Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-04-23

that his denunciatory, unsparing and I'M
| discriminating course has made the perfor-
nance of our duty towards the oppressed
| African race more difficult and onerous than
il would otherwise have been. To claim the
paternity of that act of mine is quite rs alb
surd as though he had claimed to he the fa-
ther OF Melchesidec.
But really in robbing me of the merit OF
spontanety for that one deed,-almost the
only act of my life that seems to have found
favor in his cyes,-Mr. Phillips has disap-
pointed and grieved me. | thought him a
more generous SOUL With all his 'Gaza' ol
wealth, how could he grudge inc this poor
obolus? by his own account, he belongs
to partnership richer IN good works than
any other in any uge. Their treasures are
moral Calilornins; each item in their long
inventories is Zion of beauty and grace
In his late speech he declares that all the
recent converts to nnti.slnvery, not only in
this country, but in England too, are 'spirit-
ual children From themselves, he says,
has proceeded every important argument
or idea that has been on the nnli-slavery
question, from 1880 to the present time.'-
This covers not only all the anti slavery his'
tory, arguments aud ideas' of John Quincy
Adams, Hale, Chase, Seward, and n host OF
others, hut even the West India Emnncipa-
tiOn Act. The Lords aud Commons who
advocated aud carried thnt glorious measure,
are only 'Uur spiritual children Surely, nc
cording TO Mr.. Phillips, the Apostles had
done far less, at the same nge, than he and
his. II is true, they travelled rather more,
going to the very South Cnrolinns and Ala
bnmas, the Savannnhs aud the Nirksburgs
of the pagan world but it is only another
proof of MIR. Phillips's superiority, il he can
do travelling apostles work, and still re-
main nj home. . claim for the movement,
says he, that il has been marked by the
soundest Judgment, the most unerring fore
sight, the most sagacious adnplion of means
TO ends, the strctest selfdSciplinp, the most
thorough research, and an amount Of patient
and manly argument &c. sc. And nguin,
My claim, then, is this, that neiilier the char
ity OF the most tiinid of sects, the sngacliy
of OUR wisest converts, nor the culture of
The rlpest scholars, though all have been aid
ed by loUR twenty years experience, has
yet struck out any new method of reaching
the public mind, or originated nuy new ar
gumeDt or train of thought, or disclosed
my new facts hearing OH the question: Sc.
See the speech for an almost interminable
iteration III tie same swelling strains. Would
the twelve Apostles themselves have ven-
tured TO blow so loud trumpet in their own
prnse? There is one more passage too char
acteristic TO he omitted: 1T WE gave them
the Free Soilers constituency; il gave
them an opportunity to speak; aud it gave
them public 10 listen'-'ga them their
votes, gave them their Offices, furnished them
their lncls, gave them their audience And,
II the nniislavery movement did not give
them their ideas, it surely gave them the
courage to utter them Hear this, Giddings,
Chase, Sumner, Allen, Paliy, and all the
rest, and gratefully acknowledge the power
that breathed the breath of life into your
nostrlls, the nrmorers who forged oil your
weapons, the teachers who taught you TO
WELD them, and especially who gave you
that double portion Of courage which sent
you TO do battle in the very enerny's country,
five hundred miles away from their shield,
aud security, aud reposc.
Now, it was after all this exnlta,ion over n
hundred Jurasalems of wealth, it was from
this topmost pinnacle Of pride and power,
that Mr.. Phillips swoopS down upon my poor
ant-henp, and pIucks away my zone poor
grain as DR.. Watts has il, which made 50
large portion of all my earthly goods o,
King David aud Uriah
MIR. Phillips quotes n passage from page
2l3 Of my volume, and asks deiantfy what
| mean 'by human law keeping my cOnsci-
ence in check What mean, is very plain,
and entirely deiensihIe. ! mean that, in the
absence Of common government, and in
state of war with the South, | would coun-
sci Interference aggressively, and by force, 10
redeem their slaves; which, now, | do not
feel called upon 10. Would not Mr.. Phil
lips do the snmc? Yet he does not do it
now. What holds his abhordnce in check;
His next quotation, accompanied by ano-
ther defiant question, is answerable on the
same principles, and for the same impreg-
nable reasons.
In defiance of Henry Clay in $780, says
MIR. Phillips, and both the pro-slavery par
ties, we have always claimed the right to
"agltate the question ofSlavery in the States"
even on the very floor of Congress, in our
political capacity, as well rs in every other
Why have you not done it there, Mr. Phil
lips? You have 'niicays claimed The right,
'euen on The floor Of Congress- and in your
political capacity too /; and yet, when has the
longing, dying slave ever heard one audible
sound from you within hundreds of miles
from the floor of Congress? BY what DIFF
erent commandment are poor, impenient
~ co"N's W po JuuSeu' ~ a'iy s""u""
of an idea can be thought of, which they
have not expressed, the rule for them is, 'that
they have plainly said so.'
On the subject of agitation, Mr. Phillips
charges me with 'hsedlessness or insufficient
information and says deliberately enuner-
nte the objects which Northern agitatnton
has sought to compass, and twice assert that
those name are the only ones ever attempt
ed.' An entire misstatement, as reference
to my language in both instances will show!
In one Of tho passages alluded TO, the objects
enumerated are expressly set down as speci-
mems. and then add, 1t has only been on
such subjects that the North has lifted up the
voice, &C.. and this generulizng clause is
in the same sentence respecting which his
misstatement is made. As to the other pas
snge, i'll understand the one which is referred