Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-06-30

| ior avert. Adams with his age, Hale with hi
! Wit, Sumner with his eoquonce, Giddiugs with h
logged persistcncy, have never been able to chcc
mate or stop, for single year, the progress Of ii
government. On with relentless purpose, on wit
untatering energy the Slave Power has gon
lust as fast since they have been there rs before
Where are the proofs Of their success! Ever
man must allow, that standing upon that platiorl
with the sounding-board Of Official position oyc
their heads, they have preached noble ant.slayer
lectures, and have had magnificent audiences
I That is great benefit; and if Inal could get
honestly, who would not cOyet to stand III the pO
sition Henry Wilson occupies tO-day-a great ma
ton for his audience and the conscience Of Mas
sachusetts at his back? No man is insane enough
not to valuo that noble position before the worlt
which makes his service glorious. But these mer
can do nothing--have done nothing; they are only
sentincls on the watch-ower, to warn US Of tn,
danger they can neither diminish nor avert.
Mark me am not unjust ] allow they are
faithful never were men m)re talth'ul but tlcll-
ty is not efficiency; fidelity is not success. Men
say Of Charles sumner Ills shield Is all white; nc
sword has ever touched much less marTed it,
admit it-l know he is honest. (L9ud cheers j.
Oh, yes; they are all most faithful. But fidelity
Is one thing, efficiency sometimes quite another
Some dozen years ago stood in the once buried
city OF pOnpcii, on the spot where Roman sol
dier, the sentinel at her gates, allowed himself tC
be SGriGd IN the Giug ashes, rather than quit III:
post. So stern was the discipline Of the Roman
armies 50 entire the fidelity of her soldiers. th1|
not the dissolution Of nature herself, as the crup
ton of the mountain must have seemed, could
fright him from his post. Seventeen hundred
years have passed, and the traveller from 4 then
undiscovered country pauscs to admire that lone
and namccss mans unqualing loyalty to his
Eagle and his oath. Yet not all that sublime idelt
ty could turn back one flake Of the ashes OF Nesu-
vius, or arrest for one moment the doom OF that
iated city.
SO stand our sentuels, our Sumner, Giduings
Chase. History will guard their names as rare
instances Of slcepless vigilance, Of untaltoring
lJyalty to right. Fraud cannot cheat, danger can
not fright, Office cannot buy them. But alas. like
the Roman soldier, all that fidelity cannot lift one
feathers weight from the yoke Of the bondman,
or arrest, for one moment, the shadow OF despo-
tism as it steals over the troubled mirror Of the
republic Loud apE lauze-'
No, they do nothing. 1t is not their fault.
They are tied hand aud foot. 1t is in the nature
Of the thing they are contendng again t. Ii is
the wealth Of the country it is the literature OF
the country, it is the arstocracy of the country,
it is the political arrangements Of the country =
In one scale you put two thousand millions of dol
lars the arisocracy Of the thrcc-Gl(hs slave basis
the wealth Of State street the seryility of tbs
Daily .idcertiycr-a press bought and paid fora
pulpit bought, and not worth paying ior-lgrea
che ring Literature emasculated, as we saw ii
that sad instance to day, by one who had dom
such noble service in the reform fcld-even III the
cold atmosphere Of New Engand-( can it be tha
one whose banner bears the motto, ~ wicked LAW
is no law blotcl out Cowper in obedience to the
laws of South Carolina, that his book might scll?)
all this in one SCALE and in the other, the Ser
mon cn ths Mount Give i tim5-yoJ' give il
centuries, and it will make all that wealth ald
prejudice kick the beam. But in the mean time
God commands that we should SO arrange circum
stances that men shall be free. What shall stoI
this perpetual holocaust of genius in Massachu
sets sac riiced to the dcmOnds of the SiayePOwer
Our course is perfect copy of SiSyphus. We
always toll up, up, up the hill, until we touch the
sOiled sandals OF some Governor Gardner, anC
then the rock rolls down again, Always somt
miserable reptile that has wriggled into power il
the corruption of parties reptiles that creel
where man disdains to climb; some slight thing
Of no consequence, rill its foul mass blocks Ou
path, and dashes our hopes in the last moment
That is always our history. We have got II Per
sonal Liberty Bill. We shall carry it up to th'
Chief Justice for BAPTISM and he will fling it from
the window, and Massachusetts will stand jus
where she did Before.
While a sla, ,choldcr sits in the Presidential chai
at Washington and GppCiuts officers in State street
slavery viii rule in State street. We went t
make literature and the press indcpcndent-wh wha
the Liverpool! and London press is They ere jus
rs much connected, commercially, with New Or
ieaas as we are; but Englishmyn dare to say tina
n saye is Il slave, and STAKEHOLDER tyrant and
print CoWper without cSpursGt!cn Let us make
it possible for 4 man 70 make az honest living II
Boston, without eXpurgating school books That
is what we mean "a change OF circumstances 5,
that our great men and little men, preachers and
editors, and all, may have a public to which they
may look, and which will support them. We dl
not believe in virtue superior to circumstances
in the masses. | know there are Martyrs -mor
yirtuous in spite of circumstances; but they are
exceeding few. Saints do not travel IL batallons
In old times, they put such man OH the top Of {
pillar, and left him there Il hermit. Half dozer
such pillars would be ample tog all New England
Laughter and appnuscl The masses are mad
by tho circumstances behind and around then
and We mGsI change the circumstances to @tta-:
our end.
/ We are only little men 'rud-a-dub agitators,
nice Mr.. Webster said. But it was Il NOUS
which gnawed the net in which The lion was en-
Gagged. That is what we arc doing. (Applause.
We want to make it possible for our great men t
stay at home in Massachusetts, and not wait unit
their official days are ended before they confess
in private, when their mantle has fallen upon thei
successor that their life has been great hypoc
.risy and mistake, and slavery rules the country
John Davis reyor broke voice into such q comics
sion, until Massachusetts struck the spurs from
her false knight, broke his sword, and educe
him to a private citizen, ,--tten he had II tongue 0
his own, Oh, keep every Massachusetts man
private citizen, if he must 5arteI his tongue 10
Office (Cheers) | do not like SHINING in the Sen
ate House, and confpssing my repentance in al
upper chamber (Rencwed cheering) | do no
like SHINING for twelve years in acts that doom
millions to slavery, and then whispering the con
lession of my mistake into the ear OF a sympathi
sing young man, that he may tell it in mercy t
my memory That single anecdote is enough t
Justify the dissolution of the Union. Keep ou
John Dayises at Worcester! Let them listen t
the preaching of an independent pulpit; let ther
read out of old 'Alden's Reader if the Firs
Class Book' viii not do; let us go back to tn
lrightful wood-cuts of those old school books, an
put aside the tempting novelties borrowed from
larger country. Keep our Senators at home, an
they will not need eighty years to learn the A
Of our national politics
This, them is what we mean by dissolution
the Union this is why we seek for it. do n
believe it will do any harm to the North; but {
/ not care whether it does or not. When we me
as citizens Of Massachusetts,, will attend to tina
but in the mean time, we arc AboliQonists, Al