Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-02-25
FANEUIL HALL--NEBRAsKA BILL--FREE
sOILERs-THEOD0R PARKER.
Rosrox. Februnrr lG. 1854

Free Sellers here held a State Convention there
to-day, to protest against the Nebraska bill. II
was large gathering and politically enthusiastic
But political enthusiasm in the North, when arrayed
against slavery means nothing, accompishes no
thing but to exhibit it's own shame and cowNrdice
Yet every speaker, with one exception, assumed
as starting point that the heart Of Massachusetts
and Of the North was all sound on the question at
issue. The same was the cant phrase in the con-
fct between liberty and slavery, over Texas, over
New Mexico, and over the Fugitive Law of 1850.
am sick Of the bare-faced falsehood. What cvi-
dencc that the Northern heart is sound on any
question touching slavery? All past history dem
onstrates 1t to be rotten-u utterly and hopccssly
rotten. There was much talk, much sound, much
bravado, much glorfcation of the Union the eagle,
the stars and the stripes Not dared to propose
the distinct issue-ABoLITIoN or DIssoLuriox. Not
One dared to shout-DowS WITH ALL CoNrRoMIsEs
wirn SLAVERY All seemed to think eristing COM
promises must be kept only they deprecated any
more concessions to compromises with the de-
mon. Not one dared to war, uncompromising
eternal war against slavery. No TERMS WITH sLA-
VERY but death, instant, eternal death, to all laws
institutions, customs, constitutions unions and
combinations that sustain it.
Free .Soilers, Wilson, Palfrey, Sumner, Chase
Gddings Hale, &C., have ono of them ever made
the issue, ABOLITION or Dissolution? Not one.
will thcy2 Not till they cease to consider them
selves members of the Conlederocy, and have
planted themselves outside the Constitution and
laws Of the Union. Then, and not before, can
they make the right issue. All took for granted
the bill would not pass that the Missouri Compro-
mise would not be abolished. Ono exception
That exception was THEODORE PARKER. lie was
loudly called for and enthusiastically received.
lie uttered the dsunion doctrine that liberty and
slavery never did never can unite. lie made a
noble speech-uttered the most radical truths of
che Disunionists. lie scathed Webster whose
picture has supplanted those of Hancock, Samuel
Adams, John Adams, j. Q. Adams, Washington
and all in Fanouil Hall. These are hid away un-
der the stairs and in by places, to make room for
the author of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
Parker did justice to his own idea, but his words
could not have been palatable to leading Free
Sellers.
The NEBRASKA BILL in some shape. The Mis-
souri, Compromise will be abolished. Why not
II was n compromise between liberty and slavery
Al such ought to be, will be abolished. But who
shall abolish it? Shareholders, of course. There
is not fidelity to liberty in the North to abolish it.
to protect and propagate freedom aud to extend it
over regions where slavery is. So Shareholders
must abolish it to protect, propagate and pcrpetu
ate slavery. AND WILL, for abolished it ought
to be, and must be, as must all such deeds of
infamy, to pcrpetuate slavery. Missouri, by that
Compromise was given up to slavery. If the North
have ot md to obn l;sh IL
20 extend liberty over Missouri, the South will
abolish it to extend slavery over Nebraska.
BY the way, if his Jai passes, trW not be an aet
of emancipation TO ercIy stare in Missouri Slavery
exists in Missouri on condition that it nerer should
exist in Nebraska, or, north of 80 deg. 30 min. III
the condition on which slavery exists in Missouri
be violated by the Shareholders, would not this
abolish slavery there The inference is just
and Legitimate. But will the North dare demand
it? viii they say to the South, Abolish liberty
in Nebraska, and we will abolish slavery in Mis-
souri,? No; the merchants, politicians, ministers
md christians of the North, have laid their man
hood on the altar Of slavery.
After this victory Of the slave power, what next {?
Slavery will be re-cstablished in New England,
New York, Ohio, and every State of the North.
Why not? Assuming that tho Constitution au-
thorizes the citizens of the United States to hold
slaves in New Orleans. Does it authorize them to
hold slaves in Boston 1t does; it must: for the
Constitution knows no State lines, or geographical
boundaries Whatever rights it secures to man
in Mobile, it secures to him in Bangor. The Con-
Btitution Of the Union ovcrridcs all Safe laws and
constitutions. If these forbid me to do in Boston,
what the United States Constitution authorizes me
TO do in Washington, and Of course in Boston, New
York, or Cincinnati, why, tho State government
must yield. No State law can protect man from
slavery whom the General Government authorizes
ME to place and hold in that condition.
Marius, is not this sound logic? Free Sellers,
Wings, Democrats, and the entire nation practically
being witnesses. have just met John G. Whittier.
lie is poorly has diseased lungs asked him,
'Will you live long? "Long enough, / fear, 10 see
slavery established in Massachusetts" You, too,
Iiddings, and all Of you may live to see slavery
established in Ohio This is no idle word. As
,ertain as the Missouri Compromise is abolished, AS
II WILL BE in five years, the entire North will be
brown open to slavery and that too, UNDER ThE DE-
,IsoN OF THE UNITED STATES CouRT in the Prig case
Il was there decided that the Constitution authorizes
he holding Of slaves on every foot of land over /
which its jurisdiction extends. Not one cavern, :
lot mountain peak, not house, church, hall nor
pot of earth so sacred that slavery may not stand
ipon it, proudly triumphant. i
Last EXPERIMENT. LAST HOPE OF LIBERTY God i
ave the mark. Slavery and liberty have never t.
net in pitched battle, since the existence of this
Union. in which slavery has not triumphed. 1t $
ver must be so. Last hope of liberty, indeed
DEATH TO LIBERTY is practically the watchword of
he Republic.
But I'll stop. Joseph Barker and A. j. Davis S
re by me. Joseph Barker says, " Tell Marius I'm J
summer"
Adieu HENRY c. WRIGHT I"