Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-05-22
From the Libcrator.
Extracts from a Speech Of Wendell Phil
lips, BSq.
N he .Nelodeon, on The first .1nnirersary Of hs
rendition Of Thomas Sims, .fpr,l ~, 1852.

N He .Nelodeon, on The first .Annirrsa,y Of HE
rendition Of Thomas Sims, .fpril ~, 1852.
When the Pulpit preached slavo-hunting,
aud the Law bound the victim, aud Society
said amen! this will make money'--we
were 'ianaics'-'enihusn
rguuizers'-'scorncrs of the pulpit
traitors Genius of the Past drop not from
| thy tablets one of these honorable names
We claim them all, ns our surest title deeds
to the memory aud gratitude Of mnnkind.-
We indeed thought Man more than Consti-
tulions; Humanity aud Justice of more
worth than law. Seal up the record II
Boston is proud of her part, let her rest as
surcd we are not ashamed of ours
All this has been said so often, that il is
useless TO dwell on il now. The hest IIse
that we can now make of this OCCASION, il
seems to me, is to look about us, take our
boarngs,and tell the fngitives over whom yet
hangs this terrible statute, what course, in
Our opinion, they should pursue.
Aud, III the first place, it is neither frank
nor honest TO keep up the delusive idea that
fugitive slave can he projected in Massa-
chuseiis. | hope ! am mistaken; shall be
glad TO be proved incorrect; hut | do not
believe there is any such Anli-SlHvcry srnii-
nent here ms is able TO protect Il fugitive on
whom the Government hus once laid its
hand. We were told this afternoon, from
this PLATFORM, that there were one hun
drcd and filty men in one Town, ready TO
come with their nllskcts to Boston-aIl they
waited for was nn invitation. | heard. three
weeks before the Sims case, that there were
n hundred in one town in Plymouth county,
pledged to shoulder their mnskets in such
cause We saw nothing of them. heard,
three weeks after the Sims rendition, that
there were two hundred more in the city |
ol Worcester ready to have come, had they |
been invited. We saw nothing OF lhem.-
On such an occuson, from the nature of The
case, there cannot he much previous con-
cert; the people must take their own cause
into their own hands. Intense carnestneSs
of purpose, prevailing large classes, must
perceive the crisis, aud gather
all spontaneously for tue first net which is to
organize revolution. When the Court was
in pursuit of John IInmpIen, we are not told
thnt the two thousand men who rode up TO
London the next morning, to stand between
their representative aud n kings irOwn,
waited for an invitation. They assembled
of their own voluntary and individual pur-
pose, and found themselves in London.-
Whenever there is like determination
throughout Massachusetts, it will need no
invitation. When, in l775, the British turn
ed tl,cir eyes toward Lexington, the same
went ont from the Vigilance Com
mittec of Mechanics in Boston, MS in Our
rase of April, 1851. Two anters on the
North Church steeple telegraphed the fact
to the country: Revere and Prescott, as
they rode from house TO house in the gray
light of that April morning, could tell little
what others would do-they flung into each
house the startling announcement, The
red.coats are comingn aud rode on. None
that day issued orders-none obeyed aught
but his own soul. Though Massachusetts, {
rocked from Barustabe to Berkshire, when
the wires flashed over the land the announce |
ment that slave lay chained in the Boston {
Courthouse, there was no answer from the
Ami Slavery feeling Of tie state. II is sad,
but il seems to me honest, 10 say
to the fugitive in }ostoI,or on his way that il
the Government once seize him, he cannot
he protected here. .hink we are bound, s
in common kindness aud honesty TO tell
them there are but two ways that promise
any refuge from the horrors of a return TO {
bondage; one is TO fly-to place themselves 1
under The protection of that Government s
which with all her faults has won the proud I
IlsuuClloH tnut slaves cannon DTedtile HtT hH I
the fnst-ancIlored isle of empire, where
yrants and slaves may alike find refuge from !
vengeance aud oppression. AND THIS IS
rHE COURSE | WOULD ADVISE EVERY MAN TO I
ADOPT. TINS, UNLESS THERE ARE, IN HIS S
'ARTiCULAR CASE, IMPERATIVE REASONS TO I
rHE CONTRARY, rs HIS DUTY. II this course
% impossible, then the other way is to arm G
llnself aud by resistance secure in the free I
state trial for Notwithstanding that no
ury will be able SO far to crush the instincts Z
II humanity as not to hold him justified.
But some ono may ask, why countenance, {
wen 10y n Inention of il, this public resist i
nce--yon whose whole enterprise repudi- c
les force? Because this is a very different '
question from the grea: issue, the Abolition q
u Slavery. On that point, am willing to I
vait. can be patient, no matter how often {
hat IL defeated by treaeherous statesman.-
The cause of three millions of slaves, the I
destruction of great national institution, I
must proceed slowly; aud like every other I
hange in public sentiment, we must wnit
'atiently for it, and the best policy there, is,