Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-05-21
NO. 80.
American Antl-SldVery Society.

on Wednesday morning, in the Chinese Rooms
Broadway. "The Hail." says the Tribune
was densely crowded, and harmony and good
feeling pervaded the assembly, with the excep-
ton of few overgrown boys who would pre-
sist in endeavoring to make themselves uncom-
fortly warm by vain attempts to hiss down the
the hearty applause which responded to the
sentiments of the speaker"
The President, VIM. Lloyd Garrison, intro
duced the exercise by reading selections of
scripture. Joseph Dugdale followed in prayer.
Addresses were then made by the President.
Mr.. Edmund Quincy, Miss Lucy Stone, Wen
dell Phillips Esq. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
and Mr. Frederick Douglass.
We shall have more ample mosns of report
ing the proceedings of this meeting next week
We shall only add tho Tribune's Report of the
Speeches of Mr.. Quincy and Miss Lucy Stone.
Mr.. Phillis speech was on the subject Of the
Union. Patriotism must have been at low
ebb, not to have hisiod stoutly at some of his
remarks.
Mr.. EDMUND QUIScY, Of Mass. said Mr..
President-Thc whole course Of this Society is
known through the length and breadth of the
land. We have suffered every species of con-
tumely, and had every epithet that could be
invented, applied to us. BY turns, We have
been "cnemies to Society,"" and we have been
"Disunionsts and we have been termed
"In6dcs" by the Ministers of the Gospel. l
should like to know, Mr.. President, how your
conduct aud ours is to be explained, IL il is not
To- L.. 4. =. ..t..
prccepts Of Christi Arc VIC held up to the
reprobation aud scorn of the world, because We
like iti Do all the American people like this
Do We pursue the course which leaves us in the
minority. because prefer 20 be in a minority
No There l. in the nature of the American
people an inherent desire to go with the major.
ity. We have stood up for twenty years and done
our duty Have VIC done this because we like
To be held up 10 the tender mercies of Captain
Ryndcrsi No We have done this because
we feel in our inmost hearts that there is high-
e. lac than that of man. Because VIC believe
our humble duty to our God is paramount to
obedience to mere human law. Are we not great
peope' We are always endeavoring to impress
others with the idea Of our superiority. We are
not content with denying to one.sixth Of The
inhabitants of our country the right which JEFF
fcrson said was inherent to every man. We arc
not content with this, but must go further, and
deny them the right to their own flesh and
blood, and undertake to repadiate the laos Of
God. OH Pigmies as we are-the best of us
scarce six feet high-not content with this, we
meet to make laws to abrogatc the divine laws
of God. We take upon ourselves to deny the
authority of u at God who made the sun which
now pours his glorious light upon this guilty
world, and who has spangled the armament
with a thousand suns like ours. Suppose
Congressman should get up in the halls OF leg
isla,on and attempt to repeal the law OF gravi-
tation, attempt TO alter the principle that all
things fly to a common centre there is not u
priest in the country who would nttompt to
jump from the top of Bunker Hill Monument
and expect to reach the ground without rcceiv-
ing any injury.
"Why did our fathers come to this land p
Surely they were fools. Clay and Webster
believed them to have been fools. tn leave their
quiet and comfortable parsonagcs and farms, to
seek wilderness, and companionship with saw
ages. Why could they not stay at homei-
They had only to submit to the constitutional
authorizes, and to obey and acknowledge the
laws. Surely there were many of them who
could have no fear of the Star Chamber Why
did they not stay at home and do as We arc now
told to, "obey the laws" No Mr. President,
they could not do this they were, as we are,
prOte't-ants. [Applausc.l After they had striv-
en- to their utmost against the wrongful injus-
tce which was done them, and saw no hope
they left their homes and their country and
sought frecdom-that godlike boon, freedom
in a distant and strange land. Little did those
brave spirits think, as they landed on Plymouth
Rock, from the MayAower. that before $50 years
had elapsed, such gigantic cancer would have
migrated itself into our constitution. No they
were protest-ants and we took counsel of Ply
mouth The Revolution dated back before
Lexington ard Bunker Hill, it dates back to the
Hamdens and Sidneys. 1t was the right of
private opinion, and inquiry; it was the right
TO judge if moral laws conAicted with divine.
1t was on this platform. and with these princ-
pies that the Anti Slavery movement orgnat-
ed 1t was to rescue ourselves from the horrid
Aristocracy of Shareholders an Arstorcracy
that lords it over us TO ar extent unknown in
other countries; an Aristocracy, including men,
women and children, of l5O.OOOi or, without
the women and children, 10000, lordng it over
2S,OOO,OOO. don't know il am a good Re-
publican but do know if this is the Repub-
licanism of Jefferson, certainly repudiare it.
If and my children are to be subject to the
domination of a hateful ogarchy of this char
acter, then is the Revolution failure. If we
must have an Arstocracy. then give me the
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