Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-02-23

anchored, that you must have something stronger
than politics to grapple with it. And while
would not put straw in the path of those mer
who are doing their duty in Congress- the faul
| find with them is, they have prepared nothing
as refuge, after efforts which all men see must
fail. If they had said to religious and political
sociees,-'Go on put down this love Of the Union
forever; make the people say there is something
better than the Constitution yes, the liberty and
justice which it was made to secure,--while we 90
out and try to do what we can, within the circle
and fetter cf the Constitution, II should have
been content.
Correct perspective, clear-sghted appreciation
of the relative value Of things is what we lack -
Many man pulls down with one hand as much
as he builds with she other. Weigh Ward Beech
er, with his pul pit his eloqucnce, his name, ready
to crowd the largest halls with applauding thou
sands, of oil sects and parties, to welcome him to
the banks of the Mississippi or the Penobscot,
against his countenance, in the Independent, Of
caumnous attacks upon one who has done more
than himself to save the slave in the Carolinas-
Parker Pillsbury. (Cheers) / would give the
Beechers, one and ALL the most unmixed praise for
all they have done and are doing, if they would
only set up the scales, and tell the world in un-
mistakable tones, which weighs the most, in their
opinion, the American Church. or the rights OF the
slave. While that word remains unspoken, /
tremble even at every noble deed they do for the
slave, remem Serng that coward and venal priests
will lay it as an opiate on the conscience OF q
Christless church. Yes; that is the great balance
which the Anti-Slavery Society, as in Milton's
story. holds up always before the eye of the ma
tion. Unions churches parties, legislatures, kick
the beam before the God-given rights of the Amer
lean slave in the other scale. Whoever does one
single act which seems to uphold the Ameri-
can Union, without faring this other testimony ev-
in the face of all men, is an enemy to the slave,
and It is our duty to cIiticise him.
Stephen Foster can do better duty than organ
lze political party: it is, to stand like Mordecai
in the gates of Charles Summers Senatorship, and
say-'Do not trust him hat his heart is true,
only trebles the mischief of his position That
is hard word to say; but next December he will
owe as thanks if he is saved in the Senatorial chair,
and not tricked out of it by the Jesuit Governor,
who means to make himself Senator in the place
OF Sumner; and nothing but an anti-slavery senti-
ment that will trample Know Nothing lodges in
dignantly under its feet, radical as we can make
1t, vii save even Charles Sumner. If there is
any man here who loves the Free Soil party, let
him welcome such meetings as these. The game
l have indicated is the one which is to be played,
and the Republican party cannot fight that battle
with any mere political organization; they cannot
meet those secret lodges. break that banded and
marshalled host arrayed against them. Every
man, off the pavement OF Boston, believes Gov.
Gardner. You may think it impossible, but as
sure you it is So They do believe that he tells
the truth You who stay at home, do not esteem
this travellers lie. Off the pavement. he is be-
leved; and, unless something more radical than
any antl-slavery which the present Republican Or
ganizaton breaches be taught, unless the necessi-
ty OF putting men of truth and honor on that floor
in order that the experiment be tried out under the
best auspices, be put frankly and fairly before the
PEOPLE, and with it, that other conclusion, that
when it has been tried under such auspices, with
such fidelity, and failed there is remedy except
dissolution unless that sentiment he created, you
will not have your Senator to boast Of.
The world takes n lnnp time tn move. We shall
all go to our graves, perhaps before Massachusetts
swings out of the Union. We cannot expect so
great and radical change, even in q generation.
We have done great deal. Why, Bostcn's pet
iniquity, the Coored School, we have beaten to
pieces. (Applause.) The Wing party left it
legacy to the wealth of Boston, did not expect
to live to see the day when the pride and wealth
of Boston would yield the Colored School; but the
love Of equality and justice, the humane senti-
ments of Massachusetts, have prevailed. 1t is a
great gain. And second to that is the public sem
timent of the country counties, which is ready to
throw off their vassalage to the city.
NJ. Foster thought Mr.. Banks might be hypo-
critical in his declaration that under certain cir
cumstances, ho would let the Union slide Per-
haps he is so; but the hypocrite is usually a saga
cous man; and when sagacious worldling finds
it his interest to put on the guise of the Abolition
ist that Is proof OF progress is IL not? 1t is proof
of great change when young, aspiring man
like Banks. puts on the cowl of anti slavery, and
stands before twenty millions of people, declaring
that, under any conceivable circumstances he will
let the Union Slide What political aspirant, with
office waiting, as he thought, on his words, ever
before this ventured as much? Such meetings as
these may claim that they have made such courage
and frankress possible, without risk Of ruin.
listened with the greatest interest to our young
friend from Maryland Miss +. L. Watkins:) and il
was sad question to ask, il there was no hill no
forest. nc glen in Massachusetts where we could
half l. ~
very boldly a successful anti.slavery man, while
this is true in MASSACHUSETTS. We all know it. The
saddest moment of my life was when looked into
the fearful eyes of Anthony Burns, and he asked
me the queston-Is there nothing you can do for
me p and went down into the recess of my own
heart-I called up in my mind judges, jurors, gov
ernment statutes, churches, the wealth of old civ
ization, honored State names-one after another
hey sank beneath me, and / could only answer
there is no hope for you in the city of
Boston, nor the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
here is no thread Of law to hang a hope upon.
went out Of his cell with the conviction of what
1 waste and failure civilization had Secn in our
own loved Comino onwealth. There was q man.
loudly entitled to freedom for he was not only
born free, but he had achieved it by his own right
he sat there before me, and often as l had
boasted of Boston and Massachusetts. there was
not shred of protection to offer him. The noblest
function Of the State, the protection OF the nno-
cent man. was WantlnBi anu s"oIe ny the LIVING
Cod that | would lay no such fattering uncton to
my soul again; that had made it possible in the
streets of Boston for any man to tell his name.
Applause mean to keep that oath, if before
il 0Eurch and State 60 down alike. | mean to
keep it at the sacrifice OF the most honored names
that any party can offer. What demand of the
Free Soil leaders and of the pulp is not that they
shall carry freedom to Kansns, or prevent the an
nexation of Cuba but, while they do their own
work that they shall labor with me to create such
a public sentiment in Massachusetts that We can
save the old Commonwealth at last, as the refuge
place of any who wishes to set his foot upon its
soil.
believe that the settlement OF this question is
to come at last, STATE by State We cannot ex-
pect to take up colossal Union of twenty millions
of people and four millions of slaves valued ut two
hundred millions of dollars and destroy 1t at
blow. That is not the way these questions are set
tied. We shall clutch them OF state by state
Iu;..a...;.. Z. ul.aaat nonGr FIR il L asked the