Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-06-05

What have we to oppose to this programme OF
national iniquity2 Why, we have 'converts.'-
the Democratic pnrty, You will see them all
wheel back into line the moment the trumpet
sounds Cuba mt the head Of the host. You will
see them all wheel back into the line the moment
the word passes from captain to captain. 'Ag'
-'Extension of the Area of Freedom, and
Another Slice of Mexico But if they do not |
distrust them. l distrust Banks and Douglas, in
The van of the party for Liberty. CLEAR; hear.
As the lover said to his mistress, There are but
two places in the world, where you are and where
you are not SO in politics, there are but two
I parties-on the slaves side, and against him.
! When those who are on the slaves side will not
have you, where must you go? There is such a
thing as being kicked into party Horace Mann
was kicked out of tho Whig party into the Liber-
ty party. Mr.. Banks suffered the same HONOR
Laughter and applause.
| consider Mr.. Douglas in the same position.
lie stayed by his Democracy as long as they
would let him; but when they cut the rope, he
had to fall; and there being no other place to fall
except into the hands of the Republicans, OF
course he fell there. But that does not make him
lover Of liberty. They say his name would be
stronger than any other at the head of the Re-
publican ticket at the next Presidential canvass.
do not know but it would. 1t is very likely, as
parties go, that the ticket with his name at the
head of it would be strong ticket. He might be
elected. Suppose he we're 1t would be no better,
nay, not go good, as if he were defeated for,
when he is seated in the chair it isa Democrat in
the grain, not an Abolitionist. lie did not come
in at the door on bis own feet, he was pitched in
headlong, in spite of himself. (Applause.) | dis
trust him. When the old Democratic trumpet
rings to arms, his sou! will obey the summons.
remember when was IN Manchester, they had
story in this wise. You know the cavalry horses
of the English army in Spain are said to have
got SO used to tho trumpet's sound, that they
obey the call as well the disciplined soldier
himself and when the rider is sent to the ground
a corpse the steed still hears the trumpet, wheels
into line, charges and fights for England, as If
an Englishman sat in his saddle One of the
regiments which had come home from Spain was
stationed just outside of the city of Manchester,
and had a sale of their refuse horses. They sold
some of thom Among the rest one old
man who sold sand about the streets purchased for
pound one of the troopers horses, put him into
tn shafts of his cart and peddled sand for q
month. The old man thought he had got bar
gain, and trotted up and down the city, and the
horse did his little work. his drudgery, as if he
had been born to it. But one day, when the old
fellow of eighty was setting on his sand cart, en-
gagged III his daily toll sergeant's guard passed
by him, and the trumpet sounded. The old seed
shook his mane broke the cart to pieces, shook
the old man on to the pavement, and wheeled into
line with the troops. So with Douglas, when the
Democratic party sounded its trumpel-Preside
though he might be. tApr.susat 1t Is in him;
no baptism of six months session witn Hale and
Giddings can wash on. the lifelong serVilty OF 2
bought ard sold politician. (Rerowed tapplaase.)
The South will never truet him; but he has not
the manhood, believe, to be leader of the North
the effectual, radical, resisting North-Ho!
Then, again, as States, the refuge Of on. liberty
is the machinery of the State Goverrnonts.-
When Salmon P. Chase had his hand on Margaret
Garner in tho Cincinnati prison. he could have
clutched the slaya question, and helped it forward
quarter Of century, if he lad then and there
provoked resistance by the Buckeye State 10 the
Federal Government; for there is something in the
.1yaity of individuals to the State Governments,
10 home love and sympathy, stronger, otter all,
than love of tho Union itself. There ID State
pride. Now, for the first sop, let us declare--and
if the people submit to it, it u aF--that 10 Save
ever shall 20 back from Now York. 1oa rsmem'
Der the story OF tho lrishmen, 1ho, tnd:nS his
blanket too short at the bottom, cut oil n piece
from the top and sewed it on to the bottom 1t
the Democratic party sewed kan5as on 20 that emo
she must bs balanced by Massachusetts ON this.-
Let US say to the South, we will havd no more /
slave territory; and If you increase 1t az 'ne
West, wa will clean up all the East to make it /
eyen.' In every State, under tee pressure OF tbs
great question, stirring the cons?onceo of the peo-
ple it will be possible, one after anothef-M assa
chuse.ts fyst, or Wisconsin, care not which--to l
make an enactment, which the will OF the people .
will seal into law, that no man shall e7er be tried
upon that territory, on tho question whether no is
: slave or freemen. And when Mass aohusetts
has said Amen to such an enactment. il is law
in Massachusetts for we have Ranoro.:'s author
IT, .ac. 4A.,uerlcan law is no result Of individual
wisdom, but the growth of necessity-the growth
of the hour.
l say, let Ms begin ct home 10 organize garrisons
and forts where the party of morals of ideas, can
take refuge against tho organizations of Govern
ment. The organizations of Government palpably |
day by day, on the slavery side. Ideas
are ours. know to some of us they seem to ad-
vance very slowly. We do not see the influence
of such meeting as this, or dozen likeit. The
Scotch bleaching woman said to the clergyman,
who asked her why she watered piece of linen
so often, The water pour on this morning will
part sink irto the earth. and part pass into the cir
and the cloth is the same as before. But come
along here month hence, shall have watered 1t
with just the same seeming uselessness. day after
day-but the first OF June twill be white. Ap.
p'ause.) So, twenty i've years ago, the bar OF Bos-
ton said to Samuel Z. Sewall when he asked them
whether person brought into Massachusetts, as a
slave could be carried back, Yes: he is fugi'
tive, although his master brought him here. But
he took the question to the Court, and argued it,
until Massachusetts Court responds to Mississip.
pi and said NO There is distinction and that is
enough Of a twig to hang freedom upon. 1t took
twenty five years of plotting, and fancy. with
both his feet in the grave to reverse it; and Mass
achusetts was that same year saying to the man
who had returned Jugtice, oven. Get thee behind
(Applause.) Day after day, year after year, our
President poured the water Of his rebuke. with
Seeming uselessness, on the stained conscience OF
Massachusetts,, and tho clergyman cried 'lnhder
and the politician Fanatic and said, 'See ne Is
putting back the cause OF emancipation But
they tried it, and found it was healthier for Ed
ward Greely Loring to live in Washington than in
.heamosphere of the Bay State. Loud cheers.)
1t seems to me that this resolution points TO
something which politics ought to consider and
adopt. Bancroft says, in his last volume, Amer
lean law is no result of individual wisdom it is
the growth of necessity-the growth of the hour
So it is. When we framed the Constitution under
which we live, the men who went to Philadelphia
to frame it knew they were doing what they were
not sent to do and Mr.. Madison, in the Federal
ist,' defends them for doing what they were not
sent to do. The people sanctioned the work. and
to-day it is an idol In 1901, Mr.. Jefferson said
the acquisition of territory was clearly unconst'
tutional. The people bowed to it-itis law So
you NAV frana down American Iau until to.day