Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-07-06
4 GlimpSe al The Past.

ment much 10 excite his wonde and tax his
creduIity. Those who have not been famil-
lar with that movement from its origin will
find it difficult, even now, 10 believe many
things which, to The earlier laborers in the
cause, are familiar as the tales Of the nursery,
and far more authentic. The J iberator has
just reminded US Of one piece Of anti.slavery
history, which will serve as a specimen of
many more, and illustrate the mean servilily
of the North 10 the South, from which the
former is only now beginning to recover.
Among the sycophanis and doughfaces who
have been exhumed from political obscuriiy
by the magic wand Of Taylorism, is one Mr..
George Lunt, OF Newburyport, Mass, who
has recently been appointed U. S. Attorney
for that State. For more than ten years he
was unable to rise from the shelf on which
the people of that Stale laid him for his gra-
tuitous subserviency to Slavery; but, under
the auspices of the second Washington he
comes in very appropriately for a share of the
'%spoils.' This Mr.. Lunt is the man who, in
1886, in the Senate Of Massachusetts, stood
forth a willing champion and tool of South
ern SHAREHOLDERS, and vainly attempted, by
means Of legislative fulminalions, 10 arrest
the progress Of the anli-slavery cause and CO.
yer its advocates with popular odIum. 1t was
at that %eventful period, when the accomplish
ed scholar aud priestly politician, Edward
I1.,rrtI vr,e E,vornor nf Tho nlI Raw State
and when, in his message to the Legislature,
he had iniimated that the Abolitionists might
be silenced by indictments at Common Law.
This portion Of his message, together with
the documents received from several slave
holding States, insolently demanding the sup
preston Of the Anti-Slavery Societies by Pc
nal enactments, were referred 10 a Committee,
Of which this Mr.. Lunt was Chairman. In
that capacity be drew up a Report which,
for degrading %serviliiy to the South, inhuman-
ity to the slaves, and cool contempt for the
inalienable rights of man, has never been sur
passed. By the requirements Of our great
National Compact by the common bonds
of sympathy, interest and BROTHERHOOD,
Eyes, that was the word y which connect the
various sections of the Union by The lies Of
: justice and honor it called upon the Leg
%islalure 10 put its profane hand upon the Ark
of Liberty-to silence, so far as lay in its
power, the voice of humanity and sympathy
which had been lifted up in behalf Of the
bondman! Ii declared that the right Of the
master 10 his slave is as undouJied as The
right 10 any other prcpsrty'H The con-
duct of the Aboli,ionists,' was declared TO be
not only wrong in policy, but erroneous in
mOraA,' and those who felt most deeply on
the subject of slavery were told that it was
their 'unquesiionable duty 10 leave the
whole affair in The keeping of a merciful Pro-
violence, (!) who will not require of any man
or nation an unreasonable account The de-
mands u the South for the forcible suppress
sion Of Anti Slavery Societies it thought wor-
thy Of deep and serious attention. Indeed,
said Nj. Lunt and his associates, the appeal
which is addressed to us by our sister States
is CT the most solemn and affecting char
CD The Committee, however, did
not think it expcdient 10 resort to penal Leg
but proposed TO suppress the 'ofi-
cious and extrayagant philanthropy Of Abo-
lilionists by the silent but irresistible force
of PUBLIC DisAPPRoBATIoN. This remedy
they proposed to apply in the shape of a pre-
amble and resolutions, of the most degrading
ly servile character, which were 10 be trans
mitted to The Executives of Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Ala
bama, by the Governor Of Massachusetts.
1t is greatly 10 the credit of the Old Com
.monwealth that her Legislature spurned this
Report, and left it TO stand upon her records
as a witness 10 posterity of The trucking
meanness and s%ervile treachery of its author.
Mr.. Lunl was consigned to a position Of sol
itary grandeur his political party never da-
ring, for the space of ten long years, to at
tempt to call him from his retirement. The
administration finds in him a fit rep
resenlative, an appropriate tool! But, for
Massachusetts! how degraded i! how fallen
The LiberaIor, very OPPORTUNITY, re-publishes
the rejected Report and Resolves, that the
people of the State, and particularly those TOO
young 10 be familiar with events which &C.
Cured thirteen years ago, may see what sort
of men Taylorism brings to the top of the po-
litical wheel.
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