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


should almost begin to lose my faith in human
nature if he could be elected three times. Il this
the hour for Massachusetts, to put Henry j. Gard
ner into that Governors chair, when every man
who deserves the right to vote, who is intelligent
enough to vote, knows that he is a consummate
/ lhypocrite? Could you have seen him, as we saw
him, in Fancuil Hall, when four thousand people
came together to express their sympathy with
Charles Sumner, you would understand him. The
, Governor rose and commenced his speech, begin
ming covert hidden, nsidious attack on Mr..
Sumner a growl went up from three thousand
men before him, that warned him off those premi-
ses, and he padded his light canoe into other
waters (Chcers) For little while he went on,
then he tried a second time, with another commen-
cling criticism Mr.. summers conduct in the last
canyass,-upon the language of his speech, upon
the temper and sincerity of his political conduct.
again came the growl of the crouching lion, and
the Governor made back tracks again. Awhile he
talked us all OF us platforms apt to do say
ing nothing, and then veered round in the same
direction Again came the growl of the audience,
and the Governor 'caved in,' turned round Il short
corner, and elaborated u compliment for the man
| he had been prevented from stabbihg under the
! fifth rib. And now you want to make him Gov
ernorl We are going through critical times, the
ship of state is in peril, and you are putting man
/ into the pilot house whom you cannot trust even
so far off as you can see him: man who, if he
did not have some dozen distinct and different reas
ons for telling the truth, would naturally tell lie
/ o. if there is anything the anti-slavcry sentiment
Of Massachusetts is pledged do it is to utter its
protest unmstakably in this hour, when anti-sla
very needs everything, against putting such a man
as that again in nomination. 1t must be If there
is any antisayery in the Free Soil party of Mas
| sachusetts it will make itself felt. | know the
arguments against it. know the soothing talk Of
wirc-pullers, who say it is the best place to hide
Gardner in, TO prevent him from doing worse mis-
chief If we don't keep him in they say, he
will try to get Sumner out. We don't know
can elect nybody beside him. Then elect nobody.
! The vacant chair will be clean. Loud cheers.)
My mission to-day is to say to any Free Solor who
hears me, Save me from Governor Gardner! Re
newed cheering We will take anybody, we will
! take nobody, will pilot the ship without Gov
ernor, but do not give us him. You may take the
humbest man you can find who never spoke, | will
not say an anti-slavery word but n true word and
he is bctOr than Gardner. Three times to BE elect
ed Governor! Why, one would almost forswear
his AT the time | commencing my
speech against Judge Loring, Mr.. Dana said to me,
/ cannot trust your doctrine that the people the
popular sentiment, the popular conscience, may
invade the judicial bench | said to him, we can
trust the people Nonsense said he; you know
it's humbug. You can't trust the people, | be-
lieve, if Massachusetts elects Gardner three times
over, | shall be half converted to Richard Dana's
opinion. Why, we have tried him twice. lie has
insulted us, he has cheated us. The chair of State
like the boys plummet, has touched bottom; for
Gods sake, let it begin to ascend. (Applause.)
Where is his merit? What public good has he done
that he deserves the nomination? a gasconade
letter to the Governor Of Alabama, pblished with.
out any for it, the very eve Of an election
| If there is man here who has word to say for
him. let him say it, in Gods name, and then let
Barnum take him and exhibit him round the Union
as man who still has faith in Gardner! (Cheers.)
But they have nominated him. A small section
Of what was once his party have got together and
nominated him, and the Republican papers gencr-
ally are dumb.
Why, Mr.. President, this fear has eaten out the
heart of Kansas. Have you watched the Kansas
| Legislature? Have you watched the course of
Col. Sumner? Nature took all the brain designed
for the name, and gave it to Charles, and left the
others nothing but limbs. daughter and cheers
Did you mark the debate, when the United States
troops marched to break up the Legislature? One
of thc speakers said we will resist the Missouri
ruianS, but we don't draw trigger against one of
the Federal officers Why? 1t will embarrass
our friends at Washington. They will nom mate
! Mr.. Fremont; We must not emLarrass them. They
are endcayorng to get the State admitted into the
| Union; we must not embarrass them As if
striking good blow ever embarrassed anybody
As if letting the daylight through scoundrcl's
body ever embarrassed good cause! (Cheers)
Aud then, when the decd is done, to show you
how Chestericldian they can Se, they give three
cheers for CJi. SuRHer! Did lIampden, Nane
and Pym, did any of the leading men of the Long
| Parliament, when Cromwell turned them out of
doors, 20 into the streets OF London, and give
three cheers for Oliver Cromwell? Is this my
lrcnd lliggnsons galantry Of Kansas ?-the
etiquette Of the druwing-room! a voice-'Cheers
for Pierce. Pierce! he is Il decent man! Mr..
Foss says he will cry sometimes and if he sees II
suffering man, and nobody is by to hinder him,
will give him something. lie has gotta heart, when
Jefferson Davis or Caleb Gushing is not by to hold
it down. But this Col. Sumner, he acknowledges,
in the face of the universe, that Mr. Secretary-ot-
War has scO0ped out his brain, and sent him there
to Kansas like bro0mstick, with his message
written upon it. | say that Franklin Pierce, who
crecps into a corner and shows he has Il heart, is
decent to the man who stands upon the platform
Of constitutional liberty for the world and says Il
am here to do the most unpleasant work in the
wOrld'-and does 1t! You all laugh at the boy
who told his mother he couldn't Co. for he was tied
to the post. who tied you2 - lIaughter.)
Yet this Col. Summer, whom the Kansas Lcgisla-
turo rewarded with three cheers was the same boy,
grown a little older. (Cheers.) When, when are
we to teach men that it is in sentiments in hearts,
in IDEAS that the strength ot all opinions, of all
causes resides? That they should have hisSed Mr..
Sumner from Lawrence back to Washington, until
the Whole continent rang with one loud cry Of con-
tempt for the hound who had sacrificed the honor
of name, which after CHARLES SUMNER bore it,
he ought to have feared to sully,-to the neceSsi
ties of diabolica Administration. (Enthusiqstip
applause.)
My friend lIgginson was correct, he was truth
ful IN the extreme, he was just eloquent, sublime
when he told us that the best duel Mr. Burlngame
could have fought was to say to Col Brooks, when
his message was presented, Il fight with gentle
men therefore, | have answer for you
(Cheers) lie might have stamped him with the
contempt of Massachusetts, as beneath the code OF
gentlemanly satisfaction. 1t would have been
better than killing him at Clifton House. don't
care if, according to my friend Conway, he had
fought the whole South Carolina delegation after
wards We cannot afford to spare Brooks. We
want him to keep our contempt healthy and alive
cloud chcers.l We cannot afford to have decent
man like Burngame even blunder into acknow-
odging him gallant and chiyalrous. NJ Massachn
setts man must ever name him without rnsing his
mouth Immediately afterwards, (Applause.) When
he raised Brooks into decency Mr.. BurliaGamo in
Aicted foul insult on Massachusetts,. So it is
with regard to what has taken place in Kansas
with regard to those Federal officers who under
took to be the tools of Franklin Pierce and Caleb
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