Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-01-26
From the Boston Telegraph.
REV. THEODORE PARKEk'S LECTURE

! There q large audience in fremont Temple
on the I'D, to hear Rev. Theodore Parker's lecture
on "the duty of tho North toward American Sla-
very" AS he came upon the platform he was re-
ceiyed with the heartiest applause, and when he
arose to deliver his lecture, the enthusiasm was so
great that it was some minutes before he could
proceed. AS we anticipated the lecture was
noble production. Like all Mr.. Parker's most
earnest and glowing discOurses it was very rich
and vigorous in style, and very clear and direct in
its logic. He was applauded repeatedly, his glow
ing expression of great principles bringing down
the house in the most rousing fashion. We no.
tlced that many who disagree with Mr.. Parker
theologcally were among the foremost in these ex
pressions of admiration. When the audience was
leaving the hall, we observed two gentlemen who
are among the most respectable and dignifed of
the "solid men of Boston," who were discussing
the lecture with considerable earnestness. They
did not to relish all the sentiments expressed
but remarked to each other finally that "Mr. Par
ker was about right after ALL" We take from the
Atlas the following outline of the lecture:
"ln beginning, he denounced TIE institution as
hostile to all the industrial political, and religious
interests of tho country. 1t banishes from the
cabin of the slave the six and twenty apostles of
religon-the alphabet-and gives him the mythol
ogy only and not the religion of Christianity The
stakeholder impresses religion into his service as
IN aid to the drivers whip, and puts the devil
the track of the runaway, because he is more SER
viceable than bloodhound.
Slavery he declared to be federal institution,
which for 35 years has ruled the government and
contended that it was not the borderers of Mssou-
RI who try to drive slavery into Kansas. but the
Executive at Washington, in proof of which he re-
ferred to the Presidents Message burted out be-
fore Congress willing to hear it. Hostile to-
wards the Slaves the slave States the free States
and all humanity, slavery has nevertheless con-
trived to control the country. The great capital
lists at the North controlled by the products of
slave labor, the great commercial capitalists,
through the capitalists, all the wealthy pulpits
follow as matter Of course. The Senate always
goes in the wake Of the market and the meeting
house, and the leading political parties have been
subj bugated to slavery for years. The Democrats
and the Straight Wings denounced fusion in Mas
sachusetts, but in Maine they have thoroughly
fused.
The lecturer next showed from statistics that in
all the departments of government the slave pow
er has always been in the ascendant. The South
has, at the present moment, q misrepresentation
of slaves in Congress, and it is they who prevent
an organization. Thus, having control over the
capitalists, the commercial cities, the church and
the government Of course slavery controls the
press to great degree Yet all the circumstances
considered ne regarded the American press as the
most servile in the world.
The next topic was the progress of slavery since
the formation of the government. In l775 it oc-
cupied the Atlantic belt, not exceeding 300 miles
inland, and numbered not moro than half million
victims. Now there are between three and four
millions of slaves, and the institution covers all
the land. Then it appeared in the guise of beg
gar, pleading to be spared little longer; now the
beggar is on horseback, and claims that slavery
shall exist and expand by inherent right. 1t has
corrupted all our institutions. Democracy has be-
come Satanic and falsifes its name. 1t is upheld
by men of all classes, including always the Amer-
can snob.
Three measures have been devised by the slave
power and its coad tutors, the Satanic or false De-
mocracy and the snobs, to extend and perpetuate
the institution. The first Of these is the extension
of slavery in all the North. The fugitive slave
law was devised to forward this scheme The
stakeholder lives at the South, the slave hunter os
cillates between the North and the South, and the
slavehunters dogs are those self-styled Union sa-
vers, who live wholly at the North The fugitive
slave bill is the slave hunters dog call. The next
step towards this measure is to allow the slave
holder to take his slaves into any free State and
work them there. Judge Kane's decision tends to-
wards this, and it is rumored that his decision was
made on the advice of the Cabinet. The second
Of those measures of the slave power, is the acqu
sition of new territories for the extension OF sla
very, and hence the various fllibuster movements
aided or permitted by tho Executive, against Gu
ba, Hayti, Nicaragua, Central America, South
America, and the rest of mankind generally. The
third of these measures would be the restoration
of the African slave trade. If these measures sue
cee1, and there is great danger of it, the country
will be ruined and the North will become like 9th
er conquered liberal States
Either slavery or freedom must perish. Now
the question is, whether slavery or freedom shall
occupy the Speakers chair; nox, year it will be
which shall have the Presidential chair and before
long it may be, whether freedom shall have place
anywhere. No nation earth stands in greater
peril. Nevertheless, he believed that freedom II
destined to put slavery down, peaceably if it can
and it can peaceably. now; forcby if it must; bu
put slavery down He held this faith, because i
s the 10Th, and not the 9th century, and because
this is the Anglo-Saxon race, which hes the eloo'