Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-02-22
5rlcftions.
The Liberator Festival.


We copied largely in our last from the report
Of the Festival by which the friends Of The
LszRAroR celebrated the completion Of the
second decade since that paper uttered the
watchword of Immediate Emancipation and COM
menccd the grand struggle with Slavery which
forms the most distinguishing feature of the
present age. Wegavc extracts from the speech
Is of Thompson and Garrison, and copied that
Of Wendell Phillips in full. The occasion was
enc Of so much interest that wo must copy yet
more.
THOMAS RUSSELL, formerly Of Plymouth, be-
ing called upon to respond to a sentiment in
which Plymouth Rock was appropriately refer
red 10, said -
We have gone back, this evening, 10 the
early DAYS Of the auti.slavery cause to the
hour of its birth aud it's danger; to the time
when il was not saie in Boston to be an Alb
olitionist to tile time when il was .ashiOna-
BILE to mob women; TO the pcrilous moment
when single arm arrested the progress OF
riot, and when single voice, then first rails
ed for freedom in Faneul Hall, saved this
city and State from shame aud crime. We
have gone back tonight to the day when
the free soil of Illinois was REDEEMED with
the blood of our first martyr; and, further
still, TO the commencement of this agitation
Ito the scene which has been rendered inn
mortal by pro-s slavery Mayor now deceased,
and MI sDti-slavery poet, whose words can
never dis:-
Il. snail chamber. fricndless and unseen,
Toiled all alone one poor, unlearncd young
man;
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Yet there the freedom of race began.
And, ss We trace the feeble beginning of this,
mighty movement, ] AN, reminded of a fig
nre by which great orator once illustrated
his feelings on visiting the Rock of Plymouth,
on the 22,l OF December. He compared the
occasion TO M incident in the exploring ex-
pediion of Lewis and Clark. After travel
ling over hundreds OF miles of prairie and
mountain, they reached gray rock, from
the side of which flowed a little streain--a
tiny rill, which pack of wolves might have
Tapped up, without qtenching their thirst;
and they gazed upon il with awe und ndmi-
ration, for they recognized in that Irickling
rivulet the source OF the majestic Missouri.
So have we looked, in fancy, upon the little
rill of anti-slavery agitation, which pnck or
wolves thirsting for blood clothed in broad
CLOTH and calling themselves gentlemen of
property and standing'-would iain have lap
ped up, bur they were not permitted. (cheers.)
Wo have found the source of that mighty
stream which now rolls in resistless power
through the land, sweeping away every ref
uge OF lies, and every bulwark ofoppression.
tAPplanse.)
As we recall those early days, we learn
anew 10 honor the zeal, the fhith, the cOur-
age, with which that iriendless youth took
his stand for truth against the world. When
he sent forth the Libernlor, with those
deathess words upon It's pages, his feelings
must have heen like those of Copernicus,
when his grent astronomical discoveries were
to be given to mankind. The story is old,
but il will bear repeating. The dying as
tronomer is about TO publish those truths
which the Church Of that day called iufdel-
ity, but which are now taught in all The Sab
bath schools, as this mans intidelity shall
yet be. The first sheets of his work are
brought TO his bedside. He knows tile out
cry which lis theories will cause he fore
sees the hatred and contempt that will be
poured upon his name; hut he knows that
his doctrines are true, and he exclaims, with
his last brenth-'My book is printed, 10 be
read now or hy posterity, / care not which !;
! can wait n century for reader, since God
inns WHICH ON iOi Aii ODctIN-
err, So could our leader have waited life
time for a convert to those truths which had
been waiting, ever since our country was
settled, for an earnest man to proclaim them
60 the world.
@. w. PUTNAM, in the course of brief
speech, remarked -
There have been predictions continually,
that we were to die out in little while. /
remember, in the early days of this cause,
there were some clergymen, who, finding
that the breeze wns increasing, thought il
was as well TO stenl the thunder, aud 60 a.
head. And recollect on one occasion, the
Rev. Mr.. Towne said, We will put Garrison
down, or we ourselves will go off in the
smoke That Garrison has not been put
down, let the meeting bear witness. ZAP
plause.) And if that reverend gentleman
has nor gone off in smoke, should like TO
know where he is, (Laughter.)
Sir, our cause is divine, and its true
friends cannot I've separated or conquered
A party held together for Tariff or Bank
may be defeated, or divided and destroyed.
But for us, united by the ties Of great NOR
Il principle, 'there is,' a. Ricbelieu says, mo
snsh word as full