Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-11-22
GIVE THEM PLAY.

Congress, and IL has the Supreme Court. At this
moment does Virginia dispute with you the SOW.
ereign law OF your own State. The men OF Nir-
glnia knew the chances were that the government
would be entirely in the hands Of that power, and
they have waited confidently for the decision.
And when the Lemon case shall be decided, then
the sovereign State Of New York shall find tina,
1t cannot make free slaves not escaping, but slaves
brought into her borders.
ThVn the very threat of Senator Toombs be.
comes fulfilled TO its last letter, that he will yet call
the roll OF his slaves upon Bunker Hill, Then let
us 90 down upon our knees, Yet us fall down upon
our breasts, in the most abject form OF oriental
homage and submission, let us touch our fore
heads in the dust before the slave power, aud
before the Senator who said in the name of the
slave power, W will subdue you as he tore up
the Missouri Compromise and tossed it in our
faces; let the Empire State thus BUNDLED and pros.
trate say to the slave power, and say to Senator
Douglas, I'VE are indeed subdued." Not yet.
'never."1
So far, and just there, has the slave power adj
yanced at this moment. | have said what | have
said for the purpose Of reiterating to you that the
slave party, against which tue Republican party
was organized, is u power that understands men.
i viii tell you what it's first step will he. lsaak
Walton was a great fisherman. lie fshed fer
tiout in the little streams Of England. Napoleoh
Bonaparte the Great was a great fisherman. lie
hshed in the great streams Of time for an empire.
The same principles controlled .Bonauartc that
ny - 49,
play. The little trout had play, and France had
Ptay' oocause ~ men .nme helI nc rous' .n1
,'ue "rs'er "uu tue SIea' anger h"e" 80 wen
y" raw ~ s"he W s"ore. NV NY tlenI,
sro W nsu: u Z tne Peopln " "nrou an u"Hloi
for an empire is fishing? 1T the slave power has,
as | claim, the most sagacious political organiza-
.,on e'er uoWn. y " 'nIt unequ",ieu
n.y. w" y 'o ee1Vou - '"nu wv oI
geuuenhau ~ freStuenoyi y "Ssu'Iu .n"' -" .
snai' n"Ve pay WIN they oiin u ~ n"n'" -
save o'a'e ! a" uot III -. II sh's So S,"
hansns " DC 'rge, tney VIII na.e WV a - ~.
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P'1use.l ,or.o;n
im,Sn' nave 'uonSns 'h"V 1 ~ ou'"o y H. ~
period OF silence, IT ! were not convinced that me
He,puohchh party IS TO be deiousd ny sG pay a.
nshermah G'Ves 10 MS victim men ol view ioiN
Americans De not ueceiVeu' Ac' ~ m" ." Jo"'
win sixty years o, history Delore YOU Una. 'e
slave power Is reienthg'- th"t huN'h3 w /"
most siSnai victory, IL Is now SoinS W SNe up 'I1c
object for which 1t has all along been nsh'ng;. II
there has been reason ana truth IN the hepuohc"n
campaign, and Oeheve, there never mas oceh i"
political movement IN his country SO purely reason
able as the Republican movement because IL "u-
dresses itself to the conseiences, to the intelligence
and the common sense oil the lreenieh VI tnS
eountry-it there has been truth anu reason III
the movement then DO not allow yourselves 10 De
dazzled or blinded by the pohcy q 'he incoming
administration.
1t was not alone because Kansas plea tnae we
told you OF bleeding Kansas; 1t was not because
men with muskets are marching up and down be
fore Missourian dungeonsln which teemen groan
II Is not because these men with Huskels arc uoN
chuekling with delight to thinS that tn
shrieks OF bleeding Kansas were 9t no aVoit II
bring her succor out we asked: WIN you nav
all your territories bleeding toE we showed ina
II Kansas Is made a slave state freedom may D
subverted in Nebraska by the same means an
all your territories Will follow; that GORDON WI
Draw around tne Tree States hemminS III your ~
elues. ?sAeI SUu 9 ~ ot;o1 Of ~
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' "uu W = v rnu, ,ho oordo
y she n "a. !, .ne '"'' i'" 'e9'"'
Ana bsro IL Tho mint 7 wish 10 enforce. If Ii
s,aua nowor; s 80 bal;eva II to he n mower d.
,arn,;a oJ 70 conn,er do wa not know that it
w;,I;nn 70 U;vo n I;ttio now +, cain evervthinr Nv
" unr Lnou ond ever
a,nao1 e b;s,yorr luo~s fbot his vast sea, whic
Ssca.a 80 l.soS ohort nrr sorthern regio
,%~.ntna ,ha s,ah;l;tv Of tha Union and
S""an frasdon, ,ons,he,1 tb;s son il TO he stia,
onlv hv such a mower as this continent can displa
The moral have come here tonight to tell you
this that-we are defeated; that every friend of FIRE
dom in this land is morally defeated, unless he shoy
the slave power that the great free party of Il
country values freedom as much as that party vi
ues slavery-Eapplause until we show, as OF
man, that there is nothing which slavery can say
dare or do, that freedom will not say and dare al
do, and a great deal more. Loud cheers.
First of all, impress this upon our minds al
hearts, and upon the minds and hearts of our o
ponents. We behold this great sea, seething al
boiling, and dashing, and throwing itst
upon the free soil Of our land, until 1T crumS
away, and good men ask, will any green THU
remain? will Il solitary acre arise above that da
food ?" You know how it overspread the Ian
II now for a moment the tide recedes, and I
ocean pulls back its waves with n force viii
only the ocean has, be sure it will rise with a mo
destructive deluge.
There is but one thing, men Of the North, CT
1stay that wasting tide. and that is to confront
with a1amantine cliffs, whose foundations are
mid earth, whose SUBMITS kiss the stars, who
beauty and eternal splendor they rival. Then.a
then only, when that 0cean dashes against t