Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-07-08

done to shrink and avoid tho responsibility Of APP
pearing to the wOld as man having desecratcd
the Senate Chamber with his presence, and the
Holy Evangelists with his lip.
Mr.. Sumner followed in a long speech in his dc.
fence, from which the following are extracts: -
Since had the honor Of addressing the Senate
yesterday, various senator's have spoken, and sew
eral have sRuded to me in terms clearly beyond the
sanction of parliamentary debate, Of this | make
no complaint. If to them it seems proper and cour-
tcous, and parliamentary to unpack the heart with
words, and fall a cursing like a very drab,' a soul
lion, | will not interfere with the enjoyment which
they hud in such exposure of themselves. They
have certainly shown their characters; two ofthen,
the Senator from South Carolina and the Senator
from Virginia who sits Immediately behind me,
are not young. Their heads are amply crowned
by time they did not speak from any cbulition
of youth, but from the confirmed temper of age.
1t is melancholy to believe that they showed them
selves as they are. 1t were charitable to believe
that they are in reality better than they showed
themselves. ! think, sir, that am not the only
person on this floor who is listening to them in
this debate. These two self-conident champions
Of the peculiar fanOticisms of the South, are re-
minded of the striking words Of Jefferson in PIC
turing the influence of slavery, the whole com
mercc, said he, between master and slave is a per-
pctual exercise Of the most boisterous passion, the
most unremitting despotism on the one part, and
! degrading submission on the other. Our children,
see this, and learn to inmate it, for man is an imi-
I tativc animal. The parent storms, the child looks
| on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the
same airs in the circle Of smaller slaves, gives loose
to his worst passions, and thus nursed and educa-
! ted, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be
stamped with its odious pecularities. The man must
be a prodigy who can retain his manner and man
illness, undeprayed by such circumstances.
No person who has witnessed the Senators from
South Carolina and Virginia in this debate, VIII
S place them among the ~prodigies described by MI
D Jefferson. As they spoke the Senate chamber must
have seemed a plantation stocked with slaves, over
: which the lash Of the overseer had free scope
= There was little that fell from them which deserves
: reply. The Senator from South Carolina was DIS
4 turbcd when to his inquiry whether l would render
Q personal assistance in reducing or returning use
the words rs equivalentl a fellow man to slavery
c | exclaimed "ls thy servant a dog, that he should
y do this thing p" The Senator asks if there Is any
dog in the Constitution lie does not seem t(
/. think that, by the Interpretation he has given Il
d the Constitution, he has helped to nurture there
c regular South Carolina bloodhound, trained t.
e hunt negroes. No, Sir, l do not believe that there
, is any blood hound, or even any dog, in the Con
q stitution of the United States, but since the bri@
d response which | made to the inquiry OF this sen"
tor has drawn upon me various attacks, all marKe,
$ by grossness of language and manner; since
have been charged with openly declaring my pur
pose TO violate the Constitution and to break thu
c oath which | had taken at that desk, | shall b
pardoncd for showing simply how a few plan
e words will put all this down.
The authentic report in the Globe shows what
actually said. where that is read and render
anything further suporluous; but the Senator
who have been co swift in representation desery,
to be exposed.
To the inquiry whether l would render any per
sonal assistance in surrendering a fellow man t
bondage. l reply again, " Is thy servant a dog, tina
! he should do this thing?" and, sir, looking rounC
upon this Senate, | might ask fearlcssly how man,
1 there are in this body, if indeed there is a singl
Senator who could stoop to any such service. Unit
! some one rises and openly c%Onfesses his willingness
i to become a slaye-hunter, | will not believe tina
there can be one; and yet honorable and chival
; rous Senators have been prompt to judge me, be
, cause l openly declared my adherence of a scryic
" at which every manly bosom must revolt. "Sir,
have found in Baronne brave soldiers and goo,
citizens, but not one executioncr," was the nobl
e reply of the Governor of that place to Charles l.
of France, when he ordered the massacre Of s
Bartholomew, and such a spirit think will yC
II animate the people of this country, when presse
~ to the service of dogs. To the question which ho
~ been proposed, whether Massachusetts will, b
Io State laws, carry out the offensive clause in til
- constitution, | reply that Massachusetts,, at a
~ times, has been ready to do her duty under tn
constitution as she understands it; and, doul
.o not, will ever continue of this mind. More tina
= this, / cannot say.