Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-02-09
wM. LLOYD GARRISON
Report Of the Massachusetts, A, 5, Society.


WM. LLOYD GARRISON.
Report Of the Massachusetts, A, s. Society.
The mail has just brought us the 'Eigh-
tcenth Annual Report, presented TO the Mas
sachusctts A. S. Society, by its Board of
Managers, Jan. 90, 1s50.' 1t is pamphlet of
80 pp., and contains sketch of the pres
ent relations of Slavery with the Church and
State of America and Of the relations Of
Anti-Slayery' with them all. 1t is in fact
well compactcd history Of the Anti-Slavery
Movement, its encounters and its triumphs,
during the year 1S40. No where else can
such a history be found, and there are in all
our ranks few men possessing in SO eminent
degree as its author the qualifications need
ful for its preparation. When we have all
ded that the Report was traced by the mas
terly pen of EDMUND QuIScY, twill be need
less to say more to commend it to wide
circulation. No intelligent Aboltionist, es-
pecinly ifhe is ever called upon TO defend
the cause in public, should fail TO procure
and read it.
! A careful perusal has disclosed much that
we would gladly copy, did not the crowded
state of our columns ut the present time for
bid. We give below few paragraphs re-
plete with good sense and sound philosophy,
and may present others at a future time.
The t,co .qme,icdn IDEAS and their representa-
tires-Cdlhoun aud Garrison.
1t is refreshing, after regarding the char
acters and conduct of such men as- -Mr
CLAY and Mr.. BENTON, at the South, anC
of their admirers at the North, to turn aDo
behold a marked, decided, understandable
unmistakeable man like Mr.. CALHOUN. i
is satisfaction now and then TO see u mai
in these United States. Even bad man il
better than none at all. 1t is encouraging
for il looks as if there were possibility o
the American race regaining its stamina, ant
recovering something of the rough strength
OF character which il had sixty or seventy
wears ago. IL is comfort, too, to meet witt
an actual, tangible Idea, however wicked
may be, occasionally. An Idea that stand
up by ITSELF in its own natural proportions
instead of being raced down to regulation
dimensions. Even the sight of Satan him
self would be welcome refreshment il
the Limbo of Vanity, or Paradise of Fools
among
"-tho unaccustomcd works of Nature
hand,
Abortive, monstrous, or unkindly Mixed
f And even the Idea of the Absolute Excel
lence of Slavery though it may be mncl
worse, is much less Disgusting than the abor
= tive nolstrOsities which try TO unite theoret
~ 4 xNitl, IuiIt
Q teal support of IT.
5 II is ior this reason that VIC like to sec MI
: CALHOUN stand up before the Nation, an
f boldly give uiterance to the Idea with whic
4 he is impressed lie is not absolutely adm
: rable, it must be admitted, aud his doctrin
i is the very Abomination of Desolation; bt
Il one cannot help feeling sort of respect fc
: a man who takes no counsel of eXpedicnc
Y even in the worst of causes, and who has
= settled, distinct, definite purpose, howev'
}, abominable, TO which he bends all his pow
= ers and every circumstance he can contro
Q As was said of Lafayette, when he set out O
" his mad-cap expedition TO America, whate'
70 or we may think of his prudence, we cann'
y help admiring his spirit. He holds Slay'
If and he defends it. He maintains Slavery
D be the natural condition of the colored rae
ir beneficent towards them, and essential to
well ordered Commonwealth, and of cours
e he promotes it. The right of the Anglo-Sa
he on TO make free with the African he regar,
ID as founded in Nature and guaranteed by Il
People of the United States. Therefore
y resists any attempt t. cOniine the exercise
of this natural and social privilege within al
d. specific territorial limits. Wherever FIR
I'd and enlightened American may incline TO 3
h. thither he may be followed by Negro,
D. the shade pursues tile substance. Aud he
be propotionally indignant at those Peter Schl
he mills who would not only strip off their ov
m shadows, but lay sacriegious hands on t
IL shadows of their neighbors, too.
mt Ii is a Characteristic of the American Pc
", pie, which has been tOstered by their instlI
u lions, that they prefer half an idea to NhC
to one. They not merely think shat half lo
m. is better than no bread, but that Il Is bet
RS, than whole one. Therefore CALHOUN a
ne his party at the South, and GARRISON a
- his friends at the North, are equally reject
of by the men of their generation. Both go
tn thoroughly TO the root of the matter for tho
Ir- who hate to look beyond the tips Of
ur, branches. Each are for whole measures a
a necessarily make uncomfortable those W
on live in half ones. They are equally bold n
las uncompromsing in their opinions, their Il
est guage and their policy, and they unayoida
nj shock the timid and the time-serving tho
tin on the ono hand, who are content with tn