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

up, aud we will mako Massachusetts over again
and turn the bay Of Boston from the gulf Of Guinea
into wb At Sam. Adams looked upon as the blue
waves Of n free State (applausc) The time was
when anti-slaNery might have reason to dread q
mob the time has gone and the mob is on our
side; that is, the popular instinct is on our side
the fresh feelings Of the people are on our side,
could we get at them. Break to pieces the pres
uge OF your Union, The arrangement of your par
Ties, the claims Of your churches old. ideas, the
doiuGs Of the fathers, the fame Of the past-and
give us the hearts Of these millions, and we will
find enough there. The mob Of Kansas-it will
be the free government of Kansas, if it shall sue.
cead, ten years hence (arrlause.) But SO long as
the Union can trail over it her balcful influence, II
never can succeed; it must go down like every
experiment that has the wealth, the law, prejudice,
the press, and what calls itself the pulpit of the
country, ON its side. Liberty is nothing but the
pulse Of the people give me those pulses, and
they shall beat down the iron and the granite, iron
and granite though they he. The being, the vital
power Of an idea is the only thing worth taking
account Of in our estimate Of the progress OF the
race. l have looked upon the wrecks Of the pal
aces of the Caesars, built Of Italian granite in
masses which it seemed as if only Titans could
have moved, piled up as if they were to last for
eyer. But the tiny weeds of the luxuriant Italian
summer have put, from season to season, their
roots in the intcrstices, and nature, greater
than the Titans, tad forced into s~hapeless ruins
the once gorgeous palaces. SO shall it be with
your government and institutions if you only will
speak the bold, simple, Saxon words your wells
Of granite and your gates Of iron shall yield to
the pulses of men the humane instincts shall
thrust the tiny roots Of their God-given inspiration
within the huge structures and tear them into a
s~hapelcss mass. Then will the far nobler Union
and Government, that the nineteenth century is to
see, rise like an exhalation in the place of the
past (applause. But it only will be if the Abo-
litionists, treading under foot the associations Of
the past, tearing from their eyes the b~andagcs of
fine words, shall speak to each other and to the
world in the plainest and simplest language that
describes the thing of which they speak. The
Christianity Of New York is here, not in the
churches, provided you come here with hears,
ready to help that bondman that you never saw
on the plains of the Carolinas, in the howell Of
Arkansas, help him up to the sunlight privilege;
which you enjoy yourself.
Our fathers went into school in 1880 they triet
to put right and wrong, fire and water, into thu
same vessel Of @ united government, and the re
suit you see to-day in the utter prostration of jus
tice, in the utter triumph of the Slave Power. |
is not given to the human race to try such al
experiment twice. If it has taught us nothin
G else, at least let it teach us that no shibboleth G
4 words, nicely arranged catalogue of amend
I meats, no resolutions against slave States, whic
have been made only to be broken, no ignis ,tdtu1
= of the abolition of slavery in the District Of Co
' umbia, no pledge to do something hereafter, bu
d to do nothing for the present, can ever avail, in
+ crisis like ours, betwixt the words of the peopl
5 and the wealth of a dominant aristocracy. Der
s. than said Of Europe, that the people have neve
e gained q right that they did not bully out of thei
u oppressors. 1t is a truth written all over the hi
II tory Of the Saxon race on the other side of til
r ocean. No aristocracy has ever yielded to priI
ciple-to the Sermon on the Mount; they hay
S yialInl pp1V IN fpar The Gn ypn ropa lara wit
h an aristocracy of 1900 with two. thousand mi
n lions, of dollars in their hand with the governmer
of sixteen States ON their side, with a vassal pres
1t with a prostituted pulpit, with q mock Christienit,
how soon are they to yield? (Applause.) Neve
till Massachusetts, hopeless to make Carolina fre,
II shall take the only direct path to make her blac
men free, by p%roclaiming that, from Barnstable
Berkshire; no man whose foot has ever touche
the barren soil of New England shall ever agai
be a slave (great applause)-by proclaiming thu
Is while men. s~tealers sit in the Senate Of the Unite
is States, she will not waste her Wilson's and Sun
ners by sending them there (applause)-by pr
claiming that while the United States Governme,
is plotting to seize with one hand the queen of ii
West Indies. and to cover with the other the who.
West to the Pacific with the blood of slavery, 81
will enter into no compact and no alliance-an
q by running up the pine tree and fighting on hi
own hook, q sovereign State alone, n free govern
ment, hoping that your Empire State and 20,
neighbors of Ohio will follow suit (applausel.
l have not time to develop the idea which
shadow forth; but ladies and gentlemen, l ha,
n read the history of sixty years in vain if l eth,
wish to try myself, or that the generation which
to follow me shall try the experiment of the la
st fifty years again. Jonathan Edwards, the younge
said, in the year 1871, in New Haven, the ma
that lives fifty years hence will see the man wi
ID holds a slave occapy, before the moral sense
the community, the condition of a pirate. Eff
years have passed, and fourteen more have bee
IN added, and what is the fulflment? Where is Il
stakeholder Her college is full of STAKEHOLDER
sons her public streets are written all over wit
!!e black stains. o, no; roll back the wave tel
Is the parchment sail under a new flag; freight
10 new ship let the old one go on to the leesho
y "to the dey:l' loud applause).