Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-02-02
From the Liberty Bell.
Every thing Helps Us.
BY WENDELL PHILLIPS.

BY WENDELL PHILLIPS.
Success is no test Of the merit of an in
dividual, and defeat no certain argument
against him. For "lime and chance hap
pen TO all" and death snaiches many q
workman from our sight before his plan
has been even unfolded.
But great movements are immortal ;
and an enterprise, enclosing u right prin.
ciple, always triumphs. 1t meets with
nothing but victories. 1t is never even
bafled. The Sandwich Islander tabled
that into every victor passed the strength
Of all he conquered. This, stranger still,
not only feeds on victories, but passes it's
elf into the bosom Of its seeming con-
queror, and silently he becomes is vas
sal. i is perhaps strongest at the mo-
ment Of what the world calls its defeat;
as the old Commentator has it, "When
straw is taken, Moses is near"
Providence, in carrying forward the
race, is always prodigal of sacrifice. labor
and life, and the most stirring epoch per.
haps contributes, in reality, no more to
the grand result than the years which
seem only to ''stand and wait" In such
matters, delay is no evil for such move
ments, beside accomplishing their prima-
ry objects, have secondary and inciden-
tai results, equally valuable. AS they
pass along, they unfold The intellect, dis
~cipline the virtue, and mould The charac.
Ter Of all they meet, and are the moral
school Of the generation. The discus
sion OF their bearings and relations re.
veals kindred evils, and prepares the pub
lie mind TO grapple with them in due
time.
When the passions Of men resist this
general spirit of an age, this gradual but
conslai tadva1ce ofihe race, theyc ,nsume
nothing but lhemselves-every blow re-
coils on the head Of the assailant, and
even the wisest are taken in their own
cra(iiness. Adams cared nothing for the
slave, and was opposed 10 his emancipa-
ton in the District Of Columbia. But an
i~nsolent majority gagged his free speech
and smothered his petition and soon he
who might have talked for ever Il Dough
face, was Silenced into an honest man
and almost an abolitionist. Clay protes
ted that it was not in order 10 discus,
slavery on the floor Of Congress; ant
while his very protest was an a~ll-sufi
cienl discussion, its ate disguised hi
North, and the occasion of lis utteranct
made the wary South suspicious. He
was a Coloniza,ionisl, and the time for
that had long past in either section orthe
Union. So he died, and they buried hin
in Kentucky, placing for his epilaPh
Born out of due ,ime-Died ortrying t
, please both sides" Since his day, the
, mice have come boldly ont oflheir holes
5 statesmen, or those who pass for such
E have frankly taken sides, "a momenlous
gain some by speech, as Calhoun, som.
bv silence, as the great Daniel Mum.
Calhoun maintained that slavery wa
: tho fos,er-child Of the Government, an
i both in its foreign and domestic polio
should be kept steadily in view. TIL
s people have taken him at his word, an
kent it, as he finds too late, very steadil
e In Uie0.
Pamphlets stuffed with most e%xcelleI
sentiments, bursting with statistics, eve
y while their authors know not how, or a
4 not willing. 10 point out the plain methC
N Of escape from the evil they so faithful
10 pOrtfay-lheSe 10 US SOOu' "HCI '
e. '.angelical Doctor" or the ''subtile Dot
o, tor" has spoken, when this or that ell
n ouent writer has linked his name wi
US the subject, it ceases to be tabued ; Il
h ha snobs Of the pulpit and the press dare
70. open their lips, and some even ask wheI
- er Garrison is black or no.
of Even Horace Mann's speech in Co
ed gress, affirming litle that any body hi
Jas ever denied, and denying nothing that
,OI nv body had ever affirmed, does us GOO
sb When that large and very iniuenti
de family, the Facing-boih-ways, timid foil
les that wish to offend nobody, see so re
~ pectable a member of their body,-,'f
m drum-mnjor, as we may say OF the
corps,-open upon this cry, it Losses a
nh their tongues, they declaim at breakia
m. tables, and arc as seriously offended
,ur they dare to be with any one who do
lst not remember that "ihey always said So
This is a most important gain. In col
,ar tested questions, ii is often the timid ar
ss- indifferent who finally Turn the SCALE