Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-05-01


money, Massachusetts, sacrificed man. II
WIS disgrace to Boston. The iuif fame oI
Massachusetts, had not suffered such n smutch
before. At such sin and such n calamity
in her older days, her churches and people
would have insted and prayed, and kept
their powder dry.
The passage of the Stamp Act, in 1861,
was a dark day for New Eulnnd. The Par
lament said the people of Massachusetts
should be taxed, and the Minister said they
had no business to inquire into the reasons
of the government for taxing them, but the
people Of Massachusetts said that, without
their consent, they would not be taxed. The
mtrcCnnry who tlICn filed the Governors
chair, iuyuurcd the oppression, nnd granted
TO tho British officers 'writs Of assistance
that were desired. It was dark day for our
fathers. But there was a young lawyer at
bingham, james Oils WAS his name, who
resolved to give up position and preiermcni,
and whatever it might cost TO oppose this in
Justice. The cause niadc him more eloquent
! than Burke. Tic rich and atistocrntic Hutch
inson cowcd before tho daunllcss ngitator. 49,
After hearing Otis, JOHN Adams said hc
could never read the Stamp Act without in
disnation. The Stamp Act was dark cloud
over the Colonies, but tho birth plnce Of
Of Franklin drew tie lightning from that
| cloud, the rain descended, aud the land was
clothed in gentle green. There were mcn
in that day, who had tie hearts of men. On
| the l5t Of November, 1865, they hung Oh
| the Liberty Tree, Mir. iiuss, n New llamp-
| Shire man, Vho, in Parliament, recommend
J ed the obnoxious law. lie was regarded as
/ q truiior, though 10 was not worse one
| ihuu New Hampshire has since rroduced.-
! lie and Grcemylilc, the minister, were hung
| ia ciigy, just us 2i5 years before, ihc Pope
! had been piiloricd; they were afterwards
taken down, and carried through the market
| under Fuueuil Hall, aud then carried ~ Dor
ch'sihcsicr Heights AID burned.
The Stamps nobody woU.d take. think
! you nry ucycr have seen ono. have seen
! ore, but il was a great curiosity, aud il was
oltaiucd in England. These stamped pa
pcrs were placed with Oliver, the Secretary
Of the Colony, for distribution. Bit this
Oliver was tUkru TO the Liberty Tree, aud
m0Gn TO tkc an oath that lac would not dis
| tribute the badge cf scr,iiudc, or do any
! tling To iujurc the colony. The oath was
| administered by Richard Damn, name hon
! honorable in history. IL il something TO
come Of noble blood, and this mans blood
and spirit are not yet cSiHct Gm0n. u.s.
| The women say that, in limc Of danger, it
is good thing to have a man IN the house.
| Boston then had several OF them. There
was one Samuel Adams, who was u man
! who could not he bought hy any Office, nor
uwed by any threat. lie devoted himself 10
the public welfare; yet it Ia recorded that he
was 'nclhcr rich nor n huChclOi.' There
were other men in the legislature aud it
WAS told to Governor Shirley ilat they were
! nsiiing against the government. There
were Thomas Gushing and John Hancock,
aud the AdumsCs, Samuel aud John. 'Cash-
| ing know, and Hancock know said Gov
ernor Shirley, but where the devil did this
| brace of AdumsrS come lrom?' Where
they went to we all know. We know what
came of their rcsiunce to that Stamp Act.
! We know, for when we were hoys, we used
TO get the speech hy heart in which Pin,
in his sublime cloqueuce, demanded its
unconditional repeal-aud it was repealed.
But the passage of tie Fugitive Slave Law
in 1850 made Il darker day Than the passage
of the Stamp Act II was not done 10y for
oiguers, it was done by American hands; /;
and ii, too, was ndyised by an Oposia,c sou
Of New Hampshire. And how differently
was it received in Boston The news OF the
Stamp Act was received with tho flags low
cred TO half mast aud every public demon
sirulun of sorrow by rich aud poor, the ncr-
'NhiANi bii lAbliN, anu AilN 'NlEl' VII AitN
| other hand by the merchants OF Boston aud
and tie principal clergy, the news of the
passage OF the Fugitive Slave Law was re-
ceived with joy, which they testified by firing
lO0 guns on the Common.
On the lStl Of September 1850, the Flu
giiye Slave Law was passed. On the 18Th
OF September, l7Gj, the Seicctmen of Bos-
ton ulet--ior Boston had Selcctmen in those
days, and not such things us Mayor and Al
dermen have been in these days-aud they
| voted unanimously to instruct the Reprcsen-
IntivCs in tie General Court to oppose the
stamp Act us violation of unnliennhe
rights, and to oppose every measure tend
ing to promote It's execution. And this is
the earliest use find in history of the term
uaulienabie rights.
When this Fugitive Slave Inv was pass
ed, there were in Massachusetts $500 col
orcd people, all of whom were exposed to
be dragged into slavery by It's summary pro-
cess. Before twelve hours 35 of them had
applied to well known Ihilanthropist 10
know what they should do before 24 hours
40 Of them had fled to take refuge under
the apron Of British Queen. The hand
that sought liberty with the sword was now
pledged to the kidnOppers. With sucI
Commissioners for judges, and such wines
ses us the yilest constables could scrnpe TO-
gethcr to testify against them, there was no
hope but in fight The men who are the
most sensitive TO cold, fed to a hyperborear
, winter. And they were driven out by Bos
ton men. The Boston Massacre was done
| by foreigners. Boston kidnapping was done
| 10y volunteers, American born. This foul
wrong Massachusetts should have resisted
, but she was mute as the Goldfish TINT hang'
/ in her State House. The people should
3 have come together in body, aud appoint
f ed Committee TO SEQ that the law was no
+ executed but it was not done.