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

ideas ltbouring for GO years; aud he
'hOwed us the only party that has succeeded In
degree against the Slave Puwet, being obliged
to assume the appearance of n conspiracy and to
undermine, in secret, American Institutions. Lib
orty, then, has got to be a conspiracy; it has to be
secret il has 70 hide itself from the sun; it has t.
dig its catacombS beneath our Rome. Whata com
mentary on .ho State VI our public aHairsl
The Cnion--it has created Wing and Democrat.
1t has come down to the vanishing poiutin its
executive. 1t has Increased, the last twelve
months, the network, Mt home and abroad, Of its
rro-slaycry designs. You ca mot speak in Charles
ton. You may come nearer home. Where are
VIC met? In a theatre in the city Of New York.
Tho greatest moral idea Of the are cannot find a
church to sit in in the Empire City. When our
coloured friend quoted that fine sentiment Of
Tercncc. who, by birth, was allied to the slaves Of
liis day-IiDmo sum, Ct Mill hHHuHt q me aItcHUw
pato-l could not but recollect that W sen the
people of Rome rose to vel come it from the lips OF
~ slave poet, it was in n theatre. And if VIC were
TO go back to ancient Rene, where spoke frees.
AMI warmest the real humanity and religion Of
that great city? Was it in the Roman temples or
in tho theatre From the lips Of priest or a play
wright? The Christianity Of Rome we Judge to
have been, then in her theatre aud to-day, this
year, is it not equally true that there is more re-
ligion in the New York theatres than in the New
York pulpits? (Applause.) Where, this side OF
Brooklyn ferry has Uncle Toms whole gospel been
preached anywhere but in q New York theatre !
L rom the Roman Jay u OURS. II IL NV away
under the sa:crdotal garb that you find the Chris
%tianity Of the country. Is in Rome, 50 in Amer
ica.
My friend painted the nation in its political fail
urc. lie might have painted it lcIlg Gus. We
painted it ia the abortion Of its politics. lie
might have said that it is possible we may have,
Imported the real article from India for certainly
we did not find it at home. But what would you
DO with such a nation Can the Know Nothings
save it? There was a midshinman once who was
49, 49, q lAatl .E nlr1t pn N hnIl
out whether he knew scamanship enough to pass
u a higher grade. One Of the old admiralS said
TO him, "If YOU were on Il l~ce-shore, breakers ahead,
YOUR rudder gone, your masts carried away, your
anchor lost, what would you do with the ship
Qlick, now; you could not haze much time tor
thought under such circumstances" What! the
anchor lost p said the MILDLY. Yes, ancher lost
what would you do?" AMI the mast gomez
'Yes, | tell you everything ~gone-anchor, rudder,
mast and all; what would you dol" Let her go
raj, "it is the only ching you could do" (renewed
l~,ughter.) Now, our FRIEND has shown US a Union
with the mast gone, the rudder carried away, the
anchor lost, from Washington down to Pierc1, from
the days Of Jay and Hamilton down to the Journal
Of Commerce and DR.. Cox. daughter and apYlause;)
aud he says there is a secret party, a certain con
spiracy Of American ideas, that can save tho ma,
chinery which sixty years of experience has proved
10 be a failure. l say, with the MILDLY, "let her
go to the devil" She is on u lee shore she has
lOSt all nCr apDhl aus IOT IurlUeT nIiluilC IFbSTSSni
she has shown herself incapable Of protecting free
speech. She has not bred noble parties; yot
starve out the Gospel at the Ncrth YOU crush il
with lynch-liw at the South. The Bible is n for
hidden book in onc-half of the Union, and it woult
seem as if it Yas not read in the other. And this
is your result after sixty years. Why is it wortl
saving? The Know Nothing party, like a man OF
the t%feadmill, will make progress, always moving
but never going an inch ahead, and grinding Out
nothing. Tie American idea-it needs new cir
cumstances in which to develop itself. The shell
of the nut has rotted your institutions, you
Consultation, your Union have rotted why? Tha
the germ may spring into nobler proportions undel
Il more flyoring heaven and a better growth
The Know Nothing movement-it is excellent, 81
long as you confne it to States. Massachusetts
has done nobly at home; but | am afraid of thii
new party when it passes the limits of the STATE
and goes into the tempting arena of National poll
tics-into n union with slayeholding counsellor
for national organization. Like all the pas
attempts to link freedom and] slavery together, i
is n failure it must be. Our only lamp for tn,
future is in the past. We have had good men anC
great men. Then, how can we hope to have am
greater for tho future? Slavery to be destroyed
by action in one section of the Union while i
exists in the other? Never; you might as vel
anchor one-half the ship and expect to let til,
other go. You might rs well attempt to frowi
with one cheek and smile with the other. Their
is Z gun Just heard from Kansas slave prOpG
gandist shot by a freeman. Like the gun frs
fired at Lexington, God grant that it may be til
prelude to the struggle betwiXt Northern AM
Southern ideas, to be heard around the worl
(applause)-that the North may awake to til
struggle of individual State soyereigntics. lie
Know Nothingism interest itself in State severely
ties-uot seek for national organizations. Neve
has there been q national party that has BEEF
enabled to serve freedom, and never will there b
while slavery exists. In the nature Of things, it j
not possible. My friend has just demonstrated t
us that the Wing party, from the very necessit.
of its elements, has served nothing but slavery
Those clements will remain the same when Tia
rev movement enters the same arena. We mus
keep i~toatDfi; we mustkeep it,at home. Jefferson
said that all Of might there was in the united GOV
eminent was owing to the accident Of State gov
ornments and State sovereignty. Let us save thu
State sovereignty to fight tie battle of liberty owe
again (lpplause.) Let the Know Nothing Part,
Of MI,sachuseettS send its Wilson's and Its Sum
neTs to the United States Senate or bring then
lone | care not which only let it make the sol
Of Massachusetts, sacred. When it has done that
we have a fulcrum for the lever that will upse'
slavery. Let US have Il Know Nothing parry fo
New Hampshire, for Vermont, for Ohio but II
national organization no Sam Houston no Gar
rctt Davis no compromises for a Union President
God grant that we may have seen the last Of sucl
(applause.) Let the line go out in Pierce let i
flicker like the Roman line Of cmperors in Angus
tus the little, and die there.
This is the only comment that ! would make Of
the ~elo1uent exposition which our friend has give
us historically Of the past of America and Amer
can ideas. The Union-it never has been able t
preserve our own institutions even here at home
ltneyer has been able to protect the Northerne
in his own State, or in locomotiOn through the slav
States.
And now, friends, not to detain you at all owe
the time allotted to US, this is my idea of tn
version of the anti slavery enterprise which tn
gentlcmnn who sits behind me inaugurated i
1881. 1t is to call things by their right names
\. lie may keep its throne a whole age longer
it can skulh behind the shield of some fair seen
ing name. IL is a name that makes your spire
and turreted buildings into churches, while Chri
tianity is found in your streets helping the drum!
ard, binding up the broken-hearted and p-eparin
n public opinion that will protect the slay
applause.) 1t is a name that makes you love Il
Union, while no one of you can pat his finger on