Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-05-15
Letter of c, N. Clay 10 the Cincinnati Con.
TentiOn.
WHITE HALL p. o., Madison Co., KY, I
April 10 1862.


address the Convention.
! l regret, very much that my engagements
will not allow mo the pleasure and honor pro-
posed.
/ do not aattcr myself, however, that you will
lose much by my absence, and my views upon
the slavery question have been so often repeat
cd in Cincinnati that repetition would hardly
be desirable.
7 Allow me. however, to say, that my heart is
with you. l care not about ultraisms What
is more ultra than that, in profcsse1 republic,
near three and half millions Of men have no
legal rights The father no right to the son or
+ daughter The husband no right to the wife
and the maid no right to retain her chastity
The native of the soil no country or home, and
Christians no right to the Bible In q word,
when liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, be-
longs not to the mans self but to his tyrant
Now, who can talk patiently Of such Chris
tiauty and Republcanism as these, 1t is
time for ultraism-it is time for fanaticism
1t has been, in all time, the policy of ty-
rants to degrade the oppressed, and the Amcri-
cans have not been slow in following the same
course. All mon arc born free and equal, but
-blacl; men Christ died for oil men, but
negro mon! Your supple hinged. .knccd po.iti-
clan, and your canting knave Of the black
| gown, have in all times been found n close
| fellowship. Your Wcbstcis and your Diclin-
sors have always their Dcweys aud Stowarts.
1 hardly know, at times whether to laugh or
cry. The great Southern moralst thinks it were
"botter to lose his soul in hell" than say aught
against tho patriarchal institution" But,
poor Dewey nature never made him q sublime
villain like his Southern .trerel lie could send
his father or brother back into slavery but not
"his mother 70 Indeed then there is lower
deep into which our leading clergy dare not
descend This argues well for the good time
coming"
said years ago, that the time was coming
when black gown would be hissed in the
streets by the boys, unless they gave up their
lying defence of slavery. had not myself OK
pcetci to live to see the mognatcs of the
church thus soon shrivcled under the burn
ing contempt Of the manly hearted men of the
world.
Let us take heart. Wcbster-the god.lil<c-
is dead in Massachusetts,, and even tho South
distrusts him Henry Clay says Webster wont
do Henry Clay and Daniel Webster have al
ways pulled together Who should know
Daniel better than "Old Harry" Thus are
the friends of the great "Compromiscr." COM
promised! Shall VIC laugh, or cry; But not
50 justice "compromiscd!" !" So was it in the |
bcgirning-hg leaves were sewcd together and |
they cried, we shall be ashamed no more =
But, alas, no
Some wit has it, that the Union, like poor
mortals, needs "eternal salvation" " Oh,
Webster! Oh, Cass! Oh, Clay! arc we
saved or not; : II these men are the champions
of liberty, they are in the prcdicamont of good
Launcclot Gobho. "CcrIainly my conscience
will cn ,blc me TO run from this Jew, my master.
The hcnd is at my elbow and tempts inc, Cob
DO, Launcclot Gobbo, good LQuncolot Gobbo,
use your legs, take the start, run away. My
conscience says, 10 take heed honest Launce-
lott take heed honest Gobbo do not run-scorn
running with thy heels. Rouse up brave
mind, says tho ficnd, aud run. Well, ny con-
science hanging about the niche Of my heart,
says very wisely 20 me, my honest friend
Launcelo,, being an honest mans son bulge
not Bulge says the fcnd bulge not, says
my conscience. Conscience says you counsel
well, icnd says you counsel WELL To be ruled
by nay conscience, should stay with the Jew,
my master; and to run away from the Jew,
should be ruled by the fend The Jew is the
very devil incarnate, and in my science, my
conscience is but a hard kiad Of conscience, The
fcnd gives me the moro friendly counsel; /
will run, fend-my heels arc at your command
ment--I will run e.
Well, let EN- go Still thcro is hopc-still
there is progress "Agtation" is not quietcd
The battle "rages along tho whole line The
State is split the Church is split The right !
OF petition is won in the House-now the fight
begins in the Senate The end will be the
same! So are parties split A new element
enters into the elections Where an Adams
or Giddings once raised solitary voices in be-
half of the rights of men, now hosts of great
men utter in behalf of freedom, orations une-
qualcd in arguments in biting sarcasm and pathos,
and sublime eloquence. The right of petition is /
vindicated The freedom of speech is vindi-
Gated "Constyuetioo ueason,' the last hope OF
tyrants, thank God is dead The Free States
outnumber the tyrants and their victims =
Bullyi has been tried till tits broken down
They begin to be ashamed of the Slave trade in
the District of Columbia! Even the South
has become colonizationists-th "cbony line
grows popular
Arc you willing to pay fifteen hundred mill
ions for the expatriation of native Americans
Indeed and does the chivalry grow pale at
last Lady Maebeth-out damned spot l-out'