Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-07-06
SALEM, CoLUMBIANAgeo~ OHIO, JULY 6, 1860.

ttnnd God grant him good doliyernnce
VAN, perhaps, now to hope that any
Yen which Venice ever hung over the fea-
encs OF her coward Doges, or any mark OF
corn which history leaves on the names OF
plrohord or Arnold, will weigh, in the hot
plonent OF temptation, against the baubles OF
|fApected Office; but, at any rate, Lbeauimns
f'''n'ds nostrds, and that is something. Let
Posterlty Judge whether our assertion, that
any mans citation Of the Constitution as ex-
Fuse lor moral turpitude is absurd, and that
we return OF slaves is base, be sound reason or
pi-tempered abuse. We are content to wait
the verdict.
Harvard College once trampled on DIR.
'-f oiien for his anti-slavery principles, and in
tneir pride of place and power, they did il
successfully. They trampled him under their
teet But when his life was written, ten
years later, how anxiously did the College
nuempt to explain away the ugly fact. They
'alled. They were placed at the bar of a
correct public opinion, which this single in
s'ance of DIR. Follen had done SO much TO
create; and that opinion was given against
fhem. e'''S'
MIR. Webster stands now in the Senate of
the United States, girt about with 9S7 unhap-
py retainers of Boston. lie may stand firm
yet there is public opinion, and that we
snail arouse or create. And, after all, as
iames Madison says, the heart is the best
logician on question like this.' We appeal
70 fathers and brothers, we appeal to COM
mon men, that are not equal TO his logic
against these iTeprcssible instincts of our
nature, it is nothing that n great party is
prostrate beneath the sway of his sophstry
10 el,ut LII 81,
the last hope of political resistance to the
Slave Power at this crisis; it is nothing that
personal servility, hope of Office, fear of be-
lng singular, the prestige of great name,
have swept away the little remnant ofNorth-
crn resistance. lie knows well, none better,
for It is his own language, There is an ene-
my that still exists to check the glory of these
triumphs. 1t follows the conqueror back TO
the very scene of his Oyations; it calls upon
bin TO take notice that the nation, though ST.
lent, is yet indignant; it shows him that the
sceptre of his victory is barren sceptrc /;
Ihat it shall confer neither joy nor honor, but
shall moulder 10 dry ashes in his grasp. In
Ihe midst of his eXultation, il pierces his ear
with the cry of injured justice; it denounces
lgninst him the Indignation of an enlighten-
ID and civilized age; it turns TO bitterness
be cup of his rejoicing, and wounds him
Hith the sting which belongs to the con-
'eiousness of having outraged the opinion of
ilankind'
/ Let me read you his beautiful description
)feouseives-no abuse, of course. Mr. Web
ter does not fear TO use the Anglo-Saxon
anguagc. Let us sec what lie says: New
England, it is well known, is the chosen seat
If the abolition presses and the abolition
societies. Here it is principally that the for
ner cheer the morning by full columns of
lamentations over the fate of human beings
fr by a law above the Constitution, but
sent back, nevertheless, chained and mana
cled to slavery and stripes
Now, mark you, il is the anti-savery pres
ses that cheer the morning by full columns
Of lamentations over the fate of human be-
ngs free by nature but sent back TO slave
y and stripes Mr.. Daniel Webster has no
amentations for il lie does not charge the
Vbig press with the high crime of idmentd-
ion for such trife The religious press is
ot guilty of il. 1t is New England, poor,
land, that holds in its bosom these
)ul anti-slavery presses, with lamentations
)r those free by nature, and by law above |
10 Constitution but sent back TO slavery |
nd stripes.' This, Daniel Webster has no |
for. No! Moses Stuart is wri-
ng now that Paul sent back Onesimus;
loses, Daniel and Paul. (Laughter.) Mo
IS Stuart is writing that Deuteronomy does
OF forbid il, for il only says, thou shalt not
,tnm the servant that has escaped mean
& thou shalt not return him TO the hedihen.
nd then he says, I'VE do not return the
ave 10 beathen master when we send him
South Carolina; but we return him TO
hristian.' AS for this professed commenta-
r, with one foot in the grave as he him
If tells us, is he against the return of the
gitive slave? o, no! it is only against re-
rning them to the heather. Thou shalt
II muzzle the OK that treadeth out the corn,'
id Paul. And then he asks, Doth God
Ike care for oxen? Mop He goes on to
v, 1t is the truth which lies beneath this
hich is intended And so, if there should
'me another Paul, would he not venture TO
k MIR. Stuart, can you see nothing beneath
c bark and the rind of that text of Deuter-
Iomy which recalls another Thou shalt
We thy brother as thyself' and under which
is equally guilty to return the slave TO him
no is called Christian as to any other OPP
essor?
MIR. Webster adds, 'The latter that is, the
Olition societies, 'refresh themselves from
lily toll by orgies of the night devoted TO
e same outpourings of philanthropy, min
ing all the while their nnathemas at what
ey call man-catching" with the most hor-
/ and profhne objurgations of the Christian
lbbath, and indeed of the whole Divine
evelation.' Yes, we call it 'man-stealing.'
G names it, return of fugitiyes from labor!
'nocent phrascology 'They sqnctiiy their
by irreligious profanity; they
aniiest their charity by contempt of God
nd his commandments Query; what is
le commandment of God? Tho second
,ction of the fourth article of the United
tates Constitution, is that commandment
God? or is, Thou shalt love thy neighbor |
thyself' the commandment of God which |
ands nearest to this subject? Who mani
st their contempt for God' The men who
y there is law above the Constitution, or
0 man that in this letter, throughout the