Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-01-11
From tho Boston ChronotypC
GREAT SPEECH


by invitation Of the Managers OF the Ma
tional Anti-Slavery Bazaar Mr. Thompson
! visited the Fair in Faneuil Hall OH Thurs
day evening and made a speech. We OBJ
served, among those present, members of
the various parties in Politics and of the va
rous secls in Religion.
hlr. Thompson on rising was received
with reiterated cheers. These having sub
sided he said:-Lades aud Gentlemen; un-
accustomed us am to public speaking loud
llughter)--in Faneuil Hall, daughter. )-and
ih7sT ,l'F-ls- % -ah dsIii-ssaifsi.- know
not how ] shall ncquit myself The expert
ment is n somewhat dangerous one, especial
ly as j have brought no speech with me, and
must trust TO the moment for the uiterance
of such thoughts as may suggest themselves
OH the occasion. Looking around me it APP
pears probable that my difficulties to onigit
will be all from within and not from without,
for the space below the chandelier is very
differently occupied now, than when had
last the honor of standing on this spot
(Cheers.)
Ladies and gentlemen, believe am the
only cotraband article in this hall. (laughtcrl
Everything else is legitimate, according to
the tariff of the United States, but foreign
aboltionist is a prohibited commodity i'm
sacred Scriptures that when our Saviour was
upon earth n certain community prayed Him
that he would depart out OF their coast. |
have heard learned divnes say, il was be-
cause Inc suffered the devils TO enter into the
swine, who all ran violently down a steep
hill into the sen and were drowned; proving
the truth of the old saying, that the devil al
ways drives his pigs to Il bad market. loud
aughter.) Perhaps i; is for some such rea-
son that the American pro-slavery communi-
ty desire to get rid of me. Their dislike to
me, fully believe, does not originate in the
fact of my being foreigners but because,
like the Gaderenes of old, they think their
unholy traffic in slaves is in danger. (great
cheering.) Nothing is dsliked here simply
because it is foreign. Why! if everything
see around me in this city, that is of foreign
origin or foreign material, were TO take TO it.
self wings and flee away, you might almost
advertise, 4" Boston TO let, unfilrnished." No,
no, it is not the foreigner that is hated, il is
his doctrine; and We're an angel straight from
the throne of God to bring that doctrine here,
there are those in Boston, and in every other
part of this Union, who would mob the heav-
enly messenger as they have done me-
! (Cheers.)
Ladies and gentlemen, man in my situ-
allon Tonight ought To be able TO make
good speech. The place, the cause, the cir
cumstances, the audience, aud all the ad
juncts of the meeting ought TO inspire him
What are these inanimate objects around
me? They are tokens OF remembrance from
a far off country, and that country is my
home. Here is something to remind me OF
romantic Scotland, its hills, its glens, IFS
streams, and, nobler far its women,-who
have not forgotten the claims of three mill
lions Of slaves in this country. Here is some
thing TO bring before me the Emerald Isle
and tho zeal of the women of Dublin, and
Cork, and Belfast, in the cause OF human re-
demption from chaltel bondage. Here, too,
are many things to remind me of denr Eng
land, and of those, her daughters, who never
wearied in their work of mercy, until they
had set free eight hundred thousand slaves
in tho colonial possessions of Great Britain.
Every article on these tables beneath me,
however Insignificant its intrinsic value, hath
a tongue, which speaks, not alone OF present
sympathy, but of past success in this most
holy cause. These offerings are tile en-
blems OF great victory in the cause of the
negro; they say to all here,-" BE ye also
faithful and unwearied in this labor of love,
aud you, like us, shall realize your reward,
in the ultimate and certain triumph of your
cause" loud cheers.) Are there those who
affect TO sneer at women's tolls in this ggan-
tic enterprise7 i tell them they have much
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