Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-08-17
1914
The Moral Power Of DiSunlOnists,


theyp What Is Il that gives ihem SO much
omnipotonce before this nation? How comes
1t that we are able TO speak with a voice that
is echoed like pcels of rolling thunder though
every cavern of the slave prison of the
Souih2 How is il that this handful of men
and womon, arc able 10 flash their lightning
truth down among tho horrors of Slavery,
more terrible than consuming fire? Has
my body ever thought oft? Have the nbo-
litionists themselves ever thought Off IL? Are
you concious of the omnipotence you pos
sessf Have you, es you have seen The alarm
oftbe Slave Power, the alarm of Beunctt's
Herald, the New York Globe, the New York
press generally, and the New England press
too, and Andoycr Seminary, aud Captain
Kyuders and his pious company, have the
nbolitonists ever thought of the m. ghty pow
ers they thus WELD?
And have you never thought whence that
power comes? Now, there is an answer,
direct, to that question. The Slave Power,
and Il is not bounded North by Mason aud
Dixon's line,--tho Slave Power understands
full llwell that we have hold ofihot only lever,
that only Archmedian insirlmeutality which
is able To move the world--that we have the
weapon of almighty truth, the all conquer
ing force OF appeal to the conscience mud to
the heart.
II is only that insirumcninlity which the
STAKEHOLDER breads; for he knows that is an
omnpotenre against which he can bring no
force that will be able TO contend successful
ly. He may bind the swapping thunder
holt; he may harness il 10 the electric nerves
with which you have strung the air, and on
which Slavery leaps in lightning ON the trnclS
of its fugitive slave. (lntense enthusiasm.)
lie may stay the tides of the ocean in their
courses with his cmbankments, but there is
that power in the well-told truth, there is
that omnipotence in the voice Of the Great
Eternal spoken through the Anti-Slnvery in
strumentality OF our land, which he knows
full well no weapon he shall be able to bring
against il can possibly prosper
hope, then, that the Anti-Slovory move
inent will continue as il is. What though
our progress be slow Is it not sure? But
then our progress is not slow? Why TINT
political instrumentalty to which our friend
alluded has been in the full tide of unsuc-
cessiul operation know not how many years.
And yet what has been its progress? From
James &. Brney il fell or rose to Martin Van
Buren,, TO say nothing of the intervening
steps; and from Martin Van Buren, 10 nn nj
ready commenced dieting for Thomas III.
Benton, an incorrigible slave-Owner, as its
next candidate for the Presidency! What
has the Slave Power to fear in them. Where
would hive been the Anti-Slayery enterprise
today, if the Garrisonians had fallen into
their movement? Where would VIC have
been two yenrs ngo? Electioneering for
Martin Van Buren,! Where would we have
been to-day? Instead of a Convention like
this, creating such alarm that not even the
cities nt distance can le quiet, lest we shall
strike them with lightning, and they should
find fbanaeaiyao laI 80 81 .,,
stead of this, instead of thus carrying dismay
and terror to the Congress of the United
States and to the remotest savannahs of the
far South-nstcad of this we might have
held one days Convention to diet the peo-
pie little, in order to prepare them in 1852
20 swallow down Thomas II. Benton or some
other iron-hearted stakeholder, as our candi-
date for the Presidency of the Unitcd States.
Would our free Soil friends have the Anti
Slavery movement thus disarmed? Would
you hive us lay our heads in your Delilah-
lap, end thus be shorn of our omnpotence?
My friend White know would not, And
lie said he was glad his friend Foster would
not sacrifice his principles. There are those
III the Free Soil movement who are wiser
than some others are, who are yet more zeal-
Gus Than they. There are those who say to
us, In Gods name, keep up your moral agi-
tation,' want the Abolitionists TO know,
that the far-seeing among the Free Soil par
~, mean those of whom Joshua X. Gid
dings il fair representative, say 10 us,
'Sidnd yyolT principles for there is no hope
eUen for DE triumph Of Free Soil, but in you.
Onward, Asn onloard IN your 'oay, for the tOUe
Of God
Now then, be encouraged. Why should
wo be Otherwise Have We not alarmed
81 nan.ol NNakgta.
and the North? Are not Professor Stuart
and DIR. Woods, and Dr. Emerson, and the
President Of Harvard University, William NJ
Rogers, DR.. Dana Of Newburyport, and
know not how many others in Church and
State, are they not moved at our presence
and at our stately doingsr Do they no
tremble? Did not Henry Clay express OF
the floor of Congress his apprehensons tina
not even the New York mob and Andovcl
Theological Seminary together would be
able 20 insure the salvation Of his fhvorite in
stitution? What more could we ask Why
the Almighty does not more certainly hoI'
the winds in the hollow of his hand, than yo,
hold the hearts and the hands of this nation
And the reason IL, because you still have iaitl
in truth, and confidence in the voice of III,
nmnipotent God. 1t was before that power
and that alone, when the twelve fishermen
WCHl WIN
nf the world, that Jewish superstition an,
Pagan degradation stood agllast; and in
very short period it overshadowed the eortl
and Rome, proud mistress of tine nations
seated on her seven hills, bowed in humbl
aubmission before the cross of Bethlehem
stuhe-born babe. But it was then and ihcr
,he Church took counsel of the wisdom Q
this world, and went 10 converting Stat
sireet and WdH street and the pockets ofmen
and the result was, universal deelension.--
And the Church has never recovered fron
that fatal fall. So shall il be with us. G.
and unite your destines with any poitico
party, and there shall be JOY in the Soul
and gee in hell, willie the angels shall 81
down in saclIcloth. IL il only while yo
stand firm 20 tile doctrines, TO The noble prin
cipIes of nhexibe justice and unbcndin
right, thar you are thus almighty. 1t is onl
thus flIat YOU shall cover your foes with col