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

to Germany and to Spain, and you shall sec De
Ruyters and DC Wits in the land Of the pilgrims
you shall yet see the spirit Of the old Coyenantors
going into the battle field for the rights of
This is the charge that make against the Union
that it has done just what Louis XIV. would have
done could he have made Holland " province Of
France. And the object Of the labOurs of this
Anti-Slayery Society in breaking down the Union
is that we may place Massachusetts and New Eng
land, and New York and Ohio, and all Of the free
States in the same relation to the slave power
that is forming its empire about us that Holland
stood so long to the moharchies Of France and Of
England. And then in the place of Mitchels and
Webstcrs and Eyeretts, we will give you De Wits
and De Ruytcrs who shall lead navy and an
army, it necessary, in defence of justice and hu-
manity, even though the slave power sweep into
her lap Nebraska and Brazil
am anxious to impress this truth upon you, for
If there be anything written upon history it is the
noble struggle Of the artisans of Holland, for a
whole century, against the literature and the mon
ey OF despotism similar exactly and almost as
powerful as those that are leagued today against
liberty.
said there were two Massachusetts,. There is
one that sends Everett to tho Senate. There II one
that follows in long procession the dust Of Web
ster to his grave; that meets year after year to
celebrate his obsoquies his birth that is always
crying Peace" +" Peace" " Let us 20 and make
money!" that is busy at Lowell and Lawrence in
making tariff that shall fll the United States
Treasury full enough to enable them with the sur
plus funds TO buy up all the real virtue there is at
Washington, aud to vote for the Nebraska bill (;
that stands bent over her forges and looms, dill
gently forging her own chains. But, thank God
there is another Massachusetts it is the Massa-
chusetts which crowds, Sunday after Sunday the
spacious four-thousand. pcoplc-holding walls Of
Theodore Parkers church (grcat applause whom
no broad sign Of infdel blasphemy written by n
recreant church over its portals can scare away.
There is another Massachusetts, that sends Charles
Sumner to fill her Wobster's place (grcat appausel
and hopes that if he is not perfect, he is at least
an improvement Qaughter) There is another
Massachusetts, which feels, rs we do here, that it
owes deep debt to liberty and justice Our
Webster incurred it all. When he proved traitor
to the North, he made the State bankrupt, so far
as her deb; and credit account with liberty is con
cerned. We put Bunker IIil and Hancock, and
Adams into one scale we add Concord and Lex
ington to that scale and yet he stood there with
the hopes Of millions, with the public opinion Just
rising out Of this glorious nineteenth century in his
hand, and crushed it all. The great leader, in
wL0m every hope was garnered, for whom oil
hearts were beating yeiled his crest and went
down. The State was bankrupt her scale kicked
the BEAM We are here to do what little we can
in tho way of protest Mt least we owe q great
abour to cldcayour to pay these debts 10 liberty
and Justice. This Massachusetts, Of which We
speak, she has laid his dust with its sins and sor
a
hereafter to undong if 1t may be, the great wrong
that he did to the slave (applause) This is thu
other Massachusetts,, and We mean TO make her 81
restivc so disorganizing, that If the South will mo-
go out Of the Union she will kick Massachusetts
out. We will not stay together; we will not assist
in this great conspiracy against Justice We will
not assist at any rate in this great extension Of
Slayery's empire. Our devoted efforts shall be 10
break up the very formative elements, to tear up
the root of this evil to change the educational
sources of the country; to make the very COM
mencement Of American life different.
have endcavoured to describe to You Edward
Everett. l tried to'add no epithct Of blame as |
did it. would like to have you forget the man,
and think Of the schools and pulpits Of Massa-
chusetts that made him. No Anti-Slavery cause
is worth anything that docs not undertake to
change these. 1t Is great matter for liberty II
Nebraska triumphs to-day. All political triumphs
are deceptive. In the true sense of the word, TO
the who believes in God, liberty is never beat
en-; she is always victorious. lf the South adds
Nebraska to her territory, in the end she only falls
with greater crash. But how soon and what is
our duty in the premises? are altogether different
questions.
Let me point out TO you, for q moment the posi-
tion in which we stand. 1t is this This Union OF
which have spoken is permanent. This Govern
mqnt is in constant session; it never goes away
it never intermits Wellington, when he fought
the battle of Waterloo, you will recollec stationed
solid square Of infantry in the centre of his post
six or eight deep. They stood with fixed bayonets
and no matter what cavalry, no matter how many
cannon no matter what force was brought against
them, they never changed their places. If a can
non ball went through them, they closed up; il
the cavalry of France made IN onset and one rank
was broken, on their dead bodies another stood
fixed and it was by this central anchor that
against the maddest efforts Of French enthusiasm
he gained the day. Now, the Government, which
10 tbn ola xn 10 tngt Ia al
thousand men and twenty millions of dollars cap
ita in constant session, with nothing else to dc
but to bribe Eyeretts, to buy up Webstersj and t.
scduce Mitchels; with nothing else to do than ere
ate public opinion and if it cannot be created to
day, wait till tomorrow. There it sits perpetual
ly--no spring, no winter no night, no day-sleep
less and vigilant. IL Nebraska is defeated to-da,
by the hot fury Of the North, the Government caI
wait until 1t cools. She can say with the old Eng
lish Baron " | bidc my time" If Mr.. Sumne
and Mr.. Hale, if Mr.. Greeley and Mr.. Benton, i
Sam Houston and the North, defeat the South to
day, you cannot keep the North at a white hea
forever; she cools tomorrow. The merchant goe
home to his countingroom, the lawyer to his client
the doctor to his patient, the clergyman to his par
ish, and the flying miitia Of reform is dissolved
the guerrilla troops and hastily levied soldiers
reform, every man with different motto-Sumne
with his No Slavery extension" Greeley witt
his patent Whigism, somebody else with his Dem
we are melted and cohere by an enthusiastic pur
pose, but you cannot keep men at work forever
National interests come in. We must cat ant
drink attend to business and support our families
and we go home. Meantime, the Government
unrelenting, always In session, always rich stand
ready to buy up and bully, to invent and to under
mine; that is the reason why she carries all ques
tons. She is ever there and the moment the veal
hour comes she seizes it for her purpose,
A man can at times be wound up to the pitch o
heroism, and fling down martyrdom under his feet
and face the stake, but million of men arc no
martyrs. Martin Luther was at burning hea
all his life, and the white ashes never covered thu
burning enthusiasm of the pioneer of the Anti
Slavery cause MR. Garrison). But saints do no
60 in regiments, and martyrs do not travel in bat
talions; they come alone once in an age. Yor
cannot create an Ant-Slavery sentiment SO durable
so unrelenting, so vigant that the Government
cannot outwit and undermine il; consequently thu
only way in which you can save the slave is so tC
aar Ill L.