Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-08-11
Ibe Anti 9laurrp Bualr.
A MANLY SPEECH.

at the celebration of American Independence
in Biddeford, Me-, speeches were made by large
number of gentlemen present, among whom was
Ex-Governor Kent. The whole speech is pub.
lished in the Portland Advertiser, and is one of
the most sensible, eloquent and manly produc-
tions we have read. The spirit of the speech will
be gathered from the conclusion, which is as fol-
lows:
No man, Mr.. President, has deeper reverence
for this Union, more feryent desire for its
maintenance than have, and none would do more
to sustain it but there is limit to endurance and
point at which concessions should stop; and, be-
lieve me, the true friends of this Union and con-
servative of this country, are not your timid,
fretful frightened awns; they are not your cotton
men who fear they will not 1e able to get cotton,
your shipbrokers who are afraid the ships will
not get freight, but they are your honest, out
spoken, close thinking and determined men. The
men who will save the Union, are the men who
will march straight up to the line, and tell the
South what they will do, and what they will not
do As whom they put the matter thus and havo
their spinal column sound, and stand up straight,
there is no danger Of this Union. There is ten
times more danger to it by subseryiency and sub
mission to wrongs, for by and bye these wrongs
will SO accumulate that they will burst their bar
rers, and the breach will carry everything before
it. But when the South understand that no more
slave States are to be admitted, that the fugitive
slave law is to be repealed or modified, let them
understand that we stand upon our rights, and
they will yold-that is they will come up to us
for after all the men of the South not half 80
bad as your miserable dough faces of the North
Applause and Mac Donald.) The South are more
manly When they find Northern members OF
Congress bowling down to them, and begging them
to take these boons, they cannot but accept them,
but they despise the men who offer them and. re-
gret that they should be put in that position.
will only say in conclusion that the great question
before up now is shall Maine retrogadc from the
position she has taken. Last year she spoke out
and showed that there North. She spoke
out, and her voice was heard throughout the Union;
and Mt Washington the time servers were appall
ed. Her voice was heard and it shook them on
the throne of their power Why should we recede
ton still it is a-important that we should keep
the stand we have taken; for the moral effect Of a
defeat in the great republican party on the COM
ing presidential election would be most disastrous.
There is no mistake about it hence it is that
was willing to come up here and lend any.ad
might be able; and | tell you now that | have
gone and shall go into this matter with all my
heart and soul. have no hesitation about it.
am determined to devote what strength and pow
er and means have to this great cause Of human
freedom and to seek the redress of an enormous
wrong to tho North, and if am to be made vic
tim all | can say is 81 am ready to be offered. -
Maine must not retrogade, her sons must stand
and fight like men this great question. | am
satisfied that SO far as speak for the eastern
part of the State their hearts there beat true, and
they will come up to the support cf the men who
have thus TAR sustained the great principles we
advocate. We will cause to be felt one part o.
our motto-Dirigo, lead And in our fall elec
ton we will lead in u manner worthy of the light
of that immovable star-the star of liberty which
our State has appropriated as her tit and only EN-
bem. Great applause