Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-04-12
THE ANTI-sLAv.ERY BANQUET.

1t is sometime since this banquet came of, but
The iu3inuatip papers we receive furnished us ne
account Of its proceedings. For the following &c
count we are indebted to the Weekly Freeman
An Anti-slavery Banquet was held at Masoni,
Hall, on Thursday evening last. Speeches were
delivered by Rev. Mr.. Livermorc, Mrs. l.. S
Blackwell, Rev. DIR. CUlver, Mr.. Jolliie, and Mr.
Mussey.
Mr.. Livermore, on taking the stand, said it wa:
a fault Of this country that we had too much talk
ing and too little acting. We did not need t.
stand here hearing only, but should in our act;
carry out our principles. lie would make way foi
q woman who not only talked but worked.
Mrs. l.. 5. Blackwell said, when God spanned
the river with a great free bridge, but a little
while ago, thousands of slaves had Travelled over
this highway. She had been at the stations of
,he L.. g. II. r., up and down the river, and had
heard Of parties one, two, five, ton, and even TWEEN
ty in q party moving northward. And with q heart
full of gratitude for this, she camo tonight to
speak a word that sho hoped might enable us to
look the grim monster Of slavery in the face, and
lead us to see how wrong it was that there should
be any over whose escape we were to rejoice. She
held in her hand n paper where pots and kettles,
and traces and carts, and oxen and horses, and
men and women, all mingled in one advertisement
were announced to be sold on New Years day; and
one Of these chattels a girl of Ii, brought 81 ,245 I!
The South was all one den of lnfamy. No woman
was safe there, if her skin were dark, from the
brutal violence of any libertine. How had her
heart sunk within her as she had seen in this city
the force of the U. S. applied to carry back INFO
slavery a woman who had escaped. If by some
horrible sorcery a woman with golden hair and
blue eyes; like Mr. Ieadington, had been lured in
to a den of infamy, and kept there for years, and
were at length to break away from that den and
run for safety, and men were to follow her and as
she shriekiug ran block up every street but the
way to the jail; and if she were to cut the throat
IF the chillrpu WIN had prnVn nm beside her.
rather than have them go back to that den she had
left, and then these same men were to 20 through
n legal farce, and at last send her back to her
prison Of shame, would decent men speak to those
who did this? And yet Judge Leavitt, and Com
missioner Pendery, and Marshals Robinson, Ben
net and Brown, and their posse, and lawyers Fin
nell, Wall and Chambers, and Hcadington had
done this.
Oh, it panied her to see a young man, and a
man Of ability like Mr.. Headington, taking the
rich Offering of his youthful talent and laying it
on the shrine Of slavery.
She could think of no sorrow so deep US must
be his mothers, to know she bore such q son. She
could but ihink how his sister could have no great
er disgrace than to be known as his sister; and il
he had a wife, by her wifehood she felt how deeT
must be the pain of her who bore his name.
1t is our duty to create q public sentiment that
shall make it so disgraceful to engage in Save
catching, that no man will do it, When freedom
and human rights are endangered there is no time
70 count the cost Of property. Mrs. B. read an
extract from TIE Gazette, during the slave-trial
and commented upon it severely, as an instance Of
the slavery %toadyism, so common at the north. Tit
afothers of the Revolution gave their linen for car
tridges and armed their sons for war. If we ar
the daughters of such women, let us show it b,
our deeds and devotion to the aRtislavery cause.
The Lev. Mr.. Colver said that we should be
stow q portion of our blame upon those who hel
that man had property in man. Ii was this infa
nous doctrine that made whips and chains neces
sary; and if property can be held in man. then
is no abuse of power to hold down your property
and man is a kind Of property that requires to b
held fiat or let alone entirely. 1t was DR.. Futile
aud such clergymen who held slavery to be no sin
that had strengthened the institution, and the,
were fully as bad as Judge Leavitt and Commits
sioner Pen6ery.
Che supper was next discussed, ana a very ia
vorablc verdict pronounced. After which Mr.. Jol
life said that man was not property, and no Law
could make him a thing. He had heard of tn,
Underground railroad" He had hoped it woul(
become an "Ore1-land route" For his part h,
would entertain a slave, and after he was safe il
Canada would publish the fact and meet the law.
Mr.. Mussey thought the blessings Of libert,
promised by the preamble to thes Constitution, n
shown in the ~mobbing Of Mr.. Babb and others
was not very great, and was willing under certail
contingencies to let the Union slide.