Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-09-13

we are obliged to n friend Tor copy OF this
address from which make some extracts which
will not fail to be instructive and interesting to
our readers.
Speaking of his previous life, Mr.. Quincy says:
In early life from 1905 to 1873 served as Rep.
.resentative in the Congress of the United States
from the town of Boston | active mem
Der of the Federal party formed by Washington
and have never belonged to any other. Though
sympathizing in feeling with Free Sellers and Aho-
litionists, have coucurred in the measures
of either. My heart has been always much more
affected by the slavery to which the Free States
have been subjected than with that Of the negro.
Placed successively, since 1920, in the Offices of
Judge of the municipal Court, Of Mayor Of Boston
and of President of Harvard College | have alb
stained from all connection with oolitics for HDty
four gears, except by voting; and now | come, at
your request to offer views and opinions on the
present crisis of public affairs, derived from the
light of history, and from the counses anu ad-
vice Of Washington.
Mr.. Quincy proceeds to speak of the character of
shareholders:
The only difference between our times and the
past is this heretofore they banished the bludg-
con; now they have brought it down. Formerly
the bowie knife only seen in its sheath, or half.
drawn by way of terror; it is seen glisening
in their hands, or STEPPED in the blood of treemen
in Kansas.
This state of things naturally leads thoughtful
minds to reflect on the actual condition OF this
Union-of Slave States politically united with
Free States. Those living under the furm0r are in
perpetual consciousness of danger. 1t cannot
be otherwise, however they may attempt 50 con
ceal it from others and from themselves. 1t is i'm
possible that three huHdred thousand ,chicS. who
are the masters surrounded by three millions Of
blacks, who slaves, can live otherwise than
under a never ceasing sense of danger. The mode
of maintaining the subiection of their slaves is,
therefore, the constant object Of their thoughts.
In the Free States on the contrary from twenty
to twenty five millions o. whites exist with pro-
portionate superiority in wealth. activity, and ply
steal power, without any care of or danger from
slaves.
This difference of condition in the two species OF
States produces unavoidably, in Shareholders, a
continual sense of danger from withn and OF
prospective danger from without. The immense
superiority of physical power in the Free States
combined with knowledge of their inherent
weakness creates in their minds belief that their
own political existence, aud that of their slaves
depends upon obtaining and keeping the control
of the Free States. Nature in tie human as III
every other animal, cOmpensatcs positive or com
parative weakness by some quality which is equiv
alen for defence. In the of the Slave States,
she supplies the want Of strength by at. The
operation of this, in eecting their great object OF
obtaining and keeping the control Of the Free
States, it is my purpose briefly to illustrate from
the history of this Union.
The ant by which, for more than fifty years, the
Slave States have suhjugated the Free States, and
vested in their own hands all the powers OF the
Union, they call policy. Its proper name is c"n.
nina; that "leit-handed wisdom" as Lord Bacon
calls it, which the Devil practictd ia the garden Of
Eden,-"divide and conque." BY this they cstab-
lished the seat of national government in slave
country, and thus surrounded Congress with an
atmosphere of slavery, and subjected the Free
States to its influences, in the place where the
councils Of the nation are held, and where the
whole public sentiment is hostile to the principles
of the Free States and where, in case of col
lisions resulting III actions ut law and lndict
ments, Shareholders are judges, jurors, and exc
cutiuners. This location of the seat Of govern
ment has been of the most potent causes ct
that dominion over the nation which they have re-
acquired
Again: by cu,,ning, they inserted Louisiana into
the Union not only without the concurrence of the
Free States but without SO much as asking it,
n measure which has been the Pandora's box Of all
our evils.
Another of their arts is ayrogdRcc or an insoent
assump ption Of superiority. This though result
of their condition masters of slaves is Of great
power Like bodness,* it is the child Of ignor
ance and vanity; yet it inscinaes and binds, hand
and foot, those that are shallow in judgment or
weak in courage, and prevaleth even with wise
men at weak times. 1t hath done wonders in pop
uar States" In Slave States shareholders are
sovereigns and deem themselves entitled to govern
everywhere. In them, with few inconsiderabIe
exceptions they are proprieors of all the lands
which lew persons can afford to hold, except a'
the owners of slaves As TIE rate of wages Is
regulated by the expense of supporting slaves
it is of course, the least possible. OF conse
quence, slaves the successful rivals Of the
ichue poor; being more obedient and the expense
of supporting them being less. Thus the mhH,
poor, in the Slave States are reduced to state OF
extreme degradation; in some respects, lower than
Thnv dir. for field labor 10 n
white person is there disgrace. To beg they
are ashamed and they have no master TO whom
they can look for support Having no land, they
have no political power the value of their labor is
below that of the save and their actual condition
comparatively that of extreme wretchedness. One
half of the white population Of the Slave States
are said to be in that condition In the vocabulary
of Shareholders, liberty means only that planters
should be independent, and have no superiors.
Educated under circumstances which make
PRIDE and exercise of power, the chief clements
of their character, they come to Congress with
the arrogant spirit of arstocratic despo,s looking
down on the Representatives of the Free States as
an inferior class; jealous, fearful, and hating all
talents which they cannot command; courting
coaxng, fawning on all their tools, so long as they
are obedent,-when their servllity Is no longer
useful throwing them away with contempt. The
different States Of society expand this arrogance
1t is we'll known, that. in the Free States, there is
no honor in fighting duel; that in most OF them
to give or accept challenge would put an end to
mans hope Of political advancement. 1t is well
known that the public sentiment is altogether the
reverse in the Slave States. In these, to fight a
duel is glory. not disgrace. Life itself depre
cates where killing Il slave is often venial, For
shooting schoolmaster through the brain toI
whipping refractory boy juriss acquit Accord
ing tho standard by which disributive justice il
dispensed in slayehslders court in the city o
Washing gton, three hundred dollars is nm ample
retribution for an assault, endangering life ant
future u, efulneSs, made by mehber OF the House
Lord Racnn,s Easay Oh Bnldnehs.