Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-06-23
SALEM CoLUMBIANA COUNTY, ONO SATURDAY, JUNE


his coon-nothing more nor less. When Phillip
ses and IIales stand behind the rife, coons and
Curtiscs come down Great applause.) The,
come down and counterfeit death, both of them
but they are up again, as soon as the danger i
past.
| No, sir, we have got more work before US thai
is imag gined by these too sanguino friends of ours
There is that Personal Liberty Bill | heard ont
Of tho men who was on trial in the cases that grew
out Of Anthony Burnss arrest say, since the pas
sage of the Personal Liberty Bill that we should
have more trouble in Massachusetts. envy
! the peace of mind of that man, but | should be
! sorry to be thrown off my guard quite so easily
| Protection by law in Massachusetts, There has
been law enough to protect every slave that vas
ever carried over her borders, if we could have
got the law enforced. In the Sims case, Charles
Sumner, and he is commonly considered good
I lawyer-said to Sheriff Eveleth eagerly, IF the
laws of Massachusetts, are executed, that man is
in no more danger of being carried back than you
| or /; and hold you responsible But what was
the of holding Sheriff Eyeleth responsible q
Yet what more could he say under the Personal
Liberty BilP than that? In the Sims case, on one
of those mornings when the Boston police INDUCED
| themselves with parade in Court Square, as was
looking ONT was about five minutes after Mar
shall Tukey had threatened to arrest our friend
! Wn IL. Channing for laughing at the rather ex-
traordnary manmuyres OF a raw recruit-th0t
/
am violating the laws of Massachusetts, just ms
well you do; but what then? | am under the
orders Of the Mayor and Aldermen What more
can your Personal Liberty Bill give than that!
Laws are good tools, good Instruments but per.
sonal Liberty BilP without men to enforce it is
! like the steam fire engine,-worth all your other
engines put together when properly operated, but
when taken to pieces and stored away in a stable
what good is it going to do any body 4?
We do not want Personal Liberty Bills SC
much as we want man with backbone for Gov
ernor of Massachusetts! (Checrs.) When are VIC
going to get him?
Il A Voice--Next fall.
i Mr., Higginson-Ncxt fall? Well, hope you
will not be disappointed, But what did the Tel
egraph newspaper say last fall,-the only anti
}, slavery paper belonging to Boston,
i A Noce-Except the Liberator.
Mr.. Higginson-T That does not belong to Boston
it belongs to the world. (Cheers) The Bostoi
Telegraph, in criticising the course of Governor
Washburn, said: Under these circumstances W,
must consider what kind of man there was to act
Governor Washburn probably acted as he though
best. A man with backbone, like Henry Wilson
or M. Gardner, would have acted differently
That was before last fall Then, that election wa
going to be next fall and Mr. Gardner tn
man whom enthusiastic but not very far-sghte'
persons in the back part of the Meodeon expec
ted to elect Governor, and make the thing all right
) No. sir, the difficulty is not with the politicians
IL lleS Dehuu tileHl Iue pOlitlCluHS TeucCl tiei
constituencies. The people of Massachusetts, with
MI their professions, have not yet got to the picl
r of wanting man with backbone for Governor
If they have, why did they choose Mr.. Gardner
f after every act of his previous political life hat
been shifted, and his character written upon th
wall in pretty plain words. The difficulty lies be
hind the politicians, sir. 1t lies with the people
and it is we, it is YOU and it is all of us working
on the antslavery platform, who have got to brinl
Massachusetts, up to the pitch of opposing the Flu
!, gitive Slave Law before we shall get any thin:
under the name of freedom here that is worth tn
name.
e do not attach, sir, the same meaning to tn
word freedom that many persons seem to do
1 do not call it freedom to have black man il
the streets of Boston, with as much right to hi
freedom as you or | have, and be obliged to tax
!, that man 10y night and send him across the coun
= try to Canada II do not call that freedom. Ay
sir we talk about liberty being national and sla
very sectional, and say that now slavery is nationa
E and freedom sectional The difficulty | find is
that freedom is not even sccttona, it is not even
peculiar institution If it is where is it located
t Where is the spot square inch of cur territor
t on which you can put your finger, and say, "ller
f freedom dwells p | never was there. | shoul
i like to go there. have been to Bunker Hill
is not there. | have been to Lexington--not there
+ have been to Concord--it is not there They sa
f that there is land of the west,-not under a re
: publican government you have to go under mon
tiOuJ " lt-N lIe uldCh JUL ot'Ahu
S and call his soul and body his own. went ther
r the last winter, and | blush to own that when
stood on Canadian SOIL felt that thrill Of freedom
r had sought for in vain at Concord, and Lexing
: ton, and Bunker HILL l stood in place wher
I | could give full vent to my iml Of trcedor
e and not be afraid Of the Boston police while doin
0 it. 1t is a strange sensation, friends. l adyis
0 you to go there, and try it.
= Do not be cheated by what men tell YOU 1t
, not freedom to meet man in the street, and lee
o that, in order to him from the wickedes
= bondage on earth, there is other way but to Civ
: him dollar, tell him there is the railroad, an
i those iron tracks lead to Canada and freedom
The underground railroad is not freedom. W
S boast of that-boaSt Of il! tell you, sir, the VI
n derground railroad is shame and disgrace
every spot except the place which is its terminus
0 (Cheers.) There it is honorable. blush to thin
d that the fugitive slave should ever have to pas
S through Worcester; and thank God one neve
It did pass through without my doing all could t
e make hin stay.
No, sir; what we want is not to dream OF a Ian
% of freedom somewhere at the west, but to make
land of freedom here applause not to send slave
s TO Canada but to make Canada on the spot whel
s. we stand. loud cheers There is some homo
IS in that II is not to be done without danger; 1t
70 not to be done without revolutions fer the instai
II you begin to do it, revolution has begun in yo'
n Where on earth are there such materials for rey'
10 luton as hcre2 We talk of the dangers OF h
ID rope. What country of Europe has anythln
ar to exhibit as materials for revolution compare
al with ours? Where in Europe is there sue
n antagonism as exists on our soil--two sue
.e powers brough in conflict freedom on the one SD
,r and slavery ON the other2 l do not know whel
re it is 1t is not SO in Russia. In Russia all Al
% slaves. The serf is slave to the master; IL
3 master is slave to the noble; the nobles slave
d the higher noble the higher noble is a slave
k the minister's the minister is slave to the Gar
~ and the Gear is slave to the fear of assassin
T. ton. In Russia. every body is a slave. There
n revolution. But here, all our dreams are of fire
., dom, and all our practices have to be contormed
r, slavery America takes us, and brings us unto
% land Of so-caled liberty feeds us on Declaration
n. of Independence, Fourth of July oratons an
I. the ballot-box, and then when she has exhaustt
q all her teachings, and turned out free men
>. heart, in deed, what does she do with us? 81
,f shoots down in the streets Of Boston, IT we u
put her lessons in practice There is revolutlC