Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-03-18


What Il hurrah We make upon election days F!
But then. when the election is over, what Is the
man worth who is thc rusult Of the election. and
whom we stud to represent the grent ideas Of nee
dom in the councils Of this great Republic? Gen.
iemcn lie is worth nothing. You put your hnge
upon him and he Is no. there.
Now, If the South carries the Nebraska bill, viii
that be the end Of itl Not at all. little while
ago, we were told that the Union was in danger,
and men cried, Save the Union" l thought
then 1t would not he long, that game turned out
before Union would again be in danger, and We
should have other volunteers to save it. did not
niink it would come before 1855. / was however
little mistaken in this calculation, rs leiurc lit
came in 1851. Now, suppose the Nebraska bill
s carried the ncxt step, think, will be for Con-
gress to pass law providing that a slave owner
can take his slave into any free State and keep him
There six months, or perhaps u ycar or perhaps
seven years. The nest thing VIII be to provide
that he may take his slave and Keep him there as
long as lac likes. VIII the North say no? am
DOT sure Of that, gentlemen. The past does net
warrant me in being sure that de North will say
INV" any more than it did in 1888, 1872, 1903,
lcl2, 1919, and 1850. ] am by no means sure OF
AZ. Now suppose chat is gained the next thing
will be to repeal the ordinance Of 81. IL Will be
Idecared suspended" ly some iuggle Of some
future or yet existing Mr.. Douglas. Then the
South will insist that California shall become a
slave State They will then want new territory
Mexico, Cuba Ilayd, Porto Rico, and the British
West Indies will be slave States.
VIII the North say no? avn not sure OF that.
Then the next point will DO to restore the slave
trade. / know exactly what argument will be
given. lfthc Democratic party Is in power and
tie Admiuis trati0n iayors the measure it will be
said that free trade rcquires the slave trade Then
know the arguments which reverend clerrymon
VIII advance. They manufacture arguments do
not mean to say ministers Of Christ. God forbid!
~ tll ta. at.4n | aNnu IA anV IuN
ministers If commerce will do it, and We shall
hear the cry raised from the pulpts--I would i'm
port my mother, father or brother, 90 save the
Union! 1t would not DC n bit stranger than the
cry We heard in lecture halls aye. in pulpits, too
buta few year, ago. VIII the North say "No,
We will not restore slave traiew If the Wing
party in power, it VIII be nesossary TO restore
tie slave trade, in order to protect our manuiactor-
les and compete with foreign nations. do not
know, gentlemen, any depth Of wickedncss too
low or too deep for Northern politicians to dive
into and stay under. No one. Laughter and an
plause) ] avn very sorry TO say these things for
am Massachusetts, man myself am North
ern man. | am proud Of her past history, before
The Revolution. / take pGdc and pleasure in her
noble churches, which once rang with the glorious
liberty Of the children OF God. | tet ashamed
the first time ever spoke in Faneuil Hail. and |
said, Who am /, o Lord, that should have the
privilege Of stanlingiu the Cradle Of Liberty, and
lifting my voice in this hail. which has rung with
tic echo Of voices Of great and noble men--and
others not less noble, only less known-whosc
bodice are under the ground, but whose souls are
over the heavens? tCheers.) say take pride
in the institutions of the North and blush rcddest
rcd at the ignoniiny that is heapped upon her
Let US resist this Nebraska measured with all our
might, not merely by passing resolutions, but by
faithful work. am not n political man, but
suggest that town meeting shall be so!cnly called
in every town Of the Commonwealth; then that
q district r,ootino shall bn collpl in pvorv Com
grcJsional District in the Commonwealth and all
men asked TO como together without distinction Of
party and then, that Il great mass meeting be
held here-no, not Aerc IN EostoR, but hold 1t IN
Worcester-in the heart Of the Commonwealth
hold it in city that has never kidnapped q Hldn--
(Applause) hold it in town, the courthouse Of
which has never hcen girled with chains, and thc
State Judges crawling under them. loud cheers
Hold the meeting in Worcester, and stir all the
people and IT, after all oiorts, the bill pass,
then call convention Of all the free persons in
the free States and plcdse ourselves, FIRST 20 re-
peal the Nebraska mol,urc; next, to abolish s!a-
very in The Dslric. Of Co!umba: nest, TO abolish
it in Utah aud New Mexico, and whoruycr it exists
under federal jurisdiction nest To abolish the
domestic slave trade between the States, next O.
repeal the Fugitive Slave Law and all the 50 call
cd compromises of slavery, ID then 20 TO work and
,car that hated leaf ont Of the Constitution Of !e
United States. loud checrs.l
Genuancn, | Um no maGmnn. | a,n cool
calm man. who has studied the facts Of cur natiou's
history and know them we'll. have studied The
ideas which were tho programme Of principle Ia
,Lc NcvDluun, which were tie programme of pur-
poses in ihc formation Of the C0u2ti;utl,m, and it
l. to these great tn lbs tic embodied a"d wfitcn
by God IN The hoss,s Of man, that call your at
;cation; AID ask you to swear allegiance to those
truths, by your wives and your children, by the
bones of your mothers that are under the ground,
and by the soul Of the Almighty God, whose high
er law rules EARTH and sea, and sky, and time and
eternity. cloud cEeers,)
Well, if we arc Lcaten on the Nebraska mcosur
ed, and Of the other measures, let us retreat, al
ways with our face TO the foe, never hnching-
loosing every thing but our honor. Let us fight
the battle from line to line, from State to State,
until we are driven back to Old Massachusetts,.
Then let us fight it from town to town, until at
last we arc driven back to the old rock Of Plymouth
and there with the soul Of our fathers still in us,
taught by the experience of hundred years, and
rich with the promise Of all eternity in bosoms
let us gather together the last shrcds Of the sacred
MayAower, build our ship, take ON board what is
left of Puritan integrity and republican ideas
launch our bark upon the waves, and goto Green
land or to Africa, there to found institutions and
secure the glorious liberty of the children of
God" MR. Parker took his seat amid tumul.uous