Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-09-15

tanning the ma nous action OF tno mhlOrNJp hoiPT
ing TO extend slavery, and to protect the master
against the slave, You cannot under the Govern.
mont do other than aid tho majority, and If You
could do otherwise you arc pledged net TO do so.
If YOU will not sustain the slave power while in
thc majority, how can you expect them to help you
when the majority is ON your sidef Como out
from the blood.stained Union. Place Ohio in n
state Of hostility to tho Union. Form a Northern
conicderacy in favor oS freedom.
Mr.. Barnard. Give us a better boat than that in
which'wo are anoat, and we will get into ii.
Mr. Wright. We offer you a better one-a North.
ernCoufederaey; y Government where Freedom shall
be protected aud which shall have. mo compro-
misc with slavery-no union with Shareholders"
b. G. Gilbert, thought an injudicious course had
been taken by somo Of the speakers, If tho object
was to get contributions from Free Sellers. You
charge us with being worse than tho Wings aud
Democrats. You tell us sometimes that the West
em Reserve has boon made what. it is, mainly by
tho efforts Of disunionists, yet the Reserve is tho
stronghold Of Free Soil.
IL. G. Wright. Still this is the result of our
teaching.
Mr.. Gilbert. And yet you declare these Free
Sellers Ear worse since their couvc rsion than they
were DelOIO, dhu tiCh thli uINh W 'bNNN
TO your funds. lie would bo glad to SEQ tho Free
Sellers contribute literally. He had given himself,
and expected 10 do so to carry on the operations of
the Western Society, lie believed the Society was
doing immense good, and trusted voting abolition
lists would aid in furnishing it the means Of future
usefulness.
SIS. Foster said he did not doubt but that his
friend Gilbert spoke as he thought, but there was
much of falacy in his remarks, with some truth.
This was not strange. We seldom find n grain Of
wheat without finding more or less chat. He
SAYS We represent FREQ Sellers MS worse than
Wings and Democrats. Who among disunionists
has uttered such n scntimentH | have never, said
Mr.. F., heard such ajdeclaration or intimation from
n Garrisoniau. ! have said, and if wrong in this
am willing to be set right, that the Free Soil party
is, Mt present, the greatest impcdimcnt in the way
Of anti-slavery. l am, | believe, the only man in
our ranks who takes this position. Yet this is
very different hon saying that the Free Sellers are
worse men than those of the other parties. 1t is
because they are not worse men, but better ones,
that they arc a greater impcdiment, just now, TO
our cause. The better Il man is while in a bad
position, the worse is his influence. 1t has been
shown that YOU are in a false position. You are the
best men that occupy that position, and you use
your influence against the true anti, slavery move
mei.t, and thus accomplish what Wings and Dem
.ocrats could not do, to injure our caus SO. l will
give you credit for honesty-no l viii not say that.
Sou are Not faithful to your convictions, nor true
10 the slave. 1t is an act of the deepest kindness
in me TO tell you that you are dishonest if think
80 for it may aid you in taking a better position
l believe you are doing wrong, you are under
mining your happiness by disIegarding moral prin'
ciplc. You are bartering your eternal welfare fol
some imaginary good. You net, not for the future
but for to-day not on the principle OF impartial
universal love, but upon an infinitely lower princi-
Pile. We will not allow you thus to send your
brother to the auction block without rcbuke, The
moment you place your own ~happinos above that
Of your follow man you destroy your happiness
We would call you back to p~rineiplc, TO sacrifice
your selGshness, your pes,-cverything for the
slave. My first work is to rescue my c1untrymer
from the disposition to enslave their fellow beings
to bring them to do unto others as they would
have others do to them. This principle forbids tina
you should held up u Government for the slave
that you would dash it to pieces in an instant if i
was made against yourselves. Dr.Dewey declared he
would give up lis mother 10 slavery to save the coun
try. / repudiate the doctrine. Give up my moth
or to save the country If my country can only
lie thus preserved, in Gods name, let it go to the
devil. That act which must be done by tho viola,
ton of u moral principle, | will never do. / will
pour out my blood if need be, to save my country
bat no moral principl, will | sacrifice, even to pur-
chase such n boon. If your Government is such
that You arc willing to take under it the place it
assigns to its meanest subject, then you may take
it for yourselves, and not till then. But such you
know it is not. To this point will ] hold you till
God gives me light to see that l am in the wrong,
or you the virtue to repent. / may be wrong, but
/ know that | am honest. | believe that God ap'
proves my work even as my own heart approves.
No fear of poverty, no hope of riches or honor shall
deter me. l do not despise honors | would like
wealth, at least competency I need money, have
a body to provide For, and a family to look after
But these things are but as dust in the balance
can live on a crust Of bread, or if it must be,
can -starve. But | pW not starve my soul, no
dwarf my manhood, God being my judge. viii
deuounsc the men no matter how high their stand
ing or how great their nfluence-who use that in
Huepoe in favor of a Government rs unprinciple
and corrupt as ours, as the greatest enemies of th
Ant-slavery cause.
The Free Soll party, ike the wing ana pem'
cratic 7arty is not an honest party. Salmon 7
Chase was not honest Nhon he made tho speech
which reference has been made in this meeting
For tho sake OF powcr and Office he has made a con
promise with sin. When the great struggle come
the slave against his master-where will Nj
Chase be found ! shall be with the slave.
he is tree to his declarations he will be with tn
master. shallI call him honest today, when Il
morrow, perhaps, if he carries out the principle
he avogs to day, he viii plunge the dagger to m
heart! Whose bayonets did encounter at Bosto
when Burns was dragged from that city into boz
dage. They were Free Soil Soil 5ayonets. Ere
Soiiers we're in the service Of the Union and 81
very. True there are many OF you who would ne
DO H. Yet ShoM shalt ! trustr You have agree
to stand bs the Dnioa and the laws that you an
Abe slave tyranis hage mAds. ! ESuld rather 20
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