Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-09-04

and sell 1t to the butcher. And yet, we pretend
Ito venerate woman as mother ! We are talk.
ing about her noble position ia the community as
mother, and the next day selling her tho auc
ZION block, with cattle swine and mules her.
self and new born babe to different owners to Je
sent to different States of this Union never to
meet again until they meet in the world of spirits
And that Is American law There is not politi
cal party in the country, with the exception of a
little handful of men scarcely known beyond the
State where they originated, that does not swear
by the living God they will execute that law at
the point of the bayonet.
Mr.John Landon-We are all anti-slavery here
We are ready to act.
Mr.. Foster-I am told that you are all antisla
very here, and ready to at. In Gods name, why
don't you act | ask the gentleman to answer
that question--"Why don't you act ?
i Mr. Landon--We don't send any doughfaces tc
Congress Qaughter.)
Mr.. Foster-No; but you send men whose
hearts are as hard as fints against the appeal OF
the slave mother (applause.) You have yet to send
the first man who will make an effort to abolish
the slave system
Mr.. Landon-We will give the pound of flesh,
but no blood.
Mr.. Foster-Yes and what is that flesh? ? Iti
the four millions who are held under State Laws ;
and there is a Nernonter who tells us be will give
up the four millions to slavery, but no more.
daughter and cheers.)
| Mr.. Landon-No, sir we will give them the
pound of Hesh, but not drop of blood
Mr.. Foser-Yes but Tint pound of flesh is the
slave Understand that, my ompromisng friend
! laughter
Mr.. LanGOn-I would not perpetrate pious
fraud in order that good might come.
Mr.. Foster-No, but you would perpetratc an
,mp'ous one--swear to support covenant with
death and an agreement with hell, )" because your
father made it. There is no pety about this
fraud, my friend. 1t is all from the bottomess pit
from beginning to end. There is no hidden co-
ven foot about it. The niquty con-
cealed. From the outset. every vote has been for
the Southern kidnapper, and you have not had q
party in existence in this State, or in any other
with the exception to which l have reterred-that
did not propose not only not to protect the slave in
Carolina, but not to protect him even your own
SOIL
A Voice-The Republican party are doing,
while you are talking.
Mr.. Foster-Doing what Hunting slaves
Laughter.) Tell me what else you are doing |?
Down on all fours, hunting slaves Laughter
and applause Yes, in the language Of the edi-
tor Of one of the most influential papers of Mass
achusetts, who, speaking of the stakeholder, says,
1--WE are his hounds. Up to Mason and Dixon's
limo. the slave owner hunts his victim with dog
and gun but on this side, he sends his biped
hounds in pursuit of his victm-that Is, the menu
bers of the Methodist Church."
Now, appeal to the gentleman who said you
were ready to act, whether you can show the rec
ord of any action in your past lives that is not in
favor of slavery.
Mr.. Landon-I think there can be no question.
if VIC were called upon to act but that you would
see a recognition of the higher law" here.
Mr.. Foster.-I call upon you in the of
four millions of slaves to go to work first to
abandon all support of the government and, Sec
ondly to create government, which when it
comes into power, shall free every slave in this
land.
A yoce-It can BE done to-day.
Mr.. Foster-Can you begin to-day? Where is
the evdence Of it? Show the party that
spot where it was formed 1t shall be my Lex
ington and Bunker Hill. But il you do in
tend to do it now, you will act in opposition to
your sworn pledges. You have taken an oath to-
serve the devil Do you intend to break it and
follow Christ | tell you, my friends, Christ
spurns all such followers, and so do |, If you
are going to swear to support the devil, then fol-
low him, and will have some respect for you, as
good, faithful devil loud laughter and applause.)
But if you swear to support the devil, and then
attempt to serve Christ, like him, will spew you
out of my mouth, because you are neither cold nor
hot.
stand here, in the name of four millions of
slaves, to demand OF every man and woman that
they shall put their heel on the government of
this country. Do ask too much (foices-"No,
no.") Tell me if | ask too much. when | ask you
to put your heel on a government that robs four
millions of human beings of every days work
they perform, that rObs them OF the spelling book
and of the Bible, of the marriage and family re-
lations, and the right to their own bodies?
Some will say, "This will result in blood."-
Very likely it will. What Of it? l ask you, is
not every one ready TO spill oceans of blood, if
necessary, to secure his own freedom?
Mr.. Landon-Did | understand Mr.. Foster to
-. Al, A. hon tt,n a.,
Does not the Bible enjoin submission to their mas
ters
Mr.. Foster-Yes, submission to their masters,
and resistance to their masters Christ says,
Call no man your master upon earth" lie for
bids man to be slave | hold it as much
crime to be slave as to be n master hold that
these women have no business to be slaves
Shame on you, sisters Why do you not 60 up to
the balotbox at the next election, in solid phal-
anx, and demand your right to vote +? (Applause)
You will have 1t Tell those miserable men to
stand back that you are going to take possession
Of Jour rights, long pluhdered from you and
warrant sou every one of them will skulk out of
the way. marvel you have not done it already.
If were not non resistant and my wife felt with
me, would walk arm in arm with her to the polls
if had to wade knee deep in blood. You pre-
tend to be Spiritualists, and believe in future
life and yea you are SO ttached to this pro sa'
very, man thieving government, because IL may
cost drop of blood, a scratch on the face You
believe in Spritualism Why, have more Spir'
itualit m in my little finger that you have in your
whole bodies. With all my nonresistance, | do
not shrink from the thought of blood as you do.-
What is life compared with character? What
matters it to me how die so that die battling
for the righti | have got to die some time
Death can never be more welcome than to-day, if
my work is done.
Is there not u brighter and better world beyond?
Why are we so attached to the low, vulgar things
of time and sense ? Why are We willing to grope
along here, huggng to our bosoms our own prop
erty and our own dear rights, while we look cold
ly on and see every seventh man, woman and child
in the nation deprived OF every right? What is the
Of my life,I ask ifI have got to Istand by and
see the dwellings OF my neighbors consumed by
fire, and fold up my arms in stoicAl indifference? ]
do not know what material my fellow countrymen
arc made Of. No man ever had to argue the
question Of slavery TO me moment. 1t is enough
to point me to my neighbor's dwelling on fire