Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-12-21

Union or two. But what Is that TO us See
thou, creature of Union, aud knowing no
higher law then the parchment of 1850, to
that
No man Of full age and sound mind really
believes that any thing can be maintained
in this country which requires for its exist
ence the sitting of free discussion. This
Yankee right TO ask all sorts of questions, on
all sorts of subjects, of all sorts of persons,
is no accidental matter--it is part of the or
ganic structure of the Yankee constitution.
Freedom in thought and word is the genius
of our language, the soul of our literature,
the undertone of all our history, the ground
work Of our habits; il gives the form to our
faith, since Saxons are plainly Protestants by
nature; 1t is only TO secure this that the un-
easy race submits to the necessary evil of
law and government, habeas corpus and
jury trial that comma in the wrong place
shall save even murdcrer's neck, that the
State shall take no cent till il has been seven
times voted: these are the gliding and sugar
that soothe the restive child into being ruled
at all. Our liberty is no superficial structure
like the Capitol at Washington, which men
put up and man can pull down again. Ii is
an oak, striking its roots through the strata
of thousand customs; to uproot il would
shake the continent. 1t is the granite of the
New England formation, basing itself in the
central depths, peering to the heaven through
the tops of our mountains, and bearing on
its ample sides the laughing prosperity of
| the land The wind of the blow that shall
be aimed at free speech will strike the Union
| 10 the dust Let us always rejoice when the
| frenzy Of our opponents leads them to wed
| the cause of the slave with the cause of free
! speech. Union meetings aud loud cheers
may stand for the Dearly Beloved with
which the old English ceremony of marriage
began; but the result, like the last word of
that prayer-book formula, will verify be,
amazement' Wo to the statesman who
waves his bit of red cloth in the face of that
mad bull, flll-blooded Saxon reused to the
suspicion, however unfounded, that some
body is plotting to prevent his tongue from
wagging MS il lists
II was the weight of the hand of Charles
LIST on English tongues (the attempted arrest
of the five menbers) that settled the ques-
tion whether lie should stand upon throne
or scafiold. Ii was the Alien and Sedition
octs-provsions against foreigners, and for
bidding to print, publish and utter amy thing
to bring government and laws into disrepute'
that contributed SO much to send the
Federal party to the tomb of the Capulets
confidence, like those who meet in Phila-
delphia, New York, and at Faneuil Hall to-
I-.a;sht-..: oAils such thoughtless impudence,
of putting dot'h discussion,' remember that
whom God would destroy, he first makes
mad Were it not so, Mr.. Choate would be
the first man to laugh nt the spectacle of
himself n very respectable lawyer and some
what eloquent decamer of the Suffolk bar |
coolly asserting, with n threatening brow,
meant to be like that of Jove, to the swarm
ing millions of the free States, that this dis
cusson must stop!' To such nonsense,
whether from him, or the angry lips of his
wire-puller, in front of the Revere House,
the only fitting answer is Sam Weller's repe-
titon TO Pickwick. 1t can't be done.'-
[Cheers and laughter.] The like was never
attempted but once before, when Xerxes |
flung chains at the Hellespont-
'And DER that foolish deed has pcalcd
The long laugh of u world
o, no! this chasm in the forum all the |
Clay in the land cannot fill. [Chcers.l This |
rent in the mantle all the Websters in the
mill cannot weave up. [Cheers. Perpetu-
ate slavery amid such race as ours Inn |
possible! Re-annex the rest of the conti-
nent, if you will pile fugitive slave bills till !
they rival the Andes dissolve, were il pos |
siblc, the union God has made between
well-doing and well-being; even then you
could not keep slavery in peace till you gota
new race 10 people these shores. The blood
which has cleared the forest, tortured the
earth of its secrets, made the ocean its vas
sal, and subjected every other race it has
met, will never volunteer its own industry
to forge gags for its own lips. You, there
fore, who look forward to slavery and peace,
make ready TO sweep clean the continent,
and see that Webster, Foote aud Dickinson
be the Shcm, Ham and Japhet of the Ark
you shall prepare. Cheers.] The Carpa-
Than Mountains may do for tyrants the
slope of Germany may bear up race more
familiar with the Greek text than the Greek
phalanx; the wave of Russian rule may
sweep so far westward, for aught know, as
to fiji with miniature tyrants again the rob
ber castles of the Rhine. But this l do
know; God has piled our Rocky Mountains
as ramparts for freedom: lie has scooped
the valley of the Mississippi as the cradle of
free Stutes, and poured Niagara as the an
them of free men. Loud Cheers