Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-05-23

shield of the tyrant and the scourgo of the slave
shall pass away, as have many others like them il
former ages, md thus leave an open entrance fol
the coming of the Kingdom of Peace aud Purity
of Love and Liberty, in this as well as in oil othei
lands
The Democratic party in his State had counted
up the increase of value of their poporty by having
made New Hampshire Slave State; thi
party too, had paid Mr.. Pierce in a characteristic,
way and he thought that the Cavinists could now
1t ever, prove the doctrine of total depravity hy
examples The Democrats elected James Buchau
an 10y the cry OF Buchanan and Free Kansas
The Republicans were led into TIE support o
John Z. Fremont by an equal deception, They
supposed that the doctrines of the Republican
party were essentially those of Gerrit Smith AS
! to the chuc ches, though he believed that many il
not most of the members were sincerely earnest
and pious, still as bodies they were the bulwarks
of Slavery. There was but one body which was
Anti. Slavery, and that was go small as TO be
scarcely known--the Old School Scotch Coeenant-
ers lie did not fOrgee the scission in the Meth
odst Church he thought thnt Church was worst
all. While the Methodist Church North assumed
to he free from Slavery, they were in fellowship
with the entire Baltimore Conference. They had
in their congregations 10000 eolored people,
5000 of whom were members. In their last
General Conference they resolved to oppose all
abolition agitation by vote Of 900 to ~. Inc
members of the New School Presbyterian Chureh
were also very much deceived to the connection
Of their Church with Slavery. lie had noticed
that most of their revvnls of religion had been in
the South where they increased the cash value OF
personal property. lie gave brief rovlcw OF
the late action of that Church. lie concluded by
referring to the last time that he spoke IN New
York when tho meeting was broken up by lsalah
Rynders, and if now the same Ryndcrs had as
United States Marshal avowed his readiness
to catch an African slave, he thought that
he was still more ready to catch an African
SLAYER.
Mr.. Robert Purvis was the next speaker. He
characterized the doctrine Of the Anti-Savery
character Of the Constitution as too absurd to be
spoken Of True, there nowhere in it the word
slavery or slave, but those words were nowhere in
the Fugitive Slave bill. If fine phrases proved
that il was in favor of freedom, then the con.
temptible Pierce WAS in favor of freedom. 1t
might do very well for white men to speak Of the
| freedom Of this Government, but for the black
man never. Let others do rs they might, he
would never stulify himself by eulogizng the
atrocous Government which tramped upon his
rights.
Mr.. Garrison then introduced Mr.. Wendell
Phillips Of Boston He would waste no words
over the character of the Constitution. Our Gov
ment had grown out of the character of our peo
ple. Gov Boutwell, of Massachusetts, Demo
crat and no sentimenalst, had, not month ago,
described the GeneralGovernmen to him as con
spiracv against Justice. Within twenty years il
would be settled whether it should be despotisn
or whether it should be subverted to give place tC
| liberty. This was the conclusion of Democrat
It might therefore, cause no surprise that lie, AZ
Abotionst, should let the parchment go, and
Judge ouy by the fruits. That there should be
| agitation in the Church, was natural. lie knew
that if he dropped piece of chalk into y vase OF
nitric acid, there would be agitation so if he
dropped Christianity into nation of sinners
! IIe too thought that the Underground Railroad
| l,o6u nf Il hut bp dave n T.
of it at the expense Of the slave. lie dared not
tell the slave to remain in Boston he haunt
ed by the vision of Anthony Burns carried down
State street amid two Thousand muskets, borne by
! the best blood of Boston Churches and while
that vision lasted he dared not trust the fugitive
in the shadow of those steeples. But he loved be
vnnd expression those Boston pavements over
which his mother held up his baby footsteps, and
| if God granted him the time and the power, be
would yet make them secure enough to shelter the
footsteps Of the slave (Applause). lie could not
ignore the facts The challenge which Mr.. Sew
ard accepted in the Senate. the North would lose
4 Kansas was to be Slave State. In Oregon {
Cunsttut was now heing formed which wOult
! probably be u slave Constitution. But there was
movement, though slow. Twenty centuries ans
the whole Jewish people were used up in planting
the idea of the unity Of God i'll the human race
This country had spent two centuries in learning
national independcn Il remained for us tt
learn individual sovereigntY-medately the
sovereignty of the States. If we shOnld some
morning find that the Federal Government wa
gone, we would still have lho Governments Of the
States. tang rate, the Yankee race could exis
without government. For five months Massachu
setts was without any government at all, and sht
lived 0vderly and legally 10y the simple vigcr of th
character Of her people. Why; a genuine Yam
kee. his blood, his bones were so constitutional
so orderly, that be did not need a governmer
tApplusel Put a Yankee baby of six months ole
on his feet, and he would begin to say Mr. Chain
, and call the next cradle to order daughter an
applause). lie wished to exercise the ghost q
the Constitution, and to bring the North to belev
that it was possible to oppose liberty to law. Th
State Government could defy the General GOV
5 ernment, and yet not be guilty of treason.
EVENING SESSION.
The President VIM. Lloyd Garrison, called tn
meeting to order, and introduced the Rev, jaime
. r. w. Sloane, Pastor of the Reformed Church
t this city.
= Mr.. SLOANE said ha gladly accepted the inviti
ionlto speak, which he felt had been rendered not
much as a compliment to himself a5 compmeI
. to the elgious denomination to which he was a
tached which had ever opposed the foul sin
. Slavery and The Constitution under which it exs
ed Other religious denominations had entere
I their protests against Slavery. yet he believed th
the old Couvenanters alone stood forth as rotusu
4 to accept into CHRISTIAN ielloWahlp sla'eholueE
and refused to vote or hold Office under COnstit
which tolerated Slavery. The old Scotch Conv
nanters had ever held to that doctrine, believir
j., that in it was the only hope for the release of Il
bondman from his chains. They refuse to acce
=. the Constitution of the United States, not becau
they were opposed to government, for thea 9eiiey
) that government was Divine ordinances not
:. cause they were not Republicans, because tn
. were Republicans to a man, but could not swe
o to sur port constitution which permitted millions
their Gelow.men to ho robbed of their Just and
alienabe rights The progress OF their ideas W
d extremely slow, but they were cheered by the ia
'i that now many accepted the principles and sto
', on the platforms which but few years since, Il
d dared avow. The Anti-Slavery Society had flu
D. their banner on the breeze, on which IS lnsrnh
D. uncompromising hostility to oSlavery and untiri
s. efforts to extinguish that foul blot from Amerc
g. soil. "No union with slaveholdere" was tn
" motto. Their forefathers had asserted the priu
y pie when they planted their feet on this soil
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