Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-05-23

SPEECH OF MIR. P~ILLSBURY.
I shall not consume much Of tho time of the
audience, and probably cannot do the anti-slavery
cause any better service than to append to the res
olution which has just been read, two or three
resolutions which | have just drawn, to elaborate
somewhat the sentiment vi that resolution. They
may he considered rs part Of my remarks, or they
may be regarded as ADDITIONAL to the series Of
resolutions before the Society, just as the meeting
think proper.
10. Resolved, That in the American Board Of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the Ameri-
can Bible and Tract Societies, the Methodist Cen
eral Conferences, Baptist Unions and Presbyte-
rian General Assemblies, we have full and fair
opponents and representatives Of the religion Of
the country.
13. Resolved. That NIL these bodies are compos.
ed Of denominations claiming the prerogative Of
making terms of communion and church Fellow
shin, aud as net one of them has ever included
slayeholding among those conditions, even while,
in some instances, expeiling members for differ
ences upon modes Of baptism, it becomes necessa.
ry, in fidelity to the Anti-Slavery cause, to de-
clare that ao person tchO iateliigehHy supports any
Of these organizations, or the Churches cODpOSirg
them. either 6y coaAienance or contribution, is tcor.
My to be regarded as a Christian or an -A6oltionist.
II. Resolved, That we shall hail the day with
hope and JOY, when all these associations, so long
the shield Of the tyrant and the scourge OF the
slave shall pass away, rs have many others like
them in former ages, and thus leave q more open
entrance for the coming of the Kingdom of Peace
! and Purity, Of Love and Liberty, in this as well
as in other lands.
was once ia the presence of some gentlemen,
and one was introducing to his friends a stranger,
and he introduced him, calling him by name, as
one who, he said, always had the misfortune when
he spoke of being understood. 1t strikes me that
the grand difficulty in our time is, that though we
have very much excellent speaking very little OF 1t
is understood. ! admire very much the resolutions
read by the President, but when they were read
one after another, | felt afraid that in nearly ev-
cry one of them there was some loophole out OF
which almost the entire community would be
creeping. We have the American Board of Com.
missioners, we have the American Bible Socie-
tv, we have the Methodist General Conferences,
and ] do not know how many other associations,
and by some means the great mass of the people
supporting those organizations in the Northern
States, fancy themselves and those organizations
rs anti.slavery. And if | am not mistaken the
fault is partly our oyn-ours | mean who profess
to be the opponents of the anti-slavery gospel to
this nation. | wish that l might deserve the ap-
relation and description given by my friend to
whom | referred, and that | may always have the
same misfortune of being understood, whenever
and wherever l speak. What the country needs
at this time is speech as well as action, but it
should he speech as we'll as action understood, and
action in the right direction.
The religious bodies to which l refer, all of them
profess to he anti-slavery SO do the political par
ties of our country. The religious bodies have
their apostles or representative men, opponents Of
their doctrine and position the political parties
have theirs. The Democratic party claims to be
here in the North, the friend, in some sense, of thu
slave, because it processes to believe in the doc
trine Of universal liberty, and it has, or used tt
have, a great horror and dread of the more conserv
0 alive party-the Wing or Federal party as it useC
2 to be denominated. But the Democratic party, q
j every one now believes who understand its true pc
8 sition, especially after the revelations and demon
: stration that have been made of it for tho las
quarter of a century, is to be regarded as one c
e the bulwarks of the slave system and if | do nc
misapprehend its position. if take its leadini
= men as opponents of it, it rather exceeds in atroc
ty and willingness to subserve the interests {
slavery even the Supreme Court Of the Unite
m States itself. Judge Taney's decision was fully il
" terpr eted by neatly all Of the editors of the Den
k ocratic presses of the country running in adyanc
c. of the doctrines as declared by that decision.-
10 Perhaps the decision itself, as intended by the 81
10 preme Court, will cover the whole ground, but tn
" editors are certainly in advance of the decisio
IS, itself in p~roclaiming their readiness TO abide by
I'D when it shall cover all the ground which it proies
es to cover, viz, that of not only dehumanizing
n, wei! as denationalizing and beastializing the e
be tire African race, but turning them into slave
and every Northern State into slave territory
Ire Up in New Ham shire where have the cdlami
oC to reside (laughter), q near neighbor to Gen. Pier
r. bpS"tN y ~ NiNph "a"
re already cast up in figures and published to Il
world how much they are going to make by 4
rise Of real estate in consequence OF New liam
10. shire having become Il slave State and they CT
IN clate that our White Mountain valleys are to eel
"a with the slaye-driyGr's lash and that the banks
~, our beautiful lakes are to he the scenes where slay
n; ry is to work out all its terrible realities. A
- that out Of all this, New Hampshire Democracy
/, to coin dollars and cents as never before. A
70 what is true in New Hampshire is true in Bosto
~ nj -.aa.. xa,., A,E,a ,l.,--I "a. -.
M. ais, outruns the Supreme Court in its devotion
90 slavery, and | believe the Culyinistic ministers
New England are beginning to prove the doctri
10y of total depravity now by the position of the De
NJ ocratic party (laughterl; certainly, If they cam
Oh prove it by that. | know not what argument W
ie be sufficient (renewed laughter).
- And whom we come to the next political part
", the Republican-for l believe there is no long
~ any organized Wing or even Know-Nothing
No. American party-the same may be said Of it as
;; the Democratic party. Its leaders have misled Il
people precisely in the same manner that the lea
Nv ers of the Democratic party have misled them in Il
~ late presidential campaign. Not long ago, John
Hale, in his place in the Senate Of the United Stat
~ assured the slave power that they had made u mi
~ take in the election Of james Buchanan; he sal
The Democratic party who have elected him w
w. sell you out when it comes to be to their interest
:, DO so but if You had elected John @. Fremor
" the candidate and champion of the Free Soil par
and of the party of State rights. your peculiar
Ter ~stitution would have been secure. Now, l ha
ri travelled somewhat extensively in New Engla
rm and in the Vest, and l have found that in nj
u.s. cases out of ten, the supporters of John G. FremC
.c, and of the Republican cause at the last preside
's9 ial election protested to believe that the view
all their candidate and of their party in regs
to the Constitution of the United States, v
as precisely like that which was laid down j
mn now 10y our friend from Massachusetts. \
ola Higginson, and the same as that maintained
Gerrit Smith. And / believe it is not too much
un- say, that the Democrats of the North were iuve
VS. led into the support of James Buchanan by the
of buchanan and free Kansas" / am sure
to was in Philadelphia on the day of the State Ell
Use tioh last Autumn and that was the cry then, an
OF know it was the cry wherever | went in the W
the among the Democracy and in that way, undou
ns!' eddy, the vote of Pennsylvania was secured to !
lay chenan, as well as the vote of every other Nor
nm ern State that gave him its support. But wi
0us the leaders of The Democrocy were RAISING this