Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-01-05

Oliver Wendell Holmes theNew England wit and
poet delivered a lecture in NewYork on Forefathers
Day, in which he put in the following plea for the
shareholders. While the whole spirit of the ex-
tract is outrageous and wicked; at war as we'll with
our boosted doctrine of human equality as with
that "Christian Love" which the speaker so pathet-
ically invokes for the Shareholders, we neverthe-
less do not dissent from his position. that having
admitted the shareholders into political and Chris
tia n fellowship, the rebuke and attempts to sub
vert the system, come with an i'll grace from those
who laud this two-fold Union and at the same time
on every fitting occasion voluntarily renew their
allegiance to it. Mr.. Holmes position is by far
t.ke7 most one, though it bespeaks him
vpfaffyA estisussofsnorality and humanity. He
sAid:
A'ThefasKss no denying the fact that there was a
manly logic in Abolitionism. That class were
political Othellos, who had said that our boosted
liberties were a courtesan, and they stood ready
to smother them with a pillow. Did they not re-
member that there was a BEDFORD underneath
which might serve as an engine of retribution.
The characters of the moral'st and citizen were 10
be kept separated. AS a moralist he had the right
to plead continually to the Mormon to give up nine
out of his ten wives; but if you ever admit Utah
into the Union with that as one of Its institutions,
he had then the same right as any other citizen.
So it was with one Of our countrymen who owned
four hun1red slaves when they met him in the ma.
tional councils they must never dream that he was
not as good MS they were. We had convinced our
selves a hundred times of the truth of the position
we assumes; but they say to US, We have listened
to your argument and grant you nothing. The
question now came to them, Should they of the
North treat Southern men in a spirit of Christian
love, or should they prescribe and a~nathematize
them until mutual hatred was engendered which
would lead to warfare? The instincts of the In
dian were such as to lead to his determinations
So with the question of the white and black races
lie saw no solution except in the continuance o
the present relation. So with the question of thu
present relation. Our sympathies should be be
slowed upon our own color first. Whatever W,
could do to win the masters from infictlng hard
ships upon their slaves, let us do it; but always il
the last appeal we should hold alliance with tn,
superior race. The white man must be the mas
ter, and the only way to do right by the Indian ant
the African was to make them better by exampl
y and loving counsel. The orator alluded to tn
I growing disafection manifested between differen
d sections Of the Union, the depth of which, he said
could be inferred when it was known that on tn
anniversaries of national independence-the da,
when men from all parts of our country came to
gether and declared the truths contained in tina
document-we could see men making sectional dill
ferences the subject of their own o~rations. The,
discarded the family festival. There was not on,
of these pionies which, if it could find food to sus
tain itself, would not become a serpent and col
itself around the neck of our Union. prolonged
applause and hisses.)'
The concluding portion of the Grafton embrace
an appeal to preserve the Federal Union.