Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-04-20


according to their iaith, one Money and en-
titled to the supreme alteration OF their stunted
souls. The letter which they have signed we
place on record as a significant part oil tho his
tory Of the times.
Bosrox, 25th March, 1860.
To THE HoyoRApLB DASIEL WEBSTER.
Sir,-Imprcsscd with the magnitude and i'm
portance OF tho service to the Constitution and
the Union, which you have rendered by your
recent speech in tho Senate OF the United States,
On the subject oil Slavery, We desire to express
to you our deep obligations for what this speech
has done and - dong to onhghien the public
mind, and To bring the present crisis in our Ma
tionai affairs To fortunate and peaceful tcrni-
nation. As Citizens OF the Unltol States, we
wish 10 thank you, ior rocdltiH7 u5 TO our alGies
uldor tho Constellation, and Tor the broad, nations
III and patriotic views, which you have sent,
with the weight OF your great authority and
with the power OF your uIlnswerable reasoning,
7 into every corner OF the Union.
] 1t is, permit us to say, Sir, no common good,
which you have thus done tor the country. In
n time of almost unprecedented excitement,
when the minds of men have Ocen bewildcrcd
by an apparent conflict OF duties, and when null
titudes have been unable 70 lind solid ground on
which to rest with security and peace, you hdce
ointea0 out to ,choie people tie pah Of duty, hare
eonvincsd Le UtderstaadiiJ and touched tie con-
science Of nation. You have met this great
exigency as patriot and a statesman; and al
though the dobt OF gratitude, which the people
OF this country owe to you, was large before,
you have increased it by peculiar service,
| which is felt throughout the land
We desire, therefore, to express to you our
entire concurrence in tho sentiments of your
speech, and our hcartiul thanks Tor the inestm-
haa lo1
and perpctuation OF tho Union. For this pur-
pose, VIC respectfully present TO you this our ad-
dress of thanks and congratulation, i'll reference
TO this most interesting and important occasion
in your public lie.
Wy did the signers of this letter feel it neces-
sary to step forth at this crisis to sustain Mr..
Webster; Simply because they knew that he
YVES not sustained by the great body of the poo-
pie Of New England-that his speech was in
fact an outrage upon their sense OF justice and
right. Viewed in this light, the letter is cheer
ing indication that the hearts of tho masses arc
mainly in the right place, and that Mr.. Webster
will win from them no smiles of appreciation.
The signers of the letter were not aR lords OF
the LOOM There wero among them lords
spiritual as well as lords temporal. The
heads of the great religious establishment at
Andovcr, which has so long supplied the Ortho-
dox pulpits of Now England with subtle apollo
gists for organic sins, of which slavery is the
chief, have spread out the ample folds of theiI
cassocks to screen from popular indignation the
'polihc statesman and rccrcant son of Now
England. Conspicuous among those who have
thus expressed their entire concurrence ir
TIE sentiments of that most diabolcal speech
Rev. Moses Stuart and Rev. Ralph Emerson,
tho celebrated teachers OF the Oldest Theolosi.
cal Seminary in the land. We submit that the
signatures of these men 10 this letter more than
justify all that Abolitionsts have ever said o.
that Seminary and OF the religion taught in it
These professors Of tho popular Theology have
put upon record the evidence that the religion
they hold and teach, and which they have spread
through the country and sent to heather lands
is not sufficient to restrain them from hunting
fugitive slaves like wild beasts and DELIVERING
them to their tyrant owners and puIsuers =
They have shown that tho Constitution, not tho
God of Justice, is tho object of their worship
and allegiance, and proclaimed it as their judg.
ment, that whoever gives food and shelter to the
homeless, wandering fugitive from Southern
bondage, ought to bo punished as criminal
Wearo glad to perceive, in spite of this en-
dorsemont of Wr. Webster, that his speech has
called forth the strongest condemnation of most
of the presses, both religious and political, OF
New England. Even the Boston Atlas, long
the organ of the Wings of Massachusetts,, is
out against it in emphatic terms