Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-02-14

first good thing that it has done for twenty millions
of people. For Longleow, the Union is gallant
bark that outrides the storm. A storm. When
have we met one till now? Fair weather, halcyon
seas, constant prosperity, has been our
history "a boat with every other plank torn off,
or Chinese junk. would have found it difficult to
sink. (Laughter.) This is the first storm that
has ever assaed her, and now men counsel giving
up the voyage aud skulking into harbor, for fear
of being sunk Who cares for the forge tr
heat in which were shaped the anchors of such
despair? What is IA government? 1t is machine
for education and it is free speech that endan-
gers this government! Fee speech, the highest
attribute of man ;-and yet it is the discussion of
a great moral question that endangers the gov
crnment Then the sooner it gees to pieces. the
better! As JonN QUINcY ADAMS said to CHARLES
SUMNER, when he stood by his sick bed in
Boston, Il hope to 20 back to Washington, in order
to teach this Mr.. DANIEL WEBSTER that there is
something better than the Constitution of the
United States, the justice and liberty which it
was intended to preserve, loud chcers.)
| ! object, therefore, altogether, to this exagger.
ated value placed upon the Union. l do not be.
lieve in it. do not believe history can be made
hereafter to bear witness to any high value in the
Union. This has been a decent government in
ITS day, but it pregnant with momeutouSly bad
results. 1t has prostituted the pulpit has
made the people cowards,-it has made slavery
trump phant,--it has made literature yassal and
IcOrrupt,-it has transformed twenty millions OF
people into slave-catchers. What history! We
launched out with the popular determination tha,
the territory of the Union should be secured to
liberty. The spirit with which We set out, under
the ordinance Of 1857, made all national territory
sacred to liberty. We came down to 1919, and
cOwardice bOrn of the Union, gave up half; we
came down 10 1852 and treason in the garb of
cowardice gave up the whole to slavery. Behold
the history of the Uniun Willingly do | ioiu
issue with the Unon-worshppers on the value o.
their idol. | say, the Fugitive Slave Law was not
possible and could not have been executed in the
city Of Boston in 1889; it was executed there in
/ lS3O. Apply the torture OF any circumstances to
John JAY Luther Martin, Chancellor Wythe.
Patrick Henry, and never could you extort such
speeches Daniel Webster made the last two
years of his life. The Union-Lehold the value
lot it! If property be cverything,-if Daniel
Webster said tn" whole purpose of government
is to protect prnperty,I do not know hut possibly
banks make larger dividends with the, Union than
they would without, though of that have serious
doubts; butiin be the bect Of governments -
IT high thought. high character noble party, n
noble State with noble impulses, be the test OF
government, this Union is failure for the char.
acer of this nation has been so barbarzed in fifty
ears, that must hide our faces when we COM
pare the Senate Of to-day with that which
even Aaron Burr presided. Look Mt the outrage
On CHARLES SUMNER Men have been assassi.
mated before. 1t II man trusts himself with gul,l
in the purleus of great cities, he is very likely to
be assassinated. One who quarrels with drunken
bnlles in the haunts of vice. risks assassination.
| But did you ever see before in the Senate cham
her, the focus Of civilized State, the Capitol on
which millions Of eyes fixed, did you ever see
an assassination there. with half score of what
are called the statesmen Of the land looking on,
still and silent? undertake to say, that in view
Inf al, the circumstances, the outrage on CHARLES
SUMNER is not to be paralleled in the history of
Icivilized States You never the assassination.
| in cool blood, of an unarmed man. with twelve Of
bis peers, the foremost men in Office, in civilized
community, present, and not an arm lifted in his
defence and yet you now see a State, and per-
Ihaps one half the whole country, daring to vim.
dicate and applaud such an act. That is the bar
lharisln to which the Union has brought these
States You know it stands out iu all history as
the ntrocious crime which countervnied all the
merits of Oliver Cromwell, that he undertook to
| put his military boots on the Speakers mace in
tho House Of Commons. Every man who has
written history since has regarded that as the
lowest point which English hist rv has ever
touched, That very repeated on the
virgin soil of Kansas, and it rdly walked ripple
on the calm of American life Such is the
result OF Union to which men are told to sacrifice
Justice, liberty aid homer, the welfare Of the slave
land an etfectual resistance to the Slave Power !
| do noe believe in it, would like to have those
men who are ringing perpetual changes on the
| Union come here, and tell us what good the Union
has ever done. 1t has made our large cities the
scenes of riot and Of fugitive slave surrenders it
has flied our pulpits with Deweys and Adamses :;
it has filled our literature with IIilards and Pier
points, and Buncrofts | curse the Union in behalf
of the white man, we'll rs friend of the black
race There never was n greater mistake than
this idoatry of the juggle of Union, and never
until we cut loose from it shall we have any hope
of system Of honorable government,or or any right
to respect ourselves.
l do not, then tremble to approach the question
a | no n p
fear, no timid balancing of arguments my in
most soul is penetrated with the conviction that it
is magnificent conspiracy against justice, and
accurSed of God.-( Loud applause.) Every page
of our history since S9 is black with the Union.
There is not page of it to which American
can recur with any pride or honor; and when a
pen as impartial us that Of HILDRETH writes that
history, you see it-eyery man must see it. 1t is
nothing but the vaing glorious eulogy of Fourth Of
July orators the swollen sefshness Of wealth
eager for more gain; of Commerce, crying Hush =
in order to have customers; of merchants, in
trembling difference 20 somebody out of whom they
expect to make dollar of profit ;-itis only petty
lawyers like Curtis, who imagine because they
can draw writs, they can meddle with statesman
ship Daughter and Rpplause,) that have under
taken to show the value of the Union 1t is rotten
all over! 1t is one great sore! 1t has proved on
n magnificent scale, as if written by the finger Of
God 'betwxt Orion and the Pleiades,' that Lamar
tine was right when he said, Man fastened
one end of a chain round the neck of his brother,
that Gods own hand did not iasten the other end
round the neck of the oppressor' (Cheers.) 1t
is great lazaar.house of slave and stakeholder,
with the North buying coward bread in Office by
dastardy silence, aud vocferating Great is toe
Union in voices thick with blood.
| go for the dissolution of the Union, first as an
Anti-Slavery measure would put it TO every
man who loves the Constitution Of the United
States in its essential features, If he would vote
for that instrument to-day as it stands ? do not
believe there is Republican who hears me, who,
| if he we're standing to-day, as men stood in 1889
and this Constitution lay on a table before him,
and he were asked, will you vote for itT-l do
not believe, | say, that there is Republican who
hears me who would vote for il, You may BOLSTER
up the Constitution as something which, having
come down to YOU from the fathers of the govern
ment you are bound to support; but is there a
man who. if he could have his choice, would to-
day say Aye to that Constitution? You know
there is not; and every argument that undertakes