Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-02-15
WHOLE NO. 283.


idea so takes possession of us that we are
more wonder TO ourselves even, than to
others; but the calm, settled purpose, that NO
toll wears out that patience, 'ihc passion.
Of great hearis;' that faith which outweighs
all difficulties; that unnsgging zeal which
long aud barren years only nuke more in-
teuse. There are secrets of power in those
hearts that pioneer their kind
'And when the lea1on world
Sets its hard face against their fateful thought,
And brute strength, like a scornful conqurror,
Clangs his huge mace down in the other scale,
Tho inspired soul but aings his patience in,
And slowly that outweighs the ponderous
globe
One faith against whole carth's unbclief-
Ono soul against the hosh Of all mankind"
My fricuds-Our elder brother here land
do not believe that, however old we grow,
we shall ever get up to his slaturel has ask-
ell us five would always stand by that sheet,
aud 10y the man who edits il. II is great
! pledge TO take. Within my short memory,
! recall many a time when the LibeTator has
spoken out so far in advance of the most
courageous of US, in such tones of startling
truth,-its plunInIet has sounded such deep
waters, its flag has waved us forward TO such
rough aud perilous heights of self-sacrifice,
that the boldcst held bis breath for a timc.'
TO school ourselves airesh into the conviction,
that the whole of the truth can never be
dangerous To the whole of virtue, before we
could struggle forward to our leaders side.
The Roman legions you know, Worship
ped their eagle, aud enclI legion bad its own..
Once, in hot conflict, when the first Caesar
saw his legions faltering before overwhelm-
ing odds, with deep, instructive sagacity, he
suddenly ordered the eagles to he hurled
ahead, into the very midst of the foe GER
tain that, against every odds, the Roman
soldier would cut lis way 10 their side. So,
TO my mind, on these critical occasions, does
Providence deal with us. When difficulty
hens us in OF every side, when the arrows
of anxious doubts make our sunlight dark
ness, our leaders utter iorgetlulness of self
that quality which is so often the parent Of
the truest wisdom-his instructive sagacity,
clears for himself path, and we see his
pennon waving far beyond, bright and high
above the tumult. God grant US always tho
strength, laying aside the weight of every
temptation, rising superior 10 the weakness
of every fear, 10 struggle to his side, and be
found mustered about our standard!
Thou sun, shine on her gloriously.
Yc breezes, watt her wide,
Our glorious senlper endeD',
The banner of our pride!
do not wonder nt the disturbance the
Lberator makes. We have had O grent
lnnny Illustrations drawn tonight from ships.
Now, the Lberator is a frc-ship, and that
always niuies great uOuble in fleet. No.
il is not fire-slip Let ine rather tell tho
story that was choaked off from me this af-
ternoOn. Certain doctors Of divinity say that
slowDess is an essential element of reform.
Now, the time was when Dutch sloops took
from Albany to New York, and reached
home again in six weeks. The method of
the voyage was this. When they got aground,
six miles below Albany, the Aiynheers liz
their pipes aud pufied away, until the cur
rent, or the winds, or some rise of the water,
floated them off No doubt they thought
il gross impertinence in the steamer that
first set up putting on its own account, and
went statelily by, getting back to Albany at
nightiall Why, her very wake knocked the
ashes, unceremOn0usly, out of their pipes,
as they lay floating laziy, like wounded
ducks in the sedges. Laughter.) Aud so,
no wonder that now all Dutch slOops of re-.
form, in pulpits and Senate chairs, think our
steamboat, the Liberator, n disiurbance.--
(Applause.) Fulton's first boat was only
wonder; now that thousands like it cover
our waters, they are simply necessity of
life. Heaven grant such iute TO ours; and
may she soon bc only the flagship OF u fleet
modelled like herself. lCheers.)
/ will not longer trespass on your time >
those around nre to be heard from. What
we want is, the voices of oil the children; u
little scream from everybody. Laughter. y
Our friend has raised great many screams
in llie nation. In truth, he has been heard
Heard! Yes! in the word which has turn
ed the strong will of Calhoun aside from all
It's early statesmanship, and made that great
mind devote itself 10 put down the Liberia
tor. (Cheers) Heard! yes! In those pierre
ing notes which have called back from the
petty game of American politics, the win-
ming eloquence Of Clay, the massive init
lect of Webster, the dogged purpose Of
Benton, the vauDted chyalry of the South,
and the cold resolve OF Northern thought,
and leashed these hounds to do only his bid
ding. For what but the bidding of the Anti-
Slavery enterprise did the last Congress
obey? Constantly 0gitating that subject
which Clay once declared IL reasonable to
discuss which Benton and Webster have
both boasted they never had and never would
touch from which the proud and sensitive
South shrink in pain and terror, and the
North hated as 'disagreenble duty In
nothing has our guest shown more his pow
or, or ralher, lac will let me say, the power
of that mind which makes itself the servant
of great truth, than that in go little while,
he has merged into the maelstron of his
own purpose the great interests, the mighti-
est parties, the pFoudest intellects and the
weighliest regulations of the land, sweeping
them all together before the enthusiasm Of
his own indomitable will. The event has
shown that il would have been no uniting
boast if, when printer boy, he flung TO the
breeze his motto Of Immediate and Uncon-
diiional Emancipation he had added, with
ShakespeRre's Queen,
This is my throne-let kings come bow to it,
Been heard Yes in the young republic
which baplises the strand of the Pacific with
, the waters of freedom. (Applause.l Heard
vet moro in the fact that Que slave, girt about