Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-08-23

his King, into his CASTLE he sent back II mes
sage, that the castle was open to him; that when
tho Bourbon entered it, the Spaniard would 80 out
and when the Bourbon left it, he would burn il
to the ground, for honest mans house should
ever cover traitor2 That is what call chivalry,
Loud cheers. We need to educate the heart of
the NortherB people 1t is 100 much eaten !out by
gain, by money, 10y material prosperity. My friend
!, MIR. Strong was making very acute criticism in
conversation this, morning in regard to this matter
the difference in respect to character between
the men of the Revolution and the men of our
day, outside the anti.slavcry struggle, in brave,
earnest sincerity of principle even on tie mistaken
basis Of the settlement Of that day. They knew
what they wanted; they were men--sin-
sincerely earnest, gallant men; men that did not
measure their words; men that hewei to the line
men who, when they had planted their feet, never
took them up again: men that looked forward to
the stake, to martyrdom, rather than take back n
word. The men of our generation are hucks tcrs ;
they speak to-day, and take back to morrow; whis
per at home what they would be afraid to have
u heard ut Washington and say at Washington what
thes would be afraid to have heard at home, and
are politically dead when the Two places meet and
compare notes. Cheers. We are n huckstering
half-hearted palterng small-patterned, half in
earnest race; none Of the broed intelligent, earn
est practical devoted, in some sense reckless en-
husiasm of the revolutionary day, except in those
whom the anti-slavery struggle has stirred into
life. Now we are bound to keep that spirit alive ;
W icI no IOtlCdl emergency NO COnl sNd
low it up. Mr.. Seward says the day of compro
mises has passed | wart party on that basis
If Jessie is an Abolitionist, put hor up for Pres
dent cheers but do not put her husband up
while he allows himself bound by n Constitution
that makes slavery in the Carolinas safe from the
interference Of the United States government |
baye got beyond Constitutions and Unions. |
want no man for President of these States, | will
acknowledge no man as an antSlayery candidate
for any office, who has not got his hand half
clenched, and means to close it on tie ia ,uar vein
of the slave system the moment he reaches it, and
has douGle.cdged dagger in the other hand, in
case there is any missing in the stranguaton.
/ Loud cheers | want politics that inscrbes on
its banner 'Freedom-Justicc !! and then, if they
can find any room below them for The Constitu-
tim of the United State put it in hut Freedom
first, Justice first. | hope Wisconsin will never
join the Union again until we abolish slavery. |
hope she will exhaust the whole catalogue of
Smiths and make them successfully Chief Justices,
before she takes Chief Justice Taney instead,
Massachusetts, has got beyond It's slavery to pol
itc, The people are beyond the platform | can
tell you what the Free Soilers here say.
ing to each other, in answer to my remarks. They
say--O, that platform don't mean anything. 1t
does not matter much what the caucus says; ,cc
mean opposition to the Fugitive Slave Law ice
me IN an Anti-Slavcry Constitution we, the mass
es, are Abolitionists; this is only plsteboard
band We put out | know it. ! know that in the
RAMPS Of the Republican movement there are Alb
Ielab -ists who mean all this. But | know also,
that during this Presidential canvass. all their
friends want them to keep silent. They want
them Of the way. They do not want that sort
of sentiment avowed But in that sentiment is
the orly element of progress. How long are
going to wait for the abolition of slavery? How
many Fremonts must we elect President, before
you consent to be educated to higher level Of
anti-slavery? 1t is II very costly experiment, this
education of yours You get ON very slowly.
If the antslayery spirit exists, let it speak out
in Massachusetts, as it has done in Wisconsin. Go
and elect man for Governor who will march the
Massachusetts, militia down to Boston lctorc an
other fugitive slave shall be taken cut Of the city
/ Cheers. Go and elect a man who shall replace
Chief Justice Shaw with somebody that shall de-
clare the Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional.
You have nominated Mr.. Gardner, Suppose he is
elected this fall. Chief Justice Shaw wants to
sign he has said to Gardner that he will resign
whenever he finds anybody to take his place. Two
gentlemen of the bur have been applied to, and
have declined Il third is named-the Professor Of
Law at Harvard College; the man who, within
six months read to his pupils an elaborate argu,
ment to prove the Fugitive Slave Law constitu
/ tional! Suppose Governor Gardner reelected; /;
suppose Chief Justice Shaw, wearied with years
and sickness, resigns, and Prof. Joel Parker is
made Chief Justice. The Office is for life. You
have got another incumbus on the State. 1t is Il
most critical period. Our Supreme Bench is to be
filled within n year or two. Massachusetts has
not elective judges; she has judges for He Henry
j. Gardner may die, and be forgotten; (thank God
for the blessing of death but he may last for
forty years. and plague our children in years to
GENE. Watch this central power of the govern
ment, that lies behind the Judiciary, We shall
never redeem Massachusetts until we conquer the
Bench, We want Il Governor, we want success
sion Of Governors, that shall fill up that Bench
with John y. Andrew, Of bingham cheers, with
John W. Browne, of Boston, renewed cheers,
and men CT that stamp; lawyers, who have not yet
pa rted with their hearts men, who recognize
Coke and Blackstone but who also recognize the
Higher Law above, Give us such Bench as that,
for one,l do not what you do in Congress,
for will make this little State so hot that no
STAKEHOLDER shall set foot upon it, and no fug
tive slave in the couRtry, even il he comes from
the extreme point of Florida, shall ever find the
climate too cold.
The judiciary, Mr. President, is the key to the
Government. When the Stuarts wanted to subdue
England, they began with the Bench The Slave
Power OF this country long ago suljugated the
Bench. The first effort of Massachusetts, toward
freedom will be to secure the antslayery indepen-
dence of the Bench. Why did not Caleb Cushing
and franklin Pierce send IL file Of United States
troops to take Mr.. Booth, who edits paper in Mil
waukie? Why did not the District Judge issue
his warrant and solder up that broken prison of.
his? Why does not the Cabinet at Washington
cndeavor to subduD the State Of Wisconsin? |
will tell you why. because Chief Justice Smith,
thc Mansfield Of America, stands on the threshold
of the State and beneath judge who knows
what State sovereignty means, the United States
authority drops powerless. We want such q judge,
and in order to that, we want a Governor.
Perhaps have spoken as long as | ought, mo,
no ; go on, go ON !; but | entreat you, do not
think Us tedious. You do not live in Boston, all
of you. You have not the daily nauscous sight of
Legislature and Governor all winter. You do
not know what it is, when II fugitive slave stands
chained in Boston courthouse, to have the solemn,
disheartening conviction that there is not an Exec
utive officer in the State who will do n Massachu
setts act If we could only have taken that court
house. and carried it round the Commonwealth of
Massachusets-il we could only have taken that
Governor, he stood on the platform at Faneuil
Hall, and wanted to strike but dared not, and
daguerreotype him in every town of the Common
wealth--you would not innict him upon us
again,
Mr.. President, acknowledge the value Of pol
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