The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-08-16
Abolition Pioneers.

Every cause has its pioneers, its great |
who keep in advance of their
plant outposts, man them,
and await the arrival of their sympathising
hosts. Seward, Parker, Phillips, CARR /
son. and their associates, are the pioneers
Of northern freesoiism and it is we'll to
keep track of their works, for they push
principles logically to their conclusion
When Seward is declaring in the senate that
the day for compromises has passed, it may
be well to know what Garrison is saying in
Massachusetts,.
These pioneers met at birmingham on the
4th of July, and the two last Liberators
have their speeches in full.
The first speech Was made by Wm. Lloyd
Garrison We give two extracts =
"To-day t,isown the American flag as the
symbol of unegualled hypocrisy and tran
sceutant oppression, and, casting it into the
broad Atlantic defy all the waters thereof
to wash out its bloody stains. To-day re-
new my accusation against the American
constitution, that it is "a convcnant with
death and an agreement with hell. which
ought to be annullcd now and forever To-
day | pronounce the American Union
league of despotism, to pcrpetuate which IS
a crime against our common humanity, and
a sin against God. To-day | affirm the
higher law to toe the rghtful and para
mount Law of the land. t33 .lc sG5vcrsion of
every statute. agreement and compromises,
inimical 70 human freedom. To-day | stand
Outside of this tyrannical government, IA Sc
ccder on principle, a rcvoutioniSt with Han
cock, and Otis, and Warren, but upon Il
broader platform, with a loftier spirit with
better weapons, and for nobler object
For the Lord spake thus to me with strong
hand, and instructed me that should not
walk in the way Of this people, saying, Say
We not, 4 contederacy, to all them to whom
this people shall say, y conicderacy; nei-
/ Their fear We their fear, nor lie afraid. Sane
tify the Lord OF hosts himself; and let him
be your fea,, and he shall be for q sanctu-
ary.'
Garrison concluded as follows -
"let rs then, o.day-~rejecting rs wild
and cbimcrica!, al suggestions, PROPOSE
, tons, and contrivauces !cT restraining slave
~ within its present limits, while extending
constitutional protection Ia Il III fifteen Of
I the thir;y-oD sta,es-register cus pledge
anew, before Heaven and the world, that
we vii! DO what in US lies 10 effect the eter-
nal overthrow Of this blood stained Union,
that thus our cnslaved cOIntrymen may find
a sure deliverauce, and we may no longer be
! answerable for their blood. Let Us not be
} drawn off by any side issue in Kansas, nor
/ be dcluied by the cry o. liberty ndtioadt,
slorery sectionol,'-sceine it is the existence
of slavery in the south which is the root OF
all our troubles, the cause Of all our Dan
J gers, the source Of all cur perils. Away,
/ then with all nostrums, concessions, com
/ promises, expedents, truceS, aud the like
But one course is 10 be pursued-one object
aimed atone blow struck: Tile nord
} aust sep0rate iron. the soutA. and organize
her own institutions on a sure baS!s-ena-
. bling each one of US exutingy TO shout
%. the land fcr me, the land for me,
I Where every living soul j. free.
Where winter may come where storm. may rave
But tyraut can lord it oes the slave" tChesrs)'
Rev. Andrew T. Foss was the next
speaker lie took the following Christian
view Of the assault on Sumner -
''lIe honorcd true maniiness everywhere ;
he honorcd it il Charles Sumner; but If, by
the blows which lac received at the assassin
hands Of the slave power lie and MS sup
Union. he should deem 1t subject of
thankfulncsS-though be desired no harm to
come to any one lie felt exceedingly hope
ful OF the overthrow OF the Union-.icht Is
spreading fast, and slavery AMI the Union
cannot brar the light
Wendell Phillips was uDc nponly rich.
r-,..,artzr I, rrIe r rem 1TIJ parry
beginning Of diSuuiUR -
at is the fir, sectional party ever organ
lied IN this country. 1t does not know its
OWN face, and 1t calls Itself national but ii
is not national-it is sectional Il is the
north arraytd against the south. Henry
Wilson said 10 me, we must get every
northern state IN order to elect Fremont
Even III Imagination he did not count upon
single southern state. Il was a distinct re-
cogultiun of the fact that the republican par
ty Is u party of tie north pledged against
the south Theodore Parker wanted 10 know
once where disunIon would begin. I viii
tell hIm-just where that party divides
That Is q northern party against The south
ern. DO rot cal it All anti-Slavery party
Ii has not risen to that yet. 1t is Il northern
party against the southern. They made the
first little breach. The first crack in the icc-
berg is visible; you Will hear it 60 with
cracF through TO the centre. Its first dis
tlnct recognition was Banks election. He
was elected 10y northern men-not man
from the south voting for him. That is the
value of that party. hail it as >ign-as
great gain. did not hope to see it for ten
years i, has come unexpectedly carly"
lis practical idea is, that if this party
would take the Kansas question and the
Sumner assault and carry them to the peo
H. tn for
chusetts TO call her representatives home
and begin that course of conduct which Is 10
create nor thern republic, those two events
would bear fruit"
j. Il. Swasey was welcomed as a new
champion and said, in his speech, that for
merly, he was "what was called an anti
slavery whig;" now he certainly is in one of
Garrison's out posts -
"The constitution of the United States did
for the first time in history, distinctly rccog
nizc slavery as legal thing. Nowhere in
history can you find any constitution that
has put slavery into legal existence by or
ganic act, except here in America. That is
what we did-delberately, and for purposes
of selfish aggrandizement; and this intro
ducton of slavery into the organic, funda-
mental law, has been the root, and is the
root, of all our difficulties. Like the broad
spread upas tree, it poisoned the whole at
mosphere, and the plants of liberty have, in
the shadow of that great wrong, withered
and faded away. 1t could not be otherwise.
=
eIn the old times. l was what was called
an anti-savcry wing. But, Mr.. President,
it has come to my mind like conviction,
that it is utterly in vain to hope that we can
live under such government as this, with
our professions, and with our pretended love
of freedom and right WHY. the thing is