Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-09-15


he could do something to enttle him to such an
honor, for truly it is such. The..name of Passmore
Williamson is identified forever with the history of
his country. would far rather be in his position
han here, speaking to three thousand of my fel-
low countrymen. There | could speak to the
whole country and all the world beside. | am
sorry but for one thing that Williamson did not
take Jesus Christ for his guide, and not call in the
aid of lawyers to his defence. lie shoulG have
trusted to his tongue before that guilty Court.
There is strength in a word ftly spoken. / would
give the wealth of life time for such an opportu-
nifty. When Suttle was in Boston after Anthony
Burns brother merchant went 10 his hotel and
asked for an introduction. The landlord, suppos-
ing hie, friend to Suttle and TO slavery, glad
to give him the introduction he desired "Mr
Suttlc," said the merchant, called to tell you
that consider you Cd id rascal" Suttle
will remember the words to his dying day. The
last voice that will ever ring in his guilty soul will
be those terrible words-"G-d id rascal" 1t
is pity we have not one Christian to meet the
Judiciary of the United States-one that would
trust Almighty God rather than the lawyers.
We are indebted to the blunders of the slave
power for our own past successes. Bring your
best men away from Congress, that they may work
truly in favor of freedom, and let that corrupt
body go on enacting iniquitous laws-the more
infamous the better. You can point to their out
rageous acts, and move the hearts of the people,
Whereas, with your best men in Congress, such
legislation would be made as would lull the con-
sciences of the people, without aiding the slave.
Suppose Nebraska free, slavery in the District of
Columbia and the Territories abolished, the Fugi-
tive Slave Law repealed, and slavery driven with
in its constitutional limits, and your work is DONE
What will you do next?
Mr.. Pardee. If the work is done, there will be
nothing more to do; the slave and the country will
have found salvation.
Mr.. Foster. True but when is the work done
When the Free Sellers work is done there are
still three and half millions of our countrymen
pining in chains. Tho salvation of Free Soil is
freedom in Kansas the salvation of Anti-slarery
is liberty to three and half millionsl
If, then, you carry your measures, you will have
done but little. But at what a price do you pur-
chase this right to work thus feebly against sla-
very? First you pledge yourselves to protect the
slave States against domestic violence thus bind
ing the whole North to take sides with the master
against the slave, becoming the body -guard-as
Charming said, "the police Of the stakeholder"
Then, secondly, you are sworn to protect the
States against invasion. The slave has right to
call upon foreign nations to aid him in gaining his
rights. The Free Sellers swear to prevent such
assistance. Claim, if you WILL that such a pro-
vision would be needed in the Constitution if sla-
very did not exist That does not justify you in
supporting it while the Internal system docs exist
So long as the South is engaged in crime, you can
not without sharing her guilt continue to protect
her Thirdly, you give to slavery representation
in the legislation of the nation, which strengthens
the system beyond all resistance, rendering the
Government an oligarchy, and, in the language Of
John Quincy Adams, making the preservation,
propagation and perpetuation of slavery the vital
and animating spirit OF the National Government"
This is part of the price at which you purchase
the privilege of working, feeby and incficepty
under the present Constitution and Union
Can you purchase SO poor privilege at so fearful
price, and be gpiltless2
But what do the Garrisonians propose as a rem
edy for slavery? Our remedy is all wrapped up
in single word-and that word is LOVE. Its ap-
plication is as laid down in the New Testament.
1t can be understood by every intelligent man and
woman. We love the slave-we remember those
in bonds as bound with them" We will have no
government for the slave that we are not willing to
have for ourselves. We will consent to his taking
no position that we are not ourselves willing to
cupy by his side. Are we willing the Government
shall treat it treats the slave? If so we can
sustain it--not otherwise. Is these one of you
who would support this Government 70: an hour if
it made you an abettor in the enslavement of your
own child? No father lives who would consent to
infamy like that. Yet you have Government
that holds three and half millions Of your bro
theirs and sisters in slavery; that sends every
scycn.h daughter born in the country into infamy
that takes little babes by thousands, weighs them
in scales, and sells them by the popnd to the high
est bidder! Will you take such II government as
that for yours by the side of the slave? We an
swer, mol We will trample such government in
the dust, with loathing and indignation. There
is no way TO reach the slave but over the ruins of
such government. Let the Government fall-let
the compact perish. Bring Ohio out of the blood
stained Union. Let all the Northern States, one
after another, break off from slavery. Then wo
may bave a government in which freedom shall be
alike the boon Of all.
But how will our plan effect emancipation?
First, outside Of the Goynrnment We can preach
repentance to the master, without standing self
convicted as his abettors, and thus exert mighty
moral inaueDce. But suppose our moral influence
not sufficient to convert the STAKEHOLDER, slavery
cannot survive dissolution of the Union. This
the leading mon of the South have again and again
declared. Hence, possibly, we have only to take
the incipient steps toward dissolution. and the
South goes on her knees before us, and will con-
sent to emancipation. If Massachusetts would
take this ground it would probably secure the abo-
tion OF slavery, for the South we'll knows that
il one State resolves to do its duty, others will fol-
low, and that "the dissolution Of the Union is the
dissolution of slavery"
We see no hope but in opposition to the present
Government and Constitution and in freeing our
selves from the guilt Of slavery I'LL we do 90