Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-10-25
SPEECH OF SENATOR WILSON.

Oh Wednesday of last week, Senator Wilson
delivered an address to the people of Duchess Co.
n. Y, from which we make the following ex-
tract:
Gentlemen, the Union is not in danger. Liberty
is IN danger. Let us take care of liberty. ] have
said that doctrine of the Declaration of linden, NJ
dence, which declares that all men are equal.
That glorious doctrine came from the brain of the
father of American Democracy, Thomas Jefferson,
When that doctrine proclaimed to the world
by men who pledged to its support their lives their
fortunes and their sacred honor-when that doc
trlne was read at the head of your army there was
not an humble soldier in the ranks who was not
ready to pour out his blood like autumn rain to es
tablish doctrine that before the law made him
the equal of the peerless Washington Loud
cheers l. Gntemen, that doctrine upon which we
have founded our institutions, that all men are
created equal, and have an inaliennble right to
liberty and that governments arc organiged to sup.
port liberty by the consent of the governed that
doctrine endeared this Government Of ours TO the
lovers OF human liberty all over the globe; and
gentlemen if to-day this continent should sink
down below the level of the sea, and the waves of
the Atlantic and Pacific roll over it forever the
great historic fact that this nation proclaimed that
doctrine as its fundamental faith and cornerstone
upon which it reared its political institutions
would carry its name down to coming a.es and
win the admiration and love of all mankind to the
last syllable of recorded time Loud cheersl And
yet Jefferson and his doctrine have ceased to be
supported by the supporters of the presen. Ad-
administration. Twenty years ago Calhoun sneered
at the Declaration Of Independence as a rhetorical
| flourish. Three years ago John Petit the man
who Col Benton seid was "a great liar and dirty
dog on the floor of the Senate said that the Dec
laration OF Independence that all men are created
equal was not selEevident truth but a self.
evident lie. God said Mr.. Petit makes kings.
princes and nobles and therefore the Declaration
NJ linda 1or, Al.
racy rebuke Petit for the utterance of that sent.
ment. Did you q line in anv Democratic
paper rebukng him for it? ICries of never"1
No. not one word and you never will. Mr.. Rufus
Choate, orc of the most brillian. orators of the
country, standing among the foremost in the legal
profession of the country, in letter to the Democ-
racy of Maine called the Declaration OF Indepen-
dence, "a passionate and eloquent manifesto Of the
Revolutionary War" lie based his hostility TO
the Republican party, because that party had writ
ten upon its banners the 'glittering and sounding
generalites of natural right that make up the Dec
laration of Independence" Now. Gentlemen, we
have engraven upon our banners, the 'glitterip q
and sounding generalites of natural right that
make up the Declaration of Indcpendence,n
We mean come victory or come death to cling
with denthless tenacty to the sublime doctrines
embraced in that immortal instrument. Great
applause. We mean that it shall be the living
faith Of this Republic forever. Has Mr.. Choate
been rebuked for that sentiment? Cries of "No.'1
Has the Buchanan press rebuked him for it f.? IA
vyice--"lie has been nominated for Congress.HI
Has a single Democrat in all America rebuked
him for it No, gentlemen, not one. Tho De-
mocracy has taken Mr.. Choate with great ahee.
tion to its bosom. They have nominated him in
the District where he resides THE City of Boston)
for Congress Mr. Choate ef. the Wing party
and went to the Democratic because the
Republican party marched under the banner
which had inscribed upon it ''the glttering and
sounding genoralihes Of natural right that make
up the Declaration of Independence" lie ear
ried bis sneer Of that sublime doctrine aud laid
J it at the feet Of the Democratic parry as his
tribute to Border Rufilanism. They have ac.
cepted that tribute as a votive offering, Gem
tlemen, ! tell you there is not a supporter
of James Buchanan upon the North American
continent who believes in his heart of hearts the
words pcnned by the father Of American De-
mOcracy to be true. John G. Breckenridge, the
candidate fer the Vice Presidency, in a speech
= which he made the other day in the State Of
r Ohio, said that the Declaration Of Independence
was an abstraction, that if had been embodied