Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-04-02
SALEM COLUMBIANA CO.. OHIO APRIL 2, 1853.

| inert paragraph is also n tissue of misrepre-
sentntions.' What | said Of The paragraph
he restricts to one sentence in il, which he
| then attempts TO defend.
In my reply, said, know of no Free
Soiler who has not the strongest desire to
arrest the wrongs Of slavery by all the legit-
innate means within his power; or who "con-
sents to lei slavery remain where il is" in
any other sense than rs he consents to the
| subjugaton OF Hungary, or the usurpation Of
Louis Napolecn-because he can't help it,
never intmated auy thing to the contrary
of this; and let me ask, does not Mr.. Phil
lips " consent" in the same way?
To impugn this, that is, to prove that |
have no desire TO arrest, at all, the wrongs
of slavery aud that do consent [voluuta-
rilyl to let slavery remain where il is' Mr..
Phillips makes five quotations from my
speeches
Now, aver that each one of those five
quotations is cited for an unfair purpose,
which unfair purpose an obvious distinction
will prove.
Like other Free Soilers, I hold that Con-
gress, or the general government, has no
! power, under the Constitution, TO abolish
slavery within the States; while, at the same
time, as q citizen OF the United States, and
as man, my whole heart wrestles and agon-
ICES to arrest the wrongs of slavery
Now, all the passages which MIR. phillips
has cited under this head were spoken in
my capacity as Congressional legislator, or
with reference to legislation by Congress-
In that capacity, have disclaimer legal or
torciblo interference, just as other Free Soil
ors have done,-just as Mr. Giddings has
done scores Of timea. But no where have
discamed or renounced moral interference.
On tho contrary, my published volume
abounds with passages which are moral in
| reference, with the most massive and keen
| edged weapons | was sbie 10 foTge,-not
terrible, well know like those welded by
others, and yet, may hope, not discrcditablc
10 me. ispeaS within bounds when say that
there are fifty passages in my speeches, car
rying out the doctrine of moral interference,
emhodying il. executing il, for every passage
Of legal disclaimer. As Mr.. Phillips Gays ho
has been Obliged to look again over my vol
umc,, he must have seen these passages. In
one of the opening paragraphs of this very
reply, he Processes to appreciate the good
words | have spoken for the anti-slavery
couse,' aud adds, my blood has thrilled too
; often beneath his glowing eloquence, his
startling denunciations, aud those pictures
of slavery which thrill ones SOUL Yet hc
discards all this class Of passages with which
: my public writings are filled, aud iorgets his
own concessions, in order TO fasien upon
me the inputation OF moral indifiarentism
and even consent in regard to the existence
of slavery. Against hundreds OF instances
of earnest moral dissent and protestution, he
cites lees than half dozen cases Of invoun-
,sry and extor,ed legal consent aud then,
IN violation of every rule of logic, of justice,
and of iairncss, forces tho conclusion, tha,
!, in common with other Free Soilers, have
no concern for slavery in the States. Mark
these word,-eVery one an outrage: have
NO coNCERS'-tor Tor on account oi slavery
-'iu the States
In the speech Of Feb. Is, $780, says Mr.
Phillips, Mr. Mann ts ro far from denying
nv statement that he seems never to have
heard of any body who did wish TO agitate
: for the abolition Of slavery in the States.-
, This is quite probable &c. Yet in one o
, the introductory paragraphs Of that speech
which he has Just looked over Sgain,' oc
ours the following: and if all unspeaknblt
, abhorance of this institution, and the belle
, that it is the second greatest enormity which
! the oppressor in his power ever committed
against the oppressed in his weakness, -
/ saw if this abhorauce of slavery, and this be
: lief in its criminaity, enttle man to b'
y denominated AN Aboltiohistt, then ] reioc,
n in my unquestionabIe rightto the name
s auy sane man will take the trouble 10 rca'
It the first twenty pages Of that speech alone
- | defv him to withhold his condemnation
Y from Mr.. Phillips for intimatng that seen
I, never TO have heard Of any body who di
wish 10 sgitatc for the abolition of SLAYER
It in the S,ates; or that have no concer
II for slavery in the States
s, Besides, before Mr. Phillips could come I
81 any such inference, even Ivy tho forcing all
B. rauishment of my language of which he h,
nt been guilty, he had 20 discard the the vel
" terms of my statement My language Wa
er that we would arrest the wrongs of slavel
g. bu all The legitimate means Within our po,0er
g and he well knows that VIC hold cgslaiio
r. by congress to abolish slavery in the Stat
ty not to be 'legimatc means suppose N
e.. Phillips holds this doctrine himself IL s
Ell then have the same right TO assert that
nI cares nothing for slavery, or has no conce
~ for IT, The quotations hero made from n
ne in their natural and Obvious sense, aud
nd applicable 10 the subject matter in hat
nd we're all true. But there is sense in win
ns nothing can be moro false. Mr.. Phtli
is, cites them in tho latter sense.
Mr.. Phillips dwells at length on my Ia
10. Of explicitue.s,' my throwing coud abo
uo INV opinions, &c. in regard to the oath
= Office which Free SOlers take. In my
W. W. mer reply, passed this matter by hgh,
s.uu saving that had no difficulty about H.
zen cause the Constitution required us TO
wv nothing in violation of the Higher La"
God He now returns to the top'e' cs
VI ehises me in a series of formal quesuoo
~ s,s demands, er eathedrd, definite and expI
olI snswers'; and, il rightly understand
geo drift of his argument, his aim is to prove I
lcaI Free Soilers who take the oath OF oftct
o' Palny, Allen, Sumner, Chase, Gddings' d
sTinn &c.,-sre guilty of perjury.
DO, Now so TAR rom oesn1s corf;