Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-04-26


trict of Columbia, and demanding that our
Nations Capital should no longer be made
mart for the traffic in human flesh and
bones. Not iuapplicable to you ut that time
were the thrilling words in which the Bard
of Freedom has immortaized the name OF
one of the successors of WILLIAM PENN;
"Thank God for the token! one lip is still free
One spirit untrammelcd-- unbending one knee
Like the oak OF the mountain, deep-rooted and
frm,
Erect when the multitude bend to the storm;
/ When traitors TO Freedom, and Honor, and God,
Are bowed at an idol polluted with blood;
! When the rccreant North has forgotten her trust
And the lin of her honor is low in the dust
Thank God that one arm from the shacklc is
broken!
Thank God, that one man as freeman has
spoken"
We have watched your course from that
day to the present, aud whatever we may
think of your party preferences and afliniiies,
whatever incidental mistakes any of us mny
think you have made, we are persuaded
that your heart has always been fully and
unreservedly on the side of Freedom. The
emancipation of your oppressed aud down
trodden countrymen and the delverance of
our land from the blight aud curse Of human
bondage has been the leading object Of you.
public life. To the attainment Of this noble
end you have devoted your best energies and
powers. To this you have held subordinate
all mere party issues, all questions of bank,
tariff, or whatever pertained TO the financial
policy of the Government and the pecuniary
interests of the people. Dollars and dimes
have not been the fundamental articles in
your political creed, nor has your soul been
contaminated by the Atheism so often pro-
lnulgnted from pulpit, press and forum
which teaches that nation may he exalted
by unrghteousness aud glorified by wrong.
On all proper occasous-and they have been
neither lew nor far between-you have lifted
up yolr voice, fearless alike of the threats
of tile stakeholder and the sneers Of the
Northern sycophant, in behalf of Justice
and Liberty. No party edict, no dcnuncia-
ton from those in authority, nor even the
glcam of the assassins steel has been suf-
ficient to deter you from the performance OF,
the duty to which you were summoned 10y
all the noble instincts of your nature aud the
voice of God in your own soul. Ii is for this
that the tyrInts anl traitors of our land hate
aud ab!or you; it is for this that we respect,
love and honor you as one of the few whose
bright example Of political virtue aud un-
swerving integrity hls chesrel Us under cir
cumstances we'll calculated to test our conf
dence in truth and our reliance upon Cod
Some of Us, it is true, could not consc-
entiously stand where you have stood, even
for tho purpose OF djiny bittle for the OPP
pressed; but such are not, on that account,
the less willing to acknowledge the value OF
your services on a field into which, in the
exercise of your own judgment aud upon
your own responsibility, you have deemed it
right to enter.
Above all, we thank you with our whole
hearts for your fidelity to Freedom in the
desperate conflicts of the Thirty-lirst Con-
gross. Tho whole history of our Govern
ment affords no parallel to the treachery ex-
hibitcd by many Northern representatives
in that body, who elected under the most
solemn promises to resist the further en-
croachments of slavery at Whatever hazard,
aud to do all that coald b. Consttutiounlly
effected for the overthrow Of the hideous
system, yet deliberately aided in removing
every barrier to its extension over an inn
meuse territory, and outraged not only the
requirements of Justice but even the plain
est principles of the Constitution by enact
ing law offering new facilities for the re-
capture of Fugitive Slnves-a law which,
for atrocious cruelty aud wickedness, eau
find no parallel in the Legislation of the world
for half century. The treachery of Arnold
and Burr is the very acme of patriotic virtue
compared with that of the false-hearted men
who enacted and the President who sane
toned that law. We offer you to-day the
tribute of our gratitude for your strenuous
though unavailing efforts to prevent the pas
sage of that diabolcal statute. On this sub
ject il would be easy to enlarge, but must
not forget that this is the very theme on
which the people here assembled are i'm
patient to hear your eloquent voice.
We greet you, not as military hero and
conqueror, nor as partizan leader, but as a
MAN who has done good service in the cause
of Freedom and Humanity. The people
whom you see before you were not summon
ed from their fields and workshops by roll Of
drum and the shril voice of the ear-piercing
fife, nor by any associations linking this oc-
casion with the pomp aud circumstance of
of glorious war; The laurels which en-
circle your brow, and which add lustre
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