Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-07-13
SALEM, CoLUMBIANA Co, OHIO, JULY 10, 1850.

tyranny, 10 declare our undying attachment
to the cause of universal freedom? Pro-
longed cheering.l
Now, sir, appeal TO the good sense OF
this vast assembly, whether there should he
tolerated in our country any thing which Is
opposed to free discussion; which breads in
vestigution which relies on a lawless mob,
or the summary inhiction of Lynch law, for
its protection; which, like the voice of con-
scIous Guilt, continually cries
Put out the light, and then-put out tho light
which, nfter the manner of despotisn, in all
ages exclaims-' Let us have nothing but
darkness here Let us insist on all tongues
being mutcl The warm pulsations of the
heart must be suppressed There is securi-
ty only in stagnation and glooml'
The defenders of slavery naintain that 1t
I is a valuable institution, aud cannot be over
thrown without disastrous results. Wen,
! fellow-citizens, does u good thing skulk from
the light? Is an excellent thing afraid TO be
looked at? Is that, on which the true pros
perity of the country is based, something
which cannot be handled and must not be
examined? Absurd Every rejecting man
knows, that whatever practice, custom, or in
sttution forbids discussion or breads scniti-
ny, must he incapable of defence; or, at least,
Justly subjects itself TO suspicion as inherent
ly vicious.
How is il with us at the North What is
there in our agricultural, manufacturing or
commercial pursuts,--in any of our institu-
tions, peculiar or common,-tlat may not
be investigated, ccnsurcd and nssailed, with
ont the risk Of personal outrage? Nothing /!
| And why is this? Because we have conf
dcucc in their rectitude; or, If it can be
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we are willing to be instructed.
In this whole country, nothing should be
allowed to exist on the soil, for one moment,
which cannot challenge as close scrutiny,
and welcome as unieitcrcd discussion. Is
it not so?
Now, then, if slavery be system worth
prescrving-if il bc desirable condition for
those who are under tit can be shown by
fair argument, hy manly reasoning, by unde-
niable iacts shown, too, not merely by the
Shareholders, hut by the testimony OF far bet
ter witnesses-the slaves themselyesl o.,
sir, it is said, the slaves nre happy they are
contentcd; they desire nothing more. Well,
if this be true, tell you that happy and
contcntcd people are able TO give utteranco
TO their feelings, aud TO let the world know
their wishes. therefore turn to them, and
esl<r-. -AFe sausa sasheapx as,.clessas- HAT Noli
uO uOt utEitt W Dt nCttuCnE
[Cries of Fire!' and considerable dis
turbance, which lasted for some minutes
A person who fired torpedo was arrested,
and removed from the hall by the police
Order being at length restored, MIR. Garrison
proceeded:
Sir, these three millions of slaves are voice.
less, for they dare not speak of their wrongs.
There is good deal said against the abo-
litionists, because they avow themselves to
be disunionists. What do you mem by un-
ion? Are the American people one body
r Yes 7 Be il sol We are one body-East
and West, North and South; one body, but
many members. Now, then, whether one
member suffer, all the members suffer with
it /; or one member be honored, all the MEM
bers rejoice with it, Hence it is plain, that
il there be any thing which tends to injure,
degrade or peril one portion of the country,
or which is destructive TO the welfare and
prosperity of the nation, we are all the more
entitled TO speak freely in regard TO it, from
the fact of our consolidation therefore, il
cannot be truthfully said, that we have moth
ing to do with what is done in the South,
touching the continuance of slavery in that
sections for the growth of that foul system
threatens general catastrophe.
Sir, ask, whether the Southern slavehold- |
ers are at all squeamish in discussing any
question pertaining 10 the interests of New
England? DO they not both claim and ex-
ercise the right TO speak of our institutions,
our manners and customs, just as freely as
they please? Docs any one in New England
object, or is any one offended? No. We |
acknowledge their right to dissent from us,
TO warn and rebuke us and when they come |
among us, we neither insist on conformity, |
nor threaten to tar and feather them if they
dare to tell us what they think of us.
On the other hand, is nothing of freedom |
left TO us, men of fNew England? Have we
no right to sit in judgment upon any thing |
done in the slaveholdng South? Remem-
bcr, no one here proposes TO act unlawiully |
or unconstitutionally. We only claim COM
mon right TO utter our honest convictions |
maniully, and TO enjoy protection in so do
ing. Yet, the moment we turn our eyes
southwark, 1--WE cannot go there in person,
except at the peril of our lives,) and speak in
terms of honest Indignation against its vast |
system of blood, and crime, and tyranny, un-
paralleed beneath the sun, there are those
who admonish us to mind )ur own business,
aud to cease meddling with other peoples
affairs? And yet these very people tell us
that we are members of one body,-inyolyed,
for veal or woe, in one common destiny
and embraced in u common union Then
say, if one portion of the country be foully |
recreant TO God and liberty, and the other
does not lift up a voice of remonstrance |
against such a suicidal policy, we must go
down in one common ruin!
The Union of our country! MIR. Chair
man, | am not dsunionist, in an evil sense
| advocate no dsunion of fieemen. am
for union Sensation.l l am-as Daniel
Webster said he was, in his reply to Hayne
a L NIxrs..
now and for ever' Immense enthusiasm.
For aohere liberty truly crisis, there ,oW be I'M
ion, of course. But am not for SLAVERY
and UNIoN, or for any compact of which sa- |
very is recognized as one of its elements, or
in which slavery finds any security. This IS
the issue we make before the country and
the world. The American Union is tainted,
corrupted, cursed by slavery. We are ruled