Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-10
MR.. GILLETT's SPEECH.

,a MR. GlLLETT's SPEECH. ..
Tbs New York Evening Post giving an account
81 the discussion in the Senate on the bill to further
aid In the enforcement of the fugitive slave law,
gives the following account Of Mr.. Giletts speech
on Tho occasion:
Gillette, Of Connecticut, gladly embraced the
occasion Of his colleagues revival OF the slavery
question, to read an elaborate essay on slavery in
the District Of Columbia, the horrors of tho insti-
tuition being detailed and characterized in terms
that would have evoked the admiration of
an abolition conventicle. The strength of
his epithets, and the evident heartness with
which he applied them, had q reviving effect on
the drowsy southern senators, mot to speak it pro-
,faqeiy,3 like q long pole in a cage of monkeys.
Tby gathered around him as if he were a natural
curiosity, asking oil sorts of derisive questions,
about as germane to his remarks as his remarks
we're to the precise subject presented in tho bill be-
fore the Senate. Gillette. however, sailed on in
his lecture with upright keel unabashed, utte1ing
ore rosundo every "hUrrid particular" and every
u9palatable conclusion, garnished with snatches Of
ana-slsvery poetry, and in periods of ornate de-
nunciation, as smooth and well-rounded as the
theme Of q c~ollegian. The Connecticut senator is
man OF rather singular appearance, tall, thin,
with pointed features, black hair and eyes, exhib-
iting q highly excitable tempcram ent, apparently
possessin, more moral than physical courage.
The Senate never was RECALLED with such an en-
tertainment before, and were it not for the late
political demonstration at the North, I doubt if
1t would have swallowed it with even the BAD grace
they did. Jones, of Tennessee, a western stump
orator, who snys little, but talks a great deal, fol
lowed. As might have been expected, the theme
OF his remarks was suggested by the outrageous
statements of Mr.. Gillette. Petit, of Indiana.
mentioned by MIR. Benton as "a dirty dog" dis
coursed pdssim on the different races of men, in
fefior and superior, neither affirming nor denying
the canine attributes charged upon himself.
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BLACK WOMAN AND WHITE LEeisLAroRs.-A
late New Orleans paper gives the following. The
'ehiyalry are a courageous set to fear for their
.throats for doing justice to such people. This
woman had not learned to appropriate other peo-
pies clothes. notwithstanding the example of white
church members around her in appropriating the
purses, the garments and the labor of her com
panions and herself:
"TRUSY FouSD.-On Tuesday morning n negro
woman, who was passing along Galvez st., near
the Canal, found a leather trunk broken open well
filled with clothing, papers, &c. The trunk also
contained six or seven gold watches. q lump Of
California gold, about q hundred dollars in gold
coin, and q number of other valuables. With a
rare honesty, the woman closed the trunk and went
in search of q policemen, whom she informed of
the discovery, and then returned and watched the
trunk until he came with a dray. 1t was taken
to the First District Police Office, and this morn
ing the trunk was claimed by a man named John
son, who lives, we believe in in the rear of Per-
dido-st., and who stated that the trunk had been
stolen from his room. He proved his property,
land took the trunk away. The honest old negro
woman who had discovered and guarded the prop
'erty, supposed as every one else did she would
receive u handsome reward, but the generous own
.er very cody informed her that he would not give
her a cent. The shout of derision which went up
from the admiring crowd around would bave
brought the blush of shame to any less hardy check
than the undeservingly lucky owner of this recov-
ered treasure"
How the legislature of Louisiana honor and
encourage such honesty as the above we learn
from a fact recorded in the same paper as the
above. in its legislative proceedings:
"Also a bill to prevent colored persons from
testifying against whites"
WINE AT THE SAcRAMENr.-Mos preposterous,
is the adhesion of our profcssedly temperance
churches to the use of intoxicating liquor, on their
sacramental occasions. Our experience is, that if
any one is DESTROYS of loosing cast in the temper
ance cause, he has only to rebuke in merited terms
this fragrant inconsistency and it is effectively done.
Horace Greedy in q recent letter to a Universalist
paper, gives this sacramental use of alcoholic wine,
as . reason for not being a commandment in that
church. lie says: .,
Believing the ordinance of the Lords Supper
sas now celebrated among US, a fearful impediment
to the progress and triumph of the principles of to-
tai abstinence from all that can intoxicate, | have
for some time past felt it my duty to abstain from
it, awaiting and hoping forthe day when Christians
of every name shall realize that the blood of our
Savior is not truly represented by the compounds
of vile and poisonous drugs commonly sold here as
wine, nor yet by any liquid essentially alchoholic,
therefore Intoxicating. If q few more would unite
in this pro est, we should soon have no other wine
used in the Eucharist than that freshly and wholly
expressed from grapesa liquid no more intoxica-
ting or poisonous than new milk or toast water.
And then we shall cease to hear of reformed drum
kards corrupted and hurled back into the way of
ruin by a vicious thirst reawakened at the COM
.munion-table.