Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-01-01
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SALEM, ONO, JANUARY /, 1868.
Executive COMMITTEE meets Jenuary 2d.
Provision for Mrs. Webster.

Fifteen thousand dollars have boon subscribed
in Boston, for the Webster monument, and
sixty thousand dollars have been raised and
deposited in the Massachusetts, Life Insurance
Company, for tho benefit of Mrs. Webster, du-
ring her life, which is to revert to tho donors at
her death.
OF course, VIC have only pleasure in the
thought that Mrs. Webster is comfortably pro-
vided for in her age and widowhood, in spite
Of the extravagance of her husband while liv-
ing. And VIC arc very far from feeling uncom-
Portable at learning that this provision comes
from the source it does--the cotton aristocracy
of Boston. The men who think that their
wealth, social position, and political power, de-
pends upon their being active accompces in
tho base, unmanly, daily IJbery Of one-sixth
Of the mothers and daughters of this broad
land. The men who politically "conqucr
their prcjudices," and lend themselves "with
alacrity" to this ruffainly work. We say we
glad to see this, for it is evidence of "honor
among thieves" in broad cloth, and thieves Of
women and children even, the last dregs of hui
manity, among which We should ever look for
the article.
a word as to the uncxamplcd surfet of Web
sters panogyric, to which this nation has lately
been treated. We say treated, for the nation
has pronounced no eulogy upon him. The
South, which he damned himself 10 serve,
motes out to him the most favorable possible
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the hands of the tompters md associates by
whom ho has fallen. They smother their con-
tempt, and aro silont. Tho North. and West
have no tears to shed, and apart from Boston and
its vicinity, the East has few True, tho whole
press of the country has copied the cxtravagant
culOgy of few Boston papers and pulpit ora
tors. But it has not been from any true sym
pathy with the eulogst, but rather to crafty
curiosity and national vanity, by an exhibition
of home manufacture-to show what Yankee
ingenuity could do in an extremity, in the way of
hypcrbole and the construction of numerous
'posite actual vices, as exhibited in tho life of
their subject.
No. there is in the secret heart of the Amer
lean people, false and and wicked as is their
position to the slave, more true sympathy with
that slaves estimate of Daniel Webster, than
with that of his false fatterers. The slaves
estimate of his character, will be the one which
posterity will sanction. Let us then go to the
slaves, whom he has irreparably wronged, and
learn from them the estimate wo should put
nn 10 In md Rat alo fh,aa hax.n
no press and no orator. Their accusations arc
therefore unwritten, and their curses unuttered.
The anti-slavery men and women of the North,
who are tho slaves best and only representa-
tivcs, have never yet, and never will or can put
their souls into the souls stead of the slave,
Daniel Webster and his sccomphces. Those
among the American outcasts, who know what
his aetS have been, If at all vndictive, can only
leap and shout for joy, at the announcement Of
his death. and only regret that it had been un-
attended with the torture which makes death
the most welcome of friends to his millions of
victims. While the most humane and Christ
like among them, can do no less than adopt tho
subjoincd language Of one Of his victims. To
have been the voluntary instrument of the ex-
pulsion Of the man who could utter such scnti-
ments under such circumstances, is infamy
enough to damn any one, whatever hi, previous
life. 1t writes him down irrcclaimably among
the murdcrous Pilates and Herods and Chief
Priests, who have always been ready to COM
bine against freedom and goodness, and to
cruelty the most reliable of their advocates for
the sake OF power and place. Here is an ex-
tract of n recent letter of William Crafts, which,
while in the most quiet possible way it speaks
the slaves estimate of Daniel Webster, also
yindicatcs Mrs. Stowe from her calumniators,
and proves Uncle Toms character a vcritable
reality among the oppressed of this nation.
al have just heard that another great man
has passed away from our native country; and
oh how l wish he had lived SO that every
slave and every other lover of true liberty
might have seriously mournod his loss TO socie-
ty But can my wife or myself, or any other
victim Of the Fugitive Slave Law, wecpi No |!
for whenever VIC heard OF great genius like
Daniel Webster being snatched from tho world,
with the innocent blood of a whole race cling
ing to his skirts, we can only say, Lord, have
mercy upon him
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