Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-04-30

I of these schools? IL his peculiar delcncy,
as Secretary, forbade his taking public
part-such public part was his huuii,len du-
~ while leading member of the Legisla-
ture ITSELF
Mr.. Mann regrets that my 'denunciatory,
unsparlDg and undiscrimunte course has
made the performance of his duty towards
The oppressed African far more difficult &c.
IL seems to me, MIR. Garrison, that you
aud have heard that remark before, X. X.
Gurley made it in regard TO colonzation.-
Henry Clay made il in deielIce of the slave
holders. Oryille Dewey made il when Of
iefing to return his mother into slavery, ir
necessary. Moses Stuart made it, npropos
to Paul sending back Onesinus. Que Of
the miserable wretches who came here To-
identify Sims, objected to our denunciuiory
course. claim all those cpllels as our
surest lille-deeds to the gratitude, Of poster
ity. ] was 'denuuciatory' when the rich
and educated combined TO rob the poor Of
tlrir hest brthriglt, education. | was 'uu-
sparng' when reiormers, men who claimed
TO he the peculiar friends Of liberty aud
justice, stood silent lockers on. ! was 'uu-
discriminating when priest and politician,
educutlonst aud scclurian, Presidents Of
Senates and purse-proud milliOnnrcs, alike
joined in wronging the wenk because they
had no friends, aud because to pass by on
tie other side would increase ones infu
| cncc.
Mr. Mann thinks my recent speech claims
too much, lndicrously too much for the abO
litionlsls. Ii was made in the presence oil
those who have known us oil lor The lasi
twenty years. They know the facts; and il
my claim is ludicrously exaggerated, il will
only make me n laugling-stoCk, and so no
harm be done. spoke aud printed my re.
marks IN Boston, which heard in this con
neclon Of Garrison aud Chapman, Jackson
and Quincy, LOring aud Sewail, Foster aud
Pillshury, Weld, Smith, GOUdrll aud JAY,
long before it heard of Sumner, Chusc, Pal
frey and Hale To the Judgment Of such
community, cheerlully submit my claims.
But let 10 word of mine do injustice to
the well earned fame and seli-sucriiice o!
Mr. Polirey and his friends.
hlr. Mann's next five paragraphs, (relulins
to human law keeping my abhorrcncc of
slavery in check, to the right To api,ae the
question of slavery in Congress- To lis i'm
perfect list of Anti-Slavery eXefIious, and To
his support of the Constitution, with his
-iBsSfPFeia,ion of IL, soen to -niere- tTi-
ling, unworthy of him, and univ orliy Of my
notice. ] should speak more strongly, il /
spoke at all, of his attempt, further on, to
evade my remark OH his JesuitieaL cousiruc-
ton of an oath.
Twill now proceed TO notice the manner
in which my remarks about the oath are
dealt with. Mr.. Mann does not ATTEMPT
10 dnsrer any ono of my questions and ar
guments. To be sure, in closing, lie offers
10 discuss with me our duties under the
Constitution. have not yet got from him
.lafnita m ~, m
e" he n0Ig thinks The Constitution Of The United
STATES secures 10 he Shareholder The rigH Of re.
capturing his S'dve, tchen he escapes nio The If6e
!Sdies.' Let him answer that frankly, aud
will gladly debate with him. But il seems
TO me idle TO 20 on with an opponent who
refuses me amy full knowledge OF his present
uictrs, and bases his defence now on one
ground, and now on another totally irrccou-
cilcabe with the first.
Mr.. Mann's whole attempt in this part of
his letter, is to show, that If he is wrong,
am as great sinner us he. Suppose gran,
all he claims; my being a sinner does not
prove him saint-my being wrong does
not begin TO prove him right Tint cause is
weak, and touches its downfall, when its
champion has nothing TO say TO his foe but
You are as had as am.
Mr.. Mann excuses his vote for John +.
Hale on the ground that he had no chance
of being elected Would Mr.. Mann hnye
voted for any friend to become captain of a
gang OF horse thieves, provided there was no
chance Of his being elected? OF course
| not. Yet he will not presume To say that
| hOrse-stealiDg does not whi,en into virtue
when compared with the crime of returning
runaway slaves.
But have Free Soilers organized party,
and do they spend all their labor, to elect n
man TO an Office, which. after all lac could
not conscieniiousiy accept? Hear this, ye Free
Soilers, who are always tauniing Garrisoni-
ans with HrOicing array Neir pOtcs! What
will the party do, when ii becomes n mnjor-
iy? Cease to nominate Presidents, sup
pose, for fear Of being able 10 elect them! Or,
does Mr.. Mann consider the danger of their
ever beng majority so distant, nt so 'yery
vanishing point as not TO be worth consd-
ering? But MIR. Sumner was elected Senator,
and serves MS such aud the Senate co oper-
: ates with the President in appointing Judges,
District Attorneys and Marshas, To execute
tho Fugitive Slave clause. II Mr. Hale
could not be President, how can Sumner be
Senator?
His next defence is, that il Hale Ind been
elected, there would have been DO chance OF
his being required TO do any constitutional
act for the return of fugitive slaves since
no President has been called on, for the last
sxty-lour years, and there is better chance
still in time 10 come. This statement is in
} correct. Has Mr. Mum forgotten President
, F'illmore's Proclamation on the ocrason OF
} Shadracll's rescue, no longer ago Than Feb.
J 18th, 1851 ?-and certainly within his cousti-
! tutional duties But,waiving this, and grnut-
ing that the facts were as he states,it matters
not to the argument will not stop to say
that MIR. Mann would never agree to commit
murder, merely because he thought there
, were ninety-nine chances out of hundred
} that he would never be actually called on tc
] do the deed: which shows his argument &c
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