Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-07-24
Extract Of a Speech Of John P, Hale.
DeIirsredbs'o-e The .NdssdrluseIs Free Soil STATE
Convention, Juiy6 1852

do not know that can give YOU dictionary
definition al II, but I understand thni where
two men come together, and one gives und
takes little, and the other gives aud takes n
little, this is n compromise. Well this ques-
ton of slavery has been settled by compro-
mise, we nre told, and Massachusetts is n
/ party To The bargain. Now want to talk to
| Massachusetts, liiile about this conpromisr,
/ Hs have part of Massachusetts before me.
I tCteors.l Wha; did YOU get? "a voice,
The Fugitive Slave Lawn All, my friend,
( that is what you gave, we all know that; but
wlnl you rot, nobody can tell (Lnughicrl
The south determined to have the priv
I ilcgc secured to them of carrying slavery into
/ the territories. You wished to exclude it,
/ To he sure. yuu had some politicians who
told YOU that Iie law of God wns agninst the
Introduction of slavery into these territories,
| land where is there u territory FROM which
Gud's law does not exclude sluvcry?) (chcers1
You meant, u.e1n wanted, "a luughl TO have,
/ in this ease, ;hc divine law rr-cnacted. You
| wRuied freedom, secured hy tie maintenance
! ol human laws. Did you get it. my friends?
| You nude compromise, aud have YOU not
surrendered tie only mntWt in dispute?
Says the South, 1--WE want the whole of
this territory :" "wC don't want the Witnot
| prO,iso over an inch of it," "But," saws
Massachusetts, man, "tliis is against my
! pledge. have Hvowed my determination to
resist slavery; md now do you want me to
/ give up the whole" "Oh, yes" saws the
South, "nud # you do, il wont he The first
| time you have done it (laugllcr.) So, finally,
| You gave mp, aud you consented NV your own
deliberate will aud purpose, tliat so far as
human government is interested, slavery may
70 unchecked over every foot of that terri
tory. But you were not content with ihat-
| y Nft tsgfspf4 ia IL. a..
were careful To put cuuse into the Com.
promise measures, declaring. TINT whether
slavery went there or not, they might form
new States, and you would take them into
the Uuiou, with slavery or without
You neat declared tint the niieni pt 10 bring
iLc subject 0i liberty and slavery into politics,
WAS TO he discuuuicuHnccd, whether ~ Con-
grrss, or out uf il. II was matter of indif.
terence To you, whether these future States
should come shouting peaus Of liberty, beur-
| ing nloit the bauuers of human progress, or
whether they should come marking their
! track 10y the lluod OF their victims, aud her
aided 10y the sighs aud groans of women and
children crushed beHenlh their yoke OF buntl.
age; they were to be welcomed by you.-
This, my friends, was n compromise. You
! gave up the only matter in dispute, and YOU
supposed that this was as far ms YOU was cal
| lrh upon 10 20. But no. Snid the South,
I'VE cannoi keep slaves in our large enclo-
sure; we want law which will secure our
human cbaticls, aud indemnify us for their
loss when they take il upon them 10 leave
our paIcrnal custody" "Well," SAYS Mas
sncltIseiis, TINT seems reasonable il?
Laughter Wen give you Fugitive LAW"
Aud accordingly they went TO work to frame
one. Now in the South, they have gentle
men, lat least they term themselves sucll,
that are sIare-cnlchers by profession. These
persons own number of blood hounds, and
they advertise that they will hunt slaves for
80 much II head. Says The South, % Ii will
he difficult aud expensive to bring these
blood hounds To Massachusetts, so YOU must
| consent To bc blood hounds for us; aud when
we come after painting, bleeding fugitive,
II must be your duty To leave your workshops
aud iiunIS, and helpus." Wen, YOU CONSENT
ed To That; aud il is inserted in the bill, that
all good citizens are commanded to become
blood-hounds.
But the provisions are not yet perfect
There must be some mode of deciding
whether the person hunted is slave or a
freeman, for, under the elevaiing influence
OF human slavery, it has got so at last, thnt
complexion docs not always determine this
] iiater' lhcrc must he some way To prevent
| the possibility of making mistake. You
suggest the trial by jury. The South laughs
in your face aud asks ! Ou it YOU are in earn
nest about. You look for Inomen, or two
as it you really had some idea of being so
but you think better about il, aud finally you
/ give that np. Llughter
Then the South says, you have IN Massa-
cliIsetiS, an old fashioned something, with
Latin name. We dnu't exactly understand
how II is, hut il is hard thing 10 catch no.
groes wnere Habeas Corpus is in the way IA
langl) You must not apply this Hdbeas Cor
Pus 10 those persons whom we call our pro-
perry. Certainly nor, you give ihut up with
nlacrily also. Laughter
\ Wen, now, Ia all conscience, say Won 10
the South, do you want anything more Yes.
Wen, Wlmi ls II? You must recognize no
higher law mn This Fugitive Slave Law
and the resolutions wo pass to sustain it,
Are You ready 10 go that? Yes, you 90 that.
. lCries oino, no, never4 We'll, my friend, it
lnkes good mnny people To make State.
/ lhr chosen representatives of the republi-
can state OF Massachusetts; Wings and Dem
orratS, have bound themselves by every consi-
deraion, 10 oppose what liIIlo attempt may be
made lo-ilaya AT the expression of free speech.
] They hive resolved that these measures must
he final aud conclusive. They mean, as has
been already said, final on one sile that is
To say, ilnal so lar as II goes 10 the suppress
sion of tree speech aud free discussion.
Bnt suppose they want another slave State
in Cuba, would The "Compromiscs' stand in
the way? Notut all. The South are plny.
ing Tho game of Keep what we have, and
catch what we can"
Gentlemen, what are you reduced 10 p
What are yonr wives, daughters, and sisters
reduced To? Shall they who aro to he the
future mothers of Massachusetts give birth TO
children, who nre to be nothing less than hu.
man blood hounds, whose education shall be