Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-06-23

tell you, friends, although have been somewhat
favored in my pulpit exchanges, and have had the
heroes of the age to take my place,the Pierponts
the Mays, and tho Parkers,--my pulpit was never
80 honored as when you, Mr.. President, took my
place there. loud cheors.) You preached from
text-fve of them, if | remember rightly--and
t was sound doctrine. tell you, sir we minis
/ ters need the tonic of the antslayery movement
Wo cannot spare it. We cannot separate our func
tions. The true preacher will be the true pastor
and the true pastor, will be the true prophet. The
best refutation of this weak theory of separating
the Offices is Theodore Parker's six VOLUMES of un
cqualed sermons, and the unequaled congrega
ton to which he breaches every Sunday. CHEERS.
And although it may De said that preaching is moi
the whole Office of the minister, still, those who
have heard, as | have, the blessings of the poor
women whom his daily unnotced visits have com
, forted in their time of need and the blessings OF
the invaids whose sick beds he has daily consoled
know how powerfully these blessings rise up to re-
flute the absurd theory that the prophet must be a
prophet only, and that man may not speak with
all the thunder of Theodore Parker, and vet have
u woman's tenderness for every one in his parish
who needs his aid Great applause.
Then, sir, we poor minister's with the response
bilities of the time and the age thrown around u.s.
and we to be called to account for all, need to
have our theology corrected by the actual obserya
ton of the world which the antslavery movement
gives US.
The tendency Of those who look around at these
church gatherings on Anniversary Week, and who
go from place to place, and hear the eXultation
professed at the addition of one undivided sixteenth
of u member to each Church in the last six months
is to fancy that the world is reformed already, OF
evangelical, or Chrstanized except that one black
corner in the Sandwich Islands, and that one dark
place, Liberia which is always crying Give! giyel
and cannot be brought over, although we have
sent | d. not know how many black men there,
who cannot read or write, to preach the gospel o.
Christ.
We need, Mr.. Chairman, to study the past and
learn humility. We need to look backward anC
see the past as compared with the present. W,
say that Greece was pagan nation. Perhaps i
was; but read in history, that when an Athenial
judge once sat in his judgment hall, and dow
came flying through the window, pursued by
| hawk, and took refuge in the judges breast, ano
! the judge threw him out on the gronnd, the indig
nant people threw out the judge. Loud cheers.
Those pagan times, but they did not have t.
wait for unequailed eloquence to address Legisla
tive committees five times; they did not have t.
wait the action of the Legislature; they did not
have to wait for Governor to veto that action
and then to veto that veto in turn;-the spontane
Gus Indignation of the people was too ftrong fo
the inhumanity of the judge, and though it was
pagan race, human feeling triumphed there
Rome may have been pagan nation; but | rea
that Virginius plunged knife into his daughter
tosom, sooner than allow her to be slave. Blu
it is american Doctors OF Divinity who will sem
their own mothers into slavery, only that they int
at last that it is better bargain to send thei
brothers Rome was pagan nation yet once
more, sir but read that. in the darkest periods o
her history, there was heroism enough in Rom
for this, that when some wretched slaves wer
doomed in order to get those slaves isafe to execu
ton, military death, unjnstly and wickedly th'
people thought, companies had to be called out
and the streets through which the procession pass
ed had to be lined with soldiers, to keep back tn
population of Rome, in their just Indignation
DO you remember the scene in this city of Boston
one year ago? Do you think those soldiers wer
needed to keep back the population OF Bostoa2
tell you that the Marshals guard would have bee
sufficient if there had not been all Massachusett
, behind Boston at that moment, to press Boston OF
within three inches Of revolution; and next time
perhaps, those three inches will be oyerpast. CAY
plause.)
No, sir we have nothing to boast of least
all, the clergy, whose work it is to bring up tn
people from this low moral condition in whic
they linger now. We boast Of little things, NJ
, Chairman Ever since | knew any thing abou
!, the anti-slavery movement, the great bane of
) has been, that we have all thought too much
little triumphs we were pleased too cheap; we ha
too much hope. If one election went the rigl
way, if one fugitive was rescued by night in Bo.
) ton, and sent through Worcester to Canada,-
, one act on the right side passed by the Legi'
lature,-we thought II mean, the people, thong
, not every one, not the wisest) that the work wa
done, that there was no more danger, and so ou
vigilance was relaxed, until the next time, whe
! we found that the work had to be done all owe
g again. | see, in the reception of the late ant
slavery triumphs, the same danger. l rejoice, 70
, one, that something has been done to check tn
l current Of these triumphs. Irejocc at the vet
of Governor Gardner. rejoice that he refused t
, remove Judge Lorng and | will tell you why: bt
4 cause, if Judge Loring had been removed at frs
0 it would have been triumph indeed; but after
: long argument, for Governor Gardner to have r,
. moved him, would have been triumph on Cove
: nor Gardners sde-and the Governor needed on'
1 He needed one, and we needed a check. We ha
= had too many things to make sanguine; and q
t in those ancient times, when the Emperor went o
4 one of his great triumphal marches through til
1 city, he had slave at his shoulder to whisner
S him, remember that thou art man p so we nee
Edward Greedy Loring, still sitting in his place
S Judge of Probate, to say to us, Remember tn,
t Massachusetts is still pro-slavery, and you hay
S yet work before you to do: applause.
e tell you, sir, and those of our friends wi
t think they are Abolitionists, and have enlisted fl
; the war, that the war has yet great many yea
u to last tell you, times may come again in Ma
@ sachusetts that will call as loudly for manhood
S did the times year ago. tell you that you ha
: 'scotched the snake, not killing it, and you vi
d find il SO. Why be SO pleased at that victory Of
U .eW uelenuants III me Uhltcu states court l10u
IS over Judge Curtis? That was easily accountt
r for. 1t was not strange that where all the pow
n of argument, and all the influence of person
J. presence, and all the weight of the public opinic
Q of the State, were on one side-it not stranJ
that Judge Curtis should for once, decide in fay
u of justice and liberty. Do you suppose that Jud
Il Curtis is born again., and abolitionized, becau
:, we beat him that time? You will find your mi
}, take if you do. circumstances alter cases'-ar
y Curttses daughter and cheers.) II you had loo
ed in there once in while, as did, II believe yC
e Mr.. President, never cared enough about the ma
s ter to look in at all aud seen what Judge Curt
| had to see, you might have changed your opinic
1t of his course. Do you think it is in mortal ma
G be he Curtis, or be he something lower or blacke
it to sit his Judicial seat day after day, and s.
h Theodore Parker sitting there like recording a
= gel, with pen in hand, writing sheetafter shee
es sheet after sheet; and know that was all comm
W down on his head at last, and not feel it A
le plause) If you do, you overrate the stuff
r which United States judges are made, tell yo