Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-01-11
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greater reason to tremble than to scorn., I,
is not III the power Of all the floods of South
crn rage, swelled by all the tributary streams
of Northern suhserviency and sycophancy.
TO queDch the flame of woman's artIor IN
this work of faith. The daughters of tho
Pilgrim Fathers arc not behind their sisters
in Great Britnin; and Hey forced British
minister of the Crown TO declare, that they
had spoken with a voice he could neither
despise nor resist. Cheers, For twenty
years | have watched the progress of this
cause, and stand here to assert my convic-
ton, that the work of emancipation in Amer
lea, when achieved, will be less owing TO
statesmen, politicians, and priests, than to
women. (Cheers.) They have enlisted in
this holy war, and they will not desert BY
night aud by day,-in roproach and in re-
nown,-in peril and in prase,-in gloom and
in glory,-thcy will remain steadfast and un-
flnching,until the now diseased and corrupt
ed state of public sentiment is changed, aud
our sex has caught the holy contagion of
their principles aud purposes.
Let me offer ono remark in passing. No.
thing can be done in this cause without the
most lnileXible adherence TO principle. There
must bc no compromise. For twenty yenrs
there was society in England for the mite
gntion and gradual abolition of Colonial
slavery. II was n highly respectable associ-
alton. il had member of the royal family,
(thc late Duke of Glouccs,er,l for its patron,
MIR Wibcriorcc was its President On i,s
committee were Clarkson, and Brougham,
and Stephen, and Macaucy, and Denman,
and Washington, and host of other illustri-
ous namcs. At the end OF twenty years OF
effort in the cause of mitigation, the horrors
OF slavery were greater than ever, and tho
only prospect OF n gradual abolition was
through the entire immolaiion of the negro
population who were diminishing in number
under the wasting influence of tho rfcrnal
system. At length a few fanatics resolved 10
demand immediate emancipation as the dll-
~ of the master and the right OF the slave.
(Cheers.) | had the honor to he one of
those sent forth to preach tllis doctrine.--
Throughout the breadth of tic country
proclaimed that slaveholding was man-steaI-
ing, and that slavery WAS sIv, under all ex-
isting, all supposable, all conceivable circum-
stances, aud could not but be SIM since tor
a man 10 claim property in man, was to usurp
the authority of the Eternal Ruler of ille
Universe, aud by delhroning Jehovah, WINS to
be guilty of practical Atheism of the black
est kind. preached, that slavery was the
crime of crimes, and ought therefore to bo
W and forever abolished. Loud checrs. =
God gave his blessing TO tho preaching
of this doctrine-the great heart of Eng,
land rcspOndcd--an electric shock went
through the land, and the lightning of
British Indignation smote the guilty system,
TO It's utter fall aud perpetual ruin. (Cheers.l
declare the same doctrine here in Fancui(
Hall. (Cheers.) j ask not the permission of
Mr.. President Alillard Fillmore, or Mr.. Sec
retnry Daniel Webster TO preach il. for I
have the command of the Ever living God.
WHO laid the foundations of the Rocky
Mountains, 10 declare it throughout all the
realms over which lis sceptre eXtends.-
loud checrng.)
Am told | am Il foreigner? | look up.
wards and say there sits your sovereign an
well as mine, and lie snys, Let the op,
pressed go free" (cheers.) Am | pointed 10
Mason and Dixon's line, aud to the Compro-
misses of the Constitution, | answer, (" SEQ
no such lines OH the map of Gods donlin-
ions. see no such compromises in the ini-
perishable Constitution which God has pro-
mulgnted for the government of the world n
(rcncwed nppause.) | will not insult nv
Maker so much as to ask of any human be-
ing permission TO vindicatc the authority of
the most High, or 10 denouncc so outrageous
a crime as that of American slavery. On
whatever spot Of earth ! stand, / will de.
nouncc robbery, tyranny as tyranny, atheism
as Observation-Disclosures constitutions, laws.
compromises TO the contrary notwithstand-
ing. What have / 10 do with these? Let
those look niter them that made them. Oh,
who can insult an American halfso much as
an American insults his country, when he
tells me that may preach liberty all over
the world but here (cheers.) Talk of my
abusing the Institutions of America! Why.
the worst things ever said in the old world
against your nation, are compliments COM
pared with what your newspapers say of
you every morning. They tell you that the
cohesion of these mighty commonwealth,
from Maine TO Caliiornia-ihe stability of
this glorious and matchless Union, the very
existence Of the free and most powerful
government that ever existed on the face of
the earth, depends upon your driving from
your doors at midnight, in New England
| winter, the trembling, shivering fugitive.
that asks in the name of Christ, TO be per-
nlled 10 tbnw his frozen limbs at Your fire
side, and TO lay his weary body on your hard
est couch-lRapurous cheers. Did the
vllest panderer 10 despotsm, ever invent
libel milionth part 80 seyere-a sarcasm
mllllonth pnrt so scorching-or utter truth,
millonth part so wtherng and blasting as
that which you arc compelled to read every
time You take up one of your newspapers?
Yet, such is the fiIct you know il to your
shame aud humiliation You might have
allowed yonr enemies 10 rail on aud have
despised their caluinnies, had you been true
10 your own principles hut you have render.
ed II utterly impossible for the most yirulent
aud malignant hater of America to saw any
thing so hard of you as that which Mr..
Webster ulters whenever he gets up TO make
a Union speech or to defend the Constitution.
(Chcers.)
Ladies and gentlemen-while / cannot
but regard all who defend slavery as conspi-
rators against liberty and the more guilty if
they profess republican politics, must con-