Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-05-22

dies. Benthnn, who, had viewed this ques-
ton at all points, said he knew of no epoch
at which the people wrested from the privi-
legged classes, right they did not obtain by
q threat They never yielded, except to fear.
The Georges of England always quurreled
with their heirs. They feared them. And
thus there were two courts in London.
So with ideas. The old never likes the new
but fears and rejects it. The American peo-
pie are not sufficiently independent. They
rely upon the pulpit and the press to furnish
them with opinions. They dared not form
them for themselves. Thinking for oneself
is the only American high treason. As Sid
ney Smith said, no man who was not worth
$4,000 had right TO have an opinion. So
in this country,no man who has not certain
SiaiuS had right to think for himself Whit
field once asked permission to preach TO the
army, and was told that he might do so, pro-
vided he preached nothing contrary to the
articles Of war. May preach to the people,
asks DIR. Dewey? ayes" answers Webster,
"ifyou preach nothing contrary TO the Constr
tuition" Now, what the Anti-Slavery Socie-
iy demands is,that every man shall have the
right to to think and speak for himself, with
out reference to any one olse. If he should
say that some John Smith, living somewhere
in New York, had declared that lac would
return his own mother to Slavery, he would
be told that it was waste of breath 10 re-.
peat it. But if he said that DR.. Dewey had
made such declaration, every man takes off
his hat. lie is an instiulion-hc has been
appointed n chaplain in the Navy. Probably
that he might 60 and see where Nero mur-
dcrcd his mother. People must get rid Of
/ this glamour - this Difference for great
names. They must view things for them
selves aud then their verdict would be with
/ the Anli-Slavery men. They must rise
above local prejudices and superstiions.-
There is too much nationality in the religion
of the people. 1t must be divested of that
and brought back to its pure clemens.
| 1t had been said that he and his friends
had alienntcd themselves from public SYM
pnthy, had shut themselves out of the pale o
social life. 1t was true. They consider
] cd themselves MS mere dead material, out o.
which the road was 10 he built over which
the future millions of Anti-Slavery mer
were to walk. They had no regrets. TIL,
glorious privilege was theirs to think fol
themselves, and to utter their thoughts, with
out looking over their shoulders to sec j
nincty-nino men say amen. They had re
deemed the Yankee privilege of asking
questions, although great men declined tC
answer them. They were fixed in their po
sitons and could not be swerved or swallow
ed up by such another mighty nialstrom as
that at Washington.
The popular sentiment had affected our
great mcn-wc had gone from WASHING
TON way down to WEBSTER. Washington
had not dared to send to New Hampshire
after his own fugitive slave, lest he should
offend the prejudiccs of Daniel Wcbster's
grcat-grandlathers. But Webster advises
his own cousins TO "conqucr their prcjudi,
ces."
America was going backward towards
t Arisiocrncy, while Europe was advancing
toward Democracy. The waves of popular
sentiment were even beating against Russia
threatening TO reduce that great Empire.
If two days calm attention would he Civ,
en- to the discussions, people here woul,
come to agree with Fox that the Englisl
; language is incompetent to express Ill,
enornity Of Slavery.
, SECOND DAY.