Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-10-28

saw and became acquainted with an intdel--a man
who did not believe the Bible. lie also had point
ed out to him n minister Of the gospel. Both of
these men were in the employ of the City Govern
ment, ms officers Of the peace. One Of these was
active in the business of sending a citizen Of Massa-
chusetts into endless bondage. The other ref ised to
act, declaring that there was not money enough in
the city Of Boston to buy hs services or countc.
nance in such a course of infamy. Which of these
men, think you, refused, and which went forward
with alacrity to aid in sending a mana Christian
II Baptist minister, into Slavery The infdel
refused, while the Christian minister went for
ward to arrest all those who gave any indications
of opposition to the nefnrious acti
Mr.. Foss.--Mr. Grifing calls things by their
,crong names. The infdel he speaks of was the
Christian, and the minister was the infdcl.
Mr.. G.-The minister was, at AIRY rate, Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. And Mr.. Foss will
not very soon get the Church to say he was an inf
del. Another man, q Baptist, said, that until he
heard that Burns was a Baptist. he had but little
feeling against his return; but when he learned
this fact, he could not endure it. The return of
Burns was an awful spectacle. Men looked the
Government in the face and quailed before it. A
few Kissed and showed their opposition, but the
many arquiesced.
Mr.. Foss said, that though Burns was a BAPTIST
, and q minister, and hence entitled to sympathy
from Blptists, it should DO remembered that
Suttle, his claimant, was a Baptist, also! So our
9 sympathy had to 10 divided between them, and
hence Daptists could not be expected to take sides.
Besides, General Edmonds was a Drptist and no
) doubt prayed in the morning, and said grace at his
breakfast, before he went out to shoot down the
1 people of Boston. Benz. +. Hallett is o member
of the Unitarian Church. When, said Mr.. r., l
= saw all these pious men engaged in such n business
t it reminded me Of a story | once hoard, of q Yam
kce, who went West with some kind of n show.
l lie admitted Christian ministers free. At one
I place where he held forth, there were a great many
e preachers. One after another passed in, all claim.
: ing to be ministers. but generally looking about as
little like what he had before seen in that line. as
possible. At lcngth one came up, whose appear
ancc seemed to indicate that he could not, by any
II possibility, belong to the brotherhood. Yet he,
like the rest, said to our Yankee: " s'pose, accord
in to your terms, I'm to 60 in free-I'm a minister
Of the gospel" The Yankee glanced at the dilapi
ii dated garments and general loafcrish appearance Of
I'd the brother. "Wel|," SAID he, q guess you'll
io have to go in, but there must be a h-ll of a churcl
n, somewhere" (Laughter) And l thought, whor
al | saw those Christian ministers engaged in tn,
rendition Of Burns, There must be a strang,
IL kind Of church somewhere"
Messrs. Lowrie and Glover made remarks, claim
id ing the Anti-Slavery character of the Constitution
ng Of the United States. arguing that Constitution
rs and lave should be construed according to thei
.at literal meaning, and that as the words slave o
no Slavery are nor in the Constitution, the system ca
it find no sanction there. They said that as we d
te- not 20 to the church to learn the teachings of tn
Bible, SO we should not go to the history of tn
81 Government to learn the character Of the Constit,
us ton.
I'd C.. c. Burleigh entered at some length into ii
ed Constitutional question. lie showed that we ha,
es, II right, if need be, to go outside Of the Constitute
ion to settle its meaning. The case Of the Bible al
red Church, he claimed, was not similar to that of Il
til. Constitution and Government. The Church do
in not claim to have made the Bible. Those to who
E. testimony we appeal were the makers of the c,
d." stitution, and Of course are competent witnesses
we to its metning. Again: could those persons vi
ing at the very beginning gave the Constitution Il Pr
Slavery Interpretation, lie supposed to have ma,
ers. the Constitution Anti-Slavery, and thus subject
nth, themselves to the necessity of perverting it at t
Nv wy ''''SN ih'F' N''' vi ~ 10 u uucStlDl III
50 far us | know, has never been answered by t
and advocates of the Anti-Slavery character of t
who Constitution. Everybody admits that from t
han very beginning the Constitution has been adm
tive istered as though it were Pro-Slaverv. in regard
the slave trade, return of fugitive slaves, slave
t as Su-rcctions, &c. Nobody, till within a few We,
the past, has ever questioned but that this construct
that was the true one. How is it possible, then. tla
ry is people So Pro-Sllyery that they would unanimou
tgroe in favor Of w~irping even an Anti-Slav,
or Constitution to the support of Slavery, could the
inst selves form an Anli-Slavory Constitution? a pen
hose who wanted a Pro-Slavery Constitution SO ba
that they would make one even out of one that
the Anti-Slavery. would they uot make such a Con
nists tuition in the beginning? l want an axe so mi
res that | will turn a scythe into an axe. Will | Il
envy with the material before me to fashion at my "
lean make il Scythe, when in fact it is an axe, and q
an axe, that | mean to use?
ling. Again, what is a Constitution2 The word
plains itself. A setting together Of certain thir
Mrs. The people of this country set themselves toget
was upon certain propositions. What was the Tn
very based upon? Upon an agreement that sla
should not he held or given up ? or upon an ag
He ment that those things should not be done? the
phat- me constitution III harmony win that TACT, W
tcver ever it may have been, or there is no Constitut
cause The Constitution is a compact of governments,
ed as what the people have agreed upon, that is the
gain. What l know you meant by the contr
rect that is the contract, in any case by which
fifth bound. If | know that the nation regards
onsti- Constitution as requiring the giving up of fug
very slaves, l am bound by it, if l nm a membe
If the the Government. Every body knows '
nstru- was understood and what has been practiced u
sys- From the first, the people supposed the Contitr
nc aid contained these Pro-Slavery provisions-not
h the the people but the Legislators so understood it
IF the also, the judicial tribunals; all their decisions
,c Ito thinning that dnctrinn So have the ahnliIinl