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

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lIhe tOnowlng IS ph0noSrapnlc report OF this
speech, Whlch mas Deen puDIlsheu III the new 10TH
Times.
ar TeSideht LddteS an" usHue@ch '-lhcFe
are times that try men Souls lhey are umes oi
adversely Oi sorrow, OF revolution, ana thefc are
always found IN such times men whose souls cannot
stand the rack There are times also that try the
institutions of people. There are times OF pros
perity, OF success, Of expansion, OF unczampcd
wealth, and there are also institutions that cannot
stand that rack 1t is your aud my fortune to have
come IN time OF prosperity, OF outward peace, oi
unexamplcu rlches, ana our ihsttutiOns arc put 10
the rack, and the question comes, Wlll they stand
hre In nation that works harmoniously ana
happily, there must DC UNITY ol action lOr therc
must be unity OF idea Inc TWO cannot work To-
gcther unless they be quite agrcoi-nrst' os 10 the
place they will go to; next, as TO the road they
Nlh 90 by. Haye we got tins national unity OF
idea, which ensures national UNITY ol ann, ana su
national unity OF means which lcad thcreuntO'
Look and sec.
FIRST we have got what cal ana What know
you reverence, the great American ldea, that AL
men are endowed by their Creator with certain nat
ural, inallenable rights, wherein they are equal
the right OF life, liberty and the pursuit OF happi
ness" That call the Idea ot freedom. IL tend
20 democracy. 1t had its eliminating point, ~
time 1O-in space, its eliminating point, OF Odd
(pointing to the portrait OF Samuel Alams'l Is one
OF the men who represented that idol--a man o.
wncm Tire BRITISH Government SAID thnt nc cOulu
not he coaxed, that he could not be scared and
that ne could not be bought: That man was sam
ucl Adams. That idea tends to democracy, ana ON
u are built the free institutions OF the eo States
Dnt tEere Is another ldea, VIZ; the idei ol slavery!
whch teaehes that men have not lnalenabe ana
elual rights, but some, IN virtue q iheir power
nav ~ .ue r'Sno " suoorull'o anu ci,SNc 'Io 'c9,
ihst Is 'ne i"c' OF slavery Wnich nHs us culln'-
nains poiht, III space, IN the Cl'y OF washington
III ume' IN the year looi Now tnese TWO lufeesS
are an,,aS"hIsnc' ueauiy hostIe' lhcy arc mere III
tne must OF this people ana are running thelr
Vogether' Oan lhesc TWO Woik n"rhOhiousiy To-
gcther! surely they cannot The ldca oil hee-
uoi anu tnc iueh Oh slavery cannot s,"i'u upon l"c
sSe p'a'lorm' nor li'e toseher III the sauc coui',
uy Accordingly ever since he estnblisnmcht Oh
tins Government, there has been hostility between
tne TWO; sec what the result has been: Twice
sihee inc adoption OF tle Lederal constitution
yes tw'cc since tne DeclaIatlOn OF lndcpehuGhce-
.ne "ea oil necuoh III the fcdcral C2ghchs hhs
preNahSu against slavery one was IN 100, Whel'
N''S uecreeu tna' irceIoh' Shouiu ne PcrPc'"Ai III
lne region called the Northwest territory tua'
etLa'ory shDu'u never pe tnere' nor III tnc r.l'cs
unenoe ni"ic' S'No Us eSai punishment or crine'
- th'' was 'nc ono sep Inc other was III loooI
tno sla,e unuc-'Ic lor9gh' ui"s anu NOT thc
o,u''i''"'cu' r anu us our I1'"viS sup
ponou ihoso Wetc t"9 u!unpns ior we
f., s;' - ~ '.Iuo, ~ o'e' uo Ptluo'PIpe VI
ou, s,ee .la', lhe power OF slavery mas oeel con
J u'a;ncllsi anu u mas cohlhuai'y 'rulph-
iii nine tihes mas u 9een pr1usnt IN coniac.
w. ,io VI irec"un, anu n'ne t''Ss ns
GAIA oI 'tgeuoni m,'nutIMh @ % anI s.foiy
Ucr thoro 'o rrlt r't ~ anu PLANTED W. Jun
into the Constitution of ibe Unite1 States Thai
pont was the first Nnxt in I7oS Kcntuckv wos
admitted as a slave State. slavery was then nut
by Federal LEGISLATION in This cuu1trv into soil NOT
embraced within nnv ono of tbc olJ Thirteen
States. That was the next sten. The third sion
was the year aCtcr and that y,nS tho frSt Fntiyr
Slave bIll. the celebrotoI law IF Iso3 ubsre;n
Congress odontcd sioyerv and volnntcered contrary
10 tile spirit and letter Of the Constitnton 10 lii
mar men on free soil vho Ind esconeJ from tho do.
minion of their inhuman masters That was tbe
third stcp. The fourth was tbe nurcbase of Ionis.
lana in 1903 slave soil with slaycrv ON H. and The
erection. in 1870 of tho slave Stnic Of Louisiana
That was tho fourth sten Tho 6Ctb sten ,yns tLc
carving of slavery west of the Mississinpi and in
aus1rating slavery into tho Constitntidn oc tho
new State of Miss9uri The sixth stcn WAS toIfon
in the purchase of Florida and ercctin, that nroy
ince into State maxine slnvcrv nernetuoi tbere
in for the Lcislotnro ~ FIorid can Iorcr roSsess
the mower IN emoncinotc n siroIn Lac TLo
next stem was the annexation Of Teyos tbe ipougn.
ration of slavery there nnttin, 4; into is Constiin
ton and odmitiinr stoto Thot ,"as i,
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