Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-09-08

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Kansas, if al the people were disunionistsH What
will become of Kansas as it ISL John Quincy
Adams on his dying bed declared that Slavery has
been the animating principle of this Government;
and the last words Of John Davis were to express
his conviction that the slave power rules every
thing in this country. Slavery exists by law in the
soil of Massachusetts and Ohio, and Salmon T..
Chase and his party are pledged to support this
state Of things. Slavery is now established by
law in Kansas and Mr.. Chase is opposed to inter
fering with slavery wherever it exists by law. j
agree with our friend that the Fugitive Slave law
Of 1850 is unconstitutional; the same may be true
oe the Slave laws of Kansas. But we are not to
decide these questions. Tho judiciary Of the
nation has decided in part, and willie decide th1
whole of these laws to be constitutional. And
the Free Sellers declare they will support the
Constitution and laws of the country. The Dis
unionists declare we will trample upon them. The
Free Sellers are with the master against the slave,
We are with the slave against his master. Who
then is likely to do most for freedom in Kansas ?
Let the people answer.
Mr.. Pardee, responded, attempting some further
difense of the Republican party. After which
the meeting adjourned.
SUNDAY MORNING SESSION.
James Barnaby spoke Of the history and pros
poets of the Anti Slavery movement. lie said the
world has not always, (f it has ever, in their life
time) cherished ite benefactors. 1t has became a
proverb thata prophet is without honor in his
own land but the true reformer has all the world
for his county, and ali mankind for his country
men. Hence the prophet if humanity is doomed
~ L.. ,nnNNraa.cInl .on1 IL U,,u-o1t ,,lr,n,.t
and unsung."
One VINO took the privilege.-if he had not the
%right-to speak in homcly parallels said that pearls
cast before swine would not be priced by the re-
eeivers, which would rather turn and rend their
benefactors and there is also a saying, that "the
hog looketh not up to him that sliaketh down the
acorns." So this world of ours has been wont too
often, to treat with neglect, if not with persecution,
those who would fondly bring the richest bless
ings upon it.
If then, the early abolitionists in this land were
not honOred or ndored rs great and noble men,
that fact is not proof that they were the enemies
Of their kind, as we have seen that persecution is
not sure evidence that those who receive it
deserve their doom. The man, or men, who
attack the cherished sin of n great nation will
opoh nut u HIGuJ HdllOD urTdycu against ln6
the truths which lie or they may utter. Such a
Sin is American Slavery. Such men were VIM.
Lloyd Garrison and the little band who with him
a quarter Of a century ago, attacked this system
Of robbery and crime and blood. Slavery may be
truly called the cherished sin of this land, that to
which everything noble and just and true has been
sacrificed, just as often and as widely and rudcly
as such sacrifice was demanded. From the very
foundation Of our Government, in the Govern
ment, in the church, in social relations and in
domestic affairs Slavery has been all in all and if
those who earnestly attacked it a score of years
ago, did not receive the thanks and blessings of
the nation, we can account for it on other princi-
pies than the supposition that they were in the
wrong. 1t is proof rather that the wrong had
arrayed itself against those who, Drawing its pow
er, rebukod it and would not let it rest.
When Garrison began his work he had no cor
rect idea of the task before him. lie knew the
guilt and crime of Slavery. lie knew that the
many were heartless, but he believed that those in
the land distinguished for virtue and piety would
but need to have their attention aroused to ensure
their cooperation. lie appealed to those from
whom he hoped assistance, but appealed in vain.
They treated him, first with GOODNESS and indiffer-
ence, afterwards with contempt and rudeness, and
when they could not repel him thus, by malignant
hate and bitter persecution.
AT that time Garrison was not an infdel, what
ever he may be called to-day. lie was strictly
orthodox in his faith, eminently pious in his daily
life, a strict believer in and observer Of the Sab.
bath. lie even commended revivals of religion in
pro-slavery churches as genuine outpourings Of
the divine spirit. We may wonder that Garrison
was so silly, but he was. The Liberator was seven
years old before he even questioned the orthodox
idea of the Sabbath, and his attention was only
called to the subject at last by an address of DR.
Beecher, in which he lauded the Sabbath as the
greatest of blessings to man-''the sun of the NOR
al world"-an address-a strange admixtlre Of
pious cant and clerical misrepresentation, ignoring
humanity that it might exalt God. 1t occurred t.
Garrison that it might be well to keep mot one il
seven, but oil days holy" and he said so. His atten
ton called to the subject, he investigated it fully
and was surprised to find that the so called chris.
tan Sabbath had no sanction in the New Tesla
ment, was not p~racticed by the early christians
nor believed in by Calvin or Luther.
Long before this, however, the Church had de,
nounced Garrison as the enemy of everything pure
and holy. lie made trouble, they said, in theil
Israel. Some individuals, ministers in the church
as Messrs. Phelps, st. Clair, Fitch, Towne, Cox
and others, had been galvanized into Anti Slavery
life, ard the church in some of its obscure branch
es, exhibited certain spasmodic twitchings, sucl
as a dead frog is said to exhibit when subjected t.
the action of a galyanie battery. This had alarm
ed the clergy and the Portland Mirror, and Yer
mont Chronicle, and Boston Recorder, and New
York Observer, had denounced Garrison as bitterl,
while his creed was strictly orthodox as ever the,
did a%fterwarl. His fault was that he would rebuk,
wickedness in high places, would call things b,
their right names. lie had said in the very be
ginning, 81 will be as harsh as truth, and as un
compromising as justice. / will not equivocate,
will not excuse,l will not retract a single inch, ant
l will be heard" And for this they hated AM
l.