Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-07-13
WHOLE NO. 252.

political being makes every beam and tim
Der creak. The question is forced on every
American. Are these schools, this religion,
tins government of ours, worth any thing,
under and through which to unfold and hold
up, aid and curry forward humanity? IL
they are not, like shrivelled parchment,
throw them aside, and make better. But Ii
they ore, if your Union shall ride out the
agitation, well aud good. When il has freed
the slave, when II has proclaimed liberty to
all the inbabitants,' you shall find no man
surpass the abolitionsts in their eulogy of
the Instrument which has been found capa-
ble of this most unexpected virtue. Do not
think us irreconcilably divided from you.--
o, no. Ii is certain men whose opinions do
not keep over night that nre most IN the way
of popular agreement on this subject. DIR.
johnson said you know, you could make
good deal of Scotchman, if you caught
him young You can make something Of
the speech of Daniel Webster, If you get il
fresh. (Laughter.l But mind that you get
the last edition. (Reuewed merrment)
IL is possible that may now address some
of the 9S3 laymcn and the Doctors of Di-
viDity, the retainers of that illustrious-or
notorious-man. ('Three cheers for Web
ster-Three more-Three for Old Zack.'l-
On the 7th of March, jury trial for fugitive
slaves was 10 be oppressed, in all its pro-
| visions, 10 the fullest extent That pledge
got 9e7 endorsers. But somehow, il got
very many critics also and so, after a while,
it leaks out that Mr.. Webster had in his
| desk, but forgot it, an amendment proposing
| jury trial. Tho remembrance, the lucky re-
membrance, of this fact, helped him. Alas
for the 9S7 whom it left endorsing his omis-
sions his forgetiuness But 10 let them
be comiortcd, since MIR. Webster soon prov
cd to the Newburyport Committee, that
there was at least one insuperable objec-
ton TO jury trial in such cases That argu-
ment again helps the rctainers, and soothes
their wounded feelings; it is hardly worth
while to say where it leaves Daniel aud his
tardily remembered amendments! But,
presto up Jumps the statesman, a few days
after, and submits to the Senate, not an
amendment, but Bill securing this i'm
practicable right of Jury trial-and Bill
that had lain in his desk since February -
And there let us leave Daniel, the Retainers,
and the Newburyport Committee, TO settle
the confusion together
Is there not a story, MIR. Chairman, in Joo
Miller, of one who borrowed kettle, aud
was sued for returning it broken? And his
| plea in defence was, that LIST. il was broken
when Inc borrowed it; I'd. lie never bor-
rowed il at all Our Senator must have had
that case in his eyes, during this whole mat
ter. LIST. No jury trial at all, MIR. Mason;
your bill is the thing. 3D. o, you 'misun-
derstand' me, MIR. Atlas Old Wing; I had
an amendment securing jury trial in my
desk, only it slipped my mind 3d. Nom
sense! Gentlemen of Newburyport, there is
one 'inseperable' objection TO jury trial in
this matter! 4th. What is all this noise
about? This jury trial thunder is all mine!
/ have had Bill securing il to fugitive slaves
in my desk ever since Febuary!!
There used to be an old Jew, who lived by
the side of the Federal Street Theatre, known
TO many of you, or if not, known to your
fathers, by the name of Moses Wallack. He
sold lottery tickets. One day, a country
man going toward State street passed the
Jews office. lie beckoned him in, and sold
him ticket. When the verdant stranger
reached State street.
Voice>-I knew him.
Mr. Phillips--Any relative? (Laughter.J
When the stranger reached State street, he
found the number OF that very ticket he bad
just bought had drawn u prize, and he
had made fortune in moment. And so,
not remembering, MIR. Chairman, that in that
day there were two or three classes in lotte-
res-Class No. l, Class No. 2 Glass No. 3,
&c, and which often contained the same
numbers-he hurried back to the old Jew,
and exclaimed, There is my ticket, 967 =
(the identical number of the retainers}E'I
see II Inns drawn ten thousand dollars!--
Look at the clash was the sneering reply.
So when MIR. VIM. Nj. Rogers, or any body
else, shall print approval of any doctrines Of
Mr. Webster's speech, the question will DE,
Hhieh edition? (Reiterated applause. you
are u ianatic.o Yes am fanatic. In
day when Liberty is gagged that stocks may
sell Mt par, when pulpits preach peace in
stead of purity, aud statesmen laugh at any
higher authority than the parchment of hui
man laws, thank God, | am fanatic, as such
men judge fhnaticism! (Applause.)
The edition, TO be sure, does not matter
much 10 our friend Moses Stuart. Enough for
him, that the great man has said il; and he
sets TO work TO trim, bend, screw, and for
get, till morals, science, law and religion are
nude to conform 10 the ipSe DIRT. IT'S only
the old art Of constituting Genesis anew, as
each successive hypothesis of geology gets
uppermost. Now Moses is Vulcanian, now
Nepiunan. | mem Moses the jew; our
Moses sits only Wcbsterian for ever. This
sagacious statesman, seeking TO gid refined
gold aud paint the lily has troubled himself
TO find out another argument against the
Wilmot Proviso in addition TO those of the
great Daniel, and the will of Cod His
chief point seems to be that il is of no use
whatever to apply it TO the territories, since
the moment they become States, they will be
entitled to set up slavery, if they choose =
Indeed Train up a child in the way he
should go, and when he is old, he will sure
ly depart thereifom.' Thus the text reads,
does it not? Build up Territory on the
basis of Freedom, and when it becomes a
State, it win probably introduce Slavery! Ex-
cellent logic
After all, like the ass who tried to play tho
spaniel, our Northern men cannot play trai-
tors 10 any advantage. They get the shame
of the attempt, none ofthe advantage OF sue
cess. Mr.. Clay has headed our Senator
North and South. Whatever is gained rom
this game goes 10 him. All is grist to the
mill-boy ofthe Slashes.' When one sees the