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


stop aud submit patiently to the oyerwhelm
ing chances of going back, that his fate mny
III some different manner, aud far off hour
Influence for good the destiny of his fellow.
millions? Such virtue must he self.moved
Who could stand and usk il of another P
True, Tholnns Sims returned is n great pub
lie event, calculated to make AboIitionists
but the game sickens me, when the counters
are living men. We have no right to use iiI
| idgliivcs for tie manufacture of Auti-Slnve.
! ry sentiment. There nre those who hang
one man to benefit another, and create Il
wholesome dread of crime. ! shrink irou
using human life MS raw material for the
| production of any state of public opinion,
however valuable. do not think we have
! n right to Use up fugitive slaves in this pitt
less way, in order to extend or deepen an
Anli-Slnvery sentiment. AT least, have no
| right TO Use them so, without their full con
sent. IL seems TO me, therefore, we are
bound 10 tell those who have taken refuge
under the laws of Massachusetts, what they
must expect here. The time was when we
honestly believe they might expect protec-
non. That time, ia my opinion, has passed
hy, | do not certainly know when they
inny choose again to take another man from
Boston. But do know, that just so sOon
as any other miscrcant Webster misses aud
cheers shall thing it necessary TO lay another
fugitive slave Oh the altar of his Presidential
chances, just so soon will another lie taken
from the streets of Boston. ! note the misses.
DO rot understand me, that Mr.. Webster
himself will ever find il worth while to ask
again this act of vassal service from his
rctainers. Oh, no wait a few months,
aud his fate will be that Of Buckingham:
wicked but in will, OF means bcrcft,
lie left not faction, but Of that was Left
But even though he die or be shcyed, the
race of traitors will not he extinct; aud it is
n sickcning dread for these two or three
hundred men and women to live with this
law, worse than the sword of Damocles,
hanging over their heads. believe tho
Aboliiionsts of the country owe it to their
brethren to tell them what policy should
rule their conduct in the present crisis. To
be sure, we may ask them To stay, and when
they are taken, TO submit, and let the fact
appeal to the sympathies of the county,
which will result ia kindling public indig ua-
ton and il they choose, from deep religious
convictions, to make themselves thus the
iood of Anii.Slavery growth, God bless them
torsthe heroic seli-sacriiice, which diciFtes
such course. But conuot ask of n poor,
friendless, broken-hearted fellow creature
such nInncntOus sacrifice. ! do say, in
private TO every one that comes to me, But
one course is left for you. There is no
safety for you here there is no law for you
here. The hearts OF the Judges are stone
the hearts of the people arc stone. Ii is in
vain that you appeal to the AbolltioniS;s.-
They may be ready, may be able, ten years
hence But the brace of AdanIses,' TO
which our friend (Theodorc Parker alluded
This morning, IT they had mistaken l1GJ for
lI15, would have ended at the scatiUid in
stead of the Declaration of Independence
md the treaty Of 1888. We must bide our
lme, and we MUST read, with annointed
yes, the signs of our time. II public opin-
uu Is wrong, we want To know il; know il,
hat we may remodel it. We will ourselves
rampo this accurscd Fugitive Slave Law
lnder foot (greut cheering) We are mi
loriiy, NJ present; we cannot do this 10 any |
great practical effect; nd we Hre bound to |
suggest to these unlOrtunntcs who look To us |
or advice, some feasible plan. This, in my |
Jew, should he our counsel: Depart, |
{ you cau-if you have time aud meana.-
Is no one has right to ask that you stay, /
md, il arrested, submit, in order Tint your /
asc may convert men to Aini-Sluvcry prin- |
iples; so you have no right, capriciously, !
o stay aud resist, merely that your resistance |
nay rouse attenlion,aud awaken Anti-Sluvery /
1t is q grave thing to break into |
he bloody house of life. The mere eXpcc- !
alton of good consequences will not justify |
ou in taking n mans life. You have n |
crlect right TO live where you choose. No |
ne can right fully force you away. There 7,
nay be important aud sufficient rensOns, in |
lany cases, why you should stay aud vindi- |
ate your right, at all hazards. But in com
Iou cases, where no such reasons exist, il is
eller that you surrender your extreme right
D live where you choose, than assert il in
lood, and thus RISK injuring the movement
'lch seeks TO aid your fellows. Put your
elves under the protection of the British
ag; appeal to The humanity of the world.
10 not liuger here.'=f0 Does any friend
{ the cause eXclaim, You take away the
reat means of Anti-Slavery agitation. The
Ight of a slave carried back TO bondage is
ne most eloquent appeal the Anti-Slavery
ause can make TO the sympathies of the pub
c.'I know il is bought by the sacrifice OF one
nan, thrust back TO the house of American
ondnge. Still, circumstances may prevent
reasons niuy exist why he
hould remain here; lac may be seized be-
IRE he succeeds in escaping. say TO him,
Ien, There is Il course left, if you have The
ourage to face il. There is one appeal left,
nat has not yet been tried; it may avail you;
cannot insure you even that 1t has now
cached that pass when even the chance OF a
'oslon gibhet may be no protection from a
ieorgia plantation but il were
} your pluce, | would try tremendous
The symDathips of the ueople
iii gather round you, ii put on trial for such
n act Tho mortal hatred which would set
le hounds Of the law, thirsty for our blood,
u keener scent, il we sCnd charged with
gal offences, would not reach you. | do
OF know lllat the State Prison would be any
singe from the Jail at Savannah OF Charles-
IN; hut there may be something in an ap-
cal TO a Massachusetts jury en,panelled TO
y mans INALIENABLE right to liberty, the