Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-06-14
CLOSE OF THE SPEECH OF
HON. HORACE MANN,
Delivered at Lancaster, Mass, Nay 10ih.

But, fellow-citizens, MS our feelings are
stimulated TO the keenest sonsbility, in look
ing at the infnily OF wrong which slavery
commits; as we see the millions and mill
lions of human beings dimly emerging into
view, and crowding down the vista of fiItu-
rity, TO blast our eyes with the vision of their
woe, potent voice rings in our ears, en-
claiming, Conquer your PrejudiceS," Con-
QUER YOUR PREJUDICEs." Aud this execra-
BILE counsel is uttered in reference to the in
finite crime and disgrace of sending into
slavery, without trial, those who are free
under our laws,-the men to stripes and
death, and the women to the 5ody's shame
and the souls perdition. Foulcr, bascr,
more ungodly counsel was never uttered,
since it was said 10 Our first parents in the
garden of Eden: On the day thou eatest
thereof, "thou shult not surely die"
And what is it hat this long-hoHored Gu
logist of Liberty, but now its great apostato,
blasphemes with the name of "prGUfice ?"-
II there be one sentiment more deeply root
ed in the public heart of Massachusetts, than
any other, more intertwned and grown to-
gether with all the fibres of its being it is
the sentiment of Liberty. We have drunk
it in with our mothers milk we have mn
bibed il from all the lessons of the school
y
we have inspired it with the attnospehCre we
breathe, and our organs have been attuned
to it from our birth, by the anthems of the
mountains wind and the oceau's roar 1t
was from the love Of Liberty, that our car
lier fathers pucked themselves up by tlle
roots from that natal soil into which they
had been fastening for centuries. For this,
they wandered abroad upon the ocean, be-
cause its engulfng surgcs were more toler-
able TO them than tyrunts power; and us
the sires were stricken down by toll and
death, the sons took up the work aud bore
il on, generation after generation.
For this noble sentiment of Liberty, our
later Fathers encountered the perlls and
deaths of seven years war, and amid pow
erty and destitution, amid hunger, and cold,
and nakedness, without any of the protec-
tons and deiences of battle which the
wealth of their foe could command, they
barred their noble breasts to the shock of the
mailed legions of the British crown.
Now, there is not one of all those glorious
deeds, from the embarkaton at Dellthayen
TO the signing of the Peace of 1903, or the
Inauguration of the Federal Government in
1889, which was not begotten by the love of
Liberty, or would have been performed with
out its creative energy. And yet, the arch
apOstaie, standing in tile city Of Boston, the
home of old Samuel Adams and john Han
cock, within stones throw Of the spot
where Benjamin Franklin was born, in
sight of Bunker Hill, and with Lexington
and Concord, as il were, just hiding them
selves behind the hills for shame, calls all
this " Prejudice = and commands us 10
castiit from us as an unclenn thing. Was II
not enough to make the stones in the streets,
and every block in that eternal shaft which
marks the spot where Warren fell, cry out
with most miraculous organ, to rebuke him !
We have another, and it is kindred
prejudice" We have prejudice" of
sixty years standing in favor of the princ-
pie of the ordinance of 1857. That ordi-
nance has been cherished in our memories,
il has been taught TO our children, and we
have displayed it before the world both as
the pledge and the promise of our devotion
TO liberty. Five States, now numbering five
millions of men, were the battaions whom
that ordinance wheeled from the ranks of
Belial to the Lords side. Hundreds of times
have the Wing party and the Democratic
party resolved that the principle of that or
dnance should be maintained inviolate.--
Mr. Websterclaimed the application OF It 10
the new territories as his thunder, and swag-
gered as he ratified il. Now he calls the
great achievement of Thomas Jefferson and
Nathan Dane n "reiudioe,p aud dishonors
their graves by bis SCOTS. lie ahandons the
vast regions of Utah and New Mexico 10 the
stakeholder; he gives nearly one hundred
thousand square miles of territory TO Texas;
he gives ten millions of dollars in money,
fmore than with all our devotion and self
sacrifice, we have been able TO appropriate TO
public education in Massachusetts, for the