Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-11-18
From the Cincinnati Gazette.
MR.. GARRISON IN CINCINNATI.

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WILLIAM LLOYD GApR1soN's ANrt-SLAvERY Lee
rURE At GREENwoOD HALL LAST EvESING.-The
lecturer denied that the South had ever really re-
garued slavery MS temporary, though they had
once p%rOfessed to do so-Or that the zeal of Adolf
tionists had postponed emancipation. These latter
had not been more denounced by the South than
Gen. Cass who had crawled on his belly in the
dust to porpetuate slavery, for simply saying that
"ho thanked God he lived in a free State"-and
this, too, IN IA consistent prO-slavery speech, there
was a diabolical consistency about the South with
which he was much pleased. Having left God, they
followed Baal with great zeal and unity of purpose.
There was but one instance of inconsistency in
the South, and that vas found in the fact that their
little coins called cents and dollars had the word
" Liberty stamped on them-that was incendiary.
The clergy-who never take tho lead in any
thing-had always reproaccd them with alternating
the South by their Incorporate zeal, and deserving
its reproaches but in their famous remonstrance
against the Nebraska bill, they had tried their
hand at gentle reproof, and how they succeeded {?
The only northern people that the South really
respected, were the Abolitionists.
They had reproachcd the North with its isms.
There were none in the South. There were none
in Italy or Russia, none in a graveyard. lsms
were the result of free thought clashing with
thought. If the institution Of the South was n
divine one, it need not fear argument and free
speech.
The God of the South was a slave-holding and
Il sluve-breeding God, and the Christ Of the South
came not to redeem but to enslave, and wo to the
Clergyman who dare preach any other God or any
other Saviour. The South claimed the right to
carry her slaves wherever she pleased. Mr..
looms, of Georgia, declared he would brig his to
Bunker Hill. The lecturer hoped he would try
old Massachusetts and see if there was any of the
spirit of Bunker Hill left.
lie regretted that The could not address the poo-
pie of Ohio as freemen they had no common
country this was the Shareholders country he
could stand on Bunker Hill or Saratoga and bias
phemc the name of liberty, but the Northern man
dare not 60 South and carry his opinions with him.
lie had not even at home the liberty to assist Il
poor destitute, naked fugitive, flying for his free
dom.
OF the Fugitive Slave Law, he declared that hell
born law never would be repealed, but some great
consumate villainy would be perpetrated that
would make men forget both this and'the Nebraska
Bill, as these had already caused them to forget
the admission of Texas with her slaves.
The only issue was the entire abolition Of slavery.
God had placed an impossible gulf, an eternal an
tagonism, between freedom and slavery, and slave
holders themselves laughed every other issue Il
scorn.
lie stated that though the South had stolen three
and n half millions of men, yet she was poor com
pared with the North-this stolen property was al
she had.
The north had always made the Union of para.
mount importance, but with the South the perpe
tuity of her acoursed institution had always been the
paramount object. lie loved the Shareholders
selyes-hc showed his love for them by re liking
them. lie wished them to lie down in peace and
rise up in safety.
In conclusion, he said the time had come for the
North either to worship God, or bow down to the
devil Of Slavery.