Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-07-13
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From The Libcrator.
SPEECH OF WIN. LLOYD GARRISOY,
IN FANEUn HALL, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 30.

INFANEUm HALL, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 30.
Mr.. CHAIRMAN: IfI was sure that there is
candid disposition to hear something in re-
gard to the appalling condition of three mil
lions of our countrymen in chains at the
South, / should be glad TO occupy very
short time in holding them up to the view of
this great assembly, in their wretchedness,
their degradation, their hopeless despair. II
Thought they were not altogether given over
to popular contempt derision and hatred,-
so that, IA The present excited state of feel
ing, there seems to he no willingness to lis
ten TO the story of their wrongs,-I should
like TO speak directly to the question of their
enslavement.
But, sir, am now going to forget them all
mot in reality, but for the occasion. While
! stand on this platform, i will not think of
their letters ! will not speak of their stripes
i will not tell how they are herded with four
footed beasts, denied all light and knowledge,
plundered of every right. No, sir. Let them
he forgotten! II il las come to this, men Of
Massachusetts, that you care nothing for
their wrongs; that you are unwilling 10 hear
their groans; that you refuse TO mark their
tenrs, or count their sghs; that you are hos
tile to their liberation; be it so, at least for
this occasion.
Sir, it is not question, tonight, about
Southern slaves, which is first in order but
1t is, where do we ourselves stand? What
is the freedom that we enjoy? If the slaves
at the South may be Justly held in bondage,
are we at the North to lose our liberties p
If black men may lawfully be made chattels,
what is to be our condition.? Shall we en-
JOY the right, as Massachusetts men, as Bos-
tonians, under the Constitution, peacenbly to
assemble together TO consult about common
grievances and common dangers; or, with
the liberties of the black man, is that right TO
be cloven down for ever? If the slaves of
the South may not speak their thoughts, have
we of the North right to speak ours? That,
sir, is the question for us to settle here in
Faneuil Hall.
What is the freedom of speech enjoyed on
the other side of the Atlantic? They have
republic in France--a republic in form-as
we have here. Is the liberty ofspeech, or of
the press, tolerated therein? No. Who does
not know that the despotism of Louis Napo-
leon is as stringent as was that of Louis
Philippe? that every outspoken friend of
freedom and equality is under the ban of the
government? that every press, which dares
TO arraign existing tyranny, is prescribed,
and its editor heavily fined OF thrown into
prison (1)
What is the liberty of speech in Italy p
What is il in Russia? No man may attempt
to exercise il in those countries, except at the
peril Of his life.
Now, every American says-and says tru-
ly-that the reason, the only reason of this
is, because despotism is triumphant there
because the people are ground down to the
dust; because the tyrants are conscious that
they cannot maintain their position in any
other manner. That is just the whole story
for If there were no tyranny there, then
would freedom ofspeech and of inquiry be
allowed to the fullest extent.
Well, sir, how is il in this country? We live
in republic, as the French people do. Have
we the liberty of speech more than they p
l mean ON all subjects, in all parts OF the
country? Every one knows that, in the
slaveholding States of this Union, no man
may dare TO give free utterance TO his
thoughts, on one particular subject, at least,
the last subject TO seal up the lips of free
man, that of chattel slavery,-whatever else
Q) A Paris correspondent Of the New York
Tribune, in his last letter, says
paris is fuller than ever of soldiers; l50,-
900 is now the number of troops OF the line ac
tually here. Its difficult for us TO imagine such
vast inultitudes of men, regularly disciplined,
every one in his place, marching like death ma
chimes, hard, fierce, terrible. The drum is
steadier than the locust's song of spring. 1t
echoes through piles of stones. can see any
day in Paris more drummers, side by side,
humping like one, than ever l saw of regular
troops in the United States. This will give the
reader an idea of the multitudinous, roaring
sublimities of war, which now distinguish this
Art Pivot of the Universe.
II you go to the Assembly, you will see the
palace of tho French Congress garnishod with
few hundreds of the grim Chasscurs OF Vincen-
mes, the most daring and desperate of French
soldiers. 1t is a new Democratic architecture.
Columns "a fisil, buttresses aur caao,.s, irieze
ailr baioRettes.
1t is useful as woll as ornamental. This ar
chitecture protects the men whom the people
have elected against the people, and the inquir-
ing mind will discover in the city Of Paris 1885,
600 soldiers for the same purpose.
The city is studied in the army as the map of
an enemy's country. Every street, every c,a do
sac is known. Every officer has his special spot
assigned, and the higher officers successors are
already named, in case Of sudden death or ina
bility.