Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-03-25
MRS. H. B. STOVES LECTUREs--ANTINE
BRASKA WINGS.

DEAR MARus: I have not much love nor respect
for great Cities for they but many great
on the social body. They generally corrupt those
who live in them, and those born in them gene
rally Conceived in sin and shapen in nquity, and
go astray from birth spreading lies" in the sccn-
tifc and not in the theological But you and
your readers may wish to know the bearings of
Boston on the questions Of reform, and am
here, and to be here for weeks to come, will
sionaly apprse you of Boston notions, that relate
to the socia. and spiritual world.
You know Harriet Beecher Stowe has got up
series Of lectures here, with view to the diffusion
Of anti-savery among the orthodox ministers and
churches. Henry Ward Beecher gave the first
Owing 10 a failure on the part Of one engaged to
lecture, DR.. Edward Beecher gave the second last
night in the fremont Temple. heard it, and was
most agrecably disappointed.
lie gave a true account Of the first fatal step in
this Government i. e., Liberty entering into Con-
rention ,cH slarey TO establish justice and secure
liberty. That ,cds the fatal step, and every step
that has been taken by Freedom since in this ma
ton, has been wrong and must be- till she goes
back and plots out the first error, washes it all out
by tears Of repentance. Let liberty meet slavery
let her hunt the demon outlet her search for him
and while he has hiding place on earth let her
not give oer the search. This is the true mission
of iberty-to hunt slavery-not to wait for slavery
to search for her-but to go forth in Gods panoply,
and traverse the globe in search Of the monster
1 But when she finds him how should she meet him 2
Not to invite him to Convention to establish Jus
tce-not invite him to q seat in Congress- or the
1 judicial bench, in the Presidential chair in the
A pulpit or at the communion table-but in a DEATH
STRUGGLE. Liberty should say to slavery, wherever
and whenever she meets the fend, DEATH to you, or
= death TO me make no terms with you ; ask no
+ quarter and shall give none. Liberty should
have had on her banner as her battle-cry Victory
4 or DEATH instead Of the word COMPROMISE.
G Mr. Beecher happily traced the results Of this
T. compromise ON the moral nature Of the people,
showing that the entire influence Of the Union had
been to paralyzc the moral sense and teach all
to put evil for good and good for evil, lie for the
truth and truth for n lie lie showed how slavery
4 had triumphed, in every encounter with lib
ery and how she would still triumph, all owing to
the first fatal stop. Had liberty met slavery in the
d Convention Of l7S7 under the battlecry of victory
A or death, and not of compromise the glory Of the
nation had never been arnished its progress never
been impedod. The only salvation to the North
+ now is-to get new Liberty Banner-to leave out
= of it compromise" and nscribe Liberty or
@ Death-Victory or Death"
Mr. Beecher seemed to see that this must be the
g issue, and he urged strongly the formation Of a
y Northern Party, which as he presented, was our
II old true doctrine of Ohio, uttered in fremont Tenn
pie, Northern Republic on the terms Of death to
i slayery-of No Union with Shareholders" How
IS can Sumner, Chase, Wade Hale, &C., talk of legal
izng and nationalizing slavery? Liberty has no
more right to allow slavery to exist in New Orleans
than in Boston. Every friend of liberty will be
just as anxious to abolish slavery in Missouri as in
I, Nebraska in Alabama as in Maine. 1t is miserable
"a to hear these men talk about making slavery Sec
=, tional aud liberty national. How, in Heavens
t name, can liberty be NATIONAL while slavery is
}, tional under its domnon9 viii Sumner tell us
i. Will your viii Giddings? If liberty is national
e where is the place for slavery? If slavery is in
II Virginia. liberty cannot lie there. If slavery is in
more than half the nation it is, liberty cannot
p go there, except in of utter determination o
s. slavery.
e Mr.. Beecher's lecture was good one. Many
u heard and cheered it. lie said if the laws Of
!. Moses were truly applied to American Slavery, i
IS could not exist single hour. Very we'll let the
!. church thus use the Bible and not whisper will
a be heard against it, so far that evil is concerned
- But when the church the Bible to sustain sla
b: very, as she does have only to answer Me BiLt
1t is ,crOng, and not slavery right.
n week ago last night great Wing gathering
was in Faneul Hail. to protest against the Nebraska
/; bill You will see account of itin the LiberatoI
e of this week. 1t was rich specimen of fogyisn
as you could wish. The amount of all the speeches
I, y save one, was, ave tugged hard to please oul
q Southern allies in 1850. We nearly choked tC
5, death swallowing the pill they gave us, but wC
y squeezed.it down to save the Union and to allay
ls agitation and to win your votes Now you are
y. about to give us another dose. This is too bad
We hardly know how to bear it, Spare u.s. swee
friends, do spare us" This was the tono of thu
! meeting. Elliot Lawrence, Blagden, Winthrop
,s and IIilliard gave it this air. No issue made
st with Shareholders Much was said about the Unior
and many appeals were made to Webster's pic
y ture, for help in this emergency No Webster
y raped to them No medium was there for hit
4 present needs Winthrop plainly told Elliot that
], he did little worse than he (Winthrop) did in
e 1850. Blagden insisted that God instituted slavery
. and got great kissing for it.
But Josiah Quincy, SO years old, took the stand
and told them all, that Shareholders cared nothing
for them---that the Wings and Democrats were all
,f talk and no action against slavery-that the Mis-
c. souri, Compromise would be aboshed-that the
j, slave power would ncrease-and that the Northern
y politicians were a poor, miserable set, whom the
shareholders held and used as they did their other
r. slaves Thus tho. noble old man rebuked them
N and they all fol it, for the next day they tried all