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

Friiien for 0s Mass Meeting for The ReespiiO
Of J. r. Giddings, held at Salem, April q
1851.
IT BHM. 9. JONES.
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WHERE waves our nations banner,
Where screams our symbol-bird,
The tyrant's loud hosnnna
In feurfi, tones is heard;
For slavery's hateful altar
Again is drenched with blood,
While coward statesmen faltsr
Aud call the Evil Good.
Truth in our streets is fallen.
The poor are made prey
Mercy in vain is calling,
And Justice turns away;
The deeds of hero-sires
Their recreant children spurn,
Aud Freedoms altar-6res
With sickly pullor burn.
BY Israel was given
A city where might Zee,
BY the avenger driven,
The hapless refugee;
Within our widespread borders
No city can be found,
But slavery's marauders
Have claimed as hunting ground.
Yet IL our Southern neighbor
Shall follow here the track
or fiyitives from labor,'
. We WILL NOT GIVE THEN BAsK;
No laws of Congress ever
!. Shall blood-hounds make Of us.
For we will barter never
Mans rights for slayery's curse.
And farven,ly we greet him
Who comes our souls to cheer;
With joyful hearts we meet him,
Aud bid him welcome here;
A mark for tyrants given,
lie boldly dared the storm;
For Truth, and Man, and Heaven,
He stood erect and firm.
And what though he he hated
BY those who rob the poor,
His deeds be execrnted
BY tryants evermore?
They who are near to perish
Will ever bless his name,
The bondmun's heart shall cherish
GIDDINes' undying fame.
OLIVER JOHNSON, being called upon by the
addressed Mr.. Giddings as follows:
JOSHUA II. GiDDINGs:
Honored Friend and Broiher--The
Committee of Arrangements for this occasion
have devolved upon me the very agreeable
duty of conveying to you, in the form of a
brief address, the sentiments and feelings
which were the source of the invitation in
with which you now appear be-
fore this numerous assembly. While in dis
this duty must speak without re-
serve of those traits of character aud those
acts of your public life which have deserved
Iy won for you high place in our esteem,
shall utter no words of heartless adulution OF
praise. The objects of this
gathering are two momentous, the associa-
lions connected with il too sacred to be
defiled by the breath of fattery, or the full
SOME aud undiscerning panegyric of the
demagogue and dissenbler. My language,
however rude aud unpublished, shall at least
be truthful and sincere-a simple and honest
expression of sentiments which lie deep in
the hearts of those who are here convened.
You have been member ofthe American
Congress during most eventful period in
our country's history. II was not long after
you first took your seat in that body that its
siagnnnt waters began to be powerfully ngi'
ialed by the winds Of freedom, which, re-
awakened by the Ani-Slavery Movement
from the caves in which they had so long
swept Southwark from the noun
iains and valleys of the North, cheering by
their music the despairing heart of the slave
and causing the stakeholder to tremble will
fear and rage. At that time, when the whole
power of the Government was invoked tc
crush the rising spiri, of Liberty, when the
Presiden, in,erposed his official ffowns &c
ovcruwe the champions Of Freedom, and
when the halls Of Congress echoed with de-
nunciaiions Of all who dared to question ths
divine paternity of Slavery, your voice wa,
beard pleading for Justice according to the
Law Of the Living God. Taking your place
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