Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-06-02


conoiate, and will 30 driven to some more sub
stantial con .essiun"
The reeomm endation Of the Governor fell to the
ground, and nobody gave any heel to 1t, and the
whrie South to-day stands in the attitude oi de-
termination to make slavery elcrnal-neycr L"
mitigate any of its features, but tn keep IL always
Just what il is.
did not expect to live to see such a develop
ment as this: but il shows what the crisis Is IN
which we find ourselves. did not suppose, when
| began that we should be called upon to advo-
cate the dissolution Of the union existing religious
ly between the North and South; but the hour has
come when We must separate, or else our souls
must he stained with the blood of the slave. How
any man who can put two iIets together, who can
calculate that two and two make tDur can suppose
for Il moment that there can exist, W any posi-
bility, union between slavery ana nnti-shVcfy
between freemcn and Shareholders, is to me mex
rlicable. The very terms Indicate everlasting an
tagouism and nndying hostility. The one party
in favour Of Justice, humanity and irccdOm ana
the oh her party in favour Of oppression, and cru
city, and tuod-how can they walk together?
fully agree with the Mobile Tribune on this sub
jcct when it says:
NO man with any knowledge, in the South, can
for II moment believe that there is or can be any
harmony between the Christian organizations oi
the Free and the Slave States. Why then, patch
up and endeavor to check the disruption which
will presently be inevitable Detween them"
Yes, ask tho clergy who will assemble, within
week, in the city of New Yorli-the clergy North
who are hctd III emlleJ-why this attempt to
patch up false uui, n BETWEEN yourselves and the
Shareholders of the South? Their condition Of re-
sious union is that you shall acknowledge slavery
rs divinely instituted; as sustained by the Old and
New Testameuts; and that you shall declare anti
slavery to be infdcty. Unless you shall do this,
they will cut the bonds Of ou" UNION and separate
from you. Certainly. the language Of the slave.
hulii. South to the Ahulitionists is, mo Union,
rclgOusly, with Abolitonists." They are consis-
tent men; they cannot, a. Shareholders, say other
wise. On our part, as Abolitionists we meet them
rs frankly and ns directly, and say, mo Onion
with Shareholders, rcli 1iously'; and 81 the hour
has come that separate. All this is logical; all
this is II moral and religious necessity.
did not suppose, twenty-five years ago, that
the time wouhl ever come when it would be duty
to advocate the dissolution Of the American Union,
and Yet the hour has come; and now. it is for to
determined whether shall have any portion OF
uur country lett to the cause of freedom and Of
God, or whether, huwiug down and doing the ic-
hest Of the Slave Power, the whole land shall be
hurried to des trUct II. God knows that desire
NJ dissolution Of any Union worthy of the name
We ought to be ore people, from the Atlantic ta
the Pacific. Our institutions out to he hum"gcne-
neuus; our industry ought everywhere to he in
spired by the sane motives, and freedom ought
everywhere to reign. But, if we have body OF
men in oul cuuctry WHO have obtained the mastery
over four millions of ihe people, to make them
their slaves, if they declare to thar they will
consider it crime, not To he forgiven, the part
IF any man, to refuse to bow down to their power
ind to sanction their cruelty; if they resolved
To make every friend OF freedom outlaw, who
shall never be permitted to tread on their soil then
say rhat they have dissolved the Union already,
and we have got to do one of two thiag, either to
De slaves always. or to declare thut wash our
lAands Of bood-sultineSS IN this matter aud leave
hem take the dreadful responsibility upon their
pNn heads. (applausc).
| bring these remarks to Il close by giving You
tlie views of DR.. Wayaud, OF Brown University
IN this question Of the dlssolut II of the Union, II
gentleman ci great caution and the utmost circun-
| rpectlun-Unc who has never given any cuuntc-
nauce to the American Anti.Slavery Socety, ur to
any of its operations, and therefore, one whose
words will weigh heavily on the mind Of every
one who knows who and what DR.. WaylanG is
At great anti-Ncbrask mectmg held the city
| If Province, Rhode Isa I'd, while the Neblu,ka
bill WAS before Congress in the course Of Il very
able and powerful speech made by Dr.. Way land,
he said;
II value the Union as much as any man.
would checriulIy sacrifice to it everything bat JUS
tce, and Truth and Liberty. When | most Sur.
render these as'the price Of the Union, the Union
becomes ut once thing which abhur TO form
il union for the sake OF perpetnatug oppression is
to make myself an oppress,r. TINS | cuunut be-
! Ior love Liberty much for my neighNor my
self To sacrifice my liberty for the sake Of the
Union is impossible. God made me free, and
cannot be III bondage to any man.
Taking Christ for my example and striving t,
imbibc his spirit, can do otherwise than to take
to my bosom every oppressed and Gown-trodder
child Of humanity! Jesus Christ, my master is
not ashamed to call them brethren, and can | have
4 any partnership IN an attempt to trample then
under tuOt? Tne Union itself becomes 10 me al
accur,cd thing il must first steep it in the tear;
and blood Of those for whom Christ died"
| ask Dr.. Wnyand, and every other man, whe
ther we have ever had any other UniOn than tho
one which lac has here described; whether the ear'
and blood OF the oppressed millions Of our lant
have not always stained that Union; and whether
to purchase the Unlon 1T the outset, these opprcs
Sed people were not pat upon tile altar Of desEruc
ton and have ever since been giyen over to rene
diicss ruin? J. too, will sacrifice, with DR.. Way
land or with amy other man, everything for ih'
, Union Of this country except justice, truth an,
liberty, bur, when am called upon to sacrifice
these, | say, no; will be true to God, to my owl
soul and to liberty, and let such Union perish iur
ever loud appliuSe).
Mr. john Mercer Langston graduate Of thu
2 Oberlin Institute, couured gentleman who ha
, recently been elected Town Clerk ui Brownhel
Mr.. LANGSTON'S SPEECH
Mr. President aud Ladies and Gentlemen: Som
great man has remarked that nation may lose it
liberty in day and be Il century in finding It out
There is not, within the length and breadth Of tln
entire country, from Maine 10 Georgia, from tn
] tnntc to the Pacific Ocean. solitary man 0
y CONAN, who is in the full possession oi his or he
share of civil religious and political liberty. Thl
is u startling announcement, perhaps III the hear
+ and centre of II country loud in its boasts OF It
free Institutions, its demOcrs tic organizations, 1t
{ equality, its justice, aud its belaluy We hav
! ueeu in ihe habit o bUasling Of our Declaration
> Indepencc OF our Federal Constitution, OF the Ul
J. dincnce u l7c7 and various cuactm2uts IN iayuu
/ Of popular liberty for 50 lung that Se verify be
licvG that are tree peoples and yet am force
Il TO declare, looking the truth directly IN th3 fac
n and ing the power Of American slavery, Ina
there is not, wIlAln the Uosop of this entre cuul
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