Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-01-05
Obc Anti- 5lnurrp Buelr.
EIGHTEENTH ANNIVERSARY :.
OF THE
PENNSYLVANIA ANTI.sLAvERY So
CIETY.

CIETY.
We select tho following extracts from the Dis
oussions at the late anniversary Of the Pennsylva
mia Anti-Slavery Society as Reported in the Stan
dard:
c. c. Burleigh said: We have no reason to
doubt our ultimate triumph even if to-day the sky
should look somewhat dark and storm should seem
10 be menacing: What may be the immediate is
sue of some of the controversies now going on,
suoh as the question of freedom slavery in Kan
sas the question: of turning the free States into
slave States, or the question of making your high
ways channels Of the internal slave trade, the iu-
Nure must answer; but let these questions be ans
wered as they may, ono thing we may confidently
answer as cert liD:ether That the response will come
in the shape Of a defeated Slave P0cor in those
particular instances promising n succession of de-
feats or it will come in the shape Of somc fresh
insult and aggression upon the North that will
deepen the feeling Of hostility to slavery, make
moro intense the spirit of opposition and hasten
she creation of that public opinion which will adopt
the motto we have been long holding up before
the nations gazc-No Union with Shareholders
Certainly it has been demonstrated already with
tcal Union, no oneness of interest feeling or prn
oiple throughout the different parts Of the land
Look into your Congress Halls to-day-how much
uuion is there? See the successive fuitless eff
forts to organize the House. See the plans and
schemes of retaliation, they are called, which
are beginning to manifest themselves at the South
acts proposed in Virginia, Georgia and elsewhere
to aveuge upon the free States the supposed mis-
deeds of the fanatics and disturbers 0: the peace
in those States whereby the security Of the ten
ure of slave property is so seriously endangered.
For my part confess l should not look with quite
so much regret upon the success OF some of those
schemes upon some other movements ,f the
Slave Power. If Georgia, for example, chooses
- lay under contribution all the property belong
ing to the citizens of The free States happening to
DO within her own borders in order to compensate
tor tho loss Of her sefemancipaed slaves, let her
do it; let her levy upon the property of Northern
pro.elavery merchants and Manufacturers
spprehend they are the principal class of proper
sy-hoders in the State of Georgia. Let see
what effect it will have upon them-how pleasant
ly they will bear the burden of the salvation Of
the Union. If the stockholders choose to take that
mode of allaying the agitation, fol my part say
God speed the experiment. am inclined to think
they will have o;cason to adopt the line Of the
poet,
"That lulls it as the north wind lulis the sea-"
Whatever way these new schemes Of the Slave
Powor turn, we may calculate upon making profit
TO the anti-slavcry cause. 1t will only furnish
new illustration of the long familiar proverb, that
'whom the gods wish to destroy they first made
mad"
But our confidence in the ultimate triumph ofi
our cause is not based upon any such measures asI
these, nor upon any reaction which may result
from the too strong pressure OF The slavehoidlnG
tyranny upon rights and interests; it is IN the
power of truth and the eternal principle of JUS
tice We have the almighty arm of the God of
Justice to bear us up. Let The politician be for
moment excited to spasmodc resistance, or recoi
into apathy more dead from the momentary
extraordinary e-citement let the business man for
a moment be stung to frenzy and TO q disposition
to retaliation or COW down from dread Of the loss
of his accustomed cent per cent still We have the
right and the truth on side; deep down in the
heart of the mass of the people there exists an ap
probation of right which God has inwrought in
to the constitution Of man that no power has ever
yet been adequate to its eradication. To that in
nate sense we appeal, which will testify in our fl,
YOUR all the more earnestly, effectively and persc
verinyly that we make our appeals to it, 1t is
but the pre- udce of the hour, the flncicd interest
of the present. transient prejudice, an imagined
intcrest--that stands in the way of our progress.
To day the politician will delude thc people with
the belief that the success of this or that party
essential 10 the prosperity Of the nation; to-mOr-
row the frure Of his promise to be fulfilled works
conviction in the minds of the people of the folly
of trusting in politicians. To-day are warned
of the danger TO the pe:pctuity Of the Union in
agitating the delicate question OF slavery; to-mor-
row comes and the nation is neither sunk nor de-
stroyed its business goes on, its industry thrivcs
as before; meanwhile the people begin to suspect
that the solemn warning was the language of self
interest, which was willing to sacrifice humanity
and the public good for its own ends. Every CON
troversy upon this question or on any question
collateral thereto will terminate in the enlarge
ment Of the anti-slayery feeling, in the mutipli-
cation of the number of converts and in the clear
or perception by the mass of the people of the
truth of antslavery principles. Every force which
works against our cause is in greater or less de-
gree spasmodic--certainly transient and tempora-
ry. The force which launches the shot from the
gun may seem for time to overcome the power Of
gravitation; but grayitation works constantly and
If not at any one moment as strong as the contend
ing force, yet, By its constant action, is sure to
overcome it at last. When the volcano pours out
its molten stream down the mountain side and
hurls its heated rocks into mid heaven, we have
no fears that the centre of the earth is abont to be
poured out into the atmosphere; for the constant,
unceasng tendency Of all things to harmony will
at length bring back the erring masses to their
proper position and make sure the t1umph of the
everlasting law Ours is the everlasting law, al
gays acting aud tending to bring things into hnr