Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-03-14

Hunk ers to the right Of them,
Hunkers to the left of them,
Hunkers before them,
Volleyed and Numbered
. Stormed at with shot and shell.
: Boldly they rode and we'll
: Into the mouth Of hell
Honor tho brave and bold
G Long shall the tale be told,
Yea, when our babes are old,
/ How they rode onward !
The left Wing consists of those who work po.
litically. and of course with such tools as they
can use in that business. Here are good men and
bad men. They fight only with weapons which
the Constitution %justifes and the laws allow
Some of them put their own Interpretation on the
Constitution, and differ from the unjust deductions
or constructions of the servile Court.
Among the political men of this party. l wish
to mention the two Massachusetts Senators, so
often spoken of in these debates, and Of course
with varying words. 1 have so often borne my
testimony in behalf of Mr.. Sumner, his services
are so we'll appreciated in this Convention, and his
noble merits so gratefully honored by this State,
that it may seem supernuous to say an added word.
His position is exceedingly different from that OF
y the men on this platform, but he aims ut the same
end with Mr.. Garrison only by other means. lie
also hates slavery everywhere, works for its aboli-
ton every where; but his official position necessi-
taied that senatorially he shall use only constltu-
tional Weapons. So he is more restricted than Mr..
Garrison in his choice of tools.
Mr.. Summers course has been singularly gener-
Gus towards his foes. Ispeak not only of those at
home whose birth and breeding might have taught
E them at least truth and good mannere, but OF the
more open and public enemies who assailed him
with different weapons. Since Mr.. Brooks struck
: his coward blow, yonr Senator has been continual
= ly in a condition more painful and dangerous than
= the newspapers represent or the public know
> IL is now eight months since the assault; not only
! has he been kept from the public business OF his
Senatorship, but there has never been an evening
when he could sit erect in a chair-he can only
:" lie on a couch. But no man, | think, has heard
him say a word against Mr.. Brooks. lie has lei
:. that for the nation and the world. The assassin
has gone home to his God. slain, l take 1t, by thu
~unskilful hands of his physician-the same Wit
: so Indignantly attended upon MI. Sumner. Con
~ gress now buries whom once she morally expelled
n' Of old time, when a warrior went to his grave
~ men bore his sword on his coffin. A wise an
AZ kind woman suggests that q Bludgeon should b
~, carried on the cDfin of Bully Brooks let me ado
" with n revolver laid at right angles-the Souther
" Cross.
.rc Unjust say a word of the other Senator. M
Wilson. l do not think justice has been Away
nm done him here. Mr.. Wilson has come to III
to present position through a narrow path, Thic
asst was also steep and otherwise difficult. A countr
Mt. schoolmaster told me, When Henry Wilson VIZ
three and twenty years old. l put him throug
red Cuiburn's First Lessons lie had only one of st
Get great helps to eminence-the one most commonI
by acknowledgement personal honor! In time
I'VE need, Massachusetts wanted an able Senator--hrr
in courageous, progressive. She did not go to one
oh. the historical families, nor take a great academ
. man she went into n shoemaker's shop. and toe
HENRY WILSON. Gentlemen, he deserved I'll
place,-bas he ceased to deserve it now? lie hi
lately made a speech. which contains good thing
lie believes, with Franklin, that slavery is
Iue atro,;ons daIosamant of humnn nature'-wl
lie Adams, shat Commenting to Slavery is a sacrile
of ious breach of trust"-witb Jefferson, that "ol
nm. hour of American Slavery is fraught with mo
misery than ages of that which we rose In rebe
ion 10 oppose"-with Madison, that Slavery is
re. dreadful calamity THAT 'imbecility y is ever atten
diff ant upon a country filed with slayes"-with Nc
lere roc, that Slavery has preyed upon the vitals
on the community in all the States where it has ext
jme ed"-with Montesquieu. that"even the very cart
its which teens with profusion under the cultivatii
IN O hand of the free. born labo 'er, shrinks into b;
of renness from the communicating sweat OF n slave.
The Senator from Tennessee Mr.. Jones ,sa
n. Mr.. Wilson, quoted a remark of mine to the eft
IN that thi. agitation Of the Slavery question won
~ never cease while the soil of the Republic shou
w. he trod by the loot of n slave. That sentiment
repeat hero to-day. / believe it. o is t
great agitatcr. While his throne stands, agitati
,ha will go on until the foot of n slave shall not pre-
i, the soil Of the eastern or western continent.
~; We bolieve. with Burke, that Slavery is
,o. state so UepfaOlnH 10 Tie l6ollnSn uiu capacities
human nature, that it ought not to be suffered
exist" We believe, with Henry Clay. I'll
Nv Slavery is q curse-a curse to the master
mas wrong,a grievous wrong to the slave; that It ls
wrong. and no possible contingency can make
loid right."'. We believe in the sublime doctrine
the Declaration of independence, that all men a
-.he created equal, and have an inalienable right
liberty. We believe that doctrine to be embodi
med Ia. 10 norson car NO denr;yod of Iibsr,y '
do no believe, with Mr.. Calhoun, the Deciarati
mas of independence TO be a''rhetorical flourish"
ing, Il, M no, heIieve IL IN be what Mr.. Petit n
I IN nounced it, "a selfevident lie." We do not
AUS lieye it to be ian eloquent and passionate mani
mo Ia Of n avolutiopar v.r,--"mere glittering 4
nam sonnding gener.lities of natural riqbtn We
age lieve it to he a living truth. from tho pages of
orhe the New Testament. expressed in the Declarai
.ner- lof Indanendenca and embndied in the Cnnst1
pity ton of the United States"
slley ne oes'ows 'hose La'ner ou ~ h;E,n
Iious on NV anN'''J nv"
,rds stamp
the II will do them the justice to say here, {
ugh. they have for years devoted their lives and ii
ntry property, and endured contumely and reproacf
the for the bondmen Of America; and here or e
emf where, while | express my total Disagreement W
used Them, | will say that they are men of selfsa
ear fcing devotion, and men of great ability, v
lere- have studied the Slavery question in all its
but Sects, collected volumes of statistics bearing uI
nner il in all it's relations--men at whose feet tho 5
cans ator from Pennsylvania MIR. Biglerl and OF
Miss Senators who so glibely pronounce them fanat
fen. might sit and learn something of Slavery
orth America"
lfa lie goes on and declares what he considers
;nn design of the Republican party
ssed Since l took my seat in the Senate, early
ony, February, 1855, have travelled more than thi
in thousand miles in fourteen Of the free States
IN q a Ihova sano knnApade af thoneanda of Amarican