Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-02-28

VI NANilNl uuu GNlNhuf W NtbriNi hhN
Otis, has sunk down to the miserable soph-
istry of this unountebank and ielt proud
of the city of my birth, rs | looked down
on the iniirnuring multitude benenth me, on
whom his spasnodic chatter fell like wet
blanket (Great laughter aud cllcering.)-
lie did not dare to touch n second time on
the Fugitive Slave Bill. lie tried il once,
with his doctrine of infamous ethics, aud
the men were as silent as the pillars around
them. Ab, thought |, toc have been here lit
Ito too often before; and il we huve not i'm
pressed the seal of our sentiments very
deeply on the people, they have at least
learned that immediate emancipation,
though possibly il he dream, is not 'inia-
nous ethics aud that such doctrine, the
Declaration of Independence aud the Sermon
on the Mount, need more than the hashy
rhetoric of n Webster retainer to tear them
asunder. (Grea, cheering.)
The judges of the Commonwealth the
judges of the Commonwealth have some
thing to say of them. ! wish sometimes we
lived in England, and will tell you why.
Because John Bull Inns some degree OF in
diyidusl self;respect len. There is an in
nate, dogged obstinncy in him, that would
never permit the SUCCESSORS of a Hale, n
Butler, a Mansfield, or Broughmnn to stoop
beneath any chain that the City Marshal OF
London could have put round Westminster
Hall. | was once member Of the profess
sion myself, but glad | am so no longer,
since the head of il has bowed his burly
person to Francis Tukey's chain. (Cheers.l
Did he not know that he was making history
That hour, when the Chief Justice of this
Commonwealth entered his own Court,
bowing down like criminal beneath
chain four feet from the soil? Did he not
kunky tltuf In lao ,f =,
which shall he remembered when every
other case in Pickoring's Reports is lost, de-
cIaring the slave Med a free woman the mo-
inout she sat foot on the soil of Massachil-
setts, mud that he owed more respect TO him
self aud his own fame, than TO disgrace the
crnIine 10y passing beneath n chain2 There
is something in emblcms. There is some
ihing, on great occasions, even in the ntt-
illtle of a man. Chief Justice Shaw be-
trayed the Bench aud the Courts Of the
Commonwealth, and the honor of noble
profession, when for any purpose of cna-
bling George Il. Curtis 10 net his molan-
choly farce in peace he crept under chain
INTO his own courtroom. And besides,
what wnnton and gratuitous insult it was
What danger was there, with two hundred
men inside the courthouse, aud three hun
dred men around it Oh the sidewalk? Near
q
that building-wlat need for any chain p !
Il was put there in wanion insult 10 the feel !
ings Of the citizens of Boston, nothing else
in wanton servility to the Slave Power,
and nothing else Sin w8Hton haitcry TO
DIniel Webster. Yes, it was the gratuilous-
ness of the Insult that makes it all the more
unbearahle! Aud the 'old chief as we low
ed TO cull him, mnde himself, in tiniid SER
Witty, party TO the insult and the degradation.
low truly American! All, our slave system
10y no means exists only on Southern plan
iaiiOns
We are said to be unreasonable in this
manner of criicising the Institutions, laws
aud men of our country. IL is thought that,
MS little men, we nre hound TO tune our vol
ccs mud how onr heads To the great niellccts,
as they are called, of the nnd-Mr. Web
ster aud others. lie tells us, that there nre
certain important interests concerned in this
question, which we are bound to regard, aud
not abstract theories about the equality of
men, and the freedom of humble individuals
Well, all say to that is, when dollars nre
60 lie discussed, let him discuss them with
Franklin Haven in tho directors room of
the Merchants Bank. Let him discuss them
over the bursting ledgcrs of Milk street
thnt is the place for dollar talks. But there
is no room for dollars in Faneuil Hall. The
idea OF liberty is the great fundamental
principle of This spot;-that n man is worth
more lhau bank vault. loud chcers.)
know Mr.. Webster has, OH various occa-
sions, intinated that this is not statesman
ship G the United States TINT the cotton
mills of Lowell, the schOoners of Cape Cod,
i"o coasters of Marblehead, the coal and
iron mines of Pennsy lvRnia, aud the bust
ness of Wall street, are the great interests
which this government is framed TO protect.
lie minated, all through the recent discus
sion, TINT property is the great element this
government is to stand by and protcct-lhe
test by which its success is TO he appreciated
Perhaps II is SO; perhaps il is so; and il the
making of money, IL ten per cent. n year, il
tho placing of one dollar on the top Of an
other, be the highest effort Of human skill
Il the answer To the old Puritan catechisln
WHAT is the chief end OF man'-is to be
changed, ns, according TO modern state craft,
u ought 10 he, why, he it so. Nicholas, OF
Rtssn. nude CO ftechism for the Poles, in
which they are taught that Christ is the next
below God and the Emperor of all the Rus
sas IL next below Christ. So, Judging by
the tenor Of his recent speeches, Daniel has
got catechlsm, What is the chief end of
nan" The old one of the Westminster
Dryincs, of SeldeD aud Hugh Peters, of Cot
ton aud the Maihers, used TO answer, TO
glorlfy God aud enjoy him forever that is
haue-treason now. The 'chief end Of mnn' ?
why, 1t is 10 save The Union
A VoIcE-'Three cheers for the Union!'
Mn. PnILIPs.-Feeble cheers those -
tGreat npplnuse) and very thankess office
II is to defend the Union on TINT lay. Did
you ever read the fable of the wolf That met
the dog? The one was fat, the other guunt
aud famine struck. The wolf said 10 the
dog, You are very Gl;' 'yes, replied the
dog, i get along very we'll At home.' Well
said the wolf could you take me home ?'-
90 certainly! So they troited along togeth-
er; hut as they nenred the house, the wolf
caught sight of certain ugly sears on the
neck Of The dog, and, stopping, said, 'Where