Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-06-17
WHOLE NO. 454.
The NEW CRIME AGAINST HUBaSrTE


sermon which il published in the Commonwealth.
with the above title. Il is history and merited
ebuke Of the late Kidnapping Of Anthony Burns
y the city Of Boston, for the Jene6t Of Suttle, the
Virginia STAKEHOLDER. .
The sermon is too long for osr columns u VII
doubtless be published in pamphlet form, and
everybody should have It. II Is crowded WITH his
tory. We copy the closing column:
Daniel Webster lies buried at MarshGeId; bot hi.
dead hand Put the chain Anthony Burns Lass
winter II was proposed % build him a monument
lie needs it TaL Hancock has n0uei samuel
Adams sleeps in nameless grave; John Adanls
has not stone We are thsir monumenfs-the
homage of the reopls i their eYitaph- Daniel
Webster alec had his monument last Friday. "
was the Court House. crowded With two hundftd
and twenty United States solliers- His monument
reached all the way from John IIaneock's house. n
Court street. 70 the T wharf; nay, it went far ouf
to sca IN tic Bcvcnue Cutter.
What q day for Boston. Citizcus npplanding
that man was tn be carried into honsia=ei Drunk
en- soldiers hardly able 20 stand in the street. sung
tleir ribald song" Oh, carry me back 20 old Nir=
ginia7 L.
Wednesday the 9th of MAY the city was slt
calm and still. The POOR black was at work
with Of his own nation. earning an bDness
/ livelihood. \ Judge of Probate, Boston horn and
Boston bred, with very cpad blood in his VEINS.
was sitting in his Ofice and with single spurt 0f
bis pen he dashcs Of the liberty of man--a eiti-
13n II Ia-sechrsetts. lie kiiuaps a born
with the unaiicnable rights of life, liberty and
the pursuit Of happiness" lie leaves the writ
with the Marshal and r0es horne o. his family,
caresses bis children. and enjoys his cigar- The
frivolous smoke curls round bis frivolous head and
at length he lays him down 70 sleep. q. suppose
such dreams rs haunt such heads. But when he
wakes next morn. all the winds Of .sedition.'
wrath, and Of honest scnrn let lOese- AMI be-
fore night they are blowing al over this Conimo7-
wealth-aye, and before another night they have
gone to the Mississippi, and wherever the lightning
messenger can tell the tale. So have / read IN an
old medieval legend, that one summer afternoon
there came up "shapc, all hot from Tartarus,"
from hell below, but garmeuted and CARRIED 70 rep
resent n civisuited man masked with humanity, and
he walked quiet and decuruus through Milan's
stately streets and scattered from his hand an II
visible dust. Ii touched the walls, il lay on ths
streets ii ascended up to the cruss the inittrs
utmost steepletoT. u went down % the bears dan
Peacefully he walked through the streets vanished
aud went home. But the next morning the pesti-
lence was in Milan, and ere a week had sped, half
her population were in their graves and half tAe
other half, crying that hell elutehing their
hearts fed from the reeking City Of the Plague
Why did he do all this? lie knew the eOnse-
quences that must follow. lie knew what Boston
was. We have no monument to Hancock and Nd
ans. But still we keep their graves; and the dear
old mother that bore them yet IN her bosom hides
tie h0nOred %cnee of whom armies eouldn't
terrify nor England brbe Their spirit only sleeps
I ", SDnC-tnEtE
/ ipirit rises from the ground lie knew that here
were mch who never VIII be silent when wrong is
done; he knew Massachusetts, be knew Boston he
knew that the Fugitive Slave Bill had r-krd the
ashes over fires that were burning still. and that
breath nigh. --atter the ashes % the winds of
heaven, and bid the slumberinE embers f.Ime- Had
DC determined already what should happen %
Anthony Burus2 lie knew what had befaIIen
Thomas Sims
have studied the records Of erime-it Is 4 part
of nv fuf fuff hat Call
has ever been hanged for murder IN all the An<in-
Saxon family Of men till Harvard Collage hdd thas
solitary shame l. not that en0ughs Now she
IS first to have Professor that kidnaPs men
i can understand how nan commits crime OF
passion, or eovetousncss, orrage-nay. II revenEr,
OT ambition. But for man in Boston. with pas
si0n, no cOyetousness. no race, with no ambitsa
nor revenge to steal poor negro, 20 send him into
bondage, | cannot COMPREHEND the fact can
understand :he eOnseientiousuess Of lion, not q
kidnaPper's heart.
/ belong to a school that revercuces thr infnfss
perfection Of God, it. indeed there be surh school
believe, also. in the nobleness Of man; but Iass
week my faith was somewhat tried As / looEett
at that miscreant crew. the kilnapper's b1dy--u=rt
and read in their faces The record an the pruphevS
Of many a crime, eould explain and not despair
They were tools rot agents Bat n looked into
the C0mmiss face remcuit cred his breeding
ami his culture, his social position, his membership
Of Christian church. and then thoaghs af th4
crime he was committing asainSt humanity wirhndt
temptation, asked myself can this lie trues l.
man thus noble. made in the dear imags Of the
Father, Godt Is my philosophy dream. or arc
these facts let
I But there Is another coart The Empsous and
\ the Dulleys have been summoned there beElre.
Jeireys aRd ScrOggs, the KaRes. anil the CGrtsss.
and the LOrinSs, mUst one day travel the same
welcome TOad- Imagine the scene airer mans
.mythal0gic way. - Loring. where II thy brother,
4 Anthony Burnssr - know not LarvI Am NV
brothers keepergT ~Loring. where Il thy bruther.
p Anthony Burns - 'Oh. Lord. he was frieuaIss-.
and 20 / sai0te him he was p0or and sGIrveti
hiIa Of nsOTe than life
! Then listen 10 the voice Of the eruciiaI-~ BsI
not tel thee, waen earth, 'Thau shalt 1--we the
Lord thy God with all thy understanding andheaFtf'
e but thy kingdom ISN'T of tins wurid-"
"Did not tell thee thou shaubIst Isvs thy neigh
Dor as thyselfg Where II anthony Burns, thy
'brother2 was stranger, aHd yuU Sought my
life naked. and y0a rent away my skiH IN pri-ss,
and yOu delivered me t0 the t8rmennlrs-fIfs were
than DEATH InasuIuch as yuu did II % 4htheny
I Barns, you dil Il untu me
| The liberty - America was never IN greater
I reriI than now Hessian bav1nsts were not hall
80 dangerous n the cold of the National treasury
IN the han,ls uf this Administrations " hirh hall
conquer. slavery freeslnm, That j. the guesriaa
The two cannot vel exist sale by sids- Think 1t
tb. uerii. remember the eauaeitV e hfs A.F4uf.
tration; its reckless lealsrss think of psuzIis
Cushing and the rest They aimed At tie eHslaxe-
mcnt Of Nebraska The northern ma Griry IN Con
gress yieliei thai point
Nox they aim at Hayti ami Cuba Shall theT
carry that points Surely, unless We da our dntS
Shah slavery ~ established az tAa Narth North
West. and North East and all the free Statast
Mr. Tooubs told Mr. Hals.-s- Bef1re kln. the
master viii siI down at the faot sf Bunker lin
Monument with bis slaves" Win ,bB a. He has
done IL alreIsiy and not an 0Hrer in thn Stzts af
Massachusetts made the least resistance: our Lawn
were trud down BY insoIsnt officials. ami Kastuul
ordered cut her soldiers ta help the df.rracef4I
deed. sIr- Su;tls Is oniy feeIer- SOON there VIII
b other SutrIss IN Rast6n-
Il i not only wicked it is costtc The kisInar-
p,ag Of hr. bgrus must have cost IN al a Bsl-r