Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-02-17


rather address you as fellow subjects of our
Nirginian, Georgian and South Carolinian mas
ters
/ repeat that ever since the conflict of 1920. sla
very has been master and how has she exercised
her mastery All the territory acquired by the
Government has been made slave territory, or
carved into slave states We once talked loudly
ot "5f4e! but the soutl were not anxious to
secure territory in that quarter and Polk gave
away five degrees and forty minutes, because
Slavery did not want it. The North East boun-
Diary question was settled in a similar manner
When this question was under discussion Il south
ern convention declared that they would give ur
all the northeastern territory, but would have
Texas.
Slaves have made all our Presidents and an
pointed all our Judges. A majority of these have
been southern men, as those who were not, have
been the sworn enemies of Freedom. And that
is not all. They have been more and more the
enemies OF freedom, as We approached the pres
ent time, till we get down to franklin Pierce,
who is worse than all his predecessors Martin
Van Buren, of our own State did much for Slavery
but not so much as Mr.. Pierce
The South has appointed our ministers to for.
cgn courts. OF the lS7 ministers that have been
sent abroad III have been southerners, and 90 nor
therners. But we must remember, too, that the
northcruers who have received appointments were
all the avowed enemies of Freedom. If min
lister should dare breathe an Ant-Slavery senti-
ment in Europe, the next steamer would carry his
recall.
But this is not all, The South rules Congress
She has now twenty-one members as the result OF
slave representation. Seyenty-one thousand free
men in the south elect Il reuresenative-in the
north it takes nnetytrec thousand. OF the 0IC
ofice-holders now in Washington, go are from
the south-340 from the north
The speaker here went into n statistical account
of the executv. departments showing that they
have been filed in great majority of cases, 10y
southern men; and if not by southern men, by
the friends of Slavery
And this is not all. 1t is we'll known that Mass
achusetts has long claims upon the Government
for spOliations which she agreed to pay; but neye
n red cent has she paid, and never will. Numbers
of merchants in New York and Massachusetts
have claims upon the government for means fur
nished during the last war, but government neve
has paid them and never will yet if Il slave-hold
er comes and asks government to pay for slav,
which was lost in the Revolution, or which had es
capped to the Seminole Indians, the demand il
promptly paid The just demands of freemen arc
unpaid, while TIE unjust demands Of slave hold
crs are promptly paid
What has been the effect of this mastery upor
our legislation? The Fugitive Slave Law is the
worst law that he knew to have passed any legsla
tive body
in addressing the Soldiers Of 1872, told them tha
it was gratifying to know that the men who have
fought our battles have not been the men to SOY
political heresiesH .4-........ &.
in'hk ci ii'Iie De"'ocr"'tc rfesiIene flerce
taiHlns Vi lol''ic"i lG het9Sies "A poiilital mere
Queen Victoria would no more dare use sucl
Insulting language in addressing her subjects, than
she would dare to stand before the cannOns o
Scvastopoi. Such is the corrupting influence 0
slavery 0" .e, our SlaeeS'iiem' a. ,,:u ,,c,....u
II nas eon.Lulscu o"T iuAu,ns in'''I'"c'urgr'
anu lltrr"'i'.ie iien. i"clc o'G 'olie hon?rtor
exceptions" puC they "re sener"'iy Oh 'he S'uo
SHHeIy' ,, :,
~ n'S Uon["p'eu our o,n'erS . c
,,',,nt h'',o, ',,o, IL ,n + ,o
man lie knew If Now Enrlond POST Master
,rhn roGsed IN sion a neti,ion 9ro;nst tbc Nchros
ka Bill. which eyerybody else was sirninr. Th
man VIM presented il asked the reason. when
! bv-stander remarked that it was no problem.
he stoned the uetition. the next mail would brip,
his rcmoynl, The man rcnljed t}nt he would no
hold an Office which depriyed him of the RIGHT f
act out his own convictions and that if he did h
would have a LARGE brass collar made, with hi
masters named engraved on it, so that everybod,
might know whose dog he was.
New 9rk IL tIe o'sy 0!''c W'hch mas Ho'
erhor WIN ,, 4mtisHNery Prihclp''S' "nu no" lon|
saw
II has corrupted the Press. Think of such pa
pers as the JoaraaL Of Commerce, and the New
Nork Herald, and say if the Press is not ,orrup
ted. There arc some faithful to FREEDOM in til
ranks of the Press, but hundreds are corrupted
and dare not speak out against Slavery,
1t has corrupted our Schools and Colleges. Their
are not hve colleges IN tne 11 N3r,h whicn are n"
strongly proslavery. The Colleges were lou
in their defence of the Fugitive Slave Law. Gree
Doctors Of Divinity, presiding over great
Colleges, were reaoy 10 hghL the poor ioS"Ne'
and cried out in favor of the law,
There are twenty'elSht thousand men clergyme
in this country but how many OF them show them
solves to be the Friends OF Freedom? shall nc
have to count my fingers over many times to nun
Der them.
The lecturer then referred to the extensive oper
otions of the Methodist Sunday School organ
1ations dnrmo the last year. and said that in tho
t;mo tbere had not been an nnti-slayerv schoe
teacher nor bnok in the organization, The Sunda
| S.honI and Rille Unions he went ON 70 show hay
. >" ovoSSvthinr Iookn towards AMI
aIa NV Flnn, all nniEcntin9s Thsro Is oniv on
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