Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-08-14

| NiipN ''"A w Aaho NiiN NNlltith-
tions of his best friends 10y keeping silent so
long. But Mr. Summers whole life shows
him to be au honest man, not selfish mau
at ala man enlinrnlly sincere, aud cmi-
ncnty trustworthy, eminuntly just. ils has
| a right to choose his own time To speak.
wish he had spoken long ago, aud doubt il
this long delay is wholly tcise for him. But
| it is for him to decide, not for us. "A fools
| bolt is soon shot" while a wise man often re-
| serves his fire. lie should not be inuticd
| with his remarks mudc when lac had no
| thought of an election to the Senate. A man
| often thinks thing easy, which he fluids dit
! iicult when he comes up 10 the spot. But
! tlis winter past, Mr.. Sumner has not been
idle. ! have letter from an eminent geu-
| llcmnn nt Wushingtop,--u man bred in kings
courts abroad, d,-who assures mu that SUM
ner has carried the ideas of freedom where
| they have never been carried before, and
/ when hc speaks, will be listened to with
much more interest than it hc had uttered
! his speech at his first entrance to Congress
| Depend upon il, we shall hear the right
word from Charles Sumner, vet. do not
! helicve that ho has waited to make il easy
| for him To speak, hut ihat it may be better
/ for his Idea, aud the cause Of Freedom he
was sent there To represent.
Then there is another man of Ercnt mark
| on the same sidc. mean Mr.. Seward He
| is nominaly with the Wings, but hc is really
of the Political Anti. Slavery Party, tho cLirl
| nan in il. Just now hn has more influence
Than any mun in the Northern States, aud is
the only prominent Wing politician OF whom
we might wisely predict brilliant future
General Scott, take il, owes his uolnnatiuu
10 Senator Seward. In the Convention, lac
al. 1
10 delent Mr.. Webster, at all events. 2. 70
defeat Mr.. Fillmore, if possible. 3. To have
the nomination of Scott, without platform,
if possible, but if not, with platform, even
with the present platform. Had Scott been
nominated without slavery platform, think
! Seward, and many other leading Free Soil.
ers, would have STOOD by to help his election
would have taken office had he succeeded
and think lis chance of success would not
| have been Il bad one then. But now Ma.
| Seward stands out for more distant day.
! lie will not accept Office under Gen. Scott
| lie sees that Scott is compromise candidate,
| conceded 10y the tcurs Of iiIe South; that his
administration must be compromise cd
mnisirulion and he that succeeds on thai
basis now is sure TO he ovcriakcn by political
ruin at no distant day. lie reserves his fire
till he is nearer tic mark | think ne may
! yet see him the candidate oft great Northern
Party for the Presidency; see him elected.
Such is the aspect Of tho Political AMI.
! Slavery Party. II defeated the strongest pro-
| slavery section Of tie Wings IN their con
yentiOn, defeated them of their candidate,
sent tie one thousand llunkcrs Of Boston
home from Baltimore, in rather melancholy
state of mind. We shall soou SEQ what it
will do in its national convention ut Pitts
burgh, on the lllh of August.
Now a word on the moral division of the
Anli-Slnyery party. | use the word moral
merely as opposed TO political. Ii is party
not organized to get votes but 10 kndle
Sentiment and dilhse an Idea. It's Seuti-
ment is that Of uniuerSai phiidnihroPB special
" directed ioiodrds The african race IN .4nlerica
Its Idea is the .4mGiean Idea, OF which it has
quite distinct conscIousness-ihe Hca Of The
Declaration Of independence. II does not limit
itself by constitutional, but only by moral re-
stliclions.
The functions of this party is TO kiudlc
the Sentiment aud dlliise the Idea of Uui-
vcrsul Freedom. Ii is about this work TO-
| day. These four thousand faces before me
nt this moment are liz with this Idea; the
other thousands beyond the reach of my
voice are not without il. 1t will not he sat
siied I'LL there is not slave in America
not a slave in the world
This party is powerful by its Sentiments,
| its Ideas, aud its eminent men; not yet by
its numbers. Here is one indication of its
p0wer-Ihe absolute hatred in which il is
held 10y all the lluukcrs of the land. How
| Mr.. Webster speaks of this party with the
intense muligni,y of affected scorn. Men do
not thus hate mouse in the wall. Then
the abuse which we receive from all the
CUNTS and mosquitoes Of the political penny
press is a sigu also of our power. There arc
llunkcrs who know that our IDEAS are just
that they will be triumphant; hence their
| lIate of our Ideas, aud their hutc of us.
Well, gentlemen, the cause Of freedom
looks very auspicious to-day; it never looked
better. Every apparent national triumph OF
| slavery is only a step to lis defeat. The an
nexaiion OF Texas, tho Fugitive Slave Bill,
are measures that ultimately will help the
cause OF freedom. Al first, il II man is threat
encd with fever, the doctor tries to throw
il off? Ii that is impossible, he hastenS The
crisis-knowing that the sooner that comes,
! the sooner will tile man be we'll ngnn.
think Gen. Pierce will hasten tile crisis,
when Northern party shall be founded,
with the American Idea for its motto. The
recent action of Congress, the recent deci-
sons of the Supreme Court, the recent nc
ton the Executive, have de tdeio establish
ed this that SLAVERY in Me States is subject 10
Me control Of The Federal Government True,
they apply this only To the Northern States /;
but if the Federal Government can interfere
with slavery in Massachusetts, to the extent
of kidnapping man in Boston, aud keeping
him in duress by force of armed soldiers,
then the principle is established, that The
Federal Government may interfere with sla-
very in South Carolina; aud when we get
the spirit OF the North aroused, aud the nam
bers Of the North on the side of freedom, il
will take but Whit Of breath to annhiIate
human bondage from the Delaware 10 the
Sacramento.