Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-07-29

kidnapping of n slave in Boston. | mot Il man n
week alter Burns was surrendered, and he asked
/ me, Mr. Phillips, was Barns really Il Baptist min.
sterP Said !, . lie was sir, a Bnptist exhorter
regularly licenscd.' 'WelJ said he did MT take
much interest in the case but when | heard that
i Major General Edmands had sent back n brother
baptist could MT Sleep lie took no interest in
the man--it was the BrUfistl He benr,l The mere
fact of a human being surrendered as chotfelL
and he went about his business but when he heard
that one Baptist had surrendered another IL dis.
h''6ed his sto3abN! Jaughtcr) That's. to some
extent, far specimen of much Of the anti slavery
excitement we hear of about u.s. week after
Burns was sent away we went down into State
street, with petition asking for the removal of
Edco'd G'eetey Lorjng from office, and we asked
the gentlemen to sign it :--(thcy were the very
men VINO had volunteered, among themselves, to
fcscuc Burns and to tar and feather Suttlc y but
SIX days had rolled away, and they were not ready
even to sign petition to remove Ioriuc from his
office as 1sdgo Of Prohatel So much had their
zeal cooled down in single week. This is the anti
slavery sentiment Of Massachusetts,
we shall never get ans better, until we see our
selves IN an honest glass; until we get out of this
ha3it ot praisng ourselves Tho people of Mas
sachusetts are not Aboltionists-but n very small
portion of them. The State is n pro-slaycry State.
as whole The Fourth of July is pro-slavcry
3'y-a day meant to comm ,moratc tho ndcpcn-
dcnce OF thirteen States in every one of which
there were slaves when the Declaration was issued !;
and not one of which took the slightest measure
for four years afterwards, to free Il slave
Now, gentlemen, I know that | might make n
much more acceptable speech to you to-day
might make speech that should raise your plau-
ats perhaps, by praisng some of anti-slavery
men and measures could praise, as hc deserves
your iayorite Massachusetts, Senator, Nj. SUMNER,
who has made noble speech, and has grown an
lnch at least, in moral stature, within the last
fortnight lapplause); but that is not what we want
Il nave had enough Of anti-slavcry plaudits. lost
my relish for them in the last week of May | lost
my relish for them when saw a whole city lying
PROSTATE ct the feet Of Virginia slayc-hunter
we have got to begin over again from the root
We do not want information, as Mr.. CONWAY saws,
we want a 1erotHioH-,iust as real, and far more
radical, than that which our fathers undertook to
make. ... ,-
Then there is another thing, as your work for
thls summer. Turn out Loring as the first thing;
get statute that shall nullify the Slave Law as
second the third is this appoint officers, and
eject Governor and Legislature that shall be
massachusetts men. 1t would have been a refresh
ing sight IT, any time during those seven days of
anxiety and trial. we could nave seen n MAN in
boston You could not find one You could not
hnd man who would take the slightest responsi-
blity. The Mayor could not do anything unless
Mr' lihlard told him land Mr.. billiard could not
say anything unless the Mayor asked him the
Sheriff could not do anything unless Attorney Cen
erai Clifford advised it-and Attorney General
>''HoiN .puiu iioI give any auVlcc unless the GOV-
efnor asked him and the Governor had gone up
TO Worecster and nobody could find him. laugh
teri During that whole week. n dozen men en-
ployed the greater part of their time in hunting up
massachusetts officers and bcseechng them to do
something They aIl acknowledged that some
thing ougL to be done, but nobody could settle who
ought to DO it. We want Il real Governor and
Mayor and you can make them. We want Il real
aht-sIaNery Legislature, not one that talks anti
slavery We want South Carolina over again. on
the ,, Sidc OF liberty. like her pluck. Wien she
did not fancy Mr. lloar she turned him out of the
State. am for turning out the men we do not
like, not talking about them. Tam for having half
a dozen men wait on the slave hunter, when he
comes to Boston on his infamous GRAND and escort
hlm to the boundary line botwccn this State and
mh"de Island, and then bid him Il polite farewell
Then we can afford to dcspisc Caleb Cushing, and
not till them
hen we get anti-slavery law officers, VIC will
hnd antl-slavery enough. Chief Justice Shaw can
outWlt Caleb Gushing any day, and not get up till
twelve O'Clock in the morning besides (Laugh-
terJ we nave got Massachusetts lawyers rs sharp
us Philadelphia ones, if you will only show them
you want them to cxertthci shrowlncss. our Judges
nave law enough; tits the people behind them that is
wanted ;-i is South Carolina on the side of lbery
1t IS Virginia in favor of the black man having his
rights In the mean time, Massachusetts is roddng
otate-scils her wares in the best market, and looks
out she don't offend her customers and then comes
home and congratuatos herself that she is so rery
because CHARLES SUMNER has made
good speech in Congress Yes, we can make good I
speeches enough, good resolutions enough what
we want is a good executive here al homt
~, we have hada Free Soil party in this State, !
They undertook to nominate Martin Van Buren,
tor Presidents thcy did not elect him. Any party
that undertakes t. get up national movement will
Sc bought up, bc'ausc slavery is inside the Gov
ment fortress and has fifty millions of dollars to
spend annually; andyou never yet the land
where, II you wanted near thing DONE and had
the mouoy to pay for it, you could not find mean
men to do it.
know am talking Of very low motives but
/ am talking to Yankees; | am talking to
IN the nineteenth century; | am
talklngof the men who put Franklin Pierce into Of
hce; am talking plain matter of-fact that we meet
every day. You will never have an nti-slaverv Gov
slaveryhas fifty millions of dollars to
spend every year-sho can buy up. They say it.
cost mighty dear to get Burns back Fjiy Housalld
doltdrS horribly dear! | think it was very
cheap! She bought all Boston for fifty thousand
dollars, and We threw the Governor in. (Loud |
laughter and applause.) She had our regiment,
our mayor, our courthouse, or Judiciary, the |
whole Commonwealth only paid fifty thou
sand dollars for it Cheap as dirt! Why, she
can afford to buy, States up ut that rate for any
length Of time to come. If tcost only fifty thou
sand dollars to buy Boston, what hope have we?
Aud yet, it is literally true, that for that the Uni
ted States Government bought the city.
Ny friends, am now going to give place to 9TH
crs but let me urge every man who loves the
cause to coniinc his attention to his
own State. State politics are within our control.
We can put Legislature into that State House
that shall hcrmeticaly seal Massachusetts, against
the slavc-huntcr; and the moment we set the cx-
ample, Ohio, Michigan, and young Iowa and Wis {
coilsin will follows and, State by State can defy
The Fugitive Slave Bill. Try little Modification ,
on our side Why, we are very slow scholars. !
The South has been teaching for forty Years, S
md yet we wont learn! She says--Gcntlcmcn, I
initiate me mover let United States law get {
Executed, when it don't please mc-why do youY |,
My Free Soil friends who are listening to me are {
lnxious 70 put another Senator into the United ,
States Senate and to put representatives into the
lousc. / cntreat them tn forget Congress Tor
little while. We can do nothing there ii is lie
.nul ll.. -,.ul Lls !