Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-06-06

harmony in this government and will be none
while the Union lasts,
If the Union of these States had not been
formed there would have been no increase of
slavery. There was disposition as the time, as
everybody Knows, to get rid cs slavery, but the
formation OF the Union was the perhetuation OF
slavery. 1t was because the Union was formed
that Louisiana was purchased, that Florida was
purchased. and Texas annexed. And now, if the
Union were dissolved, have the testimony of dis
tinguished statesmen North and South, that
slavery could not last single year, and among
the rest l have the testimony Of Henry Wilson on
this subject. How long do you suppose South
Carolina could protect herself against slave insur.
rectons without the Uhon2 The slaves would
need no other weapons than those nature has
given them to obtain their freedom; if it was re-
fused then, they would thrust their stalwart
fingers In the hair Of those lily-fingered gentry
their masters and twist off their necks laughter).
Don't understand me as saying that tho American
Anti-Slavery Society is in favor of twisting off
the necks OK the Southern gentlemen nobody is
responsible Tor that sentiment but myself. / am
no non-reslstdnt; though was twenty-five years
iu tue pulpit, have not attained that degree of
grace yet (iaughter). | admire those who have at
taned to it; but, since have not, it's no use ma
king any profession of what amt in me; and say
that rather than be slave, would twist of any.
body's neck that attempted to enslave me zap
plause).
The speaker then made some estimate of the
probable increase Of the slave population in time
to come, and the inevitable consequence that must
ensue from keeping them in bondage. The only
practicable plan in meeting the slavery question
was the dissolution of the Union For that purpose
all that was necessary was a disregard of the com
pacts with slavery, simple withdrawal of the
support of the North. People said that the Alb
o!ihOnists were impracticable. and yet they were
not SO far in advaDce'of the pu0lic sentiment but
that the people kept constantly within curslng dis
tance. The position of the political anti.slavery
parties remnoe'l him of .ho Yankee boy who used
every year, at just he same season, to bring the
heads of three or four Wolves and get his bounty
of $50 ahead. AT length he was asked how he
always happened to bring just so many and no
more every year. lie said he knew where there
was a den and he got the whelps, every year.
"Why don't you destroy the old wolves" they |
asked him. Why" said he ''then shan't getI
any more whelps" Qaughter) The Republican
party was for letting the old wolves alone and
catching the young ones, but, the miserable hunt.
ers. they hadn't even caught the first whelp yet
(laughter) Mr.. Banks, in speech IN New
York, subscribed to the Compromise of 1850, ard,
by doing, the Fugitive Slave bill. John p.
Hale went to Washington with large, rotund
body ard a manly s1ul, but, with the poison at
the National Hotel and the poison in Congress, he
had returned to New Hampshire shrivelled both
in body and soul. Charles Sumner stood the con-
test mob y, but got a broken head. Dissolution
was the nnly practicable remedy. If that was
treason, SO be it, there was no salvation, then,but
in treason. Every worthy reformer in every age
had been a traitor to tyrannical governments and
an infdc to a corrupt religion.
In conclusion Mr.. Foss adyerted to the position
of the Tract Society in reference 20 slavery and of
the Church generally. DIR. Spring stood up inI
his pulpit and said that the natural condition OIL
the colored man that of servitude. That was
ecclesiastical parlancc; come down to the vernacu-
lar of the grog shop and it would be this: The
Id niger is fit for nothing but slave" Both
meant the same thing. lie denounced such re-
ligion as that; the devil would hold festival when
men protesting such religion held their ami
versary meetings (applause)