sheltered a fami.
ly OF fugitive slaves; he gave them lodging
ana 1000 lie is.pursueJ by the slave-hunt-
en- 'aRen before a court, his goods are sold.
ana lie Is penniIess in a day. What will
mat community say TO such an example =
10 you suppose they can be dead to itl DO
you suppose that appeal can be lostl When
.nal hoole man stood at his own door and the
iast article was sold and put into the hands
OF the hunter who claimed the fugitive, the
'nsoien' usurpcr Of other mems rights, and
olner mems property, turned TO the obedient
CHILD OF Gods higher law, ami said TO him,
Now, Garrett, hoTe You have found what
II is TO protect fugitives, and that you will be
found no more at that business !" The old
man turned TO the sheriff who hal lust knock
ed oil at public auction his last caattel and
SAID, Friend, if you know of any one who
wants shelter to night, send him 10 me-
(Great Applause.)
nat Is old organized Anti.Slavery living.
(APplause.) 20 you suppose tn I mans eX-
ample Is bounded by the little State of Della
ware! Never! Ii is the leaven OF a better
lille thrown into a corrupt mass of American
conduct, and like the seed planted in good
soil, II cannot but bear good frait. Now we
rnnon in 'lic trnv g., ,r,,,n1, .nI.. - .-.
law, every Constitution, no matter how ST.
cred that bids us do wrong. The Abolition.
list plants himself on his individual convic-
ton. Is there any higher rule of conduct.
He says:
Batter rot beneath the sod,
Than be true to Constitutions, by being false to
Can ihere be any better rule Of conduct! Is
it fanaticism2 Then welcome ianalicism I,
be il my portion ! Is it iudde.uy? Wei
come Then, infdelity it Is tho only leaven
that will ever reform The world.
ION talk of the ~chiyalry of the southern
character. It is lrolh and nothing else
What we seek to marshall against it is the
COLI sehse of Puritan duty, (applause,) the
spfdvJf That religion which planted Ihest
Northern States. Do not call them free
D'+'NS, &c IA As't Aftdtto IL Is dl dr.
tiicial distinction. Free States why, ! see
behind me a man TO whom you could not
give a meal nor a lodging, if an inhabitant
Of 81. Louis stood a! your door, except al
the risk Of fine and Imprisonment. Deauti-
iul freedom The other day in Boston a
man touched me on the shoulder and said,
81 have Just seen a slave who has been sent
on 10 a box by express ;" and he is shelter
ed in a country town in Massachusetts. |
lett home and went on my way, and entered
the AntI-Slayery office there sat a man who
had been over sixty days incarcerated in the
run OF an American schooner, where he could
not sit upright; but when he planted HE
s~t!tiened limbs on the soil Of the North, he
Tejojced even in the qualified liberty he had
reached. Wei, | TUNED round and there
sat a woman with a complexion as white as
that of any individual in this room. She
was a fugitive from Richmond. | went out
side of the door and there were Ellen and
William Crafts, fugitives in disguise along
the highways Of the United States-fUgi.
lives from whom ! From you the ministers,
FROM you the citizens, and church members
Of The American Republic!
Letus gaze up into this heaven and take
the moral bearings, and see whether we are
In New York, or whether Algiers be the
neighborhCOI in which we dnd ourselves TO-
day. Where is it that one race skulks along
the highways from the vengeance of the 9th
er! Is it in a free land d! Where is i. that
the degraded and imIruted slave, if he lifts
his eyes upward, finds in every white man
an enemy Is it in a Christian Republic
| deny it. Why, we used tc read, when VT
were children, from the penny books abou'
those who were taken by the Arabs, and how
many fled by night and hid themselves her
and escaped there. physician, heal thy
self" for you can find in every street o
Boston, and in many a house in New Bed
ford, a man or a woman that can testify tina
they have fled from the American people
republican, civilized, moral, Christian Anne
rlcan people. Now we Judge a country o.
It's fruits. Therefore we say this is not New
FORK it is Algiers. Let The slave be abl
TO show himself here trusting TO the laws
not to The humanity of the counlry-truslin!
TO The legal protection Of the land, not 10 tn,
disobedlence Of the laws, and what is hi
fate! What does VIM. w. Brown trust l.
when he stands before youl Daniel Web
sler says you are a law abiding peoplc-lha
the glory Of New England sinks as low a
lis statute book. But say we are not
law-abiding community God be thanked io
1t. Proclaim the facts in the face Of the
statute book that however illegal 1t is, there
are houses in which fugitive slaves can be
sheltered, though The arm Of the President
himself should be put forth TO require ODE
dlencc. (Applause.) When God takes ac.
count of this people, to make up his jewels,
where do you suppose he will find faith on
the earth In that matt who trimmed his
conscience so nicely that he could not be his
own, or in the man who opened his bosom 10
the voice Of Gods own teachings, and for
got the statute book Of his country
The Wing party has set itself up as the
opponent OF the slaveocTacy. Nhdt has II
done ! The democratic parry has eadeavoT-
ed TO proclaim itself as the opponent Of the
slave power. What has it done : The Lib
city party did once live. Oh had d name 70