Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-10-27

IHE PROPER OOCRSE w q ASK attention TO Mr.
Nise's pungcut and admirable reply to the invitaior
Of the Boston Anti-clayery Committee to deliver
lecture in Boston on tho subject OF slavery. Mr.
Wise has taken exactly the right position-on,
that should be followed out by every southern man
similarly called upon
0SIY, NEAR OSAScocx,
Accc.nac County, Va, Oct. 5, 1855.
GENTLEMEN: On my return home, after an alb
sence of some days, | luu1d yours Of the 10Th ult.
respectfully inviting me to deliver one OF thu
lectures Of the course on Slavery, at Tremon
Temple, in the city of Boston. on Thursday eve
ning, January, 18th, 1866 or, if that time vii
not suit my engagements you request that l will
mention at once what Thursday evening, between
the middle Of December and the middle Of March
next will best accommodate me-"
Now, gentlemen, | desire to pay you due respect
yet you compel me to be very plain with you, and
tosay that your request, in every sense is insulting
aud uttcnsi,o to me. What subject of slavery nave
SoR 'iiiidtc3" lectures upoN ! cannot conceal
ii from myself that you have undertaken, in Bo5-
ton, To discuss md decide WheiheT my property,
ia TUgtHia, ought 10 rcmaig mine or not, and
whether it shall be allowed the protection Of laws,
federal and state, whether it may be carried or may
escape in the United States or, whether il shall
be destroyed by ahisher law than constitutions and
statutes
lTh0 are you, 20 assume thus such q iurisdic-
ton over q subject so delicate and already fixed in
its relations by a solemn compact between the
states, and by states which are sovereign? | will
not obey your summons nor recognise your iuris-
dictiOn. You have no authority and no j~ustiica-
ton for thus calling ne to account at the bar of
yoiT tribunal, and for thus arranging an institu-
ton established by laws which do not reach you
and which you cannot reach, by calling me to de-
fend it.
You send me a card to indicate the character of
the lecturers. 1t reads:
'Admit the bearer and lady TO the Independent
Lectures on Slavery. Lecture committee, S. G..
Howe, I. Gilbert, George L. Williams, Henry T..
Parker, W. Washburn,. L. B. Mussey,W W. B. Spoon
er, Jas. w. Stone"
1t is endorsed
Lectures at the fremont Temple, Boston 1854 5
November %, Hon. Charles Sumner, Rev. John
Pierpont, poem. December 7, Hon. Salmon p.
Chase, Of Ohio. December II, Hon. Auson Bur-
hugame. December u, Wendell Phillips. ESQ.
December %, Cassius ". Clay, ESQ, of Kentucky.
January /. Hon. Horace Greeley. January ii,
Rev. Horny Ward Beecher. January Is, Hon.
John p. Hale. January %, Ralph Waldo Emer-
son, Esq. February 8, Hon. Nathaniel 2. Banks,
Jr. February 10, Hon. Lewis D Campbell, of OHIO.
February %, Hon. Samuel Houston, of Texas.
March l. Hon. David Wilmot, of PENNSYLVANIA.
March 8, Hon. Charles W. Uphan." All Hoaora-
btes and S2uires, except those who arc rRerereads!
The card does verify indicate their characters by
simply naming them. And your letter, gentlemen,
is ranked by &C. Sumner, U. s.. s." With these
ChlEtCItTt5tlCS, l. I'LL ~ uO lOSS 10 understand Won
and your purposes.
You say, during the next season, a larger num-
Der OF gentlemen from the South will be invited, !"
&C., &c. 1 regret it, if any others can be found in
the slaveholdlng states to except your invitation.
You plead the example of Gen. Houston. 1t is the
last l would follow. / have no doubt that you &C.
corded very respectful attention to him last winter,
and were very grateful for his services in your
cause.
You offer tone hundred and fifty dollars to be
paid to the lecturer he bearing his own expenses. !"
Let me tell you that fremont Temple cannot hold
wealth enough to purchase one word Of discussion
from me there, whether mine, here, shall be mine
or not but l am ready to ~rolHateer, without money
and without price, to suppress any instruction,
and repcl any invasion which threatens or endan-
gers the state rights of Virginia, or my individual
rights under the laws and constitutions of nv
country or the sacred Union, which binds slave
states and free together in one bond Of National
cogttderacy, and in seperate bonds Of Independent
SOrereignties &!
In short, gentlemen, l will not deliver one of
the lectures OF the course on slavery at fremont
Temple, in Boston, on Thursday evening, January
10th, 1856; and there will be no Thursday eve
ming between the middle of December and the
middle Of March mex, or between that and d0oms-
day, which Will best ACCOMMODATE me for that pur-
pose.
| give you m immediate answer, and Mt nv earli-
est convenience, indicate to you that THE narticu.
a. 49, P"'aS " n 0utJvCt udV L Will present Is, de
lberately TO FIGHT II WE MUST.
Your obd't servant,
Henry A. WISE.
To Sam'l G, Howe, Phys. and Sup't. Blind Inst.
Jno. N. Clark, High Sheriff.
Saml May, Merchant.
Philo Slniorl. TX Treasurer of State.
Nathl B. Shurtlef, Phys. and Antiquarian.
Joseph Story. Pres't Com. Council.
Taos Russell, Judge.
JAS. W. Stone, Phys.