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

and find place for Massachusetts law to res
upon; and let no judge, no authority of the Unio
presume to say that law sealed by the Common
wealth Of Massachusetts is not the law, as GU
Court now decides. Yes, Wisconsin is read
for tho dissolution of the Union, on the precis
point upon which will come the conflict-the Judi
ciary. There is more danger in judges than ii
/ Congress. Here sits upon our platform Mis-
Della Webster, who has found what the Judiciar
of Kentucky really is. Her freedom was sacri
feed, her property wrested from her; and the Jndg
who signed the warrant to commit her to prison
Immediately before quitting his seat wrote hi
resignation, knowing we'll he had been the tool o
wealth and malice; and when he who succeeded
the official by " hose authority she was imprisoned
signed the warrant by which she was released, h
was told that he would be turned out of Office be
fore twevemonth, and he was. What NOR
mcnstTous prostitution of Judicial office can b
found in the record Of the Jameses and Charlese
than that2
Slavery knows the power and influence Of tn
Judiciary; knows that if it can fasten tn
neck of the people the idea of the sacredness o
law, it can keep them quiet for half century
We have two means by which to fight them on
is, TO put on those benches men like the Chief jus
tice Of Wisconsin; and the second is, to educat
the people into the conviction that a bad law i
better broken than obeyed. (Applause.) Tha
! parchment is not law which issues from drunkel
House of Representatives at Washington, and il
not to be obeyed. Open the doors of Congress, anC
while Doctors of Divinity, like Sharp, Kneel dowr
and kiss the wine.bespattered lntels of the door
OF the House of Representatives at Washington
and say Of their votes These are the enactment
of the most High God obey them, Christians
whether you think them right or wrong !-let VI
teach the nation to say to those drunken and riot
Gus men This bloody parchment is not law, an(
we will not obey it =
We are to Judge all things in virtue of the SOW
eregnty of the individual abolition conscience. 1
slavery is not so very bad, hug the Union love it,
spare it! If you like servle priests like Adams
venal poets like Longfellow, old men grown gray
in the service of freedom brought at last to tht
ground sacrificed before the altar of Slavery lik,
that honored head of Pierpont; if you like his
tory such as ours, written all with servility
if you like men dug up from the depths of pub
lie contempt, and elevated to high official positions
like Caleb Gushing, who is doing moro to fix the
fate of this Union than any single man has don,
for twenty-five years,--if you like such things, hav
them But if in all this you recognise the inAu
enco of system so powerful so dangerous, St
deadly that it is worth while to risk any thing tC
get rid of it, then be Abolitionist; make i
your business no matter hat shall be the conse
qucnces! | would trample altar, Constitution, the
Union myself under my ieet. if by no other means
| could reach the slave. Loud applause.) Fol
what man makes is dust, weighed against man
himself, Gods own creation.
No Free Soil party shall ever hear word OF
criticism from me, if they will have preamble to
their platform like this - Slavery is the worst
thing on American soil. Man is the only thing
in no other way. we will put the State and Church
down there, and crowd him up! After they have
given the outside world to understand this as their
first principle let them say In the mean time,
we think it possible we can save Kansas, keep Gu
ba out, repeal the Fugitive Slave Bill, utter a
thousand glorious oratiOns in Congress, and there.
fore mean, as preliminary step, to do it, or, at
least try. But, in the mean time, understand,
you men and women who stay at home and educate
the children, who create the public opinion, and
save us when we fail,-understand, that when you
raise the long and universal cry, "D Down with the
flag itself! if in no other way we can reach the
slave" you shall have CHARLES SUMNER as the first
mate of that ship | must put GARRISON as cap
tain.) (Cheers.)
You see, the difficulty s, to get this public senti.
ment behind the politicians. We cannot afford a
generation of failures; we have had enough. Il
there had been Garrison alive in 1919, we should
have saved Daniel Webster. l think Daniel Webs
ter was as good as Charles Sumner, in the main, if
you had taken him early; and am not certain that
Franklin Pierce might not have been made into
something decent, if he had been taken early.
(Laughter.) If there had been behind the Missouri
Compromise religious sentiment; if, when Jona-
than Mason had come home after his vote no man
had taken him by the hand, we should have had no
more traitors in Massachusetts,. | remember that
one day while he on the Common, joined
with other boys in kissing him, near the Frog
Pond, and that hiss was the glory of my boyhood.
John Quincy Adams came home and walked round
Boston Common, and there was but one man in the
city who shook hands with him. He hal voted
against State street, But Jonathan Mason came
home, and every body played whist with him he
could go anywhere but into politics. There was
no religious sentiment at bottom-Lo principle it
was n mere matter of dollars and cents-a political
struggle, which had no roots in the hearts of the
people,
Mr.. Banks says we shall have twenty States
from Mexico, ii Il Slavery Administration comes
into power next time. TLen where is Congress?
The Union, then, is mockery and sham. And
yet, in the judgment of man better competent to
decide than perhaps any man just now, that is to
be the result of the election of man like Pierce
Yet was assured in Illinois, month ago, that
Douglas could carry the State And then, if Penn
sylyania goes too, where are we?
Nv argument shall always be to Aboltionists-
do not ask you to 60 against the Union, unless
can show you a cause worthy Of it. If the ortho
dox demonstration is worth more than the princi-
Pile which called it into being, cling to it If the
Union is worth more than individual and public
honor, and the sacred rights of man, then cling to
It'll But if individual servility, national disgrace,
and monstrous injustice, are not to be prevented
but by getting rid Of the Union, and even of the
Church, in order to reach the slave, then make up
your minds which you will choose
My friend Foster is for hurrying convictions into
action before they are ready to follow him. We
want these meetings, small or large. The very
fact that they are held is something Congress
has not said or done much for six weeks past, but
it is q perpetual blister. 1t is drawing the aten-
ton of the whole country, doing nothing. wish
it may 60 on doing nothing. The fact that Dis
union meeting is actually held in Boston is great
thing to me- The fact that it is held here is the
reason Southerner condescends to come to Boston
to lecture on slavery. When the stakeholder comes
down from that position which Calhoun and Clay
occupied. and says-'I am willing to look two
thousand Massachusetts men in the face, and tell
them why think slavery is good institution, he
has got good deal lower than fifteen years ago.
And do yon remember where we drfted from ?
Webster made it his boast that he had never dis
cussed slavery in the Senate. Benton did the
same and Clay, in 1889, proclaimed that ii would
be moral treason to discuss slavery. And now, we
have half a dozen gentlemen,-ro, not gentlemen,
I f,nnlanse l-sendinp back answers 10 n Boston