Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-01-19

0nd bywayS; how II lbs commanded and
fixed public attention, shaking in pieces old
and time-honored ecclesiastical organiza-
tons, attracting the regards of eminent men
like Claiming, and making them its servants,
inspiring distinguished statesmen like Adams,
whom il crowned with its highest glory,
bursting like some magic gas into our na-
tional councils and throwing men into con-
vulsions OF rage and fear. At every meeting
that you have held, you have had some new
triumph to celebrate. Every event that hos
befsllen you has proved an occasion of rejoi-
cling, a new spring OF animation. And now,
at home aud abroad, so much IL occurring TO
inspire every heart that beats for Freedom,
that though you were to hold such meetings
as this every day, every day you would have
TO note new step taken towards the con-
summation you SO devouty wish for.
AT this present moment, the National Leg
islature, the central government of this great
empire, IL brought 10 u stand-still by tie in-
trtlsion OF your great principle. The two po-
lltical parties which have hitherto divided the
country between them, are rendered power
less. They cannot stir hand or foot. One
or the other OF them has always had its way,
aud now they are both baked; aud fruitful
as politicians ure in the most beautiful COM
promises, aud in the most skiliul manage
nient, the representatives Of the nation, more
than two hundred busy and ready-witted in
dlvlduals, cannot get organized. They have
been winding up the political machine, wind
ing und winding, day alter day for weeks,
but the clock will not strike, the wheels will
not go. great deal OF vexation aud indig-
nation IL expressed, but there the machine
stands. IL will hot stir. Every thing would
get into order, il is commonly said, and 90
on smoothly enough, ii il were not for little
dust-a little tree soil-which has got in
among tile works and is absorbing all the
oil B; II IT were not, III palmer terms, for the
outrageous obstiuacy OF u few wrong headed
aud perverse individuals called Free Soilers.
Now these individuals muy be wroDg-headed,
und pervelse, and obstinate, although the
tact that the most prominent OF them have
shown disposition 10 fall in with either OF
the two great parties, provided an object
which they desire, which is perfectly consti-
tuIional 10 say the least, is secured, Ia iair
construction Of certain committees, ,Haltho'
this fact, say, is no great evidence Of per-
versity. But ii they were altogether unrca-
sonable and perverse, they could not posi-
bly, stand their ground us they do. They
would have been put down long ago. The
whole country would have risen against
them. Not merely by the power of n major
ity, but III tile great power of wisdom and
reason, their fellow members would hove
brought them 10 terms la lew hours. But
they have not yet iorsaken their ground. The
country has not risen against them. The
majority has not yc, put them down. And
the reason is, however wrong-headed they
may be, they are conscious that they are
standing upon ploin principle OF Right and
Ind sl Lao,
OF Free Soilism, larger and stronger truth
lies, from which its adherents derive power.
Let them be never SO selfwilled, they know
that they have right OH their side, that there
is an eternal law OF God Tor them 10 be faith
iul to. And their opponents know this, too,
or, ii they do not, strictly speaking, kio,o it,
they feel il. hey feel that there is some
thing in the way which they cannot demon
strate, even to their own satisfaction, to be
unreasonable and wrong, and the country
feels this, too, and so the contest is left to go
on. How il will terminate We can only
guess. We all know that one of the great
political parties is pretty strong in its party
allegiance, aud the other great party very ac-
conmodaiing, and they may settle il between
them.N But be this Us il may, congratulate
you, friends, oil the power Of your cause, on
this new and animating evidence, that it is
the cause Of Truth and of God
i suppose there are a great many persons
who look upon the state OF things which has
existed now for some weeks, in our National
Legislature, with real anxiety; but do mo-
imagine that any Aboliiionist, that any one
who has close ut heart the cause of human
rights, sympathises with such apprebensions
There would seem indeed to be an alarmin,
symptom Of social dsorganization, when th,
government of the country will not work
when its machinery will not go. But th,
cause OF the difficulty is the thing to be look
cd at. II the wheels of Government stop be
cause right principle has become stron,
enough in its councils TO prevent its movinI
any longer in a wrong direction, becaus
Freedom and Justice aud Humanity, nstca
OF being vague distractions lowering over tn
heads of men, are coming down into thci
hearts aud getting embodied in the activ
sentiments, in the will, and so becoming fia
ed into the condition of things rs facts
such is the source of the difficulty, there
no occasion of anxiety, but abundant reaso
for rejoicing and encouragement tits ordc
: : not chaos, that is coming. The kingdom {
! heaven, the dominion OF right is at hand.
. That such actually is the cause of this col
; fusion in the councils of the nation, we ha,
abundant evidence. The whole course
: things recently shows that higher intere
than that OF banks and tariffs is beginning
|
. Since the above was delivered Speak
u has been elected.
= q" For this most happy result" says the Nor
Is American of the Gath inst, "the country
IS indebted entirely to the patriotism OF the WI
Is members Of the House and it is right that {
" country should know and remember 1t. IL
% they, and they alone, who have proved thel
selves capable of sacrificing the interests of pI
4. ty on the altar of their country; and 1t was
,e trely by such sacrifice Of party interest u
n they redeemed the country-sayed il from I
e great danger in which it has been kept for tn
" weeks by the insanity Of hateful faction,
~ which patriotism has ceased even 70 be u
~ tenee. The Democratic members were viii
n yet not all willing--to beffiend tho countl