Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-01-31

and you think, it months have done so much,what
will years do? Do you realize that four years
ago, the history of this Administration, ,as wo have
seen it, with eve'y result which has flowed from
it, was mapped out, predicted by the very Demo.
cratic politicians who have managed Franklin
Perce's Administration Do you know that it
has not taken them by surprise, but was a par. of
their plans-a thing they had the sense to look
forward to, and look beyond? 1t is so, at any
rate. Four years ago, when the election of Mr.
Pierce had just become certain, conversation
took place between some of the leading Demo.
cratic managers in the nation, reported to me i'm
mediately afterwards by an eminent witness, now
in the Senate of the United States, in which the
most influential men predicted precisely the con-
dition of public affairs which we have now pre-
dictcd that so sure as any Democratic administra-
ton should identify itself with the South, it would
lose every Northern State, first last. But"
said he, what do we care if we do? The South
has the power in this nation. We identify our
selves with them. Let every Northern State leave
us if it will it will have to come back to us in
the end" And that is what they look for now,
With the power and patronage of the Administra-
ticn in their hands, with boundless Central Amer
lea in their hopes, they have had it in their plans
to lose the Northern States. Whatca thew dem
agogues of the North, who expected to 20 into
power under the shadow of Fremont? You will
see them stealing back to the Democratic party
again. because they will see that with the South is
the true power.
The Republican organization in 1860! Why,
HENRY WILSON himself-and nelly, there can be
no more careful observer of the prospects of Re-
publicanism-HENRY WILSON himself told me,
year ago last Summer, in the streets of Boston,
that if the Republican party failed in the Pres-
dental ectOn, it seemed to him that it would
fail forever; "for," said he, "when we remember
what the Slave Power has grown up to be now,
give it four years control of the Government
and what can we hope to do against i?"
Mr., President Gin the dark and troubled nipht
that is upon us, see but star of hope; and
thank the Abolitionists of Massachusetts, not
alone that they first told the secret of slavery,
twenty-five years ago, to the astonished nation,
but that they have told another secret more recent
ly, more darngy, to a nation yet more astonshed
told the secret Of antslavery, and told it in one
lword-DIsUNIoN Enthusiastic applause, long
lcontinued) Mr.. President, God is in heaven,
cur destiny and our duty to be found there. 1t
is our only hope. | talk with my Republican
friends in vain to know whence comes this won
drous change which has altered their whole horizon
since election. talk with man who said, before
election, "lf Buchanan is elected am with you
henceforward-l am Disunionist," and find he
thinks there must have been some mistake about
that remark; he thinks it must have been his
partner who said it, not him. They all have their
partners Their decision, their foresight, their
purpOse-why, they are like that old Italian, who
when on his death bed. told that he must for.
give his enemies, in order to be saved. AT first he
refused, but finally he wrought himself up to the
resolution that shook his whole nature, and said
! be- ''lf | die, forgive him; but if get WELL |
will shoot him" That is the resolution of politi
clans, even Republican neutrality-suspicious.
such as HENRY WILSON, whom WENDELL PHILLIPS
has tonight dignifed with an adjective TO be
guardedly used. What said HENRY WILSON of
DsunioEists in Congress the other day? When
! Mr. Foote invited JonN p. HALE to go South and
be hung on the nearest tree, we shuddered. When
HENRY WILSON tells the Dsunionists, of the North
and of the South that the Republican party, if it
had the power, it has the will, would give them
IA traitors doom, WENDELL PHILLIPS says that be
occupies "nobe" position! HencefOrth Mr..
President, do not let the worlds people complain
of want OF charity in AbOlitionists daughter
and applause.)
Mr.. PRESIpENT, it is time for us 10 go home yet
Il litte more must say. We think, for the moment
we see peace and dawning prosperity in Kansas,
and we have temporary quiet in Massachusetts.
That we have peace and quiet will be all the more
dangerous to u.s. if they lull us into dream that
they are to be perpetual, 1t is one central fire,
philosophers say. which now lights the world
through the throes of the volcano, and now shakes
it in the convusions of the earthquake. 1t is one
central excitement beneath the soil of Kansas and
in the streets OF Boston, when cannon and armed
men are marshalled there. And as they say, that
when the volcano is for moment still, the earth
quake recommences and when the earthquake
ceases the volcano begins afresh, SO the quenchne
of that fire in Kansas may bring home to our
selves the renewal of the excitement here, because
the fire still exists, and the laws Of nature are
guarantee for its revival in terror. l am not salts
fed, for one to the conflict in Kansas, when
we need it nearer home. We need it in Massa
chusetts. if it must be anywhere (appause). God
forbid taat any one should invoke the thunder
stroke but we believe that it, and it alone, will
purify the atmosphere, may at least say, eff il
must come let it come here and now" If ever
tE,N IL
our own citizens if ever again we are to lParr
whether our soil is free or not, would to Heaver
tnat the time would come quickly! We are fall
ing asleep upon the Personal Liberty Bill. Wha
is that bill but statute which protects freedom il
practice, and denies it in principle? The Persona
Liberty Bill in Massachusetts, noble as it is
measure, what does it dc !or the slave? 1t accu
mulates between him and his pursuer every ega
obstacle that the ingenuity of john A. ANDREW.
can conjure up; but when, by force, or bribery, o.
cunning, the claimant has penetrated all thes,
delences, Massachusetts stands back powerless a
last, and says, Take your slave!" Abolitionist
do not say that; do they, Mr.. President?
Mr. QUINcY-I never heard that they did (laugh
ter and applausc)
| Mr. IlGGlNsoN cOntinued--The Abolitionis
says pass your fugitive slave through every jury
from Essex to Berkshire establish the masters
title by deed so clear that even the wit of ANDREW
cannot find flaw in it and when all this is said
as before, We protect the slave, not because he
was not slave, but because h. was MAN! (En
thusiastic applause,) But, powerless as we may
be to save him, we have at least the power fol
this: we will make the streets Of Boston bristle
with her own bayonets, before you touch hail
of his headw Loud cheers,
Mr.. President that is what call talking free
dom in earnest / am tired of hearing people tall
freedom in Congress. Henry WILSON told me
that he felt himself in a tight place there. 1t wat
when CHARLES SUMNER stood in Faueuil Hall ant
told the assembled world flor the world heard tha
speech) that "he was a man before he was Com
missioner, THAT he touched the chords OF nation
heart, and won us all to him forever loud appause)
Nothing, nothing that he can say at Washington
will ever be more than the echo of that superl
speech (cheers) o. sir, if we want to live in th
world if we want to meet the demands 1f the age
and pass on to the next age as worth remembering
we have got to be more than politicians, more thar
Republicans. We have got to come to the actua
facts of nations existence, and look D'snniol