Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-02-10

south Carolina had carried out her threat Of
the British, her slavery would have 60 g
1own when the AntiFSlavcry party triumrhcd in
London and if she had not Joined the British
nut remained a separate colony, slavery would
have been abolished, as in Mexico and South Anne
rIca' from the nature of tn 'ngs. 1t was a self.
evident truth, almost, on the pages of history. that
the formation of this Union preserved slavery it
was the only thing that could have saved it.
where was the State that had made one single
step toward the abolition of slavery since the
Uuiun New York. Massachusetts Connecticut
Pennsylvania-al the great Statcs--hnd COM
menced their movement toward cmancina,ion as
early as l16O-somc as early as 1776. They had
gone on, hut no State that had not made her com.
mcncement before 1857 had ever abolished slavery.
Vas not that a prominent frct2 One single atom
has been added to the chemical compound, and
the whole action Of the body changes had they
rot a right to infer that that atom, which was
added at that specific moment, had influenced the
decision of the question?
Mr.. Phillips then alluded to the position taken
by Mr.. Sumner and other Free Sellers, that our
fathers were too good ever to have framed n
wicked Constitution. Admitting that theory I,
&c correct, for a moment, what haa, been the ro-
SUIT! Inc hrst Cliet Justice Of the United States
""S0ohh Jav--a man who set the example to the
o'",e OF New York hy concentrating his own
slaves-a man who might be considered almost
the first Aholitionist among the statesmen of
America. The first Chancellor of Virginia was
Wythe-A man whom his heirs poisoned, in order
t" prevent him from making n will emancipatinc
ting his slaves. The first Democratic President
was II man who left it on record that when the
slaves rose against their masters, there would not
be an attribute of the Almighty to take the side
OF the oprressor? Could they elect a man to be
president Of the United States to-day who should
say that? Nominate whoever they pleased
-fromMaine to Georgia, from the Ocean Lack to
Kansas--let him be as unknown as Franklin
Pierce was before his nomination--and let him
lNr. Phillips be able to stereotype, through the
thirty States, the fact that somewhere. in a village
School-housc perhaps, he had uttered that senti-
ment Of Jefferson, and how great would be his
chances.
The eloquent speaker illustrated this point Mt
some length, and said" Now, we are going to
start again we are going to launch our ship for II
new voyage. Ninety men out of n hundred allow
that the Consultation is pro-slavcry every great
statesman in the country admits there are pro-
slavery clauses there you will allow that we
have got a pro-slavery people behind it; you will
allow that the masses in The pulpit, in the editors
chairs, the misses, in the political parties, the
wealth Of the country, the great men who make
up what are called its leaders-all these arc on
the side of slavery, at the present moment; the
is a~llowedly bad, and vet you say
there is a bright anti-slavory future lefore us =
We had a go0d Constitutions, and Il qood people.
and We went to wreck we have got a bal Consti-
tuition and a dcraish people, and we shall succeed
Is there any logic in that? Patrick Henry said
There is but one light by which my feet are gui.
ded, and that is the light Of experience By that
light the Abolitionists walk, in seeking the disco
luton of the American Union"
Mr.. Phillips said, in relation to the proposition
to orgnnize il new party to make Massachusetts II
free State, that they should stereotype the enthusi-
assn OF the people into statutes, make public sym.
pathy recognised as the law of Massacku sctts, and
swear every public officer of the State to stand hv
it. lie wanted the laws and organizations on his
side he did not want that sy mpathy9onlv, which
might die out tomorrow. He wanted the same
protection thrown round the fugitive slave that was
Afforded to the person and property of Abbott Law
rence-a protection that would follow the tresspas-
ser t" the ends Of the earth. loud clcers). lie
wanted = Judiciary that should know that their
first dnty-if not their whole duty-was to protect
every living man that walks on the soil of Massa-
chusetts (renewed chcers).
One great advantage of the disunion position
was that it required no explanation. The man
that held Office under a Government like ours. the
man that sworc the anne oath that franklin Pierce
does and Benjamin I%lallett, could not be con.ider-
ed an Abnlitlonist, unless he explains himself
\ man is Judged 10y the company he keeps, and
such a man had got to 90 through his daily routine
with Il perpetual but in his mouth. IL swear
to support the Constitution-Ju." His outside is
Il lie; God grant the inside be true! lie (Mr. Ply
hld Il friend who attended the Peace Congress in
Paris some years ago. lie WIS Il South Carolinian
by birth, but had resided in No. England, and had
become an Abolitionist. Ono day, while in Paris.
ANOTHER South Carolinian approached him and
said he" Mr.. So-and-So, we must have one of
these Worlds Conventions to further the patriar-
thhl lnstltution-to get the moral sense of the
'' AAAS
world on its side" His friend did not know how
he could tell him, emphatically enough, that he
an Ab'litinnist, and to send him az a tanrent
10 the other end Of the moral world. lie did NOT
wish to say simply Il am an Abolitionist that
not emphatic enough SO he said" PERHAPS
don't know me. | was born in Charleston.
South Carolina, it is true; but | board with CARR
and | am engaged to he married to Frederick
DouGlass's sister y Cloud laughter and applause
didn't need any explanation ; the man never
came to see him afterwards. This was a literal lie
but it had the essence of an emphatic truth in it
rs Amelia Opie might say, it did not have the in
tention to deceive. 1t told the whole truth. That
just what the disunion doctrine does. If A
man asked them what they Thought of the consti,
tuition, let them r~eply-"It is a covenant with
death and an agreement with hell" he will put on