Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-05-22
WHOLE NO. 34S.

| 'Uhcle TOMS Cabin. -FOUR nerves are
very sensitive; see that your consciences
are as sensitive ns your nerves. If your
hearts answered instead of your nerves, YOU
would rise mp every one Of you Abolitionists,
ready to sacrifice every thing, rather than
men should go back TO Slavery. Let me
see that effect, aud then | will reckon the
value of the tenrs that have answered 60 the
waud of this magician; but till then, they
are but the tears of nervous reader under
| high excitement. Would those tears could
| chrystalizc into sentiment, chrystalize into
| principe-into Christian principle, out OF
which the staple of Anti-Slavery patience
and perseverance mud self sacrifice is to be
wrought! Guard yourselves, friends, against
the delusivo idea, thnt the tears and sad eyes
you see about YOU are liorbngers of bet
ter hour Tor Massachusetts than this day
twelve months saw darken over her fame.
1t nny he so; but there is no certainty that
it will. We are to speak TO practical Mnssn-
| chusrtts. do not shrink from going before
the farmers, the mechanics, and the work.
iug-men-the thinking men of Mussachu-
sets and urging upon them the considera-
| ton that the State, by solemn net, has pro-
claimed to every one that her soil is not holy
enough TO protect the fugitive, and that, so
far as she is concerned, the only thing left,
the only possibility, the only chance remain-
ing for the fugitive, lies ia his own courage
and good right arm. The city Of John
Hancock llns proved that her soil is not holy
enough Ia protect the fugitive; Faneui Hall
where stiil the eloquent mir brenthes--burns'
with Oils aud Adams, is not holy enough to
shelter the fugitive; Bunker Hill, red with
the blood of the noblesl man that ever fell
in the cause of civil liberty, is not too sacred
for trtirred feet; the Churches. planted, as
we have been told to-day, in tears IN prayers,
and in blood, have no altar horns for the fii-
gitIve; the Courts, even that which first
nuturlized Lord Mnusfieds decision, draw
ing a nice distinction between slaves brought
and slaves escaping loving huinani-
~ so well, even in the hunblest suitOr, that,
like their noble predecessors in the great case
of De We're, they 'caughI hold OF twig ora
twine thread To uphold it.; that, too, has shut
It's doors on the iugiive-ycs, against that
very Child MED, should she again be seized,
ia whose hcmlf they settled this proud rule.
would say all iliis TO the men about me,
and ndd--l'hcre is one gleam of hope. Ii
is just possible that the floor of the States
Prison mny hnve unpic chnrm in IL. That
nnay save the fugitive, ii he can once entitle
himself 10 place there. When, then, the
occasion shall demand, let ms try il (grcut
cheeriug)! II is sad thought, TINT the pos
sibiliy Of gibhei, the chance of imprisou-
meht for lite, is the only chance that can
mnko it safe for fugitive to remain in Mas
saclusclts.
You will say this is bloody doctrine-an-
arcllical doctrine; il will prejudice people
against the cause. know il will Heaven
pardon those who make il necessary for hunt
ed men TO turn, when they are at bay, und
fly at the nccks Of their pursucrs II is not
orr fault ] shrink from no question, how
lpspprufn hat L,e in tha Gne tl,a
possibility of safety for human being hunt
ed by twenty millions of slave-cntchcrs in
this Christian Republic OF ours (cheersl
am willing Ia confess my faith. Ii is this
that The Christianity of this country is worth
nothing, except il is or can he male capable
Df dealing with the question OF Slavery. I
nm willing to confess another article of my
nh that the Constitution aud Government
nf this country is worth noihing, except it is
'r can be made capable of graphing with
lc great question Of Slavery. ngree with
HAVE NO IDEA OF A LIBER-
lY UNCONNECrED WITH HONESTY
AND JUSTICE. NOR DO | BELIEVE
THAT ANY GOOD CONSTITUTIONS
CAN FIND IT NECESSAl FOR THEIR
SECURITY TO DOOM ANY PART OF
TIE PEOPLE TO A PERMANENT
SLAVERY. SUCH A CONSTITUTION
OF FREEDOM, IT. SUCH CAN BE. Is IN
EFFECT, NO MORE THAN ANOTHER
NAME FOR THE TYRANNY OF THE
; STRONGEST FACTION aud factions in
Republics have been and ure full as capable
hs mOuarcls Of the most cruel oppression
and Injustice That is the language of Ed
mund Brke 10 the electors OF Bristol;
agree witt il (applause) The greatest
praise Government can win is, that its
citizens know their rights, and dare 10
ranan them. know no use for good laws,
except TO teach men 10 irample bud laws
IudcT their feet.
On these principles, am willing to stand
before the community in which ! was horn
nd brought uf--where expect to live aud W
lie-wlere, ii | shall ever win any reputa-
ion, expect TO earn aud keep il. As q sane 1
nan, II Christian man, und lover Of my
'ouniry, am willing 10 be Judged by pos
Gritty, ii IL shall ever remember either this
meeting or the cOunsels which were given
u its course. am willing 10 stand upon
his advice TO the fugitive slave-batlled in
very effort To escape, or bound here by
uflicient ties, eXed from the protection of
he law, shut OUT from the churches--to
RoTEcT HIMSELF, aud make one last appeal
D the humane instincts of his fellow men.
friends, II is time something should he said
u these points TwenIy-six cases--iwen-
i.siK slave cases, under this last statute,
ave taken place in the single Statsof Penn
ylvanla. do not believe one fnan in
nndred who hears me, supposed there were
ulf II dozen eases there. So silently, SO
much matter of course, so much without
ny public excitement, have those slaves
'een surrendered. Shonld the record be
made up for the other States, il would prob
Ihly DO in proportion. Reeollec,. beside,
he cases of kidnapping, not by any i,heans
which are SO much facilitated by
he existence Of laws like this. For slayea