Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-07-04


to the community. Its manner Of reporting our
meetings excites in me no surprise, knew what
it was when it summoned Bolles to its head The
Boston TraUeler itself had vice enough to
quench all the little virtues of those papers with
which 1t united it had surplus wickedness to
supply tho whole four, Its editor is the
who was instrumental in getting up mob in
Springfield against George Thompson, by placard.
ing the city with bills. Tho windows Cf the
hotel at which he (Mr. r. was stopping, were
broken by boys and rowdes the landlord himself
refusing to interfere When MIR. Thompson, in
opening the meeting, charged this editor with
printing these bills, he asked what proof he had
Of the fact q !)like the rascal who rises in court
and says, IF have stolen, prove it. He demanded
the evidence. Now he comes to Boston. Tits is
a specimen of the Republican party; the Tiaveter
is its organ-the best paper shat can live in Mas
sachusets. Can you rely on such party?
Those men could ask US to announce from this
PLATFORM that Cheever would speak in Music
Hall, They could rely on our generosity to do
this, at the risk of emptying our benches. They
with this scurrility and fasehood. SO much
for one straw showing which way the wind
blows.
Dark as that picture is there is still a darker
one. Park Street Church would not allow man
to hold his pew, because he was black yet that
church, this afternoon rang with the eloquence of
Cheever, Stone, Tying, till they out-garrisoned
Garrison himselfl All honor to the brave words
that leap from the lips of such men in good
cause! All honor to the words of rebuke they
utter against their brothers in the church ! What
we ask of them, in spirit of faut-fndiug is mot
only to speak, but to act, in such way to an
initiate the opinion which makes slaveholding
respectable in this country. There were good
Protestants before Luther-men who hated papal
corruption before him. Why then was, he tho
head of Professionalism Simply because he took
the only course which could be taken to dsarm
public opinion in favor of the church. lie cut
the bonds which bound corruption to respectable
ity. The sin of the STAKEHOLDER is not alone his
own fault but the fault Of being considered re-
spectacle by the church Why do four thousand
men applaud when Cheever speaks in Music Hail.
when it Plllsbury or Foster had spoken the same
words, the audience would have left the hall A
friend OF mine, member of the New York
Senate happened to be boarding ut a house full Of
sincere anti-masons. lie bore it as long as he
could, and Their changed to n house where such
men as Seward, Weed and others were boarding;
and on being asked why he did so, replied that he
could not bear anti-masons. But you are not in
any better quarters now Weed and Seward talk
about the masons as bad as anybody 'True--but
they don't mean anything SO with the Church.
Acknowledge me as u Christian, and you may
abuse me from a to lit means nothing. So long
as | can sit at the communion table among decent
men, you may bech forth Eos ter every day in the
week. That is what takes the sting from rebuke.
Beecher is eloquent, but he stands inside the
church, felowshipping Adams and Spring. Let
him slam the door of the BROOKLYN church against
the Bible and Tract Societies, the Education and
Missionary Societies, until they ready to bring
the slave in with them; and the clang of that door
will be the first gunpOwder burnt at Lexington.
The people OF the nation sit down under law.
Slavery has the judiciary on its side. Until you
make Massachusetts announce, in unequivocal
terms, that she will not submit to law which sus-
tains slavery, and that it shall never be executed
as law, until you get public opinion up to this
poin,-our work cannot be done. While one is
ready to reoel, ninety-nine submit. Many have
reached this point theoretically. Governor Chase
of Ohio told me that when Margaret Garner was
in prison, he told his Sheriff not 10 opon its door
at the bidding Of any United States Marshal,
or Judge. That woman was free, and he would
surround her prison with armed men, il need be,
before a United States officer should lay his hand
upon her. Buthe did not do it. Tempted by the
hope of political preferment and delighted by the
hope Of party triumph, he swayed from his /
high purpose, and the moment which would have !
made his name immortal, was allowed to pass !
But what one man thinks, another
attempts, and third performs What no virtue
in Chase was able to do,-ony to proiect,-may
create man who will both plan and execute.
1t is not in the Saxon blood to submit to the
sword. The French, Spanish, and Italian branch .
es of the same root all know what it is to bite the
dust beneath the edge of the despot's sword but
never since the Saxon came from his forest has he
bowed to anything but his own idea of law. New
England men are not towards. Convince Massa-
chusets men-that it is not law to which they are
bowing-tha it is despotism and they will not sub
NIT. Rebellion lit is All epidemic in Mpssachu-
setts. Hancock caught the disease,and inoculated
US all. We shall yet be able to educate this North
ern heart of ours up to the point of rebellion Mas
is kept down by the South, by State
street, Harvard College, with Facing two-ways
Winthrop with Knownothing Everett. Remove
Massachusetts from these Influences, and you will
then see her true character Don't let us despair,
Preach comeoutism to Cheever. Tell him to aim
his sarcasm to the Northern doug hface the South
ern stakeholder, the Missouri ruiian and from
the Church let him at cut loose, and thus
refuse to acknowledge the respectable |
ty of the system it sustains.