Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-06-22
SPEECH OF CnAS. c. BURLEIGH,
AT THE NEW ENGLAND A. $. coNyENrIo
Reported for The Libcrator.

An exception has been put in here against
the declaration of your resolution, so fur as it
affects one or two individuals who come un-
der its condemnatory expression. We may
brand the mass of the people OF this country
as political hypocrites, so far as they are con-
nected with the system of American Slavery,
and il seems we give no sPeeiel ottianse-'s-
any; but if we venture among those against
whom we pass this sentence to include Dan
icl Webster and Henry Clay then we are to
be considered us assaiing some otthe noblest
men upon whom God ever set the seal OF his
patent of nobility.
MIR. Sayles-May | make an explanation?
looked upon Daniel Webster and Henry
Clay us the representatives of a large num-
ber Of our citizens, not upon them individu-
ally. They are the representatives OF great
number of noble men, likewise. Applause
in the outskirts OF the hall
MIR. Burleigh-A very proper explanation!
[Laughter.l 1t is very proper that the man
who holds up Daniel Webster before the ma
ton, and would have us suppose that he is
holding up the picture of the representative
of noble men, should do as the Dutch painter
did, who made picture of something which
he wished to be regarded us horse, and
wrote under it, 'this is horses; and also,
that he should do as the same Dutchman did,
who had to hire some one TO stand by the
side of his picture and read his illegible hi
erogyphics. [Laughter.l
II intellect made nobleman, if mind and
culture and refinement made nobeman,
then might Daniel Webster be regarded as
noble, and fit TO stand 10y the side OF him
Of whom the poet sang that,
Satan excepted, none higher sat-
But if it requires fidelity to principle, if it
requires truthlulness in the heart and good
ness in the life, to make a nobleman, then by
the side Of some of the humble and lowly Of
earth, let Daniel Webster hide his head in
obscurity. Cheers and hlsses.
What is the ground of the charge upon
which we arraign Daniel Webster, as our
friend has truly called him, as the represent
alive of large portion of the people Of this
country We may, perhaps, by inyesilga-
ting that ground, and taking ior granted that
Daniel Webster's advocate here knows the
facts of the case, arrive at some Just estimate
of his notions OF nobility. [Applause.
Daniel Webster has lately come before the
milton and the world with the utterance Of
his sentiments upon certain very important
matters. lie has come ayowng himself
ready TO support certain measure OF public
policy. lie has pointed TO certain bill that
has been introduced mo tne congress Oh lIllS
nation, and avowed himself ready to vote for
it in all its provisions, to sustain II TO its full
| est extent
The same man who, thirty years ago, stood
upon Plymouth Rock, and pointing to the
spot of New England that was desecrated by
participation in the African slaye-trade, said,
Let that spot be purified, or let it cease to
be Of New England; lot it be purified, or let
il be set aside from the Christian world; let
it be put out of the sympathies of mankind,
aud let civilized man have hencelorth no
communion with it, That Daniel Web
ster who uttered these sentiments on the
Rock of Plymouth, has now come forward to
pledge himself TO sustain a slave-trade every
whit as abominabe as that African slave
trade, the participants in which, according to
his declaration, deserved to be shut out from
human sympathy and human regard. lie has
said that he will vote for the bill which has
Justly been denominated the Bill of Abomi-
nations-a bill which imposes a fine OF a
thousand dollars, and an imprisonment OF
six months upon the man who obeys the
voice of his God, to hide the outcast, the COM