Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-06-03

/ leave him, her chosen son, fresh from these old
scenes of martyrdom and triumph baptized In
liberal Christianity and ro-baptized with the bup
tism of the Tiber and of the Grecan seas to the
ccusion of the University, so she summoned him
nto politics. lie went to Washington in 1926, and
the FIRST time this apostle of Unitarianism and
Greek liberty opened his lips, 1t to say that he
D had studied Christianity all his mature years, and
Greek all his life, and he knew nothing in the New
D Testament that went against Slavery Aud tho
9 bred in tho pulpit, he added that he
was ready to shoulder his musket" (perchance il
may have been one that had lain in rust ever since
g Lexington and Bunker Hill land put down a
] slave insurrection" ferries of Shamo") That
was the first speech Of the Massachusetts, scholar
, to the assembled Congress of this country-a
speech at which the noble satire of Randolph was
aimed, when stepped to the lips in Virginia Sla-
very he pointed his remorseless finger at the recre-
ant Unitarian, and said; 81 envy neither the head
nor the heart Of the man who comes here from the
North to apologize for Slavery" lapplause). This
? was the speech which your own ChaInbreeng found
so base that even he advised Mr. Everett to change
his political career and devote himself to the ser
vice of the Car (laughter).
II Well he came home and perchancu you will sup
, pose that we all turned n cold shoulder to him
that we refused to give him the right hand of wei
come, John q. Adams had done u similar deed in
l6OI in voting for Jehersons embargo, that made
grass grow on the wharycs Of Boston and when
: he came home and walked around the mallr of our
common, his old college mates put both hands be-
hind them, and held their necks so stiff that you
would have imagined they had lost their yertcbrn.
No one said to him God bless you," from Barn
stable to Berkshire. lie was sent to Coventry and,
to save him from utter isolation, Jefferson sent him
abroad. But Edward Everett had not made any
grass grow the wharves Of Boston; but if one
bone OF old Samuel Adams hangs to another in his
coffin, he had made them rattle against its sides
(laughter). He came home, and what do you sup
pose wo did with him? We received him with
{ open arms and made him Governor daughter J
}, Has he any reason to think that pro-savery
speech in Congress disagreeable to Massachu-
settsD About this time Georgia or South Carolina
II forget which, sent letter to Massachusetts,
saying that Anti-Slavery Societies were a great
nuisance that they did not like them that they
were against the Constitution and that they ought
to be put down. Gov Everett sends the letter to
the Legislature inclosed in n message in which he
{ says that he he has consulted legal authority and
his opinion Is that Anti-Savery meetings (such as
were held by my friend Samuel j. May, who read
from the Scriptures to-day my friend Mr.. Garri-
: son, the President of the Society and DIR. Foen,
who had fled from the dread Of German dun
geon to New England hospitality, that such meet
{ ingi should be made indiotabe and punished by
Imprisonment. Well that was going lower still
He had offered to shoulder the musket against q
I South Carolina rebellion; he was now willing 70
load and fire off message against rebellious m ci,
T in Massachusetts, who were asserting the right o
free speech for we in Massachusetts have always
tried to fulfil the description of Alieri, who says Of
his own beautiful country Italy, that if it were
. country OF slaves, they had at least the credit
of being country Of rebellious slaves (laugher)
= Well, what did we do again with Mr.. Everett 7
5 We reelected him Governor the next year. And
I when we next took him up, we recommended and
+ besought and finally persuaded tho Senate Of the
United States to approve his nomination to the court
G Of st. James And from that day to this he has
been acting in the same way He edited the speeches
: Of MIR. Webster and sunk out Of sight all his Anti
slavery testimony, and made him pro-slaYery as
Q he could.
$ And now we have sent him to the Senate. Well
who can say that ought to expect anything dif,
J iercnt from him. Every step that he has made in
t servity to the slave power has been rewarded His
own party his predominating, influential rich con
Q trolling Massachusetts has not yet rebuked him
State street does not care if you plant Slavery in
e Nebraska and annex all Mexico South America and
China, provided you will let it make one per cent
month in peace State street has never yet rebuked
$ Mr.. Everett.
s Now, what makes this state of things in Massa-
chusetts2 What shuts up the voice Of the pulpit
and prostitutes the Press? 1t is the bonds which
+ bind these States together 1t is the intimate com-
: nupion which exists between the portions of this
, confederacy. 1t Is the commercial temptation; il
y is the great national arena to which all broad
minded men and men Of large ambition naturally
tend, in which the Websers and Everetts are long
ing to be distinguished. 1t buys them up faster
\ than nature can create them. IL tempts them to
q mislead the people. The Union it is constant
:, vortex in which the great minds of the country
I are swallowed, and these great minds have power
enough, for the time being over the political par
ties to mould their positions and sentiments, and
n utterly smother the Anti-Slavery protest of the
{ public heart.
Y Bear with me a moment while illustrate what
4 mean There have been frequent occasions and
t positions in States precisely similar to our own
Switzerland is an instance; Holland is instance
b both of them situated exactly in regard to Eu
e ropean despotism as New England is in regard
i to American. Let take Holland as an illustra
+ ton.
e You know that the petty province Of Holland
rose against the Spanish Empire and vindicated its
e independence. The inhabitants redeemed their
u soil from the ocean they actually made the very
, land on which they lived, and it required a great
proportion of their exertions to retain their land
: from the ocean year after year. Now the com
with Germany, with Spain and with Italy She
was the great motherof eastern commerce she led
+ the way in the opening of now seas. So far as the
u great money power was concerned, Louis XIV
could bring TO bear on Amsterdam and the Hague
/ all the power that New Orleans and Charleston
u bring to bear on Boston and New York. lle could
l. tempt the merchants lie could make grass grow
e. upon their wharves and could make their ships
}, in their harbours. He could cut of their trade
IS could starve the common people and bankrupt the
4 rich and he did it for nearly century; and yet
It spite of all his efforts although he crushed the
IT commerce of the Dutch, although ho ruined theil
I, commerce, although he covered their scanty soil
Is almost with armies, still the love of liberty un
broken by bankruptcy and want of bread, was
= strong enough in that little State, led on by pull
n pit that had no temptation from gold, TO defeat
a. Louis, though he represented the money power o
L his age, and the monarehial element besides The
It popuace ready to take ship with the Prince o.
IS Orange and actually desert their country, leave il
&c to the waters, and found colony beneath the
q southern cross. This is what Holland could do
J. severed from intimate Union with the great State'
e of Europe. i . ~ 9r...
a Now maintain that the reason why New Eng
land, with tho puritanism, with the same love
OF liberty, with the same indignant self-respect Al
l. tho commencement, has bowed her neck, time and
m again. often and yilely to the slave power il
10 hacnmse hnr nnlnit and her nlnrchanls hayn hnan