Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-06-10
Ibe Anti-9Iaperp Bn9le.
Salem, Ohio, June 10, 1854.
ANTHONY BURNS,


Has been sent back to Slavery from Boston. A
more coolly planned insult to the North could not
have been devised, nor can We conceive how its
execution could have been made more humiliating.
The South had just repudated its contract with
freedom, in spite Of remonstrances unexampled in
and number. II had stolen thousands
Of square miles Of free soil from free labor, and
were belching forth its fendish triumph over this
reputation and piracy, lackeys are sentto Boston,
to test the subserviency Of Massachusetts, and the
North, by man hunt. The place too. 1t was
Boston-in the shadow Of Bunker Hill, where it
was supposed there was some remnant Of the spir-
it Of those noble souls, who Indignantly resisted
the military despotism Of King George.
It was Boston, where Anti-Slavery had had its
seat and centre for quarter of century. And
the time. 1t was that Of the three days session Of
the New England Convention-(thc fruitful moth
er Of anti-slayery assemblings, land Of the Free
Soil State Convention. A time when the working
Anti-Slavery Of Massachusetts, and New England
we're assembled, when they could be insulted to
their faces and taunted with the manifest evidence
of their feebleness and the overwhelming power
Of their enemy. Slavery challenged the anti-slav-
cry of the State to see it march a slave by day
light through the streets of their capitol to slavery
Ito see him surrendered TO his fate by a Boston
commissioner of respectability and of revolution
AIRY and patrician blood. 1t challenged them to
SEQ their laws subyerted-their State power ami
hilated in the presence Of the central despotism
Washington. II challenged them to submission
by the presence Of lS4 rufians, with U. S. arms
and uniform, who pointed those arms at Boston
citizens, and compelled Boston men quietly to sub.
nit to their ndgnities, with their artillery charged
with grape shot, and ready to rake their streets
and make them flow with blood, And most hui
initiating of oil, to see these hired rufans, sus-
tanned in guarding this poor, lone AnthOny Burns,
in the Boston slave pen by some 500 citizen sold
iers of Massachusetts, who we're ready to shoot
down their neighbors and fellow citizens, If they
did not smother their humanity and indignation
and quietly submit to the outrages upon Burns
upon themselves, upon their State and country.
Thus outrageous was slavery in It's insolence
and in every point it has succeeded. The aboi
tionists are spit upon-Massachuset with hei
million of inhabitants, is insulted and her power
annihilated. The laws of Virginia are triumphant
over Masachusetts- and her sister states may
as well dismiss their legislatures and save the ex
pensc of their Governors salaries, unless they are
prepared for resistance, and resistance even unto
blood If need be.
There was strong indignation, and deep feeling
of modification and humiliation. But there wa,
no resistance. No real attempt at rescue Blu
only submission. The people evidently felt tina
the power of the government was against them
and they were not prepared for treason and rebel
lion. Shame on them that they were not, Will,
their city was in the hands Of troops, and foreign
ers as soldiers, quartered in their court hous
to exclude citizens, and secure the ensavement o
one Of their number on their own soil and In thei
own metropolis.
| But though poor Burns has gone to slavery
and Massachusetts, is dishonored--and slavery /
mad with JOY at her hellish triumph-yet we mr.
not without hope Much was done in Boston las
week to bring the people to the point of resistance
They learned fast, last week, the true characte
and purpose of slavery. Union with such perfdi
GUS men must haYo lost much Of it's marvelou
sacredness and kdnapper Suttle, tho U. S. troops
and Virginia threats to Senator Sumner, with 9th
er accompaniments, have impressed upon the peo
pie lesson which anti-slavery men have ever in
culcated, but for which, with the mass, they hay
failed to secure credence or even attention. TIL,
beseging Of our citics-the garrisoning of ou
court houses to enforce Virginia law, will teacl
tho people if often enough repeated. But W,
doubt whether Suttle will ever consent again I,
visit Boston on such an errand. We should b,
glad to see him try it. lie might succeed ngain
But he would find that Boston was the wiser 70
his present visit. sF ve..g.sil7 tsli Z.
FATHER MATTHEW, the Irish Temperance advo