Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-06-10


b rule over your and the multitude that occupe,
, the floor and the multitude that crowded the gal
leries howled down the higher law Of God The,
: treated the higher law to laugh and n howl
That was Tuesday night II was tho Tuesday be
fore Thanksgiving Day. On that Thanksgivin,
Day, told the congregation that the men wht
, howled down the higher law Of Almighty God hac
got Almighty God to settle with; that they hat
sown the wind, and would reap the whirlwind
At that meeting Mr.. Choate told the people, IRE
MEMBERl RENEMDERl RememberP Then no
/, body knew what TO remember" Now you know
That is the state of that case. Then you RE
MEMBER" the kidnappers came here to seize
Thos Sinis Thos Sims icds seized Nine days
he was on trial lor more iSan bis life. and never
saw Judgc--nover saw JGry. lie was sent
h,Ck into bondage from the City OF D2ston. You
rehitmber the chains that were put orounG the
C0urt-Housc you REMEMBER" the Judges OF
Massachusetts, STOPPING, crouching, creeping cra'cl
ing under the chain of Slavery, in order to get TO
their own Courts. All these things you "REMEM-
BER" Boston was non-rcsistant. She gave her
back to the smiters"--from the South; she
withheld not her check from the scorn Of
South Carolina, and welcomed the splitting" OF
kidnappers from Georgia and Virginia. Now we
are having our pay for it. To-day VIC have our
n pay for that conduct. You have not forgotten the
"hiteen hundred gentlemen Of property aud stand.
ing" who volunteered TO conduct Mr.. Sims to Sla-
yery--AIarshal Tukey's gentlemen" They ere
~. lHtO uIC bVIIJ tuuuSi hVNs ~
US forgiye-we need not forget REMEMBER
REMEMBER Remember The Nebraska bill has
just now been passed. Who passed hS The fif-
teen hundred gentlemen Of property and stand
ing" in Boston, who, in 1S4l, volunteered 10 carry
Thomas Sims into Slavery by force Of arms. They
the kidnapper Of ls45, there would have been no
! Fugitive Slave bill in 1850. If Massachusetts, in
1850 had declared the bill should not be executed,
the kidnapper would never have shown his face in
the streets of Boston. IT, failing this Boston had
said, in 1851 "Thomas Sims shall not be carried
off" and forcibly or peacefully, by the majesty OF
the great mass Of men, had resisted it, no kidnap.
per would have come here again. There would
have been no Nebraska bill. But to every demand
I of the slayeowner Massachusetts has said: "lesl
lycs we grant il ~ Agitation must cease 70
1 Save the Union" Southern Slavery is an insti-
tuition that is in earnest. Northern freedom is an
institution that is not in earnest II was in earn
est in &c and e3. IL has not been in earnest since
The Compromises arc but provisional. Slavery is
the only 6nality. Now, since the Nebraska bill is
passed, attempt is made TO add insult to insult,
injury to injury. There was fugitive slave case
at Syracuse this last week; at New-York, broth
er of Rev. DR.. Pennington, an established clergy
man Of large reputation, great character, acknowl
edged learning. who has his diploma from the
University of Heidelberg, in Germany, more
honorable source than that from which any clergy
man in Massachusetts, ever received hs,-his broth
er and two nephews were kidnapped in Ncw-York
and without any trial, without any defense, were
hurried off into bondage. Then at Boston, yor
know what was done in the last four days. Be
hold the consequences of the doctrine that there IL
no "higher law" Look at Boston to-day. There
are no chains around your Court house--there arc
ropes around it, hundred and eighty-four Unit
ed States soldiers are there. They are am told
mostly fUrcigners-thc scum Of the earth none but
such enter into armies as common soldiers in @
country like ours. | say it with pity--they ARE
4 Al.
were and rhat they ave. l pity the scum as well
as pity the mass of men. The accident of birth
keeps you and me from being among that same
scum The soldiers are there / say and tleii
trade is to kill. Why is this so? You remember
the meeting at Faneuil Hall last Frday--wher
even the words of my friend Wendell Phillips, Tho
most eloquent words that get spoken in America
in this century, hardly prevailed upon the multi
tude from going. and by violence attempting tC
storm the Court-lIouse. What stirred them up
II the spirit of fathers-thc spirit of just
icc and liberty in your hearts, and in my heart
and in the hearts of all Of us. Sometimes il geti
the better of n mans prudence especially on ocea
sions like this, and so excited was that assembly
Of four or five thousand men that even the words
Of eloquent Wendell Phillips could hardly restrain
them from going at once rashly to the Courtlloust
and tearing it TO the ground. Boston is the mos
{ peaceful of cities Whyl Because we have com
, monty had place that was worth keeping. n,
city respects laws so much. Because the law
have been made by the people for the people, ant
0 are laws which respect justice. Here is n Law
Q which the people would not keep. 1t is law o
c our Southern masters--a law not fit to keep. VIII,
] is Boston in this confusion to-day? The Fugitiy
p Slave bin Commissioner has just now been sown
{ tn, wind that we may reap the whirlwind. TIL
S old Fugitive Slave bill Commissioner stands back
he has gone to look after his personal popularity
But when Commissioner Curtis does not dare ar
+ pear in this matter, another man comes forward
Nla l..
S the City of Boston. Judge Loring is a man whor
/, respected and honored His private life is who
0 ly bameless so far as know. He has been,
, think, uniformly beloved. Ills character has emit
! tied him to the esteem of his fellow citizens.
C have known him somewhat. Inever heard mea
}, word from him-many good words. He was ono
r the law partner Of Horace Mann and learned hu
y manity of great tcaeher-l have respected him
d good deal. lie is respectable man--in the Bosto
q sense of that word, and in much higher sense
>. at least thought So He is kind hearted, cha
IS liable man good neighbor; a fast fricnd-whe
politics do not nterfere charitable with his rurs
is an excellent husband; n kind father; good reli
Is tive. And should as soon have expected thi
'e venerable man who sits before me, born befor
your Revolution Samuel May IL should MS 500
N have expected him to go and kidnap Robert Morri
2? or any other of the colored men see around M
N as should have expected Judge Loring to do tn
n thing But he has sown the wind and we al
m reaping the whirlwind. | need not say what
e now think Of him. He is to act tomorrow, an
'r may yet act like man. Let us wait and sc
e. Perhaps there is manhood in him yet. But, N
d friends, all this confusion is his work. lie kne
!, he was stealing man, born with the same right
T. life. liberty and the pursuit of happiness as hir
7, self. He know the Shareholders had no more rg
d to Anthony Burns than to his own daughter. i
I, knew the consequences Of stealing man in Bo
s. ton. lie knew that there are men in Boston wi
81 have not yet conquered their prejudices-men wi
ot respect the Higher Law of God. lie knew the
al would DO meeting at Faneuil Hall--gatherinl
+ in the street. lie knew there would be violenc
10 Edward Greeley Loring, Judge Of Probate for Il
IN county Of Suffolk. in the State Of Massachusetts
le Fugitive Slave Bill Commissioner of the Unit
ST States. before these citizens of Boston, on Asee
20 sion Sunday, assembled to worship God, char