Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-08-29
Tbe Anti- 9laucrp Buole.
WHAT ABoLITIoNIsTs MUST DO.

Phllllps speech at ADlnguOn on the lst or August
If 1 have made tedious speech as doubtless l
have--put it to your cOnsciences. These twenty
years, from here to the Mississippi, have addressed
s antislavery audiences am weary of hearing them
applaud anti-savery sentiments; / do not want
your applause. The best applause can have is
the clink of your dollars the best applause can
have il your footsteps going home ready to advo-
cate something better than the mere November
ballot for a halfway man, of whom nobody can
say anything particularly bad, ! want you to go
home to work to stay away from your pro.savery
church until the church committee come to ask
YOU why md when the church call you for 9isci-
pline preach to them gospel sermon and will
tell YOU how you may know whether it is gospel
sermon You may know it by this mcans-if it
makes the church committee mad as hornets, 1t is
the very Sermon on the Mount daughter and ap-
pluse) If you have vase OF acid, and put into
1t morsel Of pure chalk it will bubble up until it
runs over the vase but If you put it into cold
water IL won't run over at all. So if you put the
acid of such sermon in.o the cold water OF dead
church. from which all the life has efervesced
long ago there will be agitation; but If 1t is
red.hot orthodox servile, part old Wing part hunk
er part democratic, and the rest wrapped up-ln-
Repu ublican- solution worth nothing meantby-it-
church (aughter), holding dozen blind Aboli-
tionsts in it to keep it from utter corruption then
such sermon will cause an agitation worth hav-
ing will tell You what they will do. They will
have a church meeting and either turn you out or
PASS resolution (modelled on the Tract Society's
report that nobody understand), put 1t on rec
ord and you | fear, will 20 to church again, ike
n fool daughter and applause). Butit you Will
only stay at home like Mordecai at the Kings gate,
until they come and ask again why you are still
staying at home, you will preach better sermon,
though you do not utter word, than II you h9o
talked all your life. You, who have been brought
IN with such reverence for your clergyman that
YOU would think your eyelids had no muscles,
when YOU meet him, you utterly unable to
look him straight in the FACET you will only go
homo and sit, Sunday after Sunday, these warm
summer days, in your front door, ana lou your
neighbors see you they go to meeting you Will
preach such q sermon Bourdillou, the French
orator. PRIEST did, when he preached before Louis
the Fourteenth. half hour on licentiousness,and
held the thunders suspended over the assembled
courters trembling and dumb, then, alter one mo-
ment Of expressive silence turned to the monarch,
and ended with "Thou art the man"-such ser
mon as Professionalism can hardly show In all ITS
coward annals-then will honor you as an Aboli-
zionist worthy to stand up and take your place on
the same platform with that devoted and eloquent
speakcr--not in words only, but eloquent In lie
whose resolution ] am trying to second
Friends know the wearness OF the cause In
which you are engaged. There is no Canaan IN
reform; there is rest ahead tits all wilderness
Never hatter yourselves that the time VIII come
when the day of your reform efforts VIII close, ana
the clouds of fruition and triumph, tinted with
purple and gold gather round the setting sun oi
YOUR agitation. Never: As long as the devil lasts,
II.
as necessary to-day as it was thirty years ago a
thousand years ago the Dutch built their ramparts
a wall of mud-against the ocean. DO they
trust them? Nay, day by day, :ho peasant steals
an hour from toll for his childrens bread, To go to
the ocean aud fill up the breach, repair the willow
which the insects have eaten, and save the lana
which his father gave him. while the ocean rnhrs
over his head, endeavOrng 10 clutch what man mas
snatched from its grasp. So it is with tins island
of antslavery feeling which we have clntched
a. 1 SfI hn trnh
time serving politics. of partisan ambition, OF
ssrvlity and compromise, are raving around IT,
The rampant of public opinion which you have
built is daily beaten away Each day, some serVile
hunter for office caves in, and falls into the bottom
less pit of Banks, Every day, one part OF the
rampant falls. Every day, Henry Wilson-do not
blame me for feeling timid word from
him we had enough to bear. enough to DO
enough to sacrifice, enough OF effort to save the
Caroiinas and Kansas. without his tmid expedlen
cv endnnpering the little gained in Massachusetts.
Who shall that after twenty years OF lncessant
sacrifice we are not to be allowed to biame the
man who, for any personal object, to secure any
fanced party good, thus degraces the oitness, the
uneuuvocal meaning of Massachusetts purpose r
do not care what his pretense may be- say,
now and ever, the man who yields principle, risks
confusing public thought, lays heavier burden on
our backs, and we have right to be angry with
him. The treasury is empty, the hand Is ureu'
the toll of MANY wears has gained but this little
we do right to guard it zealously from mistaken
friend and malicious foe. Yes, as listened to the
weary voice of our dear friend MRS. FosrER), who
spoke TO us Just now from this platform. L remem-
bered-O how well when |, too, yet young saw
her a Young devoted girl, step first upon the anti
slavery platform, and consecrate herself, IN the
bloom of youth. its ingenuousness,its enthusiasm
upon the altar of the slave. The clear sweet tones
of that now wearied voice, how fresh they are IN
nv ears! Year after year have watched IL wear
ing away, gathering now one ana now ahother
from the reluctant hosts of oppositon-at such
precious cost life and health the cheerful price
she paid and | dare not let that man pass without
bitter rebuke who throws in tho way OF those bloody
aud toll worn footsteps one single obstacle to sue
cess (loud cheers). When | see, therefore, a Re-
publican like HENRY WILSON, when | see traders
in public opinion in order to gain some tempora
ry purpose, some party triumph. some transient
advantage or to wreak some personal spite against
such man as Henry j. Gardner which they feel
more than wo do, but which they were too coward
jy to show which they were too recreant trmmers
to delare, but which they were willing we should
declare, while they come in to reap the harvest-l
say, when fer such purposes they leopard the firm
ness and sincerity of anti-slavery feeling in this
Common wealth, think of the wealth OF sacrifice
of the lives that have been devoted to this cause
think of the tombs round which have stood o
those called early from the struggle--l say "ln
Gods name beware how you peril what so much
toll and 30 much sefdevoton have purchased foi
usl This is holy ground you tread y
ask therefore, of you, fellow Abolitionists, that
in this hour when party expediency is doing 81
much to mislead and confuse the public feeling
that you will enable to send out agents. prope
and capable. to the waiting fields of tho West an'
Northwest love the Northwest If | coul'
r 90 anywhere outside of Boston-if Boston pave
ments were not dearer to me than the golden pave
=. mept to Millions Mammon,I would go othe North
West where no judges sit like nightmares on tn
consciences of the people, whore man, in orde
to be elected judge, or to 90 to Congress. mus
e como somewhere near being fanatic, like tn
Northwest the people have not grown old ther
they are all young. DR.. johnson said of Scotch
men that you might make something of them
you took them young, Out West they catch jude