Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-08-17

Dnung society for the whole nation. They |
have made Congress useful body almost
for the first time. Some people complain of
Congress, rs having done nothing during |
the eight months of this long session. Why, |
SIR, don't grudge them their eight dollars a
Day, and believe that tho money could not be |
better expended than in keeping up this dis |
cussion until Slavery be brought entirely to
an end.
WENDELL PHmLrPs spoke oloouently us
usual;
lie referred TO the early and cautious
movements in England against the Slave
Trade and Slavery. Gradual emancipation,
preparation for freedom, apprenticeship, &c.
these were the only terms proposed or |
asked; and the cause struggled along doubt
fully and hardly alive. Then, amidst all the
doubt uncertainty, and perplexity, arose
Elizabeth Heyrck, and declared, as by an
innate power of truth, that Slavery ought 10
cease at once that whether property was
safe or not, whether the West Indies produc-
ed sugar or nothing whether the planter was
| rich or bankrupt; whether he lived in
peace, or his blood flowed over his hearth
stone, the negro had right to his freedom,
as given to him by God and no man, or ma
il from him. Great and prolonged up
plausc.
Some of our friends have alluded TO the
difference in the position of the English and
American Aboitionisis. This is aquestionl
care very little TO consider. know that
Clarkson, and Sharpe, and Wilberforce and
George Thompson, have understood their
own work well, and have done IL. So nuts
we. But if parallel to our own position is
TO he looked after, | think we shall find n
more Just one in looking TO the missionaries
knibb and Smith in Jamaica. The entire
English Church in Jamaica, with its power
ful party, was pledged 10 Slavery. knibb
and Smith went to Jamaica, and said "Chris-
tiuni,y demands that these souls be instruct
ed, and we claim a right as Christian ministers
to instruct them" "Ifihis he Christianity"
said the west India planters, away with II;
we prefer our system as it is." so they
murdered Smith, the worthest successor OF
the first Christian martyrs that the world has
seen, and would have treated knibb in like
manner, but that the Dissenting interest in
England backed him up too strongly. Now
the American church of our time is like the
Episcopal church in Jamaica; and the Abo-
litionists hold the relative position OF the
Baptist missionaries there. And II any man
would learn Alright the character OF the
American Anti-Slavery movement and its
spirit, if he would know the bitterness of its
foes the violence of their inyective and
Their hate, let him go to the grave of Smith,
the martyr of Demerarn.
Our American Church is n weather. cock,
denoting with eXactness the tone and level
of the public sentiment aud morality. The
American pulpit, what is it What the
pews make it. | am not attacking the NM
istels, but am telling what they are, and
wlIat the people mike them. Your minis
ter is not chosen to build up your moral and
intellectual strength; if so, he would be
relormer. lie is chosen to make Untarlans,
or Orthodox, or Baptists, or Methodists, as
the case may be. The voluntary system is
beautiful TO n certain extent, hut il can never
be a Tciormaiory system. IL will always
cast its anchor where the popular opinion
stops. 1t will always mark the precise point
of responsibility. Christianity, like the lava
from the burning volcano, while it is warm,
moves on resistless; but when it grows cold,
it stops, it takes shapes, and forms itself into
organized bodies, into churches-and minis
tiers. An old Italian in 1852, said that no
Christian could die in his bed. There is
truth in it now.
No Christian now can be respectable in
the entire community where he dwells,
Daniel Webster once said that New
Hampshire was a glorious State TO be born
in and then leave. So the Church of the
laud and the day is a glorious body to grow
up in, and then come out from! II is like
the shell of the egg, which the bird will al
ways break, when it has got strength enough
to fly.
Our fathers made this Government as it
is; they did the best they could; so they
thought; God bless them. They were few,
they were poor, and weak. They felt they
must stand together, or lose all they had won
so dearly. Aud if they, in that difficult and
dark hour, without the guidance of any pre-
vious experiment, made concessions to Slave
nv, much mny be pardoned TO them. But
not so with us, now We are twenty
millions strong, rich, covering vast area of
country, spreading ourselves proudly; we
shrink from no labor, or hazard or difficulty,
elsewhere; we take up in the Free States
every child that is born and educate il. And
can we not grapple with this question; if
/ not, we have learned but poorly, and have
cast away the benefit of our fathers expe-
rience. They could not give us first of
August, but they did leave us the power TO
get it for ourselves. Now, instead of being
a light ,'and guide, blessing to the nations,
we are a curse and reproach. We are the
mildew, bighting aud blasting our brothers
ears Mexico, Cuba, ST. Domingo. 1t is
England now, not America, that is teaching
the world lessons of liberty and setting the
examples which move and stir to noble deeds.
Shame on us that we have allowed Eng
land to outstrip us in the race for ireedom-
Still let us all, whom the voice of God has
summoned to this work, move on undaunied
until the whole nation shall see and under
stand Daniel Webster, aud reject him for the
Z" base metal" that he is.
STEPHEN S. Foster, being loudly called
for, responded:
lie said he heartily symrathizcd in the
feelings of tho meeting to-day: nave, SIR
said he, hardly the heart to celebrate Euiall.