Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-04-13


rahlo how some piOus Governors away North
co-operated in raising volunteer regiments
for the Mexican war. Prolonged applause
1t was delightful to drop into their Temper
ancc recruiting dcpots, and see how the stur-
dy patriots enlisted as soldiers. All this
comes of compromise-comes of the union
between Shareholders and their Christian
brethren farther North. o, that glorious I'm
ion for the sake of Slavery! Fellow-citi-
zens, let it receive three of your lustiest
cheer. [Thundering response This, too,
we swear to sustain. 1t is the very pallad-
uin Of Slavery. 1t is the god of the people,
which we have fortunately been able to sub
stitute for their old humbug, the Goddess of
Liberty. We have got them all bound by its
compromises, under an oath which enables
the great political leaders in our interest to
manage their consciences at will. D, sir,
thesc Yankees are a conscientious race. Let
me read you an extract from the last great
speech Of the "godlike" Webster in the A
nIerican Senate. [Hear, hear.l ltis in allu-
sion TO the duty OF non-slavelioders TO help
catch runaway slaves. Hear, hear.
"Tbere has been found at the North,
among individuals, and among the Legisla-
tlres Of the North, a dsinclination TO perform
their constitutional duties, in regard to the
return of persons bound to service who have
escaped into those States. Cries of "llear,
hear" followed by contemptuous grouns. +
In this respect, il is my judgment that the
South Is right and the North is wrong. Yells
of "trae, right, good!"l Every member of
every Northern Legislature is bound by oath
TO support the Constitution of the United
States; and this article of the Constitution,
which says to these States that they shall de-
liver up fugitive slaves, is us binding in hon
or and IN conscience as any other article."-
Tremendous applause.
There, sir, you see what we have ochiev-
cd in metnmorphosing the old puritanic
whims Of honor and conscience. Is not this
glory enough for one age? Screams of ap-
plause.l But hear our godlike brother from
the hotbed of Purtanism a little further. Al
luding to Senator Mason's famous bill for
catching fugitive slaves, which is now pend
ing, he says:
IL propose TO support that bill, with all
proper authority and provisions in il, TO the
fullest efient-to the FULLEST EXTENT. Deaf
cniDg aid prolonged cheering.] | desire to
call the attention of all sober men in the
North--men carried away by no Gnaficai
idcus-~fo their constitutional obligations upon
this gvsstion aud iD this respect | put il TO
all sober and sound men in the North, as u.
question of morais-[ hear, hear question
of onscience-[breatlIless sensation,1 what
right they have in their Legislative capacities,
any of them, to endeavor 10 get round this
Constitution, and embarrass the free exercise
of the rights secured by the Constitution to
all persons whose slaves escape from them ?
None at all--none at dH!" Immense cheer
ing.l
That, sir, is the true doctrine. 1t went out
from this Capital, good seed in the hand of
the sower, and il has found n soil in which il
takes root downward and bears fruit upward.
And this Daniel, where shall we look for his
like, as an expounder of "honor," morals"
and " conscience ito the descendants of the
Purtans? We will soon have rare sport
with those abolition fanatics and underground
railroad gentry. We will give the nigger
a taste of martyrdom, which
will speedily rectiiy their notions of con-
science and morality. Dreadful groans for
the Abolitionists. Sir, l hope that in the
of our fifteen medals, the "god-
like" from old massachusetts, will not be pass
ed by. lie is too conscientious n conieder-
ate with us and our incarnate Southern breth-
rem, to be forgotten in the hour of rewards.
Overwhelming applause. Fellow-citizens,
will you grudge three times three TO the H.
lustrious Senators and Representatives at
Washington, who have recently won immor-
tai renown as champions of slavery and its
glorious bulwark, the Union! Wliereupon
the Hall was made to rock and tremblc with
nine reverberating cheers.
wish, sir, had the time and the giit of
speech 10 make known in proper terms my
sentiments on all the topics which stand out
in the Resolutions before us; but conscious
that have not, hasten to yield the floor to
the eminent orators who are waiting to cleo
riiy you with their eloqucnce. conclude
with sincere congratulations OF joy, that A
merican Slavery and the American Union,
one and indivisible, are forever safe.
Ills lordship sat down amid thrilling ac-
of applause.