Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-08-23

you are to turn its guns against the enemy
But the Republican party lays down no such prin-
crc
Now, as said value politics, not for the men
it elects, but for the discussion it permits The
canvass is worth hundred fold more than the elec.
ton. My friend Mr.. Conway, in his pulpit at
Nashlngton,--a true man in true pace--strikcs
better antslavery blow than the best free soilcr
IN the House Of Representatives, because he is
founded ON the granite of an unmatakable position
and there is nothing between him and the Higher
Law but Gods own inspiration. Ioud cheers
When a man enters the House Of Representatives
when he enters the political canvass, the first thing
he does is to say-I 90 for the Union. | am no
Garrsonian. am no Disunionist.' Don't sus.
pect me- says New York Republican journal,
don't suspect me of being Black RcpuLican--I
am only a White one.' What ] criticise in the
Republican movement is this. | want a platform,
no matter who you take Tor your candidates, that
shall drag the whole anti-slavcry cause, moral as
well as political, right into the centre of the
caudron Of political discussion. Our friend from
Wisconsin said, when he went home from New
York, in 1911, he made political speech in which
lie anal yZed the whole moral aspect of the anti.
slavery question, and that Wisconsin when she
joined the Barnburncrs Of New Yo:k Joined them
on principle. You see the result When the
3arnburners traded themselves off, when John
Van Buren, fell in love with Southern plantation.
and denied every speech he had made the moral
anti-slavery of Wisconsin was found at Racine.
with its hundred mcn-ninety muskets, ten black.
smths-lormed on the wharf at Milwaukee, max.
ing no speeches, asking aid from Milwaukee
citizens, but in silence, like hundred ghosts.
marching straight from the landing-rlace to the
jail; and the first sound that was heard from that
hundred Abulitionists was the sound of their ham
mcrs on the fctters of the United States. 1t was
the noblest mob that history knows, for it was a
silent mob! (Applause.) You know that when
Solomon built his Temple, every stone of the fab
ric was hewn out Of the mountain into beauty and
proportion at Il distance from Jerusalem, that the
sound Of no hammer should be heard in the holy
place. So it was when the bright ccnsummate
foTer Of radical anti slavery bloomed on the soil
OF that young city and yet so indignant, that like
the tightening bolt Of heaven, its first noise was
the noise Of success. 1t broke down the judiciary
and army of the United States, and proclaimed
Wisconsin in fact II sovereign, Independent and
free State (Applause) o! if | could ever move
from the dust Of Boston,l would finish my pilgrim
age on the soil of that young and gallant State
that has earned the first and gr2cnest laurel in the
ant-slavery struggle between State sovereignty
and the Union. (ChecrS.)
That is what we want. 1t seems to me, that in
turning its face to the territories, and taking W
Mr.. Fremont, the antslayery party is letting
slide, not the Union, but all the anti-savery gal
lantry, enthusiasm principle and spirit that thirty
years of effort have produced Our friend Con
way told us of South Carolina minister who had
been turned out of his parish, because he had re-
fused to take part in Brooks meeting. | would
rather have him for President than Juhn G. Ere
mont and | will tell you why. When you want
to find obstacles, how do you 90 to work to find
them? If this stream around us was like Niagara
pouring down with reSistess torrent, and you
wanted to find rock where would you go? Would
YOU 20 to IL spot level and smooth as the CLASSY
lake before you? No; you would 90 to some spot
where the waters up in leaps and boiled in
maelstrom. ! take the whole life of Fremont from
N ms hnoC1 Sputh GnrOlnn IN thn
peak of the Rocky Mountains, from California
back to WashingtOn,-it is one unhrOken unon-
posed success; summary, halcyon scene. | know
he has battcd with nature: with the frost and the
snow, with starvation, with want,-all Of that !;
but when has he battled as the unninching adyo-
cate Of an unpopular idea? When? Where is
his life tossed into angry turmoil 10y the oppression
of minds that he has reused against him? Never,
Aut when he stole his wife. For orcc, he opposed
MAN. think he did we'll (appause) but il every
man who has got good wife is to claim place
by the Presidential chair, Massachusetts would
have fine chair trade. daughter and cheers J
No; the opponent Of granite, Of snow, of want
the pioneer, acknowledge him but not the pio-
neer in morals Why, there is head at Wash
ington, silvered over with the battles Of twenty
years,-that of Gddugs, (checrs, THAT has stood
through fifty anti-sUvery fights Fremont has yet
to see his first. Take him up, and tell us that you
selected the best man o. no you may have Sc,
lectCd the mos: drdHaJe To me, it seems very
like the story of the man in one of our Western
States, who, insultedin the public streets stood
quite still and received another blow, when a by
stander sad Why don't you fight him" 4 don't
to do that said he, but will make faces at
his sister, (Laughter.) Here is the anti slavery
cause with four millions Of clients, with tie great
questions OF Cuba, the slave trade, slavery in the
District free speech, the abolition of slavery it
self, and it is all put back-to whaR The Fugitive
Slave Bill-where? The Constitution of the Uni
,,l Co.. A l-.lg 4
presented to the public the one, solitary issue is
KANSAS; and who does not know, that long before
TIE 4th of March 1857, Kansas may he settled
question, beyond the reach even of John q. Free
mont? o, no; this Republican discussion stands
just where the Wing discussion did. in the tima Of
Texas. 1t has gone back there; and | really be-
lieve, Mr.. President that the political excitements
of the las: ten years have used up, yes used Hp all
the moral anti-sayery that existed in the cOmmuni-
ty; and the function of the Abolitionists is, to 90
back to the slave himself to the moral aspect of
the question: to the religious duty Of the country.
| rejoice IN n Northern party, because perhaps 1t
may give freedom in the pulpit. Possibly, when
these Northern States declare that slavery is a fit
subject for tho basis of party, Northern clergy
man may be willing to preach upon the sub hject
If they do, we may begin moral education. My
friend Mr.. lliggnson said this morning that slave
ry gaggedthe pulpit | wish to God it did, for then
we should not have such sermons we heQr.-
(Cheers) If it would only gag these thirty thou
thousand preachers, and keep them sentit would
be contamination dcvouuy to be wished Laugh
ter ndapqlauso) Silenco-blank plper-instead
of the Ncc York OJSerrer-what blessing -
(Renewcd nppiausc)
That brings me To another question. Our friend
from Wisconsin said they had no respect for office
at the West. lie supposed it different here
on account Of the great men that fill Office Why,
he never heard of Gardner. daughter lie
never hoard Of what a Governor we have got pre-
pare to thank Heaven for him If we could have
three such Governors, there would not be boy
born within Il hundred years from now, that could
ever respect the Governors chair If We could
continue to have Judge LorinS on the bench and
Gov Gardner in the chair, we should arrive at tho
excellent State Of Wisconsin and Illinois, where
they respect for what he is, not for the office
he fills. You know Prentss, of Louisville, says
you can see books in tho running Brooks, aud
yol can find IA blessing in Governor Gardnel.-
That's ingenious Withdraw Col. Fremont, and
put me up for President! You call him the path
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