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

tide Will lnundatc and overwhelm the continent q,
that wrong and oppression will swallow up nnt
overwelm the right, because to-day it seems t,
threaten such a result At the very moment wher
the whitening crest Of the wave seems to displa,
a consciousness Of triumph, the constantly actin,
law is beginning to break down the transient i'm
pulse and compel the wave to subsidc to the oceai
level
We fear not, then, for the issue Of this contro
ve:sy. Men ask to compromise. For the SAX,
Of what2 Momcntary success They ask us tc
rush to the ballot-box and elect this man and de
feat tie other. We rejoice whenever the influenc,
of anti-slavery sentiment has spread so far az t
secure the election of men who are opposed to sla
very. Ii is a cheering sign of the times when tho
candidate for the Speakership in the House O
Representatives, supported as an anti-slavery man
can come near election, while his opponent
who is regarded the very embodiment of tho
slave interest in that body, stands fixed at "a pon
below the necessary level which can afford any
hope of success 1t would certainly be a triumph
/ if the representative of anti-slavery principles
should be elected, in defarce OF Southern oppos
tion, to the Spenker's chair. Let men who have
not seen how high and stern are our principles
elect men of their own faith to Offices of State but
let us rather stand faithfully at our post by the
central fire, feeding the furnace continually with
that fuel which shall generate the calorc without
which all your machinery would stop and your
political success be alike improbable. applause
Mr.. Garrison said:
am always reminded of the Slave Power as an
incentive to effort, hundred thousand more vic
Tins have been added to alavery since you last
met hundred thousand born into this breathing
world at the South to be plundcred, outraged and
treated like brutes--to grow up in intellectual
darkness and moral degradation-to be dvested
of al conscience, reverence for God and ability to
do the will of God-ncyer on earth to know any,
thing Of home, or fresde, or paternal privileges,
or ilial relatiuns-nevcr to be allowed to testify
against any white ruflian who may have outraged
them--to hc the subject Of mortgage, deed, be-
quest, inheritance, traffic as pershabe property.
Oh, anti-slavery men and women, what motives
for exertion arc presented to us by this picture !
Talk Of zeal and heat! i blush whenever hear
the charge. 1t is the only charge that makes me
feel that we have come short of our duty. How
much of our feeling is merely spasmodic and incl
dental! few months ago, the whole city of Bas
ton ana Commanwo oalth of Massachu W as ~,
fire. The people could not sleep, and we were
on the brink of civil war. What was
the matter? A single runaway slave was about
to be carried off from Boston back into bondage
Only ono, an obscure man, in himself presenting
nothing especially ntercstng unknown. except
that lie was poor vagabond slave. We'll, one
slave ought to throw the whole State into commo-
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man is made mere beast of by others 1t was
glorious feeling, but alas, it was spasmodic, not
based upon principle. a hundred thousand An
thony Burnses have been stolen and sent into
slavery since last your Soeiety met. Does
nnsylvania quake, is Massachusetts agtated in
view of this overwhelming fact No.
Look at Kansas. Our free State men went to
Kansas to find homes, fresides and freedom for
themselves But where do they stand ct the
present time? Covering under the bowie knife
of the slaveholding ruihans. Where are the free
State men of Kansas who are to show us what the
spilit of '1G means? They have succumLed 10 sa-
very by allowing it to exist on the soil of Kansas
until July, 1856 free colorod people are prohibit
ed from entering the State; and Gov. Reeder has
been chosen 10 represent them in Congress, n man
in whose veins there runs MT q drop of anti-sla-
very blood, The Shareholders compromise not;
they do not yield. Think of what Stringfellow
and Atchson have been able to accomplish by hay
ing backbone in favour of slavery The free
State men talk of resistance, but it is all talk;
there is compromise and covering all the way
through.
Look again at Congress How many times the
House of Representatives has balloted forSpeaker
How goes the Democratic vote? Always Tor slavery
They know they cannot make by keeping aloof from
the KnowNothng and Anti-Slavery parties, and
yet they never yield. / confess, my admiration OF
such fidelity and frmness is very great | would
that we ourselves throughout the North could pre-
sent similar 'front.'
Anti-savery zeal is excessive, is it? Why
am addressing a subjected people Since I was
last with you, you have lost your liberties as a
State. The decision of Judge Kane overrides
your Constitution. In vain, as people. have you
undertaken to define the rights Of man; you have
no rights. If Passmore Williamson is ont of Jail
oncemore, it is not because Judge Kane has chan
ged his odict or altered his construction of law or
has been, in reality defeated of his purpose. His
this nation through him. Your own State has
been vanquished; your own Judges have refused to
take n stand against him, acknowledging that his
decision must be submitted to. That decision is
in effect this; that Shareholders have right to
bring their slaves into Pennsylvania as property
and hold them here as such.
Antsiavery zeal and fanaticism What is the
whole amount of contributions to the Anti-Slavery
Societies? A few thousand dollars. How much
is done to fill up the treasury of thisSociety II am
not speaking reproachfullyH / suppose if you re-
llize two thousand or twenty-five hundred dollars
lt your Bazaar, you will bc doing WE'LL Only
hink what palry State effort. In Boston, with
he generous support of the good people on the
)ther side of the Atlantic, all that we have been
,ble to show is about $1,000 very paltry sum
'or such a cause. Does that show an extraordina-
Y degroo of fanntieism or zealH Quite tho con
Any,