Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-11-10

chance ,hat it might lie levelled with the ground,
and his wife and children dead On the doorstep.
There was not n woman in those days, who saw
her husband or lover or SON leave her IN the morn.
ing, who did hot know that when she waved hcr
farewell from the window Of cottage or castle, il
might be for the last time! Talk Of sacrifices
Whole clans, whole tribes, laid life and pioT orty,a
daily sacriGce-thcy died daily, and for what
For u foolish line Of legitimate, dcthroncd kings
And VIC, with the greatest Of all principles TO sus'
tain, with three million Of iClluw-men and women
in the most fearful of all bondage, with Il whole
nation failing and dying for the want Ct the re-
dcpptiou which we must give,-why, we actually
descend TO count tie sacrifices we make! We ac
tuGlly, il We have made sacrifices, remember them
and allow others to speak Of them - and they arC
so few, that they can be mentioned
My friends, even in the greatest sclEdcyOtiOn,
there is something more to be learned, and We
have got it b learn. PAssMoRE WILLIAMSON is in
his prison, aud Massachusetts men are quiet, and
70 about their daily business and if he were in
prison in Boston, il would be very nearly the same
thing. In Kansas, the liberty of white men Is
struck down, and held at the point of the Duyouct,
and here in Massachusetts, we sympathiSc-in the
abstract But when a brave man comes here to
raise money to arm with Sharp's rifles hiscumpany
Of n hundred Kansas farmers, does he lind a'mate-
rial aiSat all commensurate with his expectations!
Alas, no! | have q sad letter which tells the CON
trary, hut | will not read it, lest the daughters of
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members Of Congress, ,tatcsmen, refuse to sacrifice
tho.r places for freedom, when we ill not sacrifice
our purses. We cannot wonder at the sclishness
Of llunkcrs when We remember our own.
tell you, the fanatics have something TO learn.
| am standing with my back on those old Adolf
tionists, who have made the past sacrifices, and
still make them-I am preaching to you who sill
before me,-to you, who have got the sacrifices Ct
the future to make,-to you, who are not yet pre-
pared to make them) Are the times OF danger
all passed a.? ! do not know about that. ] was
not present at the meeting We celebrate it all
pas. cd over mo as wars and pcrils pass unconscious
over the hea Is Of boys at school but l shall rey.
er forget the trumpet note that thrilled my soul
vixen ! first read the record Of this day ia the dcs-
cription of HARRIET MAETINEAu, and of that yet
more heroic woman, whose praise has not been
mentioned as it should have been this alternoon,-
MARIA " ESToN CHAPMAN i shall never forget, ]
say, the thrill that went over me then, nor the sigh
that succeeded it--ior | did not know then as
much as | know now-when | said to mysclf-'U
dear! that is all past and gone, and Anti-Slayery
is easy work now there Is nothing more to be
dared and done And when / read afterwards
i'll Emerscn's brave words, that 'selfsacrilice need
never wait long for an opportunity tie try its edge,
it came as Il new hore there might be an OPP
~portunity yet. And, even in these later times, We
hare opportunities.
Mr.. PmLLErs told us, that on this day, twenty
years ago, the military could not protect the meet
M, because inc guns were OulSIuc III INC !hnO-o!
the men who should have carried them There
has been a time since Wien tie men were on the
outside, and The guns too and as surely us this
earth turns on its axis, that time will como again
Aud it is for you, men who hear me, to think
what you will do when that time comes and it is
for you. women who hear me, to think what you
will do-and what you gre willing,-l will not say,
to consent shat those you love should do,-but
what you arc willing 10 urge them to do, and IL
send them from your homes, knowing that they
will do it, whether they live or die.
am speaking Of realities now Of real dangers
and duties here in Boston, that appeal to a!l,--to
non resistants as much rs any other, and in speak
ing Of these, l have said enough. But, | say, in
closing, if there is any young man here who is
not prepared to devote himself to the doing OF
such duties, he had better meet the issue now, for
this night the duty may be required Of HIM. And
| say, yet more, that as the devotion Of Hannibal
and his lifelong hostility to Rome, were built W
by bis mother in his childhood. when she brought
him to the altar in the temple, and day by day
pledged him there anew ; $50 we have in vail
come here to-day, to this honored SPOT, unless our
last act is to touch lis consecrated altar. and pledge
ourselves to Freedom once again and forever!