Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-03-29

to pass through our State with their chained, man.
acled and stolen human beings. What2 Slavery
in Ohio legalized, if but for q day or for an hour
God Forbid Welcome first all the untold horror
Of the most bloody civil war. Slavery! Word Of
fear ful import, of unlathomable crimcl Slavery
Monster more hideous than ever roamei the famed
forest of Lybial Slavery, that has at one time OF
another cast its dark shadow across the continent
-brenthed its ~blighting breath upon the islands Of
the ocean, and laid its dread hand upon everything
either human or digire-iti is this detcstalle pres
ercc that the Senator invokes. Yes, Slavery, with
thy long train of bowed and manacled forms, Of
crushed hearts and untold human agony, it /,
thy hated presence that one of the stalwart cham
pions OF Democracy invites upon the soil of Ohio
l cannot even guess what effect TIL Senators
speech may have upon the mOlasses and whisky
trade OF Cincinnati, but it ought forever to place his
Orthodoxy as a modern Democrat beyond quCs
ton.
The Senator speaks feelingly upon tho comfy
between Ohio and the Slave States which this bill
puts in jeopardy. What is the comfy of the Slavc
States for Ohio or the North? Let the free citizens
OF Massachusetts in chains upon the plantations
Of Carolina answer. Let every venerable Judge
Hoar, who with bateo breath asked Iii crty for
Massachusetts, enslayed sons and daughters, as
he was fleeing from a mob of Southern chivalry,
answer. Let Alf. Burnett and his defenceless
wife, uron slave soil by special invitation, as they
fly before the undaunted chivalry answer. Let
tHe man WHO inOugnJ lnaJ christmas was not n
proper day on which to sell one 'for whom Christ
died" answer. Let Mr.. Babb, in the pursuit OF
nm honorable avocation beset by a Kentucky mob,
be put upon the stand and give bis views 0f com.
ity. Do not talk to mo of comfy with such an
abandoned set of villains. If it is comfy, it is
of thu kind extended by the pirate ship TO the
captured merchantman-it is of the kind extended
by the vulture to the lamb. Mr.. Chairman, ]
have not overdrawn this picture, and | trust IL is
sufficiently distinct and faithful to be recognized at
once.
The member from Hamilton (Mr. ~11olmesl adj
monishes me that my course imperils the Union.
| do not know what the Senator has ever done for
the Union, that he should presume to read me a
lesson on that stale subject. The Union under the
rule Of base, bad men is no Union for those Of us
who believe "all men are created frec.'H If it is
found out in the South that an individual thus
believes, those lordlinga who live upon the unpaid
toll Of others, visit the offender with the vengeance
of an infatuated mob. l thus believing and the thou
sands who think with me, are effectually shut out
from the siavebolding States. Sir, / am n plain
spoken man. The Senator says that | have used
hard words toward the South in this discussion,
and yet he does not say that those words were not
appropriate. do not understand that 30 call a
thief athief, a robber a robber. or a murderer n
is a misapplication of terms, or that |
by so doing, using ephithets. Indeed, sir, ]
am unable to see that the man who steals a horse
is guilty of n greater scoundrelism than he who
steals a child. The former we are in the habit of in
generating in our Penitentiaries, those graves of
human hopes. The latter we make Presidents out
and worship at their imbruted shrine.
Once for all, sir. l say I love my country, not
for what she now is under the domination of such
men rs Wise, Pierce, Stringfellow, and Douglass,
but for what she has been under the Washinstous,
Jeffersons, and Madisons of former times, and
what she will yet he when the present brood Of
political pigmies has passed away.
Sir, l take my seat now, to wait the onset
of the next slave propagandists that may enter the
ring.