Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-03-15

ElCqusnee Of Thompson.

1.-THE following sketch of speech mad,
by George Thompson ut Union Village, N
Y, is given by correspondent of The Libc
rutor.
Let me stand on one side Of screen ant
hear man talk few minutes upon this sub
ject-let me hear him make his lament that
slis evil exists, aud express his hope that
some time or other, some how or other, il
will be done away, and I will tell you wha,
are his politics aud what is the preaching ia
which he listens. II is all hypocrisy! No
man who thinks il an evil, aud is honest in
liis opinion, will oppose its immediate abo-
lition. No IMAM who believes slavery is
wrong will sit still or keep silent while Il ex-
lists Ii is all hypocrisy! ! inve drauk in
freedom from my mothers bosom to the
present hour, and can sound with line and
plummet the dark depths of the stagnant
souls Of such wrctches All the talk of its
being a sad thing, blot upon our nations
escttcheoD,' &c. &C., is false and hypocrit-
cal The Shareholder who hus just bound
and lashed II woman, mangled the flesh from
her neck to her loins, WILL when he is done.
whine over the evils of slavery! II is II lie /!
There is no true friend of the slave but the
abolitionist-nOne who really hate slavery
out the friends of immediate, unconditional
emancipation. You boast of your liberty !
yes, even dare TO boast of il abroad, aud ia
the foreign city, at the table d'hotc, the mus.
tachIoed Cossack laughs in the face of the
american, scofs ut your professions, aud
points iriumphantly to tho Southern plunta-
tion.
You love liberty for yourselvesi Indeed!
Whh; virtuous people Yes, you love il
for yntlraaIyac tII.In
you boast your love of liberty to a wide
world, you deny il. to three millions of men
Give liberty to the Slave, and show 10 God
aud the world tbat you rightly estimate il
and deserve il yourselves. At your mon
strous Inconsistency the tyranrs OF the earth
mock aud hold you la dcrision, and hell it,
self laughs in triumph TO see the unspeuk-
able meanuess aud hypocrisy of your ma
tion.
But we preach dangerous doctrines.'-
Danger in doing right? Did any body ever
euffer from doing right? Did not danger
menace Daniel, and clouds gather tlickly
round him, when lie CLOSE to obey God ratil-
'er Than nan? Did not danger surround the
three children when the furnace was heated
seven times hotter than il was wont TO be
heated? But did not God bring them out
unsaTmed? Do duty, and leave consc-
Quences 10 God! PlHDt the seed, and II II
be not given TO you TO see the green blade
spring up before you die, yet SOW the seed,
aud your children above your graves shall
renp glorious harvest. Do duty! Do il
faithfully and iearlessly! Live for something
Make your life OF use to the human race :
Live 10 do good ! had rather live an hour
In this pulpit, and utter the truth of God for
the sake OF Humanity, than wear the diadenl
Il
do your duty, though you may be reproach-
cd and deiamed, yet you shall have your re-
ward. IL sliall be in peaceful conscience
IL shall he in the blessing of God it shall De
returned TO you in that hour when the heart
less priests, the tiIne-serving, selfish politi-
eians, cull upon the mountains TO hide them
from the eye of the negro slaves in the day
when all shall stand before the Judge o
quick aud dead =