Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-05-10

enjoy MS own Il ne COuln KNOWS IL Is
under foot those great truths and they fear the
sequences therefore they try to trample doAn
thete great principles Of the Constitution, that a
man shall nave the right to write, speak and print
whatever he likes, subject alone to cur laws. But
what would be the consequence if one of us should
go down there and preach the great doctrines Of
the Declaration of independence Why, sir it
would be just as dangerous to go to the city of
st. Petersburg and preach republcanism. Zap
plGuse)
! / say to those in the Southern States, wherever
slavery has got fOothold or lodgment we will let
it be it is part of creed to interfere with it.
We haze nothing more to do with slavery in Vir-
gna than we have with it in Constantinople and
Timbuctoo. But l would leave it where tits, and
hope the people will see some way OF getting rid
of it, for the good Of all, but whether they will or
not is no busidess of mine. But when they under
trke to carry it into territory that is freeinto
territory that they have themselves dedicated to
ireedom-ty Heaven, will stand and defend it
inch by inch while the last drop of blood remains.
! Enthusiastic cheers.) Slavery and freedom are
incompatible.
| / hope am speaking to laborng men. such as |
am myself told you my father left me nothing
but his principles but God knows they were good
legacy. (Applause.) Well, how can working
men be noble if they are mixed up with slaves and
slave-labor? How can you 60 to work side by
side with human catte? Do you think it ought
to be endured Ii you have the spirit Of freemen
you would not. (Cheers) What freemen go into
Kansas side by side of Southern lordings, who
drive human cattel2 How will you feel along
with them Would they make you a working
man equal with them or equal with their ,C9rkia9
men Wherever slavery prevails labor, which is
honorable in the sight of God and just men, is
debased
Is it right that Shareholders, who are, probably,
not more than man in twenty Of the voters in
tho country should hold the government and
mould it into principles to suit themselves. Many
Of hnri Epn,y hate clopn
degrades you by debasing labor Slavery and
freedom incom 2atible.
believe that measures that are proposed, which
would he beneficial to the North, are opposed by
the South, from jealously and riyaIry-they do
not like to see our superior advancement, for it
would reflect unfavorably upon their institutions.
ask only that we may have fair play. Within
the last twenty or thirty years, when has the gov
ernment been in the hands Of freemen? Has a
man been advanced to any post in the general
government unless they have first ascertained ,hat
lie was sound on the subject of slavery? And
what do they mean by right? They mean that he
can be whipped like spaniel, they mean that he
shall do the bidding of the Office rulers, whatever
it may he.
The grand issue in the coming Presidential cleo
ton, with the Republican party is that the terri
tories shall be free from any further encroachment
of slavery. In Kansas every means has been re-
sorted to, that would drive any people with any
spirit into rebellion, SO that they might have plea
to crush them they have been trying to force
slavery into Kansas, over the necks of an unwill-
ing people. And l say greater irdignites have
been perpetrated in Kansas, than those that drove
our fathers into rebellion. Do you believe that
What can be worse than for body of armed men
to go into country and force hateful laws upon
she people.
Is it doubted by any man here that the Missouri
restriction has been repealed | tell you sir that
the conspiracy to force slavery into Kansas, was
fnrn,n1 bnfnrn tha hill pos ssa1 Sncrat coni-
cites were organized, and companies drilled for
this purpose. They supposed that when Reeder
was appointed, that he was true friend to the
cause, and as soon as he showed any indications
in favor Of freedom he turned out. l have the
declarations here, ,runG from unwilling adminis-
traton, by an earnest Senate. have not time to
read them, but here are the declarations, showing
up the means which were taken to elect that thing
which men call legislature. They marched in
there with arms in their hands, insulting every
man, driving them from the polls at the peril Of
their lives.
What do you think of that, sir And the
President proclnims to the nation that to resist
such laws is treason. This is all say to that, the
man who calls it treason has departed
from the faith of his fathers, and is political
quack, and the people who will submit to such
rulers are poltroons. Come treason, or what may
come, it will never do for American freemen 10
be driven from their ballot boxes they must re.
sst, they will resist, and wish that the people of
Kansas had acted with more spirit even than they
did. Governor Shannon sent word to the PGesi-
dent that the people of Kansas had met together
and arrayed themselves in military apparel.
The President Immediately empowered him to
call out the UKted States forces TO any amount,
and crush the rebels, who, they said, carryt
ing fire and sword and destruction throughout
Kansas, though it does not appear that they hurt
anybody. Laughter. Ten days afterwards,
Governor Shannon went unarmed, into Lawrence,
r. Al. IL Ill, l..
sehtemanly men, both kind and generous and
that they had not only done nothing wrong, but
that they were in the right, and he would support
them sainst the Missouri rufians. The Lawrence
men, said he, all right, but the great difficulty
was to persuade those men he had brought TO sub
due Lawrence of it; and after they were told off
it and unGeceiyed, if they had been deceived, they
appeared no less desirous of attacking the city.
Still more difficult was it to convince Pierce and
Douglas they would have them traitors whether
or no; yet they, and particularly their friends
from Missouri, are called the Law and order
party"
The speaker went on and reviewed the whole his
tory of Kansas, in very powerful and able man
ner He said was never friend Of that thing
called popular sovereignty, because l knew it
meant something else. When thoy said popular
sovereignty they meant slavery; it ws but name
ed TO Caesar, and to Caesar they shall go-for nine
out af every ten men in Kansas will vote Tor free
dom. They knew this full well when they invaded
it, for no man will commit rime if he can get
along Just as we'll without; and they would not
have invaded Kansas if they could have carried
an election without:it. They knew Kansas, left
alone to popular sovereignty, would be free State.
Every man knows, as well as know, that the peo-
ple left 20 themselves, would not be long in choos-
ing for freedom. Hence it was, those military
legions were organized; hence it was that the
offers of the government were pledged to carry
slavery there. -, ;,
The Justices of 'he Peace, the Marshals, all
the officers were high pro.slavery men, who were
laboring to the teeth for slavery, and yet all this
would not do and they must invade it from Mssou-
ri and conquer it. They stood there conquered
people, subjected to laws which they had no right
or part in making.
What kind of laws were thosef Why, sir, they
are more bloody code than was ever forced upon
nation from the time Of Nero to Nicholas.