Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-08-16

and If Great Brtain-as seems not unlikely jus
now-comes over and undertakes to free the slaves
| of the South Mr.. Sumner has sworn that he will
aid the Shareholders in preserving the order anC
the law OF the Southern Warsaws? Now, ou
Isympathies nre not drawn out too much towards
Mrs.; would not love him the less but think w
would do well to love Brooks slaves little (out
Iappausel, and not forget altogether the millions
OF victims, who, unlike Mr.. Sumner, are not load
cd with sympathy and hono,s, but, on the othe
hand; OF whom it may be said, most emphat:cally
in the lamentation of the old Hebrew, "On the
side of the oppressor there is power; and they
have no comforter" (hear hear"). | fear Mr.
Chairman, we do not appreciate, all of us, the i'm
portance OF treating things az they are and calling
them by their right names.
Then, again, Henry Wilson made very brave
defence of Massachusetts, and of the Senator from
Massachusetts, in the Senate, and we join in ap-
plauding Senator Wilson. But what have been
his antecedents? ? 1t seems to me that we have a
right to judge him by his life, rather than by one
single act. think it is Il historical fact that he
went out of the Free Soil party, when its nominee
for Governor and betrayed the interests OF his own
party, sold it out to the Known Nothings and, in.
deed, do not know of what political party he has
not been a member. Now | do not say this to
censurc Senator Wilson, but only to call your at
tentiOn to the fact that We are too much in the
habit OF Judging men by some one word or act.
Some OF you have been carrying on this ant-sla'
the course of the Abolionsts has been n uniform
course, and you have brought the movement out
of, or, at loast, MrOugh much tribulaton. These
men now, at the end of quarter OF a century,
find 1T easy, comparatively, to be Aboltionsts; but
then do not think they "bring forth fruits meet
for repentance" | do not find any very friendly
recognition Of our movement in tho Republican
papers, religious or political. 1t is not very long
since saw in one of the principal religious or
gans, the noble leader of our movement MIR. Gar
rison) described with some others, as degraded
infdel' (hcar, hear'') And it is not very long
since saw il stated, in another leading Free Soil
paper 1.-THE Hartford Courant) that the Republican
party is the white mans party and the editor says
he has no fancy for the African race he IS willing
they should be slaves. That sentiment, | think,
is one generally entertained by the great body of
the new auxiliarics of the Republican party; and
wherever Republcanism fOurlshes, just rs in the
time of the Buffalo platform, all the broken-down
politicians the disappointed Office seekers, and the
entire concave of forgotten and disappointed ones
rush in ard en1eavor to lslke as good salvage as
possible: and through our, help many of them sue
ceeded in the buffalo platform think at that lime
they gave Martin Van Buren 100000 odd votes
but four years after, they could muster only lG3,
600 for John p. Hale, on little higher platform
| Judge men not by one act but by their whole
lives | should be sorry to le judged myself by
any one act Of my life, for should fear that some
one very good act might be taken, and then
should be thought better of than deserve or else
that some extremely bad act would be taken, and
then fear might be underrated even by my best
friends and worst foes both.
1t seems to me, Mr.. Chairman, 1t would be well
for us not to allow our sympathy for Charles Sum-
ner-I know that it is honorable and compliment
tary to human nature that it rises at such time,
like the ocean in n storm, food tide-but think
it would be well for us not to allow that sympathy
hy and by to turn and delugc ourselves. 1t is on
that account have felt obliged to make the few
remarks have; and | think | may surely say, in
sitting down, that what Ihaye said has come rnth-
err from the heart than from the head.