Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-08-03
WHOLE NO. 255.

|
the same terms that ST. Paul did; when YOU
shall induce them voluntarily to return TO
their masters, aud their masters TO receive
them not as si1res, but as beloved brothers.
and to treat them with the kindness due
will not say to Paul the aged,p but even 10
an Andoyer Professor, pledge myself that
the Abolitionists throughout the whole coun-
try, not excepting your neighbors in Boston,
will consgn to your care every fugitive that
may apply to them for succor.
But the Constitution declares that fueitiyes
shall be delivered up, and you sneeringly ex-
claim, "Conscience violating n solemn COM
pact" Neither Abolitonists nor their faith
ers ever made a compact that private indivi-
duals should hunt slaves; nor would such
compact have been binding on any who re-
garded its acquisitions as sinful. You init
mate that obstacles cannot idigfidiy be thrown
in the way of the claimant of a fugitive
This is modern opinion. On the I'd June,
l795, the New York Society appointed a
Committee TO wait upon all the printers in
the city, to urge them TO refuse to print adj
veTtisements for the recovery of runaway
slaves. This WINS when New York was a
slave State, and the slave-catching law Of
1893 in full force. But you have another and
very curious argument in behalf of slave
catching. You ask, "Can we respect con-
and infamy on those immortal men and pa-
triots who formed our Constitution, and who
in all our States accepted and approved of
IL? And where now has conscience been
these sixty years past? l am astouDded at
the rapid railroad progress of new discove-
ry." L. 62. Or rather, sir, you arc astound-
ed that others should even approximate 10
the rapid railroad progress of your own dis
coyery. Suffer me, sir, to ask question at
least as pertinent as your own; Can we res
pect conscience which puts the broad seal
of disgrace not only upon the patriots of the
Revolution, but on the fathers and martyrs
of the Church, by declaring that were they
now alive and addicted TO their former hah-
its, they would one and all be unfit for Christ
ian communion? Where now has "con-
science been for centuries" You will sure
! ly recollcct your laborious argument in SUM-
port ofyour proposition-"IT is MATTER
OF ExPEDIENcY AND DUTY FOR oun CHURCH,
rs NOT TO ADMIT MEMBERS IN FUTURE, Ex-
cEPr ON THE GROUND OF TOTAL ABsTI-
NENcE PROM THE USE OF INTOXICATING
LIQUORS, AND FROM ALL TRAFFIC. IN TnEmn
-Stunfs Prize Essay, p. 63. You express
ly include by name among Intoxicating IL
guors, Port, Madeira, Sherry, Teneriffe.
Lisbon" and other wines. So II seems he
who habihially drinks glass of wine after
dinner is unworthy TO show forth the Lords
| death while he who habitually buys and
sells husbands, wives, and children. and
uses their labor without wages,is freely admit
ted to the holy table, and often into the pulpiti
You are sure, sir, my fathers aaritated
ana irownlng countenance would have gath
cred blackness" at hearing the remarks
winch Tell from his son in regard 10 Mr..
Webster and the Boston gentlemen who
commended his speech. Of another gentle
man of irreproachable Christian Character
however much he may differ from YOU in bis
estimate of MIR. Webster, you scr,iple not to
assert that he exhibits marked signs of pre-
ierring to reign in n certain bad place. rath-
or than serve in good one" p. "a. II IL
WIN ~ grace, sir, that clergyman who has
preached The gospel "more than forty-fiye
years, ana who nevertheless INDUCES him
sell IN the use of such language, lectures
tayman for freely expressing his opinion Of
the public conduct of public man: even
"of such man as Mr.. Webster.p / would
DO dishonor to my fathers memory could
Tor moment admit the possibility, TINT he
would have approved the tortuous course of
that gentleman, course SO totally different
from that which he himself pursued through
life.
Had Mr. Webster justified his sudden and
extraordinary violation of his repeated and
energetic pledges in behalf of the Wilmot
Provlso by change Of his opinion respect-
ing the constitutionality of the measure. he
might have been commended for his manly
frankness. But he admits no such change
OF opinion. He rests his Justification ON tho
discovery OF law of the earth's formation,
which renders the existence of slavery oil
one foot of territory twice as large as all
France a physical in,possibiity. The people
N A le sf.r
OF any such physical impossibilitys the
shareholders of the South deny the exist
ence of any such law of nature, I nor has il
ever been known or dreamed of in any
portion of the four quarters of the globe
When MIR. Webster offers pretended claw
of physical geography" and the "Asiatic.
scenery"t Of New-Mexico and California az
an apology for his perfidy to the cause of
freedom, he Offers in my opinion, an insult
not merely to the moral sense, hut also TO
the common sense of mankind.
The people Of New Mexico petitioned Con.
gress to be preserved from the establishment of
slavery, and the people of California in their
Consntuuon have prohibited its introduction.-
7 A Convention consisting of delegates from
the Slave States, recently assembled at Nash
vile, 1t resolved, "That California is PECULIAR
ly adapted for slave labor, and that ifthe tenure
OF slave property was by recognition of this
kind secured in that part of the country south
OF 80 o 80 it would in a short tiIno form into
one or more slayeholding States, to swell the
number and power of those already in exist
ence." Mr.. Webster extends the physical
impossibnity Of slavery to California by name,
as well as to Ncw-Mexico.
! In 1910 it was computed there were 5OO..
900 slaves in British India. A traffic was car
Iied on in slaves by importing them by sea FROM
the eastern coast OF africa into the East Indies.
and Arab dealers carried African slaves into
Persia. .-Adanls's Letters TO 7. n. BHrtoa on Sa-
very IN British India, p. 7S. SO il is possible
for oven negro slaves TO breathe amid "Asatic
scenery