Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-06-27
SPEECH OF PARKER PILLSBURY AT
THE LATE NEW ENGLAND CON
VENTI0N.

observer Of events which had trausrircd in this
country. He was at that time connected with y
theological inStitutiuu-not tho most fay orable
position Ia which TO Wow tho Anti. Slavery move
lnent; yet he well remembered an address de-
liycred in the Anti-Slaycry Convention in lS31,by
Mr.. Garrison, containing some startling prcdlc-
tons which his associates themselves could scarce
ly believe. They regarded him as a young man,
with more zeal, perhaps, than knowledge, ana
with II good deal more dctcrrhuat'h and rcsOlu-
tion than discretion and W 0sdom. la that address
was the prediction Of the annexation Of Texas, and
the events which were 10 follow in its train. Very
few Of his friends supposed such an event pos
siLle none bus the AbolitiUnists believed the
Slave Power conn 'cnt to perform such a work as
that Of dismembcrmont Of a sister State, and the
annexation Of it to this Republic. Then
same the prophecy Of the degradation Of the
Northern people, ia consequence OF this measure
the organization Of the Slave Power in the gov
eminent and, finally, the war with Mexico. In
1887, nobody thought Texas would become a part
Of the Union the Democratic party even, could
not believe it but the occurrence has taken place,
and, as a consequence, the degradation OF the
people Of the North.
believe it to be true, that u people when losing
,heir liberty are never conscious Of it. Rome
was never more boastIul Of her liberty than during
the hundred years it was rapidly passing away (;
and on the very day She resigned her see ptre, she
was filled with honsting rauiots as before
| never could understand how slaves could be
happy 10 their condition, till | learned the
submission of the North to the South. In
1888 and 1889, annexation was looked upon as
an event likely to occur, though in 1871. the wing
and Democratic party at the North were stiB in UNI
belief; but in 1913, the Wing oarty began to open
its eyes and mt that originated in Boston a type
Of Whicism, known as Conscience Wings This
party issued n manifesto, rather than submit To an
nexation, to dash the Union in pieces. The whole
Wing party responded to the sentiment, and for
Il time these opponents TO the administration really
seemed ready to dissolve the Union, rather than
the Republic of Mexico should be di%smembered,
aud made slave territory under the United States
Government. Ia 1915, the Democratic party
came into n1wer: and in 1916, the measures of
of annexation was carried and the degradation
may date from that time, as the commencement of
n new era. Then followed the war with Mexico, in
exact fulflment of the prediction to which | have
referred. The Wing party sat up nights, and ran
sacked tho vocabulary of language to find terms
with which to curse that war, They cursed it in the
name of all the gods of liberty and religion, and
with every oath they were able to invent yet this
party selected Gen. Taylor, the chief actor in that
war, and by spontaneous combustion made him
President of the United States From that time
the degradation Of the people has become more
and more apparent. The repeal of the Missouri
COMPROMISE followed and the prophets of the
Republican party are now praying, as the highest
desire of their souls, that there may be a millen-
NAL return to them of that old compromised
compromise so infamous, that Henry Clay, with all
his eloquence, was scarcely able to impose it upon
the country. All those predictions have trans
pired with such accuracy, that, had the author of
them lived in the days Of Jeremiah, we should
now 'have,--l know not how many books of proph-
ecy. If we had sat on he Mount of Vision, and
predicted all those events which have since trans
pired, and which are but the legitimate offspring
of slavery, we should have met with the same
treatment which honOred the martyrs of past
ages.
Having foretold these events-the annexation of
Texas, the war with Mexico, the passage of the
Fugitive Slave Bill of 1850, there was still another
chapter of horrors to be read. The original Mis-
souri, Compromise gave only half of the country
TO slavery its repeal gave up the whole! Then
came the scenes enacted in Kansas, by the Slave
Power pouring out its walls of wrath upon that
unhappy land and then the outrage in the Con
gress of tho Uuited States in which a Senator from
Massachusetts was smitten down by ruHian blows,
his blood staining the floor of the Senate Chamber
The victim is borne away senseless, while the
rufian goes home, receives every mark of honor
ut the hands Of his constituents, and sweet kisse:
from a thousand lips, and is then returned t.
his place in Congress without o dissenting
voice!
Then followed the election of James Buchanan
and the decision of the Supreme Court in reference
to the case Of bred Scott all these in quick sue
cession. And when all this has been done, tn,
leader Of the best political party the country cal
Misunderstanding as it were in the blood o
Sumner, and in presence Of his empty chair, tn,
South pouring in upon him every form Of insul
and outTage-styling him a mean, empty-headed
Natick cobler,' and his constituency "A miserabl,
conglomeration of greasy mechanics and moon
struck theorists'-rises in his PLACE, and, bovine
gracefully, declares that Massachusetts will eve
be loyal to the Union that he had rather have
stakeholder for President of the United States
than a Northegn man that he will vindicate thu
right of South Carolina to hold slaves, and viii
visit every man, North or South, with a traitor
doom, who may dare to lay his hand upon tn
Union to destroy it! AN this must be added t
the catalogue Of events, during the last twenty
years of our country's history.
What do You think, to-day, OF the Abolitionists
You ridiculed us as fools 10 1887 you cursed Il
in 1888 and you cursed us again when we woul
not join you in the war against Mexico. In 1856
we were mobbed in the city Of New York. Som
of us knew what it was to be mobbed in fou
towns in a single week, All that we predicted
and more than we predicted, has now, at the en-
of twenty years, proved true.
While these events are transporting, We hav
many REVEALS of religion, thousands are gathere
into the folds of the Church the number of mir
listers is increased, Sunday schools multiplied, an
the Western wilderness, through these influences
buds and blossoms as the rose. But, in all thi
time, We have never heard of the emancipation @
a sin lie slave. Roman Catholic Mexico becam
independent of Spain, and, while we were build
ing Protestant churches; she abolished slavery
While she emancipated her slaves, she built u
Methodism and Congregationalism ; and the mex
~ gN"A~ '"~ "'N~ $3.50 49, Nh~bA !
which | have referred. Mexico was invaded b
Protestant powers; and when we mad conquere
her by numbering one hundred thousand of he
people, our Protestant ministers fastened to thei
temples to thank God that Roman Catholic Mexic
was then in II condition to receive the Gospel
Daring the past year, there have been many revi
vals-so we are told by the different religion
bodies now holding their anniversaries in tn,
city but ii has never been my fortune to happier
in "a tlace where one Of these reviyals occurred
The b. was told, that at the end OF a certain rain,
bow might be found a pot Of money. The difficulty
was in finding an end to the rainbow; and this
has been my experience in searching for revivals
of religion, Here is one fact worthy of notice
not the least alarm is felt, throughout the entire
South, IN consequence Of the outpouring of thu
Spirit here at the North; while our littl
meeting will spread terror there No other meet
ing held in Boston during this Anniversary weel
wiil create such alarm in the ranks of the slave
holder as this. We have, then, the assurance tina
oar movement is deserving Of your support an
~enFOurn Oemnnt 0ur eauaa Ia stampad with Al