Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-05-05

sustain the Free Democratic party is, that they be-
lievo tho Constitution to favor slavery otherwise,
they cannot claim oven a poor expediency for their
To vote, however, upon such a platform, !
with any possible view, was, he claimed, a violation
of principle, and bad faith to those in chains.
lie went on to speak of the platform of the Gar
risonian party. He claimed that our fathers made q
wicked compact with the slave power, a bargain
which ought never to have been made, and being
made, should be trampled upon and disregarded.
Hence, compact or no compact, constitution or no
constitution, we will never consent to the existence
of slavery anywhere, or to the return of a human
being into bondage. We claim that, as the church
which strikes hands with the stakeholder, is a
mockery of all true religion, an insult to God and
man, so tho American Union, that binds the people
in an alliance for the protection of slavery, is "a
covenant with Death and an agreement with
He'll"
He argued in conclusion, that the plan proposed
by the American A. S. Society is not merely the
only consistent one, but also the only one that
promises success to our enterprise.
GEO. W. JuLLIAN's SPEECH.
Mr.. Julian commenced with a denial that therc
was any strong Anti-Slavery feeling in the North
it was frothy--thrown occasionally upon the sur
face by some political faction, but soon subsiding.
Tho Nebraska outrage was the result of the poll
teal action of tho North on this subjcct-it was a
sprout from Daniel Webstcr's grave. For his part
he believed slavery to be wrong, compromises or
no compromises. lie hated it from the North Pole
to sc deg. 30 min., and from there on down all the
way around the globe. He did not understand
how men could hate it so uncompromisingly to a
certain line, and how this parallel-an imaginary
line-could suddenly place it in such a lovely and
innocent light.
lie then referred to the course of political action
in the North, and asked where was the Free Soil
party. Was it dead or only sleeping? Ii had re-
ceived terrible shocks from Anti ebraskaism, Flu
sionism, and Know-N othingism, and.if a political
Doctor were called in he would pronounce it in a
state of great prostration, accompanied with a diff
fculty of breathing (Applause.) What had in.
duced its members to fly 10 Known othingism and
gather with the mongrel and invisible Sanditti that
rallied under its banners?
1t was delightful to him to see the old parties Of
Wings and Democrats die off. They had cursed
freedom long enough, but as Free Democracy had
not been got up on purpose to worry and bc-devil
these to death, he had hoped that it would grow up
out of their ruins. But instead of that, when
these old parties came to die its time came too.
lie believed it had been tainted with an unhealthy
element from the beginning. Some rather suspi.
cious characters had oficiated at its birth and bap-
tism at Buffalo in '4s. "a voice, Rev. Mr.. Van
Buren, was not orthodoxy That had proved true,
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been soundly converted. That party, like others,
had followed expediency-for present success
They had forgotten that the real power of a party
MS of an individual, lies not in bulk but in charac.
ter nor in the numbers that follow it but the truth
it proclaims.
Mr.. Julian proceeded to speak more directly OIL
Known othingism. lie was opposed to it first
be ause, judged by the light of principle, it was
utterly indefensible; it destroyed human brother
hood, and inaugurated in its place fendish hate
it's principle WAS founded on mere accident o.
birth, and not on a common principle it was OPP
posed to freedom, to humanity, and to the gospeI
of Jesus Christ. The Catholic population of this
country compared with Protestant was as l to %
and in addition to this, Rome, in seeking an abode
here, had been compelled to divist herself Of man,
of her pretenses, and submit to the law of the new
domicil. The blunder of the Native Americans
was in regarding Catholicism as an eccentric force
cut off from all the influences IF society by whicl
other creeds were governed and controlled. TIL
public school, a free press, free thought, free speecl
and an open Bible, were her battering rams, beat
ing it to destruction. Professionalism, with sue
odds, could afford to fight its own battle openly
and, by refusing to do so, it stabbed Mt its owI
life, and confessed itself unequal to its mission.
2, Even if our institutions are in some danger
he objected to the mode of its action. Secret con
claves in free open republican America! Ameri
can Professionals stealing the livery of the Jesuit
and at the same time raising the war cry agains
Rome. He Their quoted a remark of Mr.. Macau
lay, who after recording the t~riumphs of Protest
antism, says: A these victories were achieved
not by intolerance. but in spite of it," Protestant
ism has little to fear from persecution as a foC
but much to fear from it as an ally"
3. In 1858 there were 663, 900 slaves held by tn
ministers and members of the churches in the [
2 S. Now how much better was he, who could sen
1 his own brother, his own child, into slavery, tina
s a Catholic priest?
The foreigner had given a proof of his attacl
ment to our principles which the native could M
e give. The American was such by accident of Dirt
q the foreigner by choice.
t The speaker then read an extract from q lettt
a of DR.. Lieber.
t "Has any man shed greater lustre on illustrior
: Athens than Aristotle Aristotle was a foreigne
and came to Attica when seventeen years DID,
n Has there been any Spaniard more Spanish tina
t Columbus! Columbus was a Geonese. Has thei
n been any Frenchmen more French than NapolcoI
and Cuvier, and Constant? Napoleon was an Ita
y ian, and Cuvier, by birth and education, a Germa
Constant a Swiss. Who carried the Netherlan
p ers through the direst war of Independence {
record, and who founded the great republic of Il
d Netherlands? William, of Orange, n German.
elias England ever had a.,more English king tha
n William the Third, the Netherlander? Has Gle