Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-04-05
KANSAS AID MEETING.


AT Albany New York, meeting in aid Of tie
people of Kansas was held last week. at which
Gerrtt Smith contributed three thousand dollars,
+. c. Deavan one thousand, and sundry persons
another tbousand-two newspaper Offices contrib
uting hundred each.
During the proceedings, gentleman named
Norhup spoke, in n strain Of half denunciatiOn of
Slavery and half eulogy Of Millard Fillmore
When lie had concluded, Hon. Gerritt Smth arose
and said:
Nj. Chairman, that speech must not 90 unan-
swcrcd. (Applause) l must search OUT the
gentleman on the Instant Applause )--now, while
he stands before me, with his strange and wicked
logic still fresh in the minds of those who heard
him. (Applausc.) Mr.. Northop declared himself
an Abolitionist
Mr. Northup-I beg the gentloman,s pardon. l
made no such declaration
Mr. Smth--Nevertheess you made the avowal,
rs | shall show before have done with you. Ap-
plause.) lie said hc opposed to the abolition
Of Slavery until the slaves should be learned to
read. This an absurdity. The slave code
says slave shall be taught to read-not even the
holy Bible. If man is not to be allowed to come
out from Slavery until he shall have learned to
read and to enjoy Freedom then he will never
come out Of Slavery at all But Mr.. Nolthup, by
admitting that slaves should be taught to read,
Nvows himself an Abolitionis by claiming for the
slave n right which Slavery denies to all its vic
Tins. To admit that slaves have only rights is to
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cause while slaves, all rights are denied to them.
Mr. Northup said he would vote for Mard Fill
more, and, at the same moment demand the repeal
of the Fugitive Slave Law, Of which Millard Fill
more is the author! Miard Fillmore is for drag
ging back the fugitive into the hell of Slavery,
while Mr. Ncrthup says he will bid the fugitive
God-speed! Monstrous inconsistency! Alas, for
the Kindness which such vote would extend to
the oppressed slave! (Applause.) An indorso-
ment Of the Fugitive Slave Law or its author, is
e.l.
murder For would not Mr.. Northup rather see
his child fall beneath the dagger of the assassin
than to see her dragged into Slavery?
Mr.. Northup, do you believe the mother has
right to her child Answer, if you please, for
have promised to slt you and search you out. (Ap-
plause.) Do you. Mr. Northup, believe that the
mother has right to her child
Mr., Northup--l do.
Mr.. Smith-Then, you are an Abohtionist; APP
plause.) for the moment You admit that Il slave has
any right-even the slave mother the right to her
own child-then are you an Abolitonist; for this
right-giyen of God rs Il right to humanity and as
nm instinct to the brute-s denied by Slavery
Under that accursed instituton,not ever the moth
er has the right to her helpless infant. 1t is the
property of her master. And yet you, Mr.. Nor
thup, admitting this right say you are no Aboli-
tionist but Sir you are an Abolltionist, when you
admit this right. (Applause.) Hence, you are
not as bad man you believe yourself to be-
daughter and Applause.)
Mr.. Northup, do you believe in the right of the
slave to the right of matrimony?
Mr.. Northup-Yes.
NJ. Smith Then, Sir, you are an Abolitionist.
(Applause.) For Slavery denies the right. The
master claims the wife as his property and denies
to the husband the authority which the word of
God confers upon him over his wife. If the mas
ter saws to the wife, "go there" she must go, what
ever protest NAV be interposed by the husband
You deny that this is right; and in making this de-
l,,l;, nisE
are one, though you may not know it. (Appause.)
For the moment any man admits that slaves have
rights, which Slavery denies to its victims, that
moment he becomes an Abo!itionst; for the mo-
ment one of these rights is conferred upon slave,
that moment he becomes free; because he could not
at the same moment enjoy that right and iemain
slave (Applause.)
ANY man who believes that slaves have right
to be taught to read, is an AbolitiOnist
Any man who believes in the sacred rite Of mat.
rimony is an Abolitionist
He may not know it-as in the case of my friend
Northup-( Laughter) but he is none the less an
Abolitonist,-an Abolitionist not merely, but an
immediate Aboltionist. applause.
Many sincere men and women scout the idea that
they are Abolitionists, who are AbJlitionists in
heart and soul and utterauce. There is not even
Stakeholder in the South who is not an Abolition
list, and the more man knows of Slavery the more
intensely he is an, Abolitonist. Let band of nj
rates break into Mr.. Northup's chamber this night
and inform him that they have come to carry him
into Slavery. His knit brow, his palid cheek his
trembling limbs and his clenched fist would rro.
claim him an Abolitionist he resolved to be free
or die. Immense appause)
But Mr. Chairman, in tins case Mr.. Northup
might only be Abolihonist in regard to himself.
(Laughter.) That, he regretted to say, was the
case with too many, They would never, them
selves, submit to Slavery; but they can look and
see others enslaved,
Mr. Smith referred, (Mr. Northup having re-
tired, on closing to the pernicious influence exer-
ted upon Freedom by the spurious and false inter-
pretatons put upon the word of God by Slavery
defending Divines. They had not the spirit of the .
Master; for the spirit of Christ was not in sympa-
thy with Slavery; and he who had most of the
spirit of Christine most perfectly loved his neigh
Dor as himself-was the mot perfect Abolition
ist.
This is but meager sketch of this most master
ly philippe. 1t exerted in the progress Of its de-
livery, mingled admiration for its author and pity
for its excoTated victim, whose remarks had elicit
ed it.
A TEMPERANCE meeting was broken up in Detroit,
a few days ago, by gang Of rowdies, Such pro
ceedings will not help tho cause of rum.