Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-06-24

SDmlch ior such hSnt. My choice would b
most decidedly to Z" let out the Job" to the gentle
man from Georgia. Mr.. Chairman | would ga.
here to that gentleman, or any other southern gen
tleman, in all good faith, that if his chivary move
him to the conquest of the preudices Of this for
mdabic army of " fanatics" in favor of liberty,
Will on their part, guarantee to him courteous
and cordial reception among them, and q paten
and candid hearing of all he may have to say upo,
the merits of this great ersy between ibcrt
and slavery, or between those he denounces a
fanatics, serpents and adders," and the slave
holders.
will go further. will guarantee that the gen
tleman Will not find amorg that twenty THOUSAND
Ot my constituents, five hundred who do not utter
~ loathe and execrae domestic slavery as grca
moral wrong; physical, political and socia
curse; but, nevertheless, he may advocatesla
very, and denounce liberty, with all the vehem
once OF his most exciting defamation; and yet he
snail be received with hospitality, heard with can.
DOR, and treated with courtesy and kindness not
llar OF his head injured or Il threat of personal
violence uttered against him. The gentleman may
tax to them Of the cravings, howlings and hissings
OF lipers and adders," with the JUNCTION Of one
fresh from dance in the snake apartment OF
Noah's ark, and yet | am my constituents will
be moved to merriment only at such extra VACANT
language, not to insult or violence. Yes, sir,
though would hold myself responsible for all
have undertaken in behalf of the gentlemnn's
safety and the decOrum Of my constituents, still |
would not stand surety that the graduates of the
numberless schoolhouses the gentleman would see
there, might not oppose to him arguments moro
destructive to his reasoning than the brick bats
from our pro-slavcry opponents were wont to prove
TO our limbs and heads. Finally, sir, am fully
persuaded that the gentleman would return from
ms campaign among my constituents fully satisfied
that they constitute as moral Intelligent Industrious
and happy people, dwelling in the delightful and
happy homes conquered from an unbroken and
repulsive wilderness and transformed by the re-
slstless energy of free labor, into green pastures
ana teeming fields, and on the whole exhibiting MS
i"ir ana desirable spectacle of TIE physical,
social, and moral blessings of liberty as can be
found on the footst0o Of the benevolent Creator.
But to return to the genteman's favorite theme =;
the conquest of what he is pleased to term pre-
! ludlces against savery--or, in other words, cur
instructive love Of human liberty This is the
conquest TO which we are fervcntly invited. 10
do this, involves the selfprescrvation Of human
nature from its lottcst, hoest instincts to its low
est iellest depths of utter, hopeless degradation
This is the Sublime spectacle" for the reception
ot which the gentleman entertans such feryent
yearning. Sir, one haring taste for the sublim-
ity CT that spectacle where sell is sacrificed to
duty, cannot appreciate the so rayishns to the
gentleman's perverted vision. There may he sub
Unity in audacious wickedness such as was exhib-
tied when the Prince of He'll solicited alteration
from the Prince Of Life. One whose nature is
ravishel by this kind Of sublimity may well enjoy
the sublimity of that depicted by the gentle.
man from Georgia, with so much apparent, and,
doubt not, real satisfaction.
But sir, the gentleman's wish is father 10 the
thought that the people Of Boston, on the occasion
to which he aiudes, overcame their hatred of sla-
very and the insocnce of the slave power. Sir,
ask, and hope some son of Massachusetts will
answer On this floor, whether, at the communal OF
an apostate son of New Enslar-l, the descendants
OF the Pnritans and Pilgrims qucnched the fires Of
liberty lighted BY their fathers when they first set
foot on the sands Of The glorious cid Bay State ]?
whether they did not "cruSh out" and conquer
their hate OF oppression, their devotion to the
principles for the preservation of which their
fathers blood moistened the battle fields of the
Revolution? Sir, as one of the humLlest citizens
of all the children of the old Bay State, give the
degrading intimation of the gentlcnan from Gcor-
gia an indignant denial. No, sir, neverl In Il
of weak comniseratiou for that 'archangel
ruined, the people of Boston, Massachusetts, re-
luctantly smothered their convictions of duty to
themselves and country; but did not conquer their
love OF liberty nor obltcrate from their hearts their
reverence for the principles and deeds Of their
glorious fathers. Sir they do not forget the Reyo-
luton; they do not totgot Lexington and Bunker
liill. Their fault was, that in a moment of great
excitement and strong temptation, they declined
from the straight and narrow path" Of right by
doing evil, by yielding to the demands Of the
slave power, ''that supposed good" Of even chance
that Daniel Webster might become President of
the United States might come of it. But, sir. l
trust that Massachusetts, by that kind of fnancier
ing, has BY this time learned that the slave power
like its grca. p:ogeritnr leeds it's followers into
trouble, but leaves them to eXtricae themselves as
best they may. But if the cheat in that presiden-
tial game of poker was not enough to dispel the
deusion, this last foul play of the slave power, by
the aid of free State political poachers, TO steal
from freedom this great Territory and consigning
t forever TO the doom and curse of slavery has
tln ypl.
victions," not conquered preudices" are blazing
over New England, and all the free States with an
Intensity threatening the existence of slavery itself
And this, Mr.. Chairman, is but the beginning of
the end" This new outbreak Of the fires of free
dom Is out the natural action of mans moral nature
from that state of eclipse into which it fell ON
yielding to the sensoless and infamous compromise
fnality of fools, without which
the gentleman from North Carolina, Mr.. Cling
man, gravely told us, 1--WE should have no Govern
ment now;" to which reply. if the Federal Gov
ernmcnt was unshippcd from the Constitution, and
placed on the irail trap-stcks called the compro-
mise OF lSJU-that hateful and wicked conglomer
ate of treason and folly-the sooner we have mo
Government" the better" Let it perish for when
this Government shall cease beyond reclamation to
act the guardian Of liberty under the Constitu-
ton, and shall permanently fall into the hands Of
slavery propagahdiss, as it now is, and for many
years has been, by the treason to liberty of the
worth preserving. | am willing, sir, land speak
the sentiments of an overwhelming majority of my
constituents to abide by the Constitution of the
United States, when administered according to its
spirit and letter, But, as one of the humblest Of
the people of the free States, am not willing to
see the Constitution perverted from the benefcent
ends for which it was framed and the Government
under it transformed into ielon's league for the
oppression of the black man, the impoverishment
and degradation of the white laborer, and render
ed serviceable only to promote the inordnate am
biton and cupidity of some two hundred and fifty
three hundred Shareholders and the few thousand
of free State renegades purchased by Executive
patronage. The Constitution, thus perverted, is
the Shareholders constitution and Government it
exists for their benefit to crafty their cupidity to
satiate their ambition TO protect their exclusive
interests to extend their system of labor and social
order TO promote their execrahls anti-freedom and
antcivilization policy, and it is theirs to enable
them TO work all this mischief any cost of public
tnnralitv napupiarv expnnae nr natinhal honor.