Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-01-13

riotism which always cries out for our country
right or wrong. Then comes the pulpit which i
reduced to vossange. The most influential an,
fashionable pulpits in our cities are Indifferent 81
lent, or pro-slavery.
lhis Is not the first anti-savery crusade. Al
former ones hsvc failed because the Slave Powe,
which has its roots at the South has the upas tree
and its branches in Mi!k-sreet
! The fruits OF the Slave Power upon the press
the pulpit, the people and politicians were then
Illustrated by reference to examples from our ear
hest history TO the present time. There is no anti
slavery sentiment at the North which calls slavery
SIN as there is in Kentucky sentiment which
drives the murderer out of lis horders. There
are" said he, "men walking in this city who have
done fouler deed than Mat. Ward. They have
given up to bondage-whch is worse than death
Il man who had better title to be free than they
had; for they were born frce--an accident and no
merit. But the man under slavery who has heard
OF and imagined liberty which he does not see.
and who has a right arm to vindicate his claim TO
IT, and has once put his foot on the sell of Massa-
chusetts, has proved better fitness for his freedom,
than the man who was simply born free on the
son larpiause) Such mn as that, men that
walk your streets have thrust back-I was poinr
to say into the hell of bondagc--bu. he was thrust
back INTO bondage, and it was done bv man WHO
never deserved the name Of Judge (npplauspl
since he made up his opinion before he sat in the
case. They thrust him into bondage, and they
walk your streets still. Nopublic sentiment makes
them quit Boston no public sentiment makes the
streets too hot for them to tread The Slave Com
missioner lives among u.s. His circle takes his
hand as freely as it did ever. a few Abolitonists
give him a cold look and omit to bow to him. if
they bowed to him before, but the general commu
nifty forgets shortly: and those who abeted him
were reelected to Office in this very city where we
stand (shame, shame).
What right have we to call ourscl,es anti-sla
very? None. We have Il sort af qualified anti
slavery, but what does it do? Docs it tnkc mn
Massachusetts by the four corners ard shake ont
the Curtises and Loring'? (Applause) would
that had drink of water to rinse nv Inns after
naming them Daughter and appause)
lie then discussed at length the character of our
government and Judged it by the men it produced.
taking several samples, examining their public
acts with reference to the slave power and coming
to the conclusion that since the Government had
produced no better fruit, there was a necessity
Tor change Rather than continue the Guy-
crnment as it Is, it would be better to dissolve
the Union and tear the Constitution into tatters--
Let the Union be dissolved and the five millions
of whites at the South, with three millions of
slaves, would find it impossiLleto sustain slavery
there,
lie wanted the religious sentiment of the coun-
Try aroused against the money power end the pos'
iltcal power of the country. In State street and
The Old South, is the complement of Faneul Hall
lie wanted religious sentiment not like that of
DR., Gardiner Spring, of New York who said he
dared not pray that God would break the woke of
The slave for fear He would do it and leonard the
Union. There was Dr. Gardiner Spring, of New
buryport, in 1870, who used to pray that God
would oycrturn, and overturn, and overturn till
lie whose right it was should reign. Give us
back these clergymen of l70S though you dash
the Union to pieces. Break this charter in order
that the men who tenant the pulpit may read the
fifty eighth chapter of Isaiah from lightning to
end, no matter what happens