Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-06-06

of that government. Louis Napolean was held on
his unsteady throne by the army, the Jesuits and
the capitalists, and he dare not defy the sentiment
of either. Some said that 347, 900 Shareholders
ruled this country; he should say the masses
ruled. They ruled by public opinion based or
prejudice against race, which was tho stronges,
link in the chain of the Slave Power.
There were three strands of the cable of the
Slave Power. The first was money, $4,000, 900, 00C
invested in human property. The house of IIaps
burg dared not go into until it consulted the
Rothschilds. Slavery was the Rothcbilds of this
country Unlike all other wealth, the wealth of
the slave Power was homogeneous, concentrat ted
in few hands, and moved by single impulse
Power concentrated doubled. Here was
wealth not like land, scattered into millions of
hands settled and secure, but wealth concentrated
held by some two or three hundred thousand who
knew that unless they fought with the energy of
despair they could never conquer. The slavehold
er was man driven to the wall, and of such the
old proverb said beware.
The second strand of the cable was aristocracy
the seven.eights basis-by which Gov. Akin
was put on par with a New England town of four
or five thousand inhabitants. No arstocracy
of Vienna or Of Moscow could compare with
that.
But the third and strongest strand was prejudice
against color compared with which wealth and
aristocracy were as nothing 1t swept into the
bosom of the Slave Power the millions of the
North. If the Abolitionsts could have appealed
to the democratic mpathes of the eleven millions
of human hearts in the sixteen States it would
hare taken more than an incubus of 10000 pul.
pits to crowd them down to the hell of American
prejudice, and they could have unseated aristoc.
racy and trompled wealth itself under their feet
How inexpressibly mean and despicable was this
prejudice against colorl
The historian, sixty years hence, in cleaning
the romance and heroism of the present age would
not, he believed find it under white skin or blue
UpuI1 md II in hat tn,, or
Margaret Garner, which had no parallel this side
the ocean-only in ancient history. He would End
1t in the story of that mother, Just sheltered be.
meath the roof of a cOlored man in Indiana, the
door hardly closed, when two constables on horse
back made their way to the howell pushed in the
door and stood before them; with the quckness of
a mothers love, hinging her infant of six months
old into the bosom OF woman she had never seen
BEFORE she said, Take your baby" and turned to
surrender herself to the hunter (applause) "No,"
said she that is your child" "No child of nine +"
said the woman curbing down her heart, and, with.
out one look at the baby, whom the quickness of
a mothers instinct Lad saved, she turned and went
back to bondage and left her child free (applause)
He would find it in the story Of that black man
who set himself down by the side of partition
and said TO his friend, "mark a line around me |;
make o box big enough to hold me'; and the trem-
bling mechanic could not guide the pencil that
marked the line and Box Brown placed himself
inside, to be carried hundreds of miles away.
How had our humanity fallen off from revolu-
tionary times? The representative scholar of
New England had undertaken to 90 from city to
city to tell tn e virtues of Washington but had re-.
membered to forget that Washington had ever
uttered an anti.savery word. The antslavery
sentiment that Washington dared to utter Edward
Everett dared not repeat. Gcd bless the Colonies
that made a Washington! God curse the Union
that manufactured an Everett (applause)i
Why had our people so fallen? While Washing.
ton hovered with benignant wing over the parch
entlaunched Onion, while Patrick Henry vet
guarded Nirinia, while John Jav, with angel in
fuence planted the seed of Liberty in your En-
pire State, while Hancock yet lived and Adams
spoke the devil lowered over Charleston with half
a dozen seeds Of cotton in his hand and planted
them, and 10! the scale of ideas kicked the
beam (laughter). 1t grew and multiplied till the
crop worth sixty, seventy, a hundred millions
and sufhced to buy up great men and good men
great deal faster than nature could make them
Daughter and applause) There the history
of the Union in one word. 1t was launched with
the statute of 1877 for its motto-"All the ter
riory that belonged to the Union free" One gen.
GRAFTON marched over the stage, thirty years
ella apsed and then came the the Missouri Compro-
mise. A great struggle ensued, almost rending
the Union. and the result was, one half the terri
tory slave. and the other half free. Another
thirty years rolled on and the struggle was re-
newed. and now the result was, all the territory
open to slavery. Such was the history of the past
sixty years how could anybody know that the
history Of the next sixty years would be any diff
ferent? The old proverb was. 81 gave the mouse
nest and she has become my heir; we gave
slavery resting place, and she has become king
"The that hits himself twice against the
same stone is :ool"; we were launching on
another epoch should we repeat the same policy?
Should we preach, obey the laws. submit to the
government and trust to ideas? We had fastened
dead carcass to the living body, and the living
body was half dead by the contact how. long
would you GO on and try the experiment?
We ought to have piled up an indignation, a
wealth. pulpit, an education, strength of moral
sentiment prejudice against slavery so strong
that to-day we could let it loose in an avalanche
and bury the system of slavery from the sight of
men in all time to come. We ought to hate slavery
as the Protestant hates the Catholic. That hatred
never was reasoned up and it would never be
reasoned down; it was in the blood, and he could
not get rid oft. Whence came it 1t came from
the two hours sermons of the Puritans two cen
turies ago-it came from sentiment passing into
character-it came from ideas passing into nature
and prejudice. Man, in The moment of crisis, did
not act from thought but from habit and instinct.
What wrong was there in a prejudice in favor of
liberty--in favor of human rights-in favor of
God and against the devil daughter and ap-
plause)? He would have the people learn to
loatbe the sight of aman that lived on the unpaid
toll of his fellow (applause). He would have the
Massachusetts pine bow down in indignation when
be approached. He would make the breezes of
the White Mountains blow him off the shore
laughter) He so disliked the neighborhood of
Carolina that he would float her out like an ice'
berg into the Gulf stream and let her settle into
everlasting oblivion Qaugnter and applapse) Our
fathers labored to be decent in the sisterhood Of
States, but now there was scarcely hand among
the swarming millions of this mighty republic
that decent man clasp, except that of slave;
there was not one that did not drip with the blood
of millions which made the flag of the nation
heavy as it sank down by the staff. He would
like to make New York politics care no more for
the opinion of New Orleans than it did for Liver
pool. He would break the political connection
between New York and New Orleans, while the
same business connection remained, just as it ex-
listed between New York and Liverpool. Let Liver
pool undertake to dictate to New York and every
fling of iron that existed in New York would
point northward. Not so with New Orleans; the
difference was very marked.
He would defy any one to find nation on the
face of tho EARTH within the girdle Of Christianity,
that betrayed such an obliquity Of moral vision