Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-04-05
Yours,
Henry B. Stanton.

Those who arc familiar with the history Of
cannot have forgotten that foremost among
those who at that cvcntful period were the car
nest and effective champions of the cause stood
IIESRy b. STANTON. lie was one of the Lane
Theological Seminary Rebels who, under the
lead of THEoDonE d. WELD, broke the sccturi-
stitution sought to bind the young men whom
they had undertaken to induct into the Office of
the Christian ministry. lie was subsequently
appointed an Agent of the American Anti Sla-
very Society, in which capacity he labored for
se.eral years with remarkable success, and by
his powers Of cloluonco and apparent hearty
devotion to the cause, won the esteem and conG-
dencc of his immediate associates and of the
Abolitionists generally. lie was subsequently
appointed ono of the Secretaries of the Parent
Society and member of the Executive Com
mittee In 1889 he identified himself with the
priestly and scciarian conspirators who sought
to put Garrison under the ban and drive him
from the place nc occupied in the hearts of the
antislovcry hosts. Having once entered on the
descending grade of New Organization he
speedily sunk to the level of mere political
abolitionist, and when in ls4S the Liberty Party
was lost in the embrace of the Barnburner
Democracy, he found still lower deep. lie
was soon afterwards elected to the New York
State Senate, of which body he is still mem
Der. II he has done any thing therein worthy
r AInl,t;o,;se h,, sc %
Not long since the members Of the New York
Legislature visited the commercial metropolis
of the State by invitation of the government
thereof, and at public entertainment given on
that occasion, Mr.. Stanton, among others, was
called upon for a speech But what speech
for an Abolitionist of the oldcn time The
little anti-slavcry there was in it was submcr-
ged in a whole hogshead of patriotic froth =
Instead of taking occasion to speak manfully in
defence of tho great principles Of Human Free
have betrayed those principles, he poured forth
patriotic libation upon the altar of our glori-
Gus Union Hero is the speech as reported in
the New York Tribune:
Frequent reference has been made this
evening to the relations which the City of
New York sllstains to the State, and which
the State OF New York bears TO the City.
will allude to relations which both State and
City sustain 10 the other portions Of the A.
niercan Coniederacy. The distinguished
gentleman OH my left Gov. Seward) has
spoken of dissolution Of the Union. In
my judgment, such an event would he one of
the greatest cnamiiies which could nfflict
the nations of the earth. But, sir, while
thus believe, npprehend no such disaster to
the cause of popular institutions. This Union
must not, cannot, will not be dissolved. loud
nppluuse.) II is not based simply OF com
pncts of human nvenlion-it springs from
the geographical, commercial, political and
social necessities of the American people
it is entwined around by the most hallowed
associations Of twenty-five millions of free
men-ils foundations were laid by our can
onized fathers in their great struggle for in
dependence--it is eDslirined in the most sa-
cred memories; il is worshiped in the heart
of hearts Of the grateful sons of patriotic
sires, dwelling in every city, aud cultivating
every plain, from the Aroostook to the Sac
ramento. For every hand stretched forth to
PROSTATE its pillars, ten thousand hands, with