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

So far, however you distrust my plIiloso-
ply, you will not doubt thy statements
Tint we have denounced aud rebuked with
unsI,aring fidelity will not he denied. Have
we not also addressed ourselves TO that 9TH
er duty Of arguing our question thoroughly
of using due discretion and far sngnciIy
IN endeavoring to promote our cause? Yes,
we have. Every statement we have made
has been doubted. Every principle we have
laid down has been denied by overwhelming
innjorities against us. No one step has ever
been gained but 10y the most laborious re-
search aud the most exhausiing argument.
Aud no question hns ever, since Revolution
nry days, been sn thoroughly investigated or
argued here, as that Of slavery. OF thnt
research and tlInt argument, of the whole of
IL, the Old-fushioned, ianatical, crazy Gnrri-
sOnian anti.slavery movement has been the
author. From this band of men has pro-
ceeded every Important arugnient or idea
that has been hronched on the anti-sluvery
question from 1880 to the present time
lCheers. am well aware Of tue extent Of
the claim nnke. | recognize us fully rs
any one eau the ability of the new luborers
The eloquence and genius with which they
have recommended this cause to the nation,
and flashed conviction home on the consc.
ence of the community. ! do not mean,
either, TO assert that they have in every
instuUce borrowed from our treasury their
facts aud arguments. Left to themselves,
they would probably hnve looked up the
one and originated the other. As a matter
of fact, however, they have generally made
Use OF the materials collected to their hands.
But there are some persons about us, sym
pathizers, TO n great extent, With Ion, who
pretend that the anti-slavery movement has
been hitherto mere fanatcism, its Only
weapon angry abuse. They are obliged TO
asserl this, in order to justify their past in
difference or hostility. AT present, when il
suits their purpose 10 give il some attention,
they endeavor to explain tue chnrgc by al
legng that now il has been taken up by
men of thoughtful minds, and It's claims are
urged by fair discussion aud able argument.
My claim, then, is this: that neither the
charity of the most timid OF sects, the sa-
gacty of our wisest converts, nor the cul-
iiire of the ripest scholars, though all hive
been aided by our twenty years experience,
has yet struck ont any new method OF
reaching the public mind, or originated nny
new argument or train 0t thought, or dis
covered any new inct bearing on the ques-
ton. When once brought fully into the
struggle, they have found il necessary 10
arguments, 10 hold up the same men and
the same measures to public reprobaiion,
with the same bold rel,uke and unsparng
invecllve that we have used. All their con-
cilialory bearing, their pains-taking n,odera-
ton, their conscious aud anxious endeavor
10 draw a broad line between their camp
and ours, have been thrown away. just so
far as they have been effective laborers, they
have found, as we have, their hands against
every man, and every mans hand against
them. The most experienced OF them nre
ready TO acknowledge that our plnn has
been wise, our course efficient, aud ihat our
nnpopuarity is no fault of ours, but flows
necessarily aud unavoidably from our posi-
tion. should suspect says old Fuller,
that his preaching had no salt in it., II no
CALLED horse did vince Our friends find,
after all, that men do not so much hate us,
ms the truth we utter and the light we bring.
They find that the community are not the
honest seekers niter truth which they fancied,
but selfish politicians and sectarian bigots,
who shiver, like Alexnnder's butler, when
ever the sun shines on them. Experience
has driven these new laborers back TO our
method. We have no quarrel with them
would not steal one wreath of their lhurels.
All we clam is, that it they are to be com
plimentet as prudent, moderate, Chrisilan'
sagacious, statesmanlike reiorlners, we de-
serve the same praise, for they have done
nothing that we in our measures, did not
attempt before. (Cheers.)
claim this, that the cause, 10 us recenI
aspect, has put on nothing but nm'dity, ~
has taken TO itself no new weapons OF re-
cent years; il has become more compromls-
ing-that is all! Ii has neither become
more persuasive, more learned, more Christ
ian, more charitable, nor more effective
than for the twenty years preceding. MIR
Hale, the head Of the Free Soil movement
after career in the Senate that would dc
honor to any nan-ailer six years cours'
which entities him to the respect and conn
dence of the anii,slavery public--can pu
hia mama within fhA laat month. 70 an ap