Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-01-24

holders out Of the Temple Of Union. instead Of
going out ourselves. Such kicks, and the yells
they would raise, in my judgment, would be the
true music Of the Union. But, then, who'll bell
the catf asks the Worcester Disunionist. That's
the rub.
The Hon. o. ". Aibee tcrifes eff the Union
cannot stand the practical working Of the tratbs
enunciated in the Declaration Of Independence, it
seems to me it's value has been calculated. l am
not, however, prepared to believe that the triumph
Of Freedom requires the dissolution Of the Union.
Whether IL does or not, ] am ready to reitsrate
and stand by tho sentiment I have held and advo-
Gated ever since the contest upon the Repeal Of
the Missouri Compromise began, viz: Let Free
dom be preserved to Kansas at oil hazards
"Yours very respectfully.
30. w. ALBEE."
The Hon. @. r. Russell sends q long and vigor-
ously written letter. Its deductions may be CLEAN
ed by these excerpts;
~ do not think the time has come for the North
to formally propose a dissolution Of the Union.
81 believe that there are elements in operation
which will crumble the Slave Power into dust,
and il is better they should work secretly and 81.
lently, gnawing atits very heart, than that their
action should be anticipated by open and extrane-
GUS influences.
III, however, I am mistaken in this superstition
If that Internal tyranny is to sit crouching like
an incubus on the breast of the nation, and there
is no other hope for its overthrow than an utter
dissolution Of the compact which holds these States
in confederacy, the sooner il. is resorted to the bet
ter it will be for ue and our children.
II say this in no unkind feeling toward the
South, and with no desire to check her prosperity,
or to leave her in that helpless imbecility to which
separation would reduce her.
whether this is or is not the time for the North
to agitare the question of separation, il certainly
has abundant reason to justify itself in SO doing.
While l have strong doubts as to the present cape
diency of the measure, / honor those who, feeling
the necessity, come forward as pioneers withou,
counting on public approval or reprobation. Tha,
many will keep aloof who secretly exult in the
movement may be expected from the experience Of
all past time. That others will condemn with tb,
accustomed rotine of holy horror which il
always expended on proposed reforms, is as natu
raj a result as the dismay Of true believers at the
Dissertation of their idol. But the Union is no,
an African fetish to be blindly worshiped, but it il
to be honored or despised in proportion to tht
measure of it's powers for good or evil. 1t may b.
a blessing or a curse, and must be judged accord
ingly. n n
''Those who whine about the Union, and, bidding
us forget our injuries, assure US that in no posi-
BILE event can there be a separation of the States
, either mistake the signs of the times or are de
plorably ignorant Of the character of their coun
s trymen. n n n \ If the policy of this iii,
oligarchy continues to rule there must either BIO
line drawn between US, or the war mast be carried
{ into Africa. n n n We would keep the Unior
0 as long as it is worth keeping, and no longer
q When 1t becomes. hopelessly worthless, involsin,
Q us in constant shame and degradation, it can be
| ought to be, and will be, broken up"
r One sign of the times is observable in all thes,
0 and other letters received. They are, all Of them
l Wilson's excepted, written in a respectful tome
Q "Times amt now as they used to was"
WORCESTER Thursday, Jan. Is. 1857.
Q The Convention assembled in the City Hall a
l04 O'Clock. 1t was called in order to consider tn
o practicability, probability and expediency of
separation of the Free and Slave States. Th'
! grounds Of this call are that its signers believe
. THE result, &C., of the recent Presidential
Election to involve four years more of Pro.Slaver,
= Government, and a rapid increase in the hostility t
: slavery to be the offs spring, mot of party excitement
but of fundamental difference in education, habit
u and laws; believe the existing Union to be a failure
as being q hopeless attempt to unite under on
. Government two antagonistic systems of society
which diverge more widely with every year; an
believe it to be the duty Of intelligent and consc
~entious men to meet these facts with wisdom an
frmness."
Gen. Higginson called the Convention to orde
After a temporary organization, the following pc
"a manent officers were chosen:
: President-FRANcIs W. BIRD, Walpole, Mass
chusetts.
D. Vice. observation-disclosures Ealle, Worcester: WI
le Lloyd Garrison, Gen. E. M. Hosmer, VIM. Ashb,
&c w. Boylston, DR.. G. c.. Field, Adam Ward, ID
Daniel Mann oe Sterling.
Secretaries-Alvan Ward, Chas. Bingham,
NJ. w. Yerrington, Boston; S. d. Tourtello.t
Worcester.
Business Commiuee-Gep. Higginson, Chas. /
Whipple, E. Boyden. Wendell Phillips, Joel smit
Leominster.
'" SPEECH OF Mr.. BIRD.
The President, as one of the humblest membe
of the Republican party, felt it his duty to pr
test against the construction now boldly put on Il
Philadelphia Platform by leading Republican pc
%ticians at Washington. and it was for this purpo
sr chiefly that he had come to this Convention. tt
r" leading politicians at Washington were selling
ry out (Applause.) The Philadelphia Platform d
or not contain any sentiment estopping us from fl
ur ther advances against the Slave Power. 1t co
an tanned one idea. 1t was admirable on this accouI
~ for no political party ever did or could suppc
y more than one paramount idea, although sor
:" pretended to do so. But that idea was not anita
lie onistic to other Anti-Slavery principles. 1t W
to not opposed to Gerrit Smiths doctrine, or 9th
tt radical Anti-Slavery principles. II was a stepl
no advance, but not a anal step. He protested agair
lat Hale and Wilson's doctrine, aud the speeches
lie. Trumbull and Sherman of Ohio, who presumed
'ue pledge the great Republican party to their 10
nd temporizing and compromising doctrines of no