Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-06-08

our brother man, no matter how distant his
position on the globe may be from our own.
And shall we not care for our brother man
on the other side of the Potomac? do not
attack the sects; but ! say this--that with
10000 Christian pulpits, 700000 slaves have
grown into three millions, and that statutes
so bloody have been enacted under their
teaching, that those Of Draco are light In
comparison. Instead of the Jeffersons, the
Henrys, and the men of the first era of the
republic, lamenting slavery as an evil, we
have Calhoun declaring il blessing, and
MeDuffie saying il is the cornerstone of the
political ediiice. Mr.. Webster, as far as we
can Judge from his last ech,-(npplause,
kissing and cheering alternately, for five min
ntes,) ~ was going to say, that although MIR.
Webster has described what were the views
of the Romans and Greeks about slavery, il
would puzzle ten Philadelphia lawyers to
tell what are his own. Laughter and hiss
ing) The current of European thought has
been towards liberty for some years. But
where liberty is favored, and the church Is
educating twenty millions of men, we have
retrograded more deeply into the blackest Of
all tyrannies. What has wrought this changer
Something must have caused IL This river
must have springs Why is it that slavery,
every compromise since, and every party
which has had the accidental virtue of ndop-
ting tho anti-slavery principle has broker
down? While, in the old country, every
great man desires to place on record his sen
timcnts In favor of liberty and progress
Websters can be bought up here ihster thai
nature can make them. Laughter and his
sing.) There is platform, deeper and bet
ter, behind Christian organization, and tha
is Christianity itself,-the individual con
science. cannot settle disputes about sect
or poemics; but | put my hand upon M,
breast, aud feel there the seli-evident trutl
that man is entitled to freedom. Rome il
the centre of the Papncy, England of thI
Episcopacy, America of Congregationnlism
but, like every thing human, the voluntary
principle has its evils, and one of these is,
that the minister is speaking TO his creators
such his audience are, and he is moulded,
more or less, by their wishes and interests.
IL is true there are sants and martyrs who
nre exceptions TO this rule; but we all know
that saints don't travel in battalions, nor mar
tyrs in regiments. The almighty dollar is
at the bottom of slavery. II is not only a
question of morality, but of property-an
investment Of 1000,000,000 of dollars. An
'1knlnxiaar's lcsie ia ms r|fnr, MS the sun Mt
nooh.dny upon every SUBJECT IN tne'worId,
except ono. If il relates 10 white man, it
is lucid and bright; but tho moment you
touch OH black man, il veers about like the
needle Of the compass when il comes near a
mass of iron. Calhoun said, when talking
on another subject, that nothing was clearer
than that what man dug out of the earth
was his. But he Ind, at the same time, six.
ty human beings, slaves, TO whom he denied
that right. Daniel Webster, when speaking
of Kossuth, expressed his anxiety for bis
escape from the bloody tyranny of his pur-
suers; but put Douglass in the place Of Kos
suth escaping from far bloodier despotism,
and will lie respond Not bit of it. Ills
sing, drowned in cheers.) Since you will
not permit me to speak of Webster, let us
see what Horace Mann says-and have se-
lected in him noble specimen of Massa-
chnsetts thought. He says, in inte speech,
The colored man is my brother, the colored
woman IL my sister, and am bound to
them by the ties of duty, though not as strong
return my own blood brother to bondage as
the fugitive slave, but for the Constitution
Now that is American logic. The events oi
the last week in sister city have proved
that the only treason that could be committed
in one of his beautiful pictures, contrasts
New York with Brazil, tie one by freedom,
nll that is glorious, the other sunk in dark
ness. Why did he not contrast Virginia with
New York, both being Protestant, and a part
of the same republic? Would to God that
one night would sweat out all the black
from the skins of the slaves, aud then there
would be 10 difficulty about the question:
We do not bring forward any new prin-
ciples. We only apply the old ones. You
love the American banner. But every sixth
man under its stripes aud stars is a slave,
with whose blood its folds are stained. Eve
ry sixth man has no mortal or immortal
rights. Still, we boast of our star-spangled
banner, when we should hide our mouths il
the dust. Patrick Henry confessed that sla-
very was a sin. This is oil that we aboli-
tionists want the churches TO proclaim. Let
them confess themselves sinners, rather than
file down their religion TO their degraded
practice, or pervert the Bible TO sustain it,
Slavery is sin, and no Constitution, no re-
ligious principle is binding that endeavors
20 sustain il. This is the great question o.
the age, that, like Aaron's rod, swallows M
tariff, internal Improvement, Democracy anC
Whggery alike. Slavery has spread al
over the South, and shall il go to the Pacific
That is now the question. With regard 4
the fugitive slave, the turning point o.
which so much hinges at present, wou
say, Constitution or no Constitution, Go
has given us conscience superior TO a
| law, and whenever slave touches our tie
soil, let him he free beyond the reach of hi
\ tyrant A mighty question is now involve
\ in this, namely, whether an immoral Consti
tuition ought 10 be obeyed but have no
time TO discuss il now. IL would take count
! less hours TO go over question So brond.--
] am satisfied, if tonight have convince,
1 you that the men with whom am identifi
cd, and who have been misrepresented b,
! the New York press, are not wild, hut speal
the words of truth, aud soberness, and lrrus
that mercy will yet be lawful in these fire
I States, and that crust of bread and wae
3 on will be offered to the fugitive, guilty {
nothing but a skin not colored like our owl