Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-02-13

SPEECH OF Parker PILLsBURY,

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Delivered before the Massachusetts Anti. Slave.
ry Society on tho 4tb, inst. We copy from the
Liberator.
Mr.. Pillsbury said, since it was getting fash,
ionable for Governors to attend nn,i.slavery meet
very likely repent, by and by, that he
ings. he hoped an invitation would be sent to
Governor Banks to attend this anniversary. lie
did not know that his Excellency would
find it convenient to come but he would
didn't His friend Remond and himself had
come home feeling pretty proud, they had been in
such excellent company and he thought MIR.
Phillips rather severe when he said the anti.sla.
very man who had any reputation or popularity
left had not done his duty for it this were now
to be the test, his friend Remond and himself
were gone for it! daughter and appiause.)
The speaker said he thought slavery had
wrought its most fearful work upon the reople Of
the North,-ihat the guilt and criminality Of the
stakeholder had more than its counterpart in the
non-slaveholding States, and that the disgrace
and debasement of the slave il more than parai.
leled by the character of the mass OF the people
of the free States AMI it seemsd to him, that
before we could reach the slave, we had q revolu.
ton to achieve in our own behalf ten thousand
times moro momentous than that of &c, and he
was very far from believing that it could be
wrought out by any other than the same means.
Who feels the crime, and curse, and guilt of
slaveryp There is a iurking convict on against the
extension Of slavery, but even that is fast dying
out, ami the n. Y. TridUne is today laboring to
prepare the people Of the North to accept Kansas
as slave State, if it shall be admitted as such.
This is one OF those instances where
Vice is q monster of such hideous mcin
As, to be hated, needs but to be seeu;
But seen too oft, familiar with her face;
We first endure, then pity, then embrace p
There is not one.tenth part of the moral indig-
nation burning in the hearts of the people Of the
North today, against the admission Of Kansas as
n slave State, that there was, in 1913, against the
admission of Texas as a slave State. lie took
the occasion to remind his audience in Vermont,
that, at that time, they had distinguished men,
who, with John Quincy Adams, signed the re-
monstrance against the admission of Texas, and
demanded that the Union be dissolved, rather
than Texas be made a part of it, Then he enum-
Grated the outrages that had followed in such
quick and fearful succession-the Mexican war.
the Fugitive Slave Bill, the repeal Of the Missouri
Compromise, the outrages in Kansas, the almost
butchery of q Massachusetts, Senator, the bred
Scott decision-and then he appealed to Governor
Fletcher and his constituency there present, to
know, if Gov. Slade were wise and prudent in
1913, in counselliug the dissolution of the Union
only for the annexation Of Texas, wha. ought to
he said of n Governor who, to-day, in view of
this long chapter of horrors, cautions the people
against anything so rash and SO perilous as the
dissolution Of the American Union And he
would make the same appeal to the audience be-
fore him to-niGh!,
hut .ne must 'e"r'ut anu ia'al cohSloera''or -
tnat WIN eacu successive s'ep u 'ne par'o u 'nS
slave rover 'ne cohsciehce anu courage "u1
mannoou anu herol:m U I u NOI'h nay us'.heu
10 the same proporuon' uhti'' as ne hau saiu' mere
Is no suGn iuu'en"'iVh to'Say "8u,hs' III uunis'
SOD oi han'"o rs u slaV' 9'a'e as lnero vas, lour
teea years ago ngainst 'ne auuiission .! leAae
"nun "e '1ea "a I0Vo' IL oi9 hot pe'tse sna
u"y pe'e. mau "a Seh"'or Dous'as Nouiu u
tue canuluateo VI tne Des' Pohticai party I'D ln'
country . 'na' any n'gner issue "oule Ut mau'
WIN inc 3l"ve rover !can Tue 5e'opehingo VI th'
1Aucea ;iI.e ta"ue, y, iuueeu, hepuCnvau ka
aia ho' sinA even i"er 'nan 'ua' pe'ore thu
oms. NJ. D.u 1-o.n .
my part, sau W.T. rrlspory, / wouiu u
eoon na'e 'aues DuonnanaI .or iIesiuen' US au-
"a 10 u Wv ~ ~Tutu 6 WI "a,
Na"ea NV . "a otate uuuo. nv ~
n1onpton CS"na e. a es"'? Nv ~;
1919 thor the torn,er ma Iocom mon Constitu
go 20 Ia snro nron;dos Cor eIayaru L,, ,bo 70
49, Constitnt;op dacioras tha, 10 Drsd SCOT
fsn;s;,n IN oil re io,,er and sn;,J sball Ia an
Sornad o. ,au in th;s lnnd hu nLnsor;hin" tho on
tire celored race. This Consideration think
OUGHT ,o ha Urged in this meoting and everv yher
that the Dred scott decision vile. unnatural
;,hnrar ornoI ocorrsad as :. - b,s haon con
frmed in Connecticut, in New York, in Minnesota
in Wisconsin, in Iowa. in Kansas and in Oregon
(all Republican States and Territories,) since tn
Republican party has been formed. That is RI
puhlicanism in our country to-day and | ha
rather have the publicans and harlots of tn
Democratic party, than the Republican pharisee
who make their boasts of such superiority owe
them.' (Applause.)
The same logic held true with regard to tn
Church. Boston wOuld he more hOneful if eyer