Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-01-07
1T WONT DO.


Mr. Phillips of Alabama, following Messra Smith
and C;dd;n,s q, ro,o.L. ON ,ho ssco.ou.. r. A..
~ :" VI 0 'ieio"oo Vi .ne
PreSluents message, raises the old cry OF no DIS
ctssion. The abOlit0nists have right to chal-
enge discussion" and "sir so far as am concerned
,bov sboll M, have I, - or ,h;. o,o.,;ou TL; 4.
A. g.. ,.-.--- = -, y
'ne ""e m"euage VI sia'ery' Anu this It's only
safe position. Slavery always and every where,
instinctivey uses the gag IL was the first resor,
of slaveboldcrs ne !, will bo tbo; lac, ero, ho,o
IL .-o NJ. - lO,lO'a "'P''
iie'' "'' 'i'' 'n'''PS remarks ON tne SUBJECT
| / cannot say, Mr.. Chairman that / was sur
prised Mt the sentiments which fell from the gentle
man from Ohio Mr. GIDDINos1 Not that they
were not startling but because they were not new
The stereotyped sentimentalities which issue from
the lips of Abolitionists have fallen upon the pub
lie ear too often to create at this day the least emo
ton Of surprise.
! But sir, rs looked around these Halls, and be-
held the Representatives Of thirty-one States con-
gregated here to legslate under that glorious Con-
stituton which at once recognizes their ndvidu-
aty and secures their union, and to maintain which
each Representative has solemnly sworn, / confess,
sir that was startled, that in such place, where
the very decorations of the temple declared the
sanciy Of the States and the glory Of their frqter
nal union-before an auditory, one half Of whom
were the immediate Representatives of institutions
into which domestic servtude had struck its roots
far and dcep-the gentleman had the boldness to
utter sentiments so derogatory to the Constitution
so destructive to the Unon and so insulting to his
fellow Representatives.
| Sir the institutions of the South have been as
sailed by the bttercst invective and most unmeas-
ured denunciation; and the Representatives of the
South have listened in calm decorum, without COM
plant or reply. Nay, more, sir they have been
called upon to listen to miserable attempt to falls
fy history and pcrvert the panest provisions Of the
Constitution, in order to sustain gentlemen n a
palpable violation of their constitutional oath
do not propose, Mr.. Chairman, to discuss
with the gentleman the propriety or the morality
Of those institutions which ure mine by inheritance
and which are secured to me by the Federal COM
Pnt'; Is not sr, because iedr Ear sucn % u,scussoni
desire of cstablishne this Hall as central amphi
theater, from which the gentleman and his con-
federates might speed their fiery arrows over every
por.,GI ~ .ns county anu aga'h subject .ne l,'lu
enre sncb discussion bore md sn far os nm, con.
cerned they shall not have it. If the Constitution
prove 'nanuSqunse 70 .ne proec!'9en Vi .nose
in tho condence that those ;nst;,u,;ons have ;nLer
ent power enough to protect themselves for sir,
if there is any truth to be drawn from the history
OF pOpulatlon !. u.s. that people who within lew
;ho;r n,rIor e., - -. L.JEu a, ,J r
three mions--a number greater than the whole
population of the colonies at the time they threw
on inc Drtush yoke ana successfully resisted Brit