Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-06-01
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consequences OF your speech and ucilOn, the
inference would be inevitable that you are
very fond of disorder and uproor, that ho
water will by 10 means content you, that
steam is the only atmosphere in which you
can breathe with any tocrable comfort
For have you not, sir, almost turned the
whole country upside down? Nothing eau
go on for you. The assembled wisdom
of the nation was weeks nnd weeks in
organizing because, through your influ
ence, a little free soil dust got flung into the
machinery. Aud now when those same
assembled wise men are getting inspired
with most delightful spirit of concilintion,
and are going to fix up Il nice little conpro-
mise, that shall make all smooth, sacrificing
not dollar of any nali's property, only a
few trlfling distractions, such us the common
dictates of justice aud humanity then they
complain that the Garrisons, and Jays, aud
Phillipses," come in aud spoil all, throwing
them into childish fits of passion, not only
endangering their compromises, but robbing
them of their personal dignity! IL is too
bad, sir. And you 20 to work SO clnnugly,
too. 1t has been discovered; Mr.. Clay has
found you out-lteaven bless his eyesight--
it has been discovered that you avail your
selves of the secrecy of publication. You
get you petitions printed, and you send them
all over the country, and try to induce peo-
pie to sign them, aud beg our rulers Just " to
re-enact the laws of God" Sir, YOU are in
corrigible. IL is TO be feared that you never
will be quiet or let anybody else be quiet, un-
I'll justice is done TO every man i'll the land,
and the Declaration of American lndepen-
dence is carried ont sin the iuness of its
spirit and the letter." Since the world be-
gan was there ever anything heard of so In-
reasonable. | wonder you are not ashamed
For my own part | do not believe there is
the slightest hope foryou.
Believing this, | would just remark in
passing that the course of our Legislators at
Washington seems TO me very plain. Per- |
haps-perhaps they are coming TO the con-
clusion that these principles of free thought |
and free speech are very dangerous and mis-
chievous and had better be put down once |
for all. But if they arc not quite ready for |
that conclusion, and if they want peace, all |
they have to do is 10 instruct the Committee |
of Thirteen to confer with "the Garrisons,
and jays, and Philipses," aud to compro-
mise with you, il they Gun, bur at all events,
TO come 10 terms; and when they have hon
estly resolved 10 carry out your counsels,
then, sir, think we can all pledge ourselves
for you, that you will keep quiet, us we all
were, before you woke us up, and that was
quiet enough, Heaven knows, quiet enough
10 content any man, quiet as the grave.
But seriously, aud yet it is very difficult to
bo serious, because il is next TO impossible TO
how any man can be so absurd as
to suppose that all this agitation which has
been going on for years aud increasing, and
which went into Congress with John Quincy
Adams at its head, has been produced by you
without rhyme or reason. They who be-
ieve this, do so at the entire expense of their
own understanding and in most offensive
nnd insulting derogatiom of common sense
and common humanity. What are the
people of this country so indescribably weak
and silly as to suffer themselves to be struck
mp into such heat, TO the interruption of
tue whole public business of the nation, by
n handful Of madmen who have no motive
but TO throw all things into confusion? /
Or one think great deal better of my coun-
rymeu than that comes to. And this is
)nying them no very great compliment
they must DC weak indeed if they could be
30 PLAYED upon. So lar from being fit Tor
epubllcan government, we ought never TO
Iave crept out of our cradles. We ought 10 l
De, every mothers son of us, in our nurses q
lrms at this instant.
If Abolition stirs the country thus, there
must be something i'll it. And there is some- /,
hing in it. II has got rhyme and reason both, ,
nd great deal more. There is nothing less in
Abolition than the ioundumental prnciciple
# our social order, the principle Of Human
tights, that principle, to which we are every
nan of us indebted Tor whatever OF security
Ve enjoy, that principle, upon which our '
Whole civil fabric rests, aud which same civ '
fabric is insecure, shaking in every wind, 5
mil this principle is laid broad and deep a
nd universal in the affections OF the people. I
Moro H., a..
ssentiul spirit OF our common Religion, the q
cry life of Jesus Christ, so dear to him ]
hat, for its sake he poured out his blood on q
he Cross. There is nothing less in Adolf Q
ion than the eternal law of Almighty God, y
written by him on the living heart, and com d
landing IT'S to do justly, to do it, and love q
lercy. This is the meaning of Abolition. Z
! is the Truth, or, which is the same thing, r
no Power of God to the liberation or the
aviation of the soul of every man who Y
ives himself without reserve stipulation I,
} the service of Truth. Here is the reason {;
'hy Abolition has worked, aud is working u
} nightly in this nation. Ii is God himself I,
irring in our midst. II is the brooding of k
le Creating spirit. 1t is the process OF Gre h
lion going Oh. b.
The Abolitionists themselves, individually "
they are nothing, and all their power con- d
SITS in their accounting themselves, and in al
laking themselves nothing, in being willing re
sacrifice their own ease, and reputation, W
nd lie even, il need be, Tor the sake of the pl
nth As this is their spirit, they are NIGH N
/, and will prove TO be altogether irresisti- Sc
e, against all odds. This spirit con- 81
srted the poor fishermen of Galiles into the to
posiles OF Everlasting Truth, the teachers I'll
the world; and, as there is God in G.
eaven, il will abolish Slavery. III
In maintaining their convictions, and in tn
-ging them upon others with all their in
rength, the Abolitionists only exercise those m