Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-07-08
WHOLE NO. 4s7.

ons. 1t may be that these were all who were
here. lie had known meeting hcralded to ,the
country as large and respectable composed cniy Of
the chairman and secretaries, whose only claim t2
largeness consisted in the physical proportions of
the chairman. So far as tie chairman. OF ting
meeting concerned, it might be considered
large meeting lie could not believe that any one
member from the South would give the sanctio9
of his name to the statements contained in this
address ,".-.- "''-
! He read the address and its arguments upoa
the encroachments by the slave power, by its ao-
QUESTIONS and designed extension of its upon
the adoption Of the Missouri Compromise and the
Compromise of 1850, and the repeal of the former,
&c, and he commented upon the same with great
severity of language. He said he was happy to
believe that not one Southern man was at thas
meeting. After reading the address, he suggested
to its unknown author to abandon the barren rhcld
of political literature and turn his thonghs to the
richer fields of works of fiction. The author OF
this address bids fair to rival the writer OF the
\ Arabian Nights Entertainments, Eugene Sue;
! Paul de Kuck and the many others who were 50
prolific in works Of fiction. He had never seen 9
production which contained, in so few words, so
much fiction and pure Imagination as this address
charged the South with passing the Nebraska bill
with coyet design Of making the Territories slave
States, with .aunaxipg half q dozen States from
Mexico and making them slave, with planting sls-
very on the Amazon, with augmenting ITS power by
| the acquisition of Cuba and Dominica, and in time
reducing the North to abject submission. He called
for the author Of this accusation to awow hiTself
! 1t was n serious one, which gentlerlen should
make behind the masked battery Of q secret uieet
/ ing. The author Of it knew very well that had
every Southern Senator been in his grave, the Ne
braska bill would have passed. 1t would have
passed if no Southern Senator had voted for it
The whole charge was falsehood. 1t was wick
edly, malicousy false. lie could see no differences
between the petitiOn fer the repeal Of the Fugitive
Slave Law and for the dissolution Of the Union.
! There was no man who believed that the Union
could be preserved one day after tue repeal OF the
Fugitive Slave law. The south. asked to do nd
wrong to the North. Ali. asked was to preserve
the Constitution and give rs our equality of rights.
lie had been Wing all his life. lie was told nuf
by the Northern wing of that party that hereafter
the test to be applied to all Wings was the repeal
of the Nebraska act, and the repeal of the guaran,
ties and equality to all States given by the Cossi?
tuition, II this to be the test Of nrthodoxJ in
the Wing party, he then ayowed himself hereto,
and suggested that against him might now at once
be prepared the edict Of excommuncation If tc
trample on the rights of any section or state was
necessary to be Wing, he had to say Ito his for
mer friends and associates, GOOD bye" He
would rather die than follow them in any such rule
of ac,Ice. -
Mr.. Rockwell said this memorial was signed by
over twenty-one hundred of the mon of Boston,
Its signers were the bone and sinue Of the active
4 business uen of that city. He saw nothing in
h their petition either extraordinary or wrong. They
a simply asked repeal OF IN act of Congress- only
: four years old, which act was in addition to
Il
there treason in this? Was it treason to ask Con:
! gress to repeal act of its own making 1t was
= = said that there circumstances attending it
= which gave it greater Importance. ,ltwas signed
. by men who had ac1u,csce1 in the Compromise
measures of 1850, of which this act was one, bu.
who were moved to ask for the repeal of this OBJ
noxlous law, because Congress had repealed pre-
yious and long-standng compromise. The repeal
of Missouri Compromise, he begged to assure ge.-
' temen, had created depth Of feeling in the free
uuprecedenteI. and would
continue for years to come. 1t was true, that in
Boston, recently an arrest under the law made,
that an afray, riot took place. and homicide
was committed. But it should be remembered
that the constitutional authorities of Massachusetts
and Boston took that matter INLAND and disposed
Of it. Sud den tumults and aArays and violcncS
had occurred in other places than IN Bcstor. This
petition was got up for no purpose of provoking
4 bloodshed, riot, and treason. 1t not got up
secretly. Had its signers such objects in view,
they would not have left their petition open to the
public gaze Mt the MERCHANTS Exchange, exposed
to examination 10y friends and opponents Of its
prayer The feeling existing at the North
was such as never was witnessed before. 1t vas
wide spread and universal. It prevailed all pro-
fessions and occupations of life. The action OF
Congress at this session had produced this feeling
Whole classes Of men had been openly denounced
in Congress for petitlonng against the repeal Of
! the Missouri Compromise. lie would shy - Sena.
tors With al respect, that in denouncGg the clergy
for pettoning against that act they had gone too
far, for the clergy Of New England spoke the
; timents of the whole people, Public sentiment
was against this law and the cry for its repeal.
lie supposed there would always be found party
in Massachusetts ready and willing to execute il,
but its execution was againstthe sentiments Of ths
people. He would say to the Senator that the
time had gone by when any threat of dissolution
of the Union consequent upon the action of the
people OF the free States upon any measure would
e deter them from doing what they conceive to be
/, right Threats of disunion had ceased to bo IN
argument with them, either for or against any
: measure. The North was devoted to the Union;
they would adhere to it, they would &c tsith il
to whatsoever extent il extended, but they did
4 not believe this Union could be dissolved. Dis
l. union impossible thing, Why was it that
g Congress while extending the Union in all direo.
n tions, had neglected the great binding rgament of
c a railroad to the Pacific? lie urged the construc
ion of that great work. and said he had not adopt
t ed the address houghhe fully agreed with the sea-
: timents uttered,
d these signers, who said to be the bone and
e snew of Boston, had aided in executing the law
! lately in Boston. Was not large number Of them,
7 with treason in their hearts and knives in their
hands, engaged in the recent mob to resist the
! stituton and the lawl
Mr. Rock yell---I do not knox that one was SO
engaged.
Mr. Jones asked if Wendell Phillips and The,-
dore Parker, who had melted an ignorant and in
fatuated people to resist the law and constitution
4 which they had not courage or nnaniness to do IN
person. had they nothing to do with these riots and
, those cries for repeal? As to the clergy of New
f England he had nothing to say He never quar-
: relied with women or clergymen. He trans
ferred the fight with them to the Senator from
Illinois. But he asked the Senator il be believed
the Union toud last day after the repeal OF the
D Fugitive Slave Law.
Mr. Rockwe--I have said already disunion is
an impossible thing.
: He sincerely hoped tho people of the North were
not TO be intimdated or eajolsd into an abandon
ment of those great principles Of freedom to which
o they had so long been devoted, He hoped thas
y that there would be back bone preserved 70 tbs