Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-02-03
AMERICAN PARTY.

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Henry Ward I5eecher, in a lecture in new York
has the following:
One movement there is that calls itself Ameri-
can Oh, that it were, would be. Never was
an opening nuspiciOus for true Americ an par
ty that, embracing the PRINCIPLES Of American ir-
stitutiOns, should enter our Temple of Liberty and
drive ont thence not merely the ihicrlopng Gentiles
but the nloney.changcrs, and those, also, who sell
oxen, and cattle and slaves therein.
1t is not the question whether Northern party
should be party of philanthropy or Of propagan-
dism, or Of abolition. 1t is simply question
whether for fear of .hese things they will ignore
and rub out of their creed every principle Of hu-
man rights!
] am not afraid of foreigners among us. Never
helcss our politicians haze so abused us through
them, that / am glad that movement is on foot to
regulate the conduct Of newcomers among us, and
oblige them to pass through longer probation be-
fore they become citizens. In SO far as under
stand the practical measures proposed and set
forth in the Message of the Governor of Massa-
chusetts, approve them.
But ask you, fellow citizens, whether The sim
pie accident of birth is basis broad enough for a
permanent National party? Is it q principie, even
1t is Il mere fact.
Ought we not to look little at what man is, I
gfier he is born, as well at the place where p
Especially, when we remember, that Arnold was
born in Connecticut, and La Fayette in France.
If then, party is American ought it not to be 1
because it represents those principles which are
fundamental to American Institutions and to Amer
lean policy principles which stand in contrast
with European principles and policy?
Which Of these two theories is the American p
The North has theory, the South another, which
of them is to be called the american idea? Which
is Amcrican-Norhern ideas Southern ideas
That which declares the superior races free, and
the inferior slaves?
/ That which declares the right of strength and
] intolliunpcn n IN Suhnr1ipotn ,ranEnaco nd
:cnce.
| That which ordains popular education freedom
of the press, public dscussion-or that which
makes these prerogative, yielded to q class but
denied to masses?
Il That which organizes Society as n Democracy
and Government Republic-cr that which Or
ganzcs Society as an Aristocracy, and Government
as an Oligarchy2
What shall it bc--that of organized New Eng
la.d townships schools, and churches--that resis-
ted taxation without represent entation-that covered
Boston harbor witt tea, rs if all China had shook
down her leaves there-which spoke from Feneuil
Hall, and echoed from Bunker Hill for that policy
which landed slaves on the Chesapeake-that has
changed Old Virginia from a land OF heroes into
breeding-ground of slaves-that has broken down
boundaries, and carried over our lines not for
liberty, but for territory for slaves to work
that the owners might multiply, and the aristocra
cy of America st.nd on the shores Of two oceans,
an unbroken bound all between?
! If a National American party is ever formed, by
leaving out the whole question of Human Rights. /
| it will be what man should behis soul left out /
An American National party-Liberty left out
Ag American party-llnman Rights left out!
ton before you get it finished. No Masonry can
make it solid-no art can secure it. No anchor
that forged in Internal stythy can 90 deep
enough into political mud to hold it!
If you rear upan empty namc if you take that "
revered name American, all the world over radiant
] and tho al Of ritrhtc and
human happness-if you sequester and stuff that
name with the elete doctrines Of despotism, do |
you believe you can supplicate from any gods the
boon of Immortality for such unbaptized mon
ster? No. 1t may live to ravage our heritage for
a few days. but there is spirit of liberty that
lives among us, and that shall live. And aroused
by that spirit, there shall spring up the yet una
reused hosts of men that have not bowed knee to
Ia and we will war it to the knife, and the knife
to the hilt.
For, IT SHALL be, America shall be free.
We will take tha, for our liies enterprise. Dy-
ing we will leave it legacy for our children, and
they shall will it to theirs, until the work is done,
our fathers prayers are answered, and this whole
land stands clothed and in its right mind-a sym.
Dol of what the earthly fruits of the Gospel are.
! If National party is now to be formed, what
shall it be, and what shall its office be
! 1t shlll be n peacemaker say sly politicians
Yes peace by war. But an American party,
seeking peace with imperious AristocMcy by
yielding everything down to the root-one would
thing no party need be formed do that Judas did
as much without company. Arnold did that with
out companions.
An American National party must either be
pebald and patched-up party, carrying in its en-
trails the mortal poison of two beggerent schemes
former legendary disputes, and agitation and fur-
ous conflict: or to be real national party, il must
first be No1thern party and become national. !
We must walk again over the course of history. /
Here, in the North, Liberty began Its roots are
with us vet. All its associations and all its potent
institutions with us. Having once given forth
this spirit of liberty now fading out of our South
ern States, the north should again come forth and
refill the poisoned veins that have been drinking
the hemlotk of Despotism with the new blood of
LbertyH Let us give sap to the tree of Liberty
that it may not wither and die
When Hercules was born, but yet child, the
Jealous Juno sent two scrpen;s to his cIrde to de-
your him. Hercules or the serpents must die.
Both could not lie in the same bed lie seized i
them and suffocated tRem by his grip, while his
poor brother, lphicluS, filed the house with his
shrieks An Internal Juno, envious of the destin-
ed greatness of this country hath sent this upon
it! What shall we do? Shall we initiate Her
cules or Iphicgs? Siall we choke it or shall
we form timid National party, and shrek?
Gentlemen, you will never have rest from this
subject uatil there is victory of principles
Northern ideas must become American, or South
ern ideas m ST become American, before there will
be peace If the North gives to the nation her /
radical principles of human rights and democratic
Governments, there will be the peace of an i'm.
measurably prosperity. If the South shall give
to the country policy derived from her heather
notions of pien there will be such peace as men
have overdrugged with opium, that deep lethargy
ust before the mortal convulsions and death, All