Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-05-02
Ube Anti- 5Ioperp Buolc.
From the Liberator.
SPEECH OF DIR. DANIEL MANN,
Al tie Disunion Convention held IN The City Hal
Worcester, January, Is, 1851

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: / wish for an immedi.
ate separation Of the free portion of our country
from the slave portion 1t is position to which
have too tardily come, but which my sense of du-
ty and patriotism compels me now to take. l
will briefly show you The grounds of my position,
and that they are broad enough to accommodate
every true patriot.
what advantage is our so called 'Urlun' to our
selves or to humanity? The only pretences that
ever were plausible are that it aids to support
the expenses of government, and gives strength to
meet war and invasion. If any body is so far be-
hind the age to suppose an Invasion OF the Free
States possible, that, in any emergency our men
sould not drive off the invaders, OF our women
CAPTURE them he is so obsolete fossil that even
the story of the Revolution will be news to him,
and he will learn with surprise that some seven or
eight of our present Free States did, some seventy
Eve years ago, when their whole combined power
was less than several of them now possess slngly,
actually resist and repe an invasion by the first
maritime and military power IN the world ana
did. in several deliberate and determined cam
paipps and desperate pitched battles, demonstrate
the homely axiom that Yankees cant be beat, -
Since that time, the number OF our tee states mas
more than tre3led and each separate State has
mora than twice trebled its power. So that, il all
the world should combine to beat us now, they
could not begin to do it; and besides, no power OF
the world has the least desire or thought OF at
tempting it.
But if invasi on were possible, and we were
weak enough to want help, could the Slave States
,;ye in Past history will answer this question
also In that same war OF the Revolution, when
helm would have been acceptable, they could not
give it. While the Mort was pouring t"rth her
young men and old from every town, village and
hamlet and emptving her treasures ana grnnerles
for the common defence, the South was sending
her miserable excuses to the Continental Congress
for not supply wing her quota Ut men and arms
Because, said they, it we do so' our slaves viii
rice and cut our thruats.' Aud mt the same ume,
tbsy were endeayoring TO negUtate separate peace
with the invader, with the proposition to remain
neutral during the war; and afterwards JON which
ever party should prove victor IL Is now time
for that part of the story OF the ReVolhtoh 10 De
told as loudly, as plainly and frequently as the
re I Of It, 1t has hitherto teen the p"licy ot our
hiktory to wink at the imbeclity and trcachery OF
<he South and to let them share the honors, al
though they skuked from the dangers oi the war
Hsnceforth, while the pencil OF truth pants that
bright page of countrv's history ior our emu
lation and glory. let her also marx one cor
tho Southern cprner of the picture-wlth the
blackest culors for our warning ano contempt !; a
spot foul with treachery. cowardlce ana every IN
fanny from its birth into the nation. and growing
fouler and more Infamous with every succeeding
dsvalopement, till its corruption ana delorhi'y
cover and disgrace the whole scroll.
/ pass the consideration ct the snare o"n'h
sustains in supporting the expenses of govern
mont in time of p3ace.tur II Is IKE the pauPer
share in supporting your town ana county eHft''-
ses. The South is the great pauper'h"use oil the
nation; wish it were not worse-ho honest poverty
10 no disgrace. But the infumy OF the South can
not bc described in decent terms; II is a sihk OF eV-
ery ignoble vice and loathsome pollcton.
There are no reasons of profit nr honor IN favor
of continued connection with the S"uth with aouil
dant reasons for separation. SeIireSpect ana
selEpreservaton equally demand it. We are pay
ing dearly every day, in actual cash. for an ALI
nnce which no money should hire us to sustain
We are investing money in IL partnership OF bahK'
ruptcy though it were nice business opera
tion,' and are purchasing disgrace ana lniamy as
If ey were the chuisest luXurieS. We, the most
industrious and enterprsing people ut the worl1'
who despise deness aud lncnpacity as crime
are suuandering our money to support ana encour-
aye horde of loaters aud swindIcrs. We, the
most Just and liberty-suving people OF the world
are lending our strength to an lns.ituti"n OF the
most matchess tyranny the world ever saw, where
unlimited power over an inocent people Is held and
exercised, in every variety and wantoness OF cruz
elty by the most degraded and brutal race OF pet,
" despots whom long continuance IN unpuni'heu
arims ever bred We, belong to the bravest race
in the world, whose fathers threw off the yoke of
the most Formidable king dom in the world, while
Southern putroohs were skulking in those dismal
swamps. and parleying for surrender, are now
submitting to the yrke and covering beneath the
bravado of that very provlnce OF poltroon', 50
coptemptible as allies. We n people OF noble
memories and aspirations, degrade ourselves to
be the blood hounds to chase flying iugiuves, chain
them and gvet hem back to tho slave drivers lash.
We have suffered noble and well-!nstructed
young men, who weht forth To iound anew the free
institutions of our fathers. to be 'erushed out on
the fields of Kansas. We have suffered .ur baser
and ill-instructed young mon to carry into execu-
tiop the flibustering plans Of the South, and ex-
tend tn: empire Of the lash. Our money, our
prosperity. our good name, our noble instincts OF
In.
gion all chat should be dear to us,are squandered,
corrupted D, ostituted that base groveliug, in
stitution of q base grovelling people. Such are
the fruits Of our connection. Let 1t be severed y
Let oil who love the institutions which our fore
fathers lived and oiled and fought and died to es
tablsb-let all who love the higher law which
ruled them, and reverence the God who guided
and blessed them-unite to maintain that law, and
honor their God Let US cut loose from this
Union which is but conspiracy OF wickedness,
and rescue our from its curse while yet there
~ any power and ally virtue left &c us.
Daily the enemy is gathering strength, and we
reioeing IT, Daily the corruption spreads. Our
rich men. merchants, and largo manufactures
bribed by the fDeility with which their cunning
coins money out of the very poverty and reckless
ness of this South, (money which, in the end is
sure to be lagislated and swndled from the pockets
of the farmers and merchants of the Free States.
act as the agents and panders OF the South
They support and CONTROL the policy OF the public
uress, leading it to cheat the public and under
mine their principles. They control the pulpit.
stHing the voice of true religion. and teaching
how to evade or trampls on Gods higher law
putting into the richest pnlpits South side parsons
and such as would send their mothers into SlaUe'y'
and setting the SrUARTs and the LORDS over Our
highest institutions of learning, to poison the
principles Of the pupils.
When the men of New England take their inter
s,ts into their own hands, those agents OF corrup
ron will no longer be tolerated here-at least they
viii not be permitted to practice their vile arts
A. our fathers did with the tories, SO will the peo
nls do with tLem-siiencs or erpel them. The spies
ana tools of the Slave Power are the only danger
oas enemies of the State. II tis only 9y their inhu