Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-01-17

NfAi NlNlt ~ iliic NNl VI NitUN, tNtiN tNilLllt
takes Il side There is no neutrality. Ever
silence is not neutrality; hut he WHO speak,
II word of sympathy To his brother man is Oi
the side Of humanity and progress. Lond
chcCrs)
Now, ! have brought three facts before
you. A man whose simple nnmr is an mr.
gumeni, whose upiuion is II fact potcul
throughout the world in sustaining insiiin
tons of government. have placed Iin, in
the midst Of people with every eye fixed
upon him, 10 note his course aud learn his
opiuion. have shown that lac is not ignor-
ant ol this his critical position. What lis lc
dunei No man expected tlHt hc should
come into this Hall; that he should go iuto
anii.S slavery meetings; that llc should take
ground against tie Fugitive Slave Hih. No.
Bot YOU remember, WHEN Alexander went Ia
see Diogcucs, aud asked what he could do
for him, the reply ofthc cynic was, Stand
nut ofmy lirhtp Now, the slave had at least
the right to say 20 Kossrih Stand out OF my
! light! Let The glowing slin uf the humuui-
! ~ OF the nineteenth century strike full upon
me. I.tt the light and heat OF those gcncr-
ous ideas, with which God has inspired some
uilhe white rucr, fall upon NE, To melt these
! chains of mine aud let not your lavish praise
| be the Sp'll thnt shall lul to sleep the half
! awakened conscience of n people who hive
Just begun to attend to the neglected and to
remember the forgotten. Throw not the
weight of your great name into the scale Of
ihosr, my enemies, who glory ~ national
prosperity fed ont nl'niy veins, aud worship
Il uuon ccmeuteh with my blood
We hayc jus, closed war for the pcrpc.
tuiiy of slavery livery nmn, North aud
South, acknowledges it:--a war which even
the Senate of The United States pronounced
wicked and unnecessary; which the uohlrst
inielecis of the land have rcprobaicd; which
all parties have justified on the ground of its
necessity to preserve the Union by aiding
slavery, and not on the ground Of Justice, oi
humanity. or OF lIhrrty. What does he sny
nfh? Take, Tor Instance, the glOrious
struggle We sent out u party from a
slave State across to Mexican territories we,
Prniesianis, set mp slavery on tlIe soil which
Calhalirs had. .iaicnah liun the siaiii. inlse.
for Instance, the glorious Struggle you had
not long ago with Mexico, IN which General
Scott drove the PrcSidrut or ihnt Republic
from his capitol Mark You lllut language.
! shall .inyc occasion to refer 10 j; again.
Il know how to read your peoples heart.
II is so cusy tn read it. brcHIse it is open like
nnlIrc, and unpolIucd u like virgins
heart CD May others sliiI their ears 10 the
cry ol oppressed humanity, because they ie-
gard dulirs but through the glass of petty in
tercsts. Your people has that instinct OF JUS
lice aud generosity q which j. the stamp of
maukind's heavenly origin; and il is con
sci0us of your coumry's power; il is jealous
of its own dignity; it knows that II lns the
power to rcsturc the law of nations to the
principles OF Justice aud right; aud know
iiIg ilscl! 10 have the power, II Is willing to
be- as good as it is powerful
These nrc the twenty millions of people
whom Geo ge Thompson, with soul sinking
truth, has described as engaged in one great
slave hunt, with their President at their
head, pursuing poor trembling fugitive, fly
ing for refuge to the flag ul Great Bitan, On
the other side of tie lakes. Your people
lrtvc that instinct OF Justice aud generosity
whirI is tic stamp of muukind's heavenly
orgin'!!!
MAY your Kind nnticipalolis Of me be not
disappointed am n plain man. have
nothing ia me hut honest fidelity TO those
principles which have madc you great, and
uly most ardent wish is that my own conn
Try nmy lr, il not great MS yours, al iedsl as
free and as happB which it will bc in the cs-
tahliShnent oi the same great prucIpluS.-
The sounds that now hear seem TO me the
trumpet OF resurrection for dowm-;rodden iiii-
manly throughout the world
What Tree ~ the land where the Bible is
refused to every SIKH person! Free ns the
land where ii is n crime To learn every SIKH
person to read Free us the land where, 10y
statute, every sixth woman may he whipped
at Tie public whippiugpoSl Free ns the
land where the murderer OF the black man,
! if the decd is perpetralcd only in the pres
ence of blacks, is secure from legal punish
mcnt! Free ns the land, the banks of whose
Mississippi were liz up with the hOrrld sight,
not seen IN Europe for two centuries, of II
! nlan torn from the hands Of Justice, aud
! burned in his own blood, by mob, of whom
the highest legal authority proclaimed, alter-
| ward, that their net was the net ot the peO-
ple. aud above the notice of the Judiciary
! Free MS the land, the beautiful surface of
whose Ohio was polluted by the Fragments
of three presscs-IlIe culblcms Of free speech
| and no tribunal has takeu notice of the
deeds Free MS the land whose prare has
| drank in the first Saxon blood shed for the
! right of free speech for n century aud hall
| i mcnn the blood of LoyrjOy! Free MS
| the land where the fugitive dnres not pro-
claim his name ia the cities OF New Eng-
land, aud sbulks in hiding.placcs until he
can conceal himself on hoard vessel, aud
make his way 10 the kind shelter of Liver
pool and Lond0nl Free ms the land where
u hero worthy to stand 10y the side of Louis
Kossuth-l mean Ellen Cruils-(greal cheer
ing)-has pistols lying by her hed-side iol
weeks, MS protection against your Inarsllals
and your shcrifls, your chief justices and
divincs, and finds no safe refuge until she
finds il in the tender mcrcies OF the wife o.
that poet who did his service TO the cause o.
freedom nj Missolonghi!
But what does Kossuth wish for Hungary
my most ardent wish is, that my own coun