The Kanzas news., 1857-10-10

lawi As if they knew what is law! Pray,
what do slavery respecting and slavery train
ed lawyers know of law, more than slavery
respecting and slavery trained elergymen
know of religion?
| But we shall be told that one of the re-
Isults, and by no means pleasant one, of
your defiance of the Slave Power viii be the
invasion of the Federal troops sent to en-
force the Fugitive Slave Act. The Fede
raj troops will never come-or, If they do,
they most certainly will not come second
!, time The State that shall have the homes
ty to declare, "No SLAVE WITHIN MY Dor
DERs," will not lack the courage to MAINTAIN
her declaration. She viii maintain 1t at
whatever expense of life to her foes or to
herself Moreover, the very lastthing which
a Federal Administration viii do for not
{ only will it be entirely indisposed to do it.
but in doing it it would put an end to itself
: will be to march an army into State for
the purpose of unfolding slavery against
the authority of such State. This, too, will
be the very last thing that slavery itself
will call for. For slavery well knows that
whenever the States begin to declare it an
outlaw, the time will then have come for it
to look at home and keep at home-to pre-
pare to die, and not prepare for conquests.
Crime is coward; and the greater the crime.
. the greater the coward. Hence slavery Is
the greatest of all towards. admit that the
, monster has made show of courage
| it was only because we were cowardly. He
has afforded to be boastful-but only be-
, cause we were base. admit that he has
been successful, and, what is worse, that
his successes were as easy as they were null
| tiplied; but it was only because he was pur-
suing retreating enemy. When, howev-
; er, we shall retreat no farther, and shall be
cowardly and base no longer, and shall aban-
, don our contemplate defensive policy and
90 to work to exterminate slavery, then will
) the monster reveal all the cowardice of his
e nature, and be glad of the chance to die.
/ have done. I came here, as l have re-
peatedly told you, to ask you to know no law
e for slavery. There is no remedy for slavery
: but to deny its legality. Do what you will
against slavery, you will only be helping it
f so long as you acknowledge it to be law
In vain will man talk, and pray. and labor
: for the prevention of forgery, perjury, theft
a and murder, if nevertheless he admits in
e their behalf the plea that they are sacred,
e obligatory law Down to this day, slavery
D has been constantly growing stronger under
North; and it will continue to grow strong
r er until it shall be denied the name and shell
] ter of law. In word, slavery will contin-
ne to increase until the people of the North
e shall have the honesty to be and the cour-
? age to declare that they are Abolitionists.
e So long as they shall shrink from demand
t ing the abolition of slavery, the slavehold-
/ er will despise them; and so long will all
? their anti-slavery zeal lack the inspiration
and all their anti-slavery labors lack the bles-
D sing of Heaven. God is to be found in no
: anti-slavery scheme which recognises as law
j the highest crime against Himself and His
D children. There may be less of wrong in
n the creed of the Republican than in that of
S the Democratic party; but if in both of these
D creeds slavery is deferred to as law, then
0 the righteous and impartial God is in Meth
n er of them. I said that you can but help
e slavery so long as you own it to be law
Once, however, declare it an outlaw, and
2 make your declaration sincere and effective
9 by refusing to vote for any man who recog-
: Misses its legality, and then slavery will have
r nothing to do but to die.
It I cannot take my seat without saying that
e you did well to choose the anniversary OF
4 the battle of Bunker Hill for the day of this
: Convention. There are striking analogies
: between that occasion and this. History
v teaches that Bunker Hill decided two things:
e First, that our militia could be relied on to
: fight, even against regular troops; second,
v that after the battle, the threatened war could
s no longer be prevented. Decided was ii
: then that America must fght-that she
: must either conquer or be conquered. Ii
q is true that hopes of peace were still enter
d tanned, and negotiations for peace still con-
II tinued. Nevertheless, Bunker Hill had rem
Y dered these hopes, and negotiations all vain
The battle there was too earnest and bloody
+ to be followed by anything short of a revo-
= lutionary and decisive war.
! Now, if the men collected here from al
o parts of this State shall dare array he1
: against the Slave Power, and against the
Y Federal Government and the Federal troops,
e which are both but servants of that power,
: then will one point of resemblance between
e the present occasion and Bunker Hill be es-
1t tablished. For then it will be manifest that
d there are here, as there were there, men
u ready to peril all in the cause of human
t, rights, and to contend with a mighty Gov
b eminent and with military discipline. But
It no sooner will this point of resemblance
: have been established than another viii
o quickly follow. For, when this Conven-
e ton shall have taken this advanced step in
d the Anti-Slavery war, there will be no more
d possibility of retreating from it than there
n was of retreating in the Revolutionary wal
le after the battle of Bunker Hill. The Revo-
f lutionary war had to be fought out then
l. and the Anti-SlaYery war will have to be
It fought out now, if this Convention shall dc
its duty. and shall take ground that will re-
= suit in making Milwaukee as memorable and
n glorious as Bunker Hill.
II And if Wisconsin viii thus heartily enter
, into the anti-slayery war, it viii not take
n longer to fight it out than it did the Revolu