Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-02-17


Do you remember that Daniel Webster stood ON
the steps of this Hall, aud told You that the Gov
ernment would take fugtiyes from here in the
midst of the next Anti-Slavcry Convention and
that it was only from the clemcncy Of the Govern.
ment that offenders not tried for treason Do
you remember how II Unitarian divine declared
'hat he would send his own son or his own brother
once or twice his own mother into slavery if the
law required i'll Would men exhibit such zeal
IN such false positions in any other cause than
that of Slavery?
The slave power packs iuriesl It has done
this in every instance where men have been tried
for iescuing fugitives Judge Curtis made the
luryman in the Burns rescue case swear that they
believed in the coustitutionality Of the Fugitive
Slave LAW
But this is not all What are its present de-
signs? 1t intends to got Cuba and lIayti and
finally South America, and establish Slavery in
all the northern states a southern statesman
once said to John p. Hale: at will not be long
before Shareholders will sit down with their slaves
at the foot Of Bunker Hill Monument" They
have done more than that They have set
down with them in the shadow of Faneuil
Hall! They are already endeayoring to
get the right to reside ia the north
with their slaves. They intend, too, to revive the
African slave trade !-"What says South Caro-
lima paper "s the use of paying eight nine
hundred dollars for a slave, when we can get one
iiom Africa for one hundred?" lie had every
reason to believe that cargo of slaves was landed
last year i'll one Of the southern states.
Amid all the encroachmentS and triumphs of
Slavery, resistance has been made TO its advance
ment A small number are opposing its morality.
They can disseminate Anti. Slavery truth--they
can labor to arouse the public sentiment against
this wrong. They have thus labored, and expec-
ted abuse in return, and have received very much
what they expected. He regarded these as
among the nobest of men. Time will come when
they shall be generally so regarded Time will
come when we shall search for marble white enough
with which to honor Wm. Lloyd Garrison, and not
find it.
The liberty party has also done something and
the Free Soil party more. What the Know Moth
ings will do, he could not say. They have already
done some good They have checkmaed the
United States Government. They have taught our
politicians not to depend upon corruption Of for
eign votes for success. They are knocking the old
parties To pieces, which is u great deal But he
did not believe in casting out devils by Belzcbub
the prince of devils. If the Know Nothing party
adopted the idea Of Freedom. it must be freedom
for ALL whether German or Irish
The nation now presents the aspect Of house
divided against itself. One Of three things may
happen to US as Il nation. The Union may fly to
pieces In that case we shall have two govern
ments The North perfect democracy
the South IL more perfect despotism. Bat he did
not look for u speedy dissolution of the Union.
lie thought the slavery question could not effect
a dissolution at present Sll, he did not believe
the Union would exist for an indefinite period.
We must soon, he thought, have Pacific hepub-
lie and an Atlantic Republic, and he hoped also
South Ameriran Repuhc.
! Slavery may triumph over Freedom. This is a
CHASTITY possibility; but things now look like this.
If the next ten years should be like the last, there
will he an end of Freedom in country. We
shall have no free schOol-nO free speech-=n0 free
press Two hundred years ago Spain looked more
like standing than America does to-day. Now
She is only corpse Of nation. 1t is because she
tramnlcd liberty under her feet. Though the
wicked Join hand in hand, niquty shall pot pros
per-" Thus persisted imperial Rome-tIus per-
ished classic Greece! And shall not America thus
perish?
do not think exactly SO. I the uprising
Of s!iuch men Charles summer Joshua Ii. Gid
dings and William H. Seward, III political
parties. / sec such men as Henry Ward Beecher
rising up in the old orthodox church. and | see
that he is the most popular minister in the cOun-
try. | see that every Lycoum III the land--and
there are 700 of them are anxious to pay him $50
to lecture to them. And know they are popular
because they appeal to the hearts and conscenceS
of the peope. / look into the faces Of six thou
people every year, besides my own congregation in
Boston, and lind that my appeals to the best sea-
timens of the soul meet the most hearty response;
and these thing, make me hope. | remember it
is the nineteenth century after Christ, and not the
ninth. We're it only the ninth l should despair:
but it is the nineteenth, and hope. | remember
too that our continent is in the hands of AngoSaX-
ons | know that they have often been unjust and
crue-nevcrtheless they have built institutions for
Liberty; and for hundred years Freedom has been
on the gain, / cannot but believe that the idea of
Freedom will triumph.
There is, then, another possibility. We may
90 our duty. We may prevent the extension of
slavery. We may make the government anti-sla-
very. We may prohibit shareholders from hold
ing Office; and we may abolish the Judiciary,
if it interposes in behalf of slavery. And in this
way we may become rid Of slavery. And what a
peonlo shall we be without slavery. With our
three million square miles of soil-with our free
schools and unbounded advantages, we can ac-
camplish our destiny. South America and Cuba
will be ours without firing a gun for them. In
a century this whole vast continent will be in the
hands Of this mighty Anglo-Saxon race. All this
is within our reach, if we but do our duty. The
question ask America is, will you follow the foot
stems of Spain, and become corpse of a nation,
or bless a world with the reign of prosperity and
peace?