Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-04-06
s elections.
wcDstcr's Speech Reviewed.
DT WENDELL PHILLIPS.
EXTRACTS.
Surrender Of The PrOviso.

SHTtnder of Me fT0riso.
The next point in Mr.. Webster's speech
il, his entire surrender of the Wilmot Provi-
so, so far MS any territory ut present belong
ing to the country is concerned, on the
ground Of its being utterly unnecessary. As
TO California and New Mexico, he holds sla-
very to be excluded from those territories by
the law of nature and physical geography
Il will not take pains TO reafiirm an ordi-
nance of nature, or rc-enact the will of God
would not wound even the irrational pride
Of the South PIP %, 2l. lie confesses his
repeated and most solemn pledge to the prin-
ciples of the Proyiso, and promises to stand
by them when shown TO be necessary.
This sudden, and for his official prospects
most opportune, discovery of the usclcssness
OF tile Proyiso, wears most suspicious face.
Mr. Webster doubtless remembers the preg-
nant commentary of some one on Stafiord's
conversion 10 Charles !. There are some
changes of opinion so suspicious, that it
needs a life of most unequivocal sincerity
ever after to convince mankind that they
were the results of honest conviction.
Bur we beg the reader TO remember that
they were not simply pledges which MIR.
Webster gave at Springfield and elsewhere
10 the Wilmot Proviso. He used his, and
the Wings profcssed attachment to this Pro-
viso as an argument throughout the whole
Presidential campaign to undervalue the
Free Soil movement as unnecessary-to de-
feat Cass, and to elect Taylor and unless he
can convince the community that he has got
new light on the character of mature and
physical Geography in New Mexico, &c,
since September, l847, and August, lS4S, he
stands before the world convicted out of his
own mouth of having swindled those who
trusted him out of their confidence and votes
by false pretences.
Listen to him at Springfield, Sept, 1919:
Il am rot prophet or the son of a prophet
but il were to prophesy, the very last subject
on which would venture prediction would
be the course of the Northern Democracy on
this subject of slavery extension. The prcdic-
ton Of the Almanac respecting the state Of the
weather would be Just as reliable as any could
make of their probable proceedings ! hope
there are some OF them, and am glad to believe
there are many of them, who would go with us
in support of the sentiment of tho Wilmot Pro-
viso; but when wo como to the real question,
the vote, who and how many can VIC rely on to
support usf
Il was secuted out Of the asscmblagc of the
Democracy Of Massachusetts, at Worcester. Are
we quito certain the Democratic members of
Congress from Maine and New Hampshire will
abandon the administration and support the
Proviso against the Slave Powcri'
Again at Marshfeld, August, le48:
And now venture to say, gentlemen, two
things: the first well known to you, that Gen.
Cass is in favor of what is called tho Compro-
mise Line; and is of opinion that the Wilmot
Proviso, or the Ordinance of 1887, which ex-
cludes slavery from territories, ought not to be
applied to territories lying South OF see 30'.-
He announced this before he was nominated,
and IL he had not announced it, he would have
been thrty-six degrees thirty minutes farther
off from being nominated. In tho next place,
he will do all he can to accomplish that compro-
mise line; and lastly, which is matter Of opin-
ion, in my conscientious belief, he will establish
IL.
Il verify believe, that unless there is q renew
ed strength, an augmented strength Of Whig
votes in Congress, he will accomplish his pur-
pose
Augmented strength of Wing votes =
How many Wing votes, his own and X. G.
Wipthrop's, for instance, will il take to de-
feat the Proviso? Like the Scotchman's
farm, the more you have of them, the poorer
you will be.
We turn aside moment to remark, that
il was in this speech at Marshfeld that MIR.
Webster confessed, what the abolitionists
have so often asserted
I've talk Of the North. There has been no
North. think tho North Star is at last discoy-
cred; think there lciH DO a North; but up to
the recent session of Congress there has been no
North. What mean to say is, If am 70 un-
dcFstand geographical section of the country
in which there has been a strong. conscientious,
and united opposition to slavery, no such North
has existed
10. ID. .
And If no such North has existed at
whose door lies the fault? We say plainly
at his ono blast upon whose bugle horn,
ssy time these twenty years, had been worth
thousand men, His fiat could Of any mo-