Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-04-05
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.

lLiNlUis CtltUNts UlC hTls, lTu0t.
Religion require.-nay, demand-tlIat this
Union I've perpetual. Every railway which is
constructed, every canal that is excnvnfed,
every telegrnphic wire that is stretched, every
school-housc that is built, every newspaper
that is printed, every sermon that is preach
ed-wheiher North or South of Mason and
Dixon's line-are each guarantee for the
existence of the Union. Sir, should Con-
vention be assembled IN any Stnte for the
purpose of dissolving the Union, let the Choir
of the Blind Asylum sing in its presence that
glorious National Hymn, "The Star-Spung-
led Banner," ns they sang II in our hearing
on this day, aud tlInt Convention, so far from
being able 10 dissolve this Union, would itself
I've dissolved 10y that choir aud that hymn
Those sigluless eyebalIs, turned imploringly
toward Heaven, willie thrilling voices chant
ed:
The star spanglcd banner, long may it wave,
Der the land of the free and the home of the
brave"
would call down mercy to melt or lightning
to seattle the heart that should mediate the
destruction of Freedoms best gilt TO man
the American Republic. Loud applause. y
The nations look TO our example tor encour-
ngement in their struggles TO throw away
their Chains. Not for our own snkes only,
Int for the cause of human liberty through
out the world, this model Government must
endure. II il existed merely in conpncts
written on parchment, il might perish. But
II is cngrnvcn OH the inbluture of every true
American heart. Once, when | had been
travelling for many weeks in foreign land,
stranger among strange people, hardly re-
cognizing single word that sounded in nv
ears, approached the sen coast Of France,
aud aud cloud of shipping lowering in a
distant harbor, ! saw floating from tile lnust-
head of vessel the familiar stars and stripes
of my native country. Stretching my hand
toward the setting sun, | Involuntary cx-
cluined,
" Where'cr / roam, what other lands see,
My heart, urtravefd, iondly turns to thee"
Sir, that is the sentiment which grshes up
from the deep fountains of every American
bosom, and that sentiment nsures the perpc-
tuity Of the Union. Loud cheers Dis
solve this Union! There is too much of hu-
man progress, human hope, aud human we'll
being, involved in its existence, 10 allow il
to lie dissolved ! will tell you, Sir, what
will make our Institutions as enduring ns
Time. IL is because, that, ichiie The people
,CW rehgious,y observe and perform, IN
their letter and spirit, all Constitutional
obligations and ,cW maintain Me absolute SUI
Premdcy Of The idies, they will also exercise the
freedom of speech aud the press, the right
of assembling aud petiiiouing, aud will re-
sist every oncronchmeut upon the involabili-
~ of the writ of hdbeds corpus aud the privi- /
leges of the trial by Jury. Loud applause.l
Dissolve this Union Why, Sir, the men yet
live among us, who have seen few feeble
colonies, scattered along the Atlantic coast,
inhabited 10y less tlun three millions of peo-
pie, expand into conederucy of thirty one
independent States, stretching its territory
from the granite shores OF New England to
the golden strand of California, aud from
the pine forests of the Lakes TO the orange
groves of the Rio Grnnde, tcemng win
tweniy-iour millions Of intelligent and pros
porous ireemen, aud becoming richer in all
the elements of true greatness than any na-
ton under heaven. Aud, Sir, the grnnd-sons
of these aged men will live TO see this same
cOnfederncy grow under our glorious Con-
siitulion till its population outruns the march Z
of enumeration, till its territory, washed
by two oceans, reaches from the arctic
SHOWS of Labrador TO the tropic heats of
Panama, aud till the sun, ns lie traverses this
wide domain, neither rises upon n master
nor sets upon II slave. Long continued ap-
planse.) ] conclude 10y proposing toyou the
sentiment OF Daniel Webster:
" Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and
inscparable."
Now considering the time, the occasion and
the man, we must pronounce this speech dis
in the highest degree. 1t was not
: fit to be made Such fulsomc laudation of our
man. stealing Union, is disgusting
when il comes from the mouth of a trucking
doughfacc, much more when it proceeds from a /
man who, like Mr.. Stanton, was so recently
identified with the anti-slavcry movement and
whose professions even as politician gave us
the right to expect something hotter at his hands
To hear him in the present state Of the country
talk OF 'rcligiously observing all 'Consttu- /
tional obligations aud maintaining the su-
premacy of the laws before an audience which |
must have understood him to mean the 'obli- |
CATION to return fugtivcs and the supremacy
of the kidnapping law of 1850, is indeed la
mcntable illustration of the corruptng inilu-
cncc of party politics over one whose ambition /
is inhamed by thirst for office.
WooDsos LIBERATED.-The Pittsburgh Ga. !
zette states that the fugitive Woodson, who was
lately given up to the kidnappcr by Judge !
Irwin and taken down to Louisville, has
been purchased from Captain Hazlett, of
tho steamer Washington, who had been duly
authorized to dispose of him by his mistress,
Miss Rhoda b. Byers, of Kentucky. The
price paid was six hundred dollars, which was
raised by contribution in Pittsburgh, and in
Beaver, where Woodson's wife and family re-
side.
DANIEL WEBSTER, in his recent speech at
Annapolis, Md, at public dinner given him by
the members of the Maryland Constitutional