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

there may be national treasury iul OF goui thni
great men may 60 to Washington to make each
Other Presidents. There was an old Swedish
statesman that told his son to remember with how
little wisdom the world was governed. The whole
world must be governed with very little wisdom
indeed, for this nation manages TO govern without
any wisdom ut all. Congress Is engaged year after
year in making Presidents and but little else, while
the slave power is engaged in nothing but getting
additional territories in the meantime the prac-
teal working Government goes along OF Itself.
While Douglas and Cass are making Presidents,
Sumner and Chase are resisting their being made.
1t is n regular cockpit for the contention OF cham
pions, and the utmost success that the most san
guine lover of liberty INDUCES is that the battle
will be drawn one (appausc), lie does not
hope for victory. What does Greeley hope from
the Union? Why, that he will raise up terrible
[ North that is TO do what2 To defeat Nebraska, to
prevent Douglas from becoming President Well,
suppose he does Cuba is the next issue, and you
will have as many Douglases to defeat as you will
wait for.
My old mathematical professor at college used to
say that man could not invent q perpetual-motiOn
machine because the resistance 10 be overcome was
always equal to the power to propel; and that the
difficulty about every machine got up for that pur-
pose was that IL would not go. Well, our Govern
ment is exactly the same our fathers erected 1t
and supposed 1t was u machine that would move
perpetually in favour OF liberty, while the result
has been, unfortunately that the South has been a
little too powerful for the Nor h, and so far the
perpetual motion has been on the wrong side; il
has ceased TO move in favor of liberty. Sanguine
men, like my excellent friends Sumner and Hale,
have hoped that one power would neutralizc the
other, but thus far the Union has conferred upon
us the benefit of doing nothing For what has the
Union done, repeat? 1t has not manufactured
cotton at Lowell; we can do this in spite of the
Union. II has not dug coal from Pennsylvania (;
it has not raised wheat in Illinois, II has not set
tied the West; IL has not poughed the ocean with
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does not make money because South Carolina
whips negroes. She can do it without lproclaim
my belief that Yankee can make money evan If
the Southerner does not larrup his slave that the
sons of the men that fought at Bunker Hill can
maintain peace in the streets Of Boston, although
there are no women writhng under the lash on the
plantation of Louisiana. No Union tO which
Adams and Hancock and Jay put their hands was
ever meant TO have for its cement the blood Of the
slave (applause). And If to-day one Of these men
could speak to you. instead Of finding fault with
disuniOn, he would say, Children, do us the
justice TO believe that did not intend the foul
trick that has been wrought upon you that, with
the experience of sixty years, we would now bid
you not TO hold back your hands, but to dash IN
Fragments the proof of our only but our fata
mistake tu blot out the only record that humanity
has against our memory" Ii is but justice to th,
past to suppose they did not mean to leave us sucl
{ la legacy Us they have done. DO You suppose tina
If Samuel Adams had foresocn Webster, he woul'
! not have cut off his right hand before he woult
, have sanctioned the American Constitution? ID
you suppose that if he had foreseen Everett h,
would not have tainted before he would have lifted
up his prayer for tho perpetuity of this Union
Do you suppose that if he could have seen the
+ Courthouse of Boston hung in chains in order
that men might be kept silent while a slave was
carried back TO his master, he would not have
protested against government that made it nee
essary?
But have already occupied more time than
should have done on nh occasion like the present
and will not pursue this subject any further lap
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\ hymn was then sung.
Mrs. ABBY KELLY Foster, having expressed q
desire 20 be heard, was next introduced to the
audience.
MRS. FOSTERS SPEECH.
I | do not rise, Mr. Chairman to make speech,
but simply to say few words did not even
expect to be here to-day, having but thiee days
ago risen from sick bed but being here, and
supposing that no one was to follow Mr.. Phillips,
and feeling that there was n word which he had
left unsaid, desired to say it. lt remarked
by the first speaker Mr.. Furness) that he had
come here not so much to make speech as TO take
sides. want to say word on that point There
is deep well Of sympathy in the human heart,
and in the darkest hours of the struggle against
Slavery, when that overwhelming scourgc swept
over the land and seemed to crush the hopes OF
the oppressed and of the friends Of the oppressed
| never doubted but that il we could reach that
well of sympathy its waters would issue forth in
q flood and sweep away this bghting scourge.
Hitherto we have scarce been able to reach it, but
il is being reached, and its springs are beginning
to flow. But what is it to take sides in this strug-
gle? Is it to read "Uncle Toms Cabin" that
beautiful work of fiction, for which we thank God
daily in our prayers? Is il TO read the still more
impressive narrative Of "Solomon Northup"-
} twelve years Of fact more terrible than fiction
} Is it to feel little enthusiasm and opposition
against the repeal Of the Missouri Compromise
which none that has inherited spark of the fir
of the fathers and mothers of '16 can fail TO feel
Is joining an Anti Slavery Society taking sides
: aye, even though the joining Of u church shoult
be considered as joining an AntiSlayery Societ.
: ler 06iciOP Is that taking Sides Let me say
+ word about that, although do it with trembling
I do not want brother a sister misled who's
= soul is filled with the tenderest sympathy for tn
slave, and who wants to take sides in the strugg'
$ for liberty. submit to you, therefore brother
, and sisters, whether the Church of this country
: which the Rev. Albert Barnes, who breaches il
|; the slime city where our much-honoured brother
u Furness procaims 10 his congregation the truth
of Christianity declares 10 be the bulwark Of Sla
very, at least in effect il not in the very words
+ submit to you whether that Church is er oBicio an
y Anti-Savery Society While the American Church
occupies the position il now does, all our efforts
. are abortive-rendered null and Woodland Mr..
Barnes repeats the declhration again anu hsun'
II need not produce authority necessary to prove
that some that arc esteemed the brightest lights IN
5 the Presbyterian and other Churches of this land
have stood up, with the Bible in their hands, to
defend Slavery as of God. Go to the meetings
that are held in this city, this week, whore you
will hear prayers offered and appeals made IN be,
half Of humanity destitute of the word of life, and
listen to hear If they have anything to say about
the destitute slave You will attend the Anniyers-
t ary of the American Tract Society, combining
within it the talent and tho reputed pety of the
Church. Examine then thcir publications and see
If they have not expunged the least word Of sym.
pathy that has been written in their tracts and
| other publications In behalf Of the slave They
not only never mention him in their meetings and
in their books but they utterly repudiato his claim
and ignore his existence. Go to the meeting Of
the Bible Society, and see if single protest Is
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