Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-06-30

Just here let me reply to the argument used thi,
afternoon in regard to the dissolution of tho Union
Men say, why you can get public opinion up tt
the level of abnlishing slavery up to the level o
reforming the Union, up to the level Of changing
the Constitution. sooner than you can raise 1t t
the level of breaking up the Union ITSELF l d'
not think 50 and will tell you why. The disso
luton of the Union is Revolution The dssolu
ton of the Union is thing that will take place
when it does take place, in the enthusiasm Of thu
moment,-in the indignant burst which will SWEEP
from Berkshire to Burnstabe, and sweep the Gus
tom House whore the tea went-into the harbor
:. Applausc.) If you make it n political question
there will be no end. Secondary and minor issue,
will be raised We need to abolish the judiciary
we will do it; we need to get up an AutiSaye
F ry party-we will do it, we need to bury old poll
cians-we will do it; we need to bury old questions
I'VE will do it. If we begin to make it political
question: it will last forever. Iu IL 10, the English
planted, under the scaOld Of Charles the First, be
fore Whitehall, the principle of popular sovereign
ty--the idea that the peO dc have right to call
their kings up to jud dgcment. For year it cndur
ed, but it went down when Cromwell died, and
Charles the Second took the throne of his fathers
and the struggle of the masses against capital,
against the ollgarchy OF the Commons and the an
chored calm Of tho Peers, recommended politi
RI cal question, and has been going until to-day.
Ii is not finished yet. Victoria gns the throne
Of Guelphs. The wealth Of the House Of Com
mons the arbitrary privileges Of hcllouse Of Peers
nave Dccll uDe 10 una uOWl 10 INC grave VI tltc
first Charles, the doctrine Of popular supremacy.
1t is working its way silently but taking two cen
turtles to succeed. 1t is fair type Of the progress
of ideas against wealth and against institutions,
Nations are not born in day. 1t takes long
time to leaven the masses. Do not say they did
not read SO much we do. Cocridge says that
the storo Of pamphlets left us from the time OF
Charles the First is as rich in thought and null
titudinous in number, as any issued from the press
since; for every political theory that ever man en-
tertained dreamed of, bubblod up in the uni.
verSal activity Of that era Of giants and giants
gone mad. They knew what they were about-thG
Sydneys the llampdcns and the Russeis. They
knew what they were about when they sent Royal
ty to the scatlod. Their children made the mis-
take, when they set up the throne again, made the
struggle political question: allowing it to be cor
rupted and smohored by the influence of wealth
and hereditary position. Shall we be wiser than
that generation? We have to do battle with similar
antagonists. Our House of Mobiles are the slave.
holders of South Carolina our House OF Com
mons are the owners Of two thousand millions Of
dollars Of slave property, and their co-parnerS,
the bankers and merchants Of State street These
, are our House Of Commons and House of Lords
Some cry Personal Liberty BIZ! PERSONAL LIE
ERrY BILLY but if man is arrested next month
in Boston he will be carr cd down State street as
, Anthony Burns was, Il year ago lvcrily believe
) unless muskets him-aud that is clumsy
remedy in the nineteenth century, and i'll the Uni
} ted States Of America Our fathers have left Us
but poor institutions, if they have left us now,
with public schools, with the right of ballot, with
freedom Of discussion, no remed y but bullets. We
have Better remedy than that--iisSolutioa is a
better one. lApplause.)
Men say If you would abolish the Union, you
must wait until three-quarters of the States CON
sent to it.. Who laid down that rule?-where is
it to be found? Give me Convention up at Wor-
} cestcr with Robert c. WnthrOp in the chair, and
such men as will follow him sitting by his side
not for tho words they would speak, not, III any
true sense, for the weigh Of character they would
carry there, but for the sake OF those who have
had their thinking done out Of their own house as
they are wont to have ctaer irksome tasks accom-
plished, and have got these men to do it. (Laugh
ter and checrs) An old authority on Paramen
; tary law in the English House Of Commons say.
that there is always Il struggle betwiEt the Aye
and Noes to which shall be obliged to 90 out tt
be counted, and which shall stay in; because, h'
he says, the laggards always sit i'll their places
the political questions The Scotch have proyerl
that "A pudding charge down hill 50 these
easy, laggard mel. can GA y face certain SCI Oh
! clique OF men of wealth. In 1915, when the TeXa'
plot was brewing, the evening before the Anti
= Texas meeting i'll Eaneull Hall, met warm, coy
citizen in the street, who had Just taken his tea
Do YOU know said he, who called that meeting {?
1.-THE advertisement had no signatures NO,
said l. I do no not WE'LL should like to know,
5 said he, because | thought if Abbott Lawrence
called H. WOuu give IL my COuHltudlltt' 70,
said l. shat would be just the that did not nee
your countenanc3.' Just such men would g
to Worcester to assert the sovereignty and mNjest
of the State. mean, those men who live in de
cencies forever and never offend anybody bu
y Abolitionists. Laughter and cheers. The It'd
J is high when all the driitwood Of the last storm
!, floats Let such men go up to Worcester, and re
solve that officer Of Massachusetts, shall take tn
" oath to support the Constitution Of the Unto
+ States, and send body of men down State stree
: to nail up the door Of the Custom House and wha
C is the nation going to do about it? And when Tia
= State says--'Here | stand come ana tak3 me Oh
the same hills our fathers planted, with the pint
tree for our banner, who is to oppose her? l
she SAYS, shall trade with all the world, and who
n ever sets his foot upon my SOIL let him be black o
y white he owns hmscf-let every other man bewar
G before he sets hands upon such ones shoulder:
S before he undertakes to claim him as a slave, -
who shall march against her? Who're would tn
troops come from? Not from Vermont. (''NO,'
= Certainly not from our daughter, Maine. Not iron
: Ohio-GiddinGs stands between us and that. Lou
: cheers. Not from New York, surely, unless tn
city itself should come, for Central and Wester
= New York never would put on armor in such
- cause. Where would they come from? Not iroI
n Yale College, even, surely not when its patrlarc
:, Professor Siman, eighty years old, declares thi
y the time has come to buckle on armor and shoulde
N the musket if Nebraska is to be given up to sl'
- very and when eighty years old a PrOie
. . sor Of Chemistry, talks gnnpowder, certainly W
y y may advise the Conventions Do you suppose tbs
" when Rhode Island and Wisconsin traitors
= or prepared to be such, that there is any gun "
. cast, any sword yet forged, that this Union couI
g turn against them? No? Our State is but hanC
= full of soil, to be sure-only garden patch, an
half rock at that but it is large enough to bloc
- tho wheels Of State.
:, a was asked to say how Disuniou begins Begi
:. il yourselves! Shut your own door, and say
y Marshal Freeman--'rhis is my castle; if slay
u gets inside it, you shall have me first! (Grea
u cheering Get your next door noighbor to say th
y same--then there are two; and so goon from hous
to house, and street to street, through the peni
LS sula Stretch out Worcester till she covers Boso
~ and Suffolk and spews Butman out OF her montI
"a Wait for three quarters of the States wait Il
Kentucky comes: Wait like the fool Of Old, VII