Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-03-05

zeal, balk the hopes, and waste tie efforts
II the slaves friends? No put that con-
idencc in Chnrles Summers love for the ,
lave, that know lie will welcome my crit |
cism whenever deem his counsel wrong !
hat he will hail every effort to serve our
Common client more efficiently. Great
lleerng.) 1t is not his honor nor mine that
= Mt issue not his feeling nor mine that is
o be consulted. The only question for eli.
her of us is, What in these golden moments
IAN he done-wliere can the hardest blow
bc struck? Loud npplausc.) hope am
just TO Mr.. Sumner; have known him long,
aud honor him. know his genius hon
or his virtues; yet if from his high place he
sends ont counsels which ! think dangerous
to the cause, ! am buund to raise my voice
against them. | do my duty in a private
communication to him first, then ia public
to his friends and mine. The friendship
that will not bear this criticism is but the
rosl-work Of winters morning, which the
sun shines on, mud it is gone. His friendship
will survive all that say of him, aud mine
wlll survive all TINT he shall say of ne; aud
thus is the only way in which the onti-savery
cause eau bc served. Truth, success, VIE
tory, triumph over the obstacles that b6set us
this is all either of us wants. Cheers.
lf all ! have said to you is untrue, if hive
exaggerated, explain to me this fact. In 1881
MIR. Garrison commenced paper advocating
the doctrine of immediate emancipation.
lie had against Linn the Thirty thousand
churches and all the clergy of the countrv-
It's wealth, its commerce, it's press. In 1881,
whnt was tho state of things; There was
the most entire ignorance md apathy on the
slave question. II men knew of the exist
cncc of slavery, il WIS only ns n part of pm
turesque Virginia life. No one preached no
one talked, no one wrote about il. No wills
per Of it stirred the surface of the political
sea. The Church heard Of it occasionally,
when some Colonization agent asked funds
to send the blacks to Africa. Old school
books tainted with some nni.slnvery selrc-
tons had passed ont of use, nni new ones
were compiled TO suit the times. Soon MS
my dissent from tho prevailing faith appear
ed, every one set himself to crush l.. The
pulpis preached at it: the press denounced
il: mohs tore down houses, threw presses
into the fire aud the stream, and shot the
editors: religious conventions tried 10 smn.
ilicr II; parties nrrnyed Themselves against
II. Daniel Webster boasied in the Senate.
TINT he had never introduced the subject nf
slavery to that body, aud never would. Mr..
Clay, in 1880 nnkrs speech for the Presi-
dency, IN which hn snys, that TO discuss the
subject of slavery is moral rrcas0n, nnd that
no man has right 10 Introduce tho subject
into Congress. AIr. Benton, in 1911. laid
down his platform, aud hc not only denies
the night, hni asserts lac never hus md never
will discuss the subject. Yet Mr.. Clay, from
I'D down TO his death, hardly made re-
marknlIc speech of any kind. excerpt on sln-
very. Mr.. Webster. having ndulged now
and then IN little ensy rhetoric, ns ut Nihlo's
aud elsewhere, generously contributing his
oid to both sides, opens his mouth in 1850,
and stops talking about it only when death
closes his lips. MIR. Bcniohs six or eight
speeches ia the United States Scnntc hnye
all been Oh the subject of slnvery in the
Southwestern section Of the country, and
form the basis of whnievcr claim hG has 10
The character of statesman, mud he owes
bis seat in the next Congress 10 nnti-slavery
prcIcnsions The Wing and Democratic
pnriies pledged themselves just MS cmplInt-
cally npninst the anii-slnvery Discussion
against ngitaiion and fee speech. These
men sud, u slIln't ba tnlkcd about, il won't
hc talked about" These are your statesmen !
'nen who Understand the present, that is, nnd
mould tie future! The maii who under
stands his own time, aud whose genius
mOulds the future 10 his views, he - n states
man, Is hc not? These men devoted them
selves to banks, TO the tariff, To internal
Improvements, 10 constitutional and finadcial
questions. They said In Slavery Buck I!
40 entrance here! We pledge ourselves
against II. Aud then there rame up n hum
hlc printer boy, who whipped them into the
traces, aud madr them tli, like liulspnr's
.tt. A
all these gigantic shaduws-tuliiI bank, con
stinllnnui questions, financial qucsions,-
and slavery, like the coossil head in Nul.
poles roiianc", caneup and filled The whole
political horisou! Enthusiastic applause. !
Yet YOU must remember he is noi n states.
man; he is a lana,ic.' lie llus no discipline
MIR. 'ioN' says SO; lac does not understand
tho discipline that is essential 10 victory =
This nan did not understand his own time
he did not know what the future was 20 be
tho was not ablo to shape tho had no
'prudence'-he had 10 'ioresightp Dniel
Webster suys, have never Introduced this
subject, and never wil'-and died broken
hearted because he had not been able to
talk enough about it. Benton says, Il will
never speak of slavcry'-and lives to break
with his party on this issue MIR. Clay saws
IL is 'moral trenson' to introduce the subject
into Congress and lives to see Congress turn
ed into an Anr-Slavery Debating Society, to
suit the purpose Of one too powerful indi-
vidual'
tSFhese were statesmen, mark you They
have gone TO their graves covered with culo.
gy; aud our national stock of eoquence is
all inefficient to describe how profound and
hr-reaching was the sagnciiy of Daniel
Webster! Remember who 1t wns tint said
IN 1881, Il AM in earnest will not equiyo-
cale-l will not excuse-l will not retreat
single nch-and wW be hedrd' repeated
cheers.) That speaker has lived twenty
two yenrs, and the complaint of tweniy-lhrce
millions Of people is, Shall we ever hear of
any Thing but slavery" (Cheers.) heard
Dr. h'rk, OF Boston, say in his pulpit, when