Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-06-06
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SPEECHES AT THE ANNIvEh sARY OF
THE AMERICAN ANTISLAvERY
SOCIETY.
SPEECH OF MR.. REMOND.

Mr. Remond spoke in terms Of roprobation oi
the decision OF the Supreme Court of the
United States The Chief Justice, he sad had
announced that the black man had no rights which
the white man is bound to respect. He (the
speaker) stood there a colored man to say that
between himself and Judge Taney, with his whole
train of sympathizers and supporters, there is mo
love lost (Laughter) 1t is novel idea that n
man, be he Judge or jurymann the United States, in
this nineteenth century, within few miles of
Bunker Hill, and Concord, and Lexington can
make declaration that a man, simply on the
ground of complexion, has no rights which other
men ore bound to respect Such q man is not
TO be compared with the barbarian of the Barbary
States, or with the most ignorant African in the
iungles of Africa, lie declared further in the
language of a white man, that. living or dying,
sinking or swimming, surviving or perishing' he
trampled the decision and declaration of Judge
Taney under his feet. (Applause.) lie did not
do this in view OF his birth and education in New
England. He did not do it in the name Of the
orthodoxy of the United States. lie did not do it
in the name Of the Constitution, for he spurned
it-nor in the name OF the American Union for he
hated it--nor in the name of the American Gov.
eminent, because it is spurious; but he did It in
the name of common humanity, and of a COM
mon manhood which allowed to him every right
which it allows to Judge Taney himself. Zap
plause.) He could not discuss the question in the
light of denial to him of his right by such a
man nor would he appeal merely to the sympa.
thieS OF the audience ter his Vndcatlon; ne would
demand for himself his every right as a man and
O citizen.
The speaker regretted that his grandfather, a
colored man. had fought at Lexington and Con-
cord, when, eighty years after, the descendants of
white patriots of the Revolution ignored the rights
of q small minority of the people of this country
But the meanness of the white people is only ex-
ceeded by their cowerdice. In Washington, a
coored man is not allowed to :ouch the reins that
guide the horses that carry the mails, but he had
lately learned that New Foundland dogs are being
trained there to assist in conveying the mails So
the American Government gives to dog the
privilege which it denies to man And while
it would educate these dogs it would break up a.
school ut Washington. the object of which was to
educate colored children. (Applause.)
Wendell Phillips then introduced by the
Chairman, and was received with longcontinued
applause. He began 10y commenting upon the
fact mentioned by Mr.. Remond, and upon another
which he had heard that morning. namely, that q
gentleman in Pennsylv who pays the second
highest tax in his :Own, cannot receive from 1T the
benefit Of the education of his children.
He smoke of the superstitous regard which
some men have for the Union. They called it benef
cial, but he called it ruinous and such victims
Of words. lie denied that law is protection,
when it protects only the majority. ..
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