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

nre told that he kept his marriage vow !
We accuse him of having given up his peo
pie TO the nerciless iuflictons of the mos
hot. headed and hard-heurted of prelntes-
and the defence Vs. that he took his little sol
on his knee and kissed him! We censur
him for having violated the articles of TN
Petition Of Right-and we are informed tina
he was accustomed to hear prayers at sii
o'clock in the morning!' Mr.. Mann's cas-
seems TO me similar. The title pnge of hi
volume of speeches is, Slavery: letter.
and Speeches, by Horace Mann, THE FIRs7
SECRETARY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BoARI
OF EDUCATION II is q title of which he il
justly proud. Tie practice of cheating the
colored child out of his legal rights in oul
schools had prevailed n long while in some
of the large towns and cities of the State.--
A few earnest but unpopular men for ten
years besieged the door of the Legislature
TO obtain redress. ] charge the Secretary
that he uaS nerer there. They gave School
Committees in the various towns no rest,
urging them to abolish the unjust distinction.
] charge the Secretary that he ,gds neuer there.
The Secretary published eleven able, clo-
qucnt aud detailed official Reports on the
school system of the Commonwealth, one
each year. ! charge that, in all Of them, he
either wholly omitted the subject, or entirely
misrepresented il.
Aud he replies by telling me what Inc did
IN Pricdte as Trustee Of The Institution for The
Blind! 10y lifting up the veil, which, very
properly, covered his witty retorts at Bridge
water! aud hy now, at last. informing the
public that he did once whisper u legal
opinion into the private ear of n City Solic-
iior! How common il is for men, especially
Americans, when charged with public de-
fault, TO attempt defence by alleging some
private misgiving they iudulged at the time,
aud which they think should quality public
censure! When the first fury of New Eng
laud rehuke burst on Wcbster's head for his
7th of March Speech, you remember liis
deiGnce-'lle had u provision OF jury trial
for fugitive slaves IN his desk, but forgot TO
offer il! So Beecher, arragned for gagging
discussion twenty years ago at Lane Semi
nary, conicsses now, for the first time, that,
in privaie, he opposed the Trustees Long
ago, when Jetfiics grew pale before the
Revolution Of 1886, he stnmmered out the
excuse, that I've tried, IN private, to oppose
James H.. hut the King would not let him
stop butchering. Aud llayuau, sent TO Cow
entry by the decency of the nineteenth cen
tury, slricks out before he dies, too, str0ve,
IN prirdte, to hold the Emperor back; but lie
would make me whip and hang!
Filthy, Mr. Mann tells us that the School
Law of 1915 was passed after consulting
with him, aud with his hearty APPROVAL
As every one knew, its object was to nuke
the Common LAW certain by n statute law;
and TO ensure, beyond contingency, the
equal rights of all the colored children IN
the State. We all thought il had done so.
lie was surprised that the Supreme Court
afterwards disregarded il entirely. That
law was passed in consequence of the ap-
pearnnce of few RbolilioniSts before the
Legislative Committee. Tho draft which
we usked them TO adopt they threw aside,
aud submitted one OF their own. told That
Committee, at the time, that their draft was
ambiguous and equvocal and would not
secure Our object One of them ddmitied
this, half in jest, ndding, Mr.. Phillips, we
in Boston know that such schools are illegal,
but we mean TO have them, neverthcless.'-
Had Mr.. Mann stood where ] stood that day,
and where he should hare stood, by uirtue Of
his office, and Of The interest he now claims 10
hare dl'eGys taken in This question:, he would
neither have given that Till his hearty mp
provnl, nor been afterwards surprised that
the Supreme Court put it carelessly aside.
Sixthly, MIR. Mann says, In my Reports, ]
uniformly stated the lawto be such us would
confer upon colored children equal school
privileges, in all respects, with white ones,
which ] believed it did. Where the practice
did not conform TO the theory, | lahored TO
make il 10 so, and when left the Secreta-
ryship, we had nearly succeeded
This is evasion. 1 never criticised his
Reports for misstatements of ialU, but OF fact
No Intelligent lawyer doubted what the law
was; though we all knew it was hopeless
to expect that n pro-slavery court would
fairly rule it.. The public looked TO his Re
ports for correct statement of facts, nnl
he crippled the efforts and clogged the patti
of the abolilionists by crying peace wher
there was 10 peace; by total misrepresent
alton.
In his tenth Report 1647, he said;
when the equal, natural and constitu
tional rights Of Africa were thought to b,
invaded, she armed her courts of judicatur,
with power to punish the aggressors. Tn,
public highway is not more open and fire,
for every man in the community, thnn is TN
public school-house for every child AM
each parent feels that a free education is as Sc
cure a part Of The birilrigM Of his offspring
as Heavens bOuntieS Of hgh and air.
EVERY MAN WHO TREADs HER SACRED SOL
rs FREE; ALL ARE FREE ALIKE AND wITHIl
HER BORDERS, FOR ANY PURPOSE coHNEcTEl
WITH HUMAN SLAVERY, IRON WILL NOT Bl
WELDED INTO FETTER.'
After ] had called his attention to the poin
he next year, le4S, repeated the misrepre
sentaIon in still stronger language, thus:
1 fleGf ann ehae al anl,n la I,ol
be conducted on the cardinal principles c
the New England system--is already satisfied
-" Our law requires that school sha
the smallest and poorest not being excepted
and that this school shall be open and fire
to all the children as The light of day or IN
air of heaven. No child is mel on The hresi
hold Of the schooL-house door, 10 be asked .fc
.LaLL