Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-01-13
INDEPENDENT LECTURES ON SLAVERY

Wendell Phillips Esq, the lecturer at Ire
mont Temple, last evening, was welcomed with
the most hearty applause as he came upon the
platform; when he commenced his address as fol
ows:-Bost. Tel.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: l am asked to speak to
you on the subject of slavery. 1t is very broad
question. To lift but the corner of the dark cur
tain that shrouds it, will crowd if it does not tres
pass Tar beyond, the hour that YOU lend me to.
night. ask your PATIENCE therefore, if an Abo-
ltionlst, at such an epoch this, which so un-
expectedy to all of crowds this house night
alter night, to hear Lecture slavcry--if such IL
one, at such a good tme not coming, but come
should talk to you little longer than the ordinary
measure Of a literary lecture | ask you to keep
In your constant recollection that this question
OF ours. 1t is too largo be the question of any
individual; it is too large question to belong to
any party; it cone rms us ALL it touches our com
mon honour.
1t is not the question of those W who speak to YOU
from this platform. "lf you would love your cOun-
try" said Edmund Burke, ''see to it that YOU
make her worthy to he loved" When Daniel
Webster came home from abroad and found that
some OF the States had repudiated their debts to
Europe, he said to the farmers of the West, Il
would work these arms to the elbow to wipe off a
blot from the remOteSt corner of my country" If
this be duty when we owe debts of silver and gold
how earnest should be the effort to pay the debt of
justice and mercy that owe to God as well as
our tellow-man, (applause)
- inc question OF slavery Is no question of the
South 1t is no question of the blacks; it is the
question of the right of free speech in Faneuil Hall
lapplause). We mean to vndicate the right by the
Jaws that are left MS; when there are none left us
we will go to that higher law that can never be re.
pealed tapplhuse). 1t is question whether this
great experiment Of popular government is sue
.eesstul; whether our institutions as our fathers
gave them to us, are to be handed down to our
children.
lie would not ask what is slavery They knew
it was the system that makes man IL thing that
robs him of his wife, of his education and practi-
,caily robs him of the Gospel, of everything that
makes distinction between man and brute. He
would not dwell upon that point, but he would ask
what 1t is that defends this system? In single
word, it is the Stare POcer That is composed of
many elements. What makes Boston submissive
to this system? 1t is that Slave Power which in
our government consists of these items Its first
element is property. The first item of money has
$1,000, 600 invested in property in men and
women, and recognised by the laws of one-half of
. this Onion. The strength of the money power in
this country was then illustrated To make money
rs our manifest destiny than to conquer for
eign states. Dr.Johnson described us in describing
the character of Scotchmen whosaid he would
II you put dollar on the other side of hell
attempt to get it, ~ M 7I'|-.0
Nexe there is the political element of the coun-
try' which goes TO sustain slavery. The politicians
70 down 10 grind IN the mill of the Phstines, and
they never turn their gaze again to the north star
Nexsthere are there parties Influenced by that nat