Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-05-23
Gbe Antt- 5lapcrp Blole.
ANNIVEt SARY OF THE AMERICAN
ANTISLAvERY SOCIETY.

resolutions were read by the President, Wn.
Lloyd Garrison, who then introduced Rev. T. w.
Higginson,iw said -
He stood upon this platform for two reasons.
They heard every day that the Abulitonists we're
fntolerant of opposition. He himself was pruSf
tb. this was not so. lie had mover accented their
;nt.rn-e,2 tion of the Constitution this charge of
illiberality vas reuted by his standing there The
reason was that he looked in vain elsewhere for
men who understood Slavery. Every man who
had been in Republican meetings knew it who
knew Slavery. Seward and Greeley were ultra
Abolitionists in their earnestness and hdehty to
their faith ompared with the mass Of the Repub-
lican party. The great mass saw that it was the
great political question, because there was no
other politcal question But to them the Slave
Power wasipowerful-a demon which could not be
exercised by prayer and iasting-by the prayer of
5000 clergymen, and the lasting ana prayer oi
the Republican Iarty for the loavcs and fishes for
another four years. Only this morning he read
in a leading Republican iournal that Slavery was
weak thing This power, which had made
every President and controlled every item of the
policy of the country-this power had forgotten
God and cared only for two things; the devil and
William Lloyd Garrison. He never held, and he
trusted he never should hold the Constitution WAS
Pro. Slavery while it could be interpreted in favor
Of freedom. There was but one lule in such
cases. and that was to put in liberty wherever
there was loophole. The best to refer to
was that in which Shylock was the plaintiff and
Portia the judge and William Shakespeare the re
porter Of the Court. (Applause,) With Su-
preme Court in favor of Liberty, the Constitution
would be an Anti-Slavery document tomorrow
Continued APPLAUSE But he knew oil no queS
ton which was of so little Importance as the mean
ing of the Constitution of the United Staes. Where
was the Southern man who intended to obey 1t !
Where was the Republican who intended to obey
j. if Fugitive Slave came along 1t was not u
practical question. Ali the learning in the world
thn T.
which any slave ever gave his master--not worth
30 much as the dagger-thrust by which Margaret
Garner made her slave child free in Heaven
Never could Freedom be gained 10y polltcs-dniy
by revolution. The North and the South were
two nations which the the. Union was vainly en-
deavoring to weld together Northern and South
ern men hated each other in Kansas because their
whole education had led them to do So aud they
only needed proximity to bring 1t out. Slave
holders and Freemen were always two nations
No two nations in Europe were so absolutely an
tagonistic as the North and South. Read
Olmstead's journal in Texas, and you see that
the New Yorker felt stranger there
until he came to a settlement OF German ireemen'
There were inrecOncil ,ble distinctions Every
year Slavery was more Slavery and Free
dom the more True Freedom. This was enough
to show him that the perpetuity of the Union was
impossible. Men asked how it was possible that
it should be dissolved. The hest satisfaction on
that point was given by one Thomas Ii. Benton OF
missouri. SalQ ne IN w OTCtSleT a''tl tho I''S
union Convention, if you dissolve the Union twenty
slaves will run away where one does now; and
there was a general chuckle in the house. sad
he. with increased solemuity, thinking the people
might not understand him, if you dissolve the
Union. it will bring Canada practically down to
Mason DixOn's line. And when he paused Tor
them to weep, they laughed.
.'He went to the under,nker's to buy him coffin
And when he back the poor dog was laughing"
Every man kept in the corner of his heart C. lit
tie possibility of dsuni0n. Mr.. Banks, down in
Maine, was willing in II certain cOntngencyto let
the Union slide, and the New York Tribune let
j. S. p. have his lttle column, although the
editors were not in favor of disunion and thought
thew never should be. We are in the midst of n
revolution. Ii was after the battle of Bunker
Hill that the Congress of the United States re-
solved that they had not taken up arms against
the mother country. Revolutions were unconscious
in their beginnings. There were two institutions
both destined, he hoped to be abolished; both
hostile to Freedom. The first the Under
ground Railroad to Canada. 1t demoralized the
free souls of the North, loading them 10 think that
their duty done when they had helped another
fellow mortal toward free land 1t made towards
of us all made us think ana hesitate and not
dare to tell the truth. We should begin by making
Broadway as free as Canada. They were doing 1t
in Worcester stalwart man came there from
the South they took the measure Of his snewy
arms and found them better reasons for his stay
ing than his legs were for running away 81
they published his presence in the Boston paper:
for the benefit of any gentleman engaged in the
United States service But they had not heard
from thom The day would soon come. be hoped
when such things would be published in .he papers
of the South, in the wenamed journal OF Com
merce and the ill-named Journal Of Civilization
He did not like Personal Liberty bills either. liz
would not have liberty protected at the expense o
perjury. Give all the States the bill which New
York had initiated which very diferen
thing, and here under Republic we light be jus
as free as though we lived under Queen. zap
plause.)
Mr.. Garrison made the explanation that Mr.
Higginson had given the Pro-Slavery inteIpreta
ton of the Constitution as that of the Society
1t was not merely theirs it was that of the Amer
lean people and their law.
Mr. HigginsOn said he aware of that hu
he had put it forward as the Interpretation OF Mr.
Garrison in order to give it respectabl!ity enougl
to he talked about.
Mr.. Parker Pisbury Of New Hampshr
was then introduced. lie read the following reso
lutions:
Resolved, That in the American Board of Com
mssoners for Foreign Missions, the America
Bible aud Tract Societies, the Methodist Genera
Conference Baptist Unions and Presbyterian Ger
eral Assemblies, we have full and fair exponent
and representatives of the religion Of tn
country.
ResoIced, That as all these bodies are compose
Of denominations claiming the prerogative
making terms OF communion and church fellow
ship, and as not one Of them has ever include
slaveholdipg among these conditions, even Will,
in some instances, expeliing members for differer
oes upon modes of baptism, it becomes nece
sary, in fidelity to the Anti Slavery cause, to d.
clare, that no person who tHteUigeaty supports an
Of these organizations, the churches compost,
them either by counteaance contribution is ,coyt1
10 be regarded as Christian or an AJolito
i,.
Resolred, That we shall hail the dag with hoI