Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-06-05
Gbe Antt 9Iaperp Bu9le.
Phonographcaly reported for the Lberator by Mr.. Yer
rington.
SPEECH OF WENDELL PHILLIPS,
AT THE
TWENTY FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING
OF THE
AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY,
Al Mozart Hall, New York City. Tuesday and Wed,
nssday, May IlM and 18th, 1858.

Mr. President: come upon the platform to ex
press as the friend who has preceded me has
just done, my most hearty concurrence In the res
olutions which have been read to u.s. FOR one,
sir, 1 am sorry that the nature OF this morning
meeting ehouid be such as to have precluded the
friend who rose in front from stating his objec.
tions to any one of those resolutions but it that
is the rule, hope that he, and those who sympa'
thise with him, will be present at some OF our
subsequent sessions and take ample time to state,
as fully as possible, as much in detail as they wish
all their objections to any one OF the statements OF
those resolutions. In regard to that one to which
he objected, cannot see how any Abolitionist can
fail to recognize the patent fact that our Govern
ment and our Church-either, considered as unit
is an enemy of the slave. 1t has been tried.
and found wanting. Sixty years of life have seen
the victims of that system doubled, quadrupled.
beneath, the religious organizations and civil insti'
tutions of the country. Nobody needs anything
more than that general fact. There must be
something rotten in the religious and IN the civil
machinery of government that can allow slavery
to exist much less TO grow. to usurp power, TO
monopolizs the functions of government to make
q vassal of the Church. That is the indictment.
The Church has had its sixty years as schoolmas-
ter these millions have been its pupils. 1t has
educated them into silence or indifference to the
greatest wrong known to our age. 1t has educated
them into nation capable of the events which the
last ten years have unfoded before US, in the cat
aloguo Of slaveholding aggression. Who can
doubt that, no matter what may be the exceptional
cases, there is On inherent, unmstakable, radical
rottenness in both The character of the nation
is the result OF the two, and that character is
shameful enough.
DR.. Adams, of Boston-the same who wrote
the 'South.side view of Slsvery'-signi6ed his
attachment to the revival by publishing sermon
on the 'Reasonableness Of Eternal Punishment:
He proves iti II must be reasonable, when such
as he exist. loud LAUGHTER and applause.l a
Voice Hit him again. Then. again, my friend MIR
Remond in criticising some portion Of our Mass
achuserts eminence incurred certain Kisses for his
allusion to Edward Everett. suppose he alluded
to that recent story of Mr.. Everetts friend. (Mr.
Yeadon, of South Carolina that when he signed
a letter expressing sympathy with Charles Sum:
ner he was under the influence of an anodyne, and
did not know what he did. Mr.. President, do
not 90 with Mr. Remond 10 his criticism upon that
story. think it bears its own falsehood upon its
face Edward Everett, under the most potent
stimulus known TO medicine. was never able to
call his soul his own (roars of laughter and ap'
plause y but il, for one moment you suppose him
BY the utmost stretch of fancy,to be under the nu
ence of an anodyne. it is proof positive that he
would not be able to sign his name. The story
is a fiat contradiction in itself. There most be
some other door out Of which he will walk.
But I did not get up, Mr.. President to speak or
these topics.but on the resolution which conclude.
the series
Whereas, a central despotism exists at Wash
ington, whose purpose is to uphold and extend
slavery and
Whereas. ON of the readiest means to resist it il
4bs m.ehinery Of the State Government, and
whsreas, according to all precedent before and
y = 40 aequiesence OF the people, undel
since 1889. lives to it the force and
sny act of Government, g..,r
sanction Of law; therefore,
Resolved, That we urge the Northern States
to assume every attribute Of unlimited sover'
eighty necessary for eHectual resistance to the
slave Power and. as first stop. to enact that
no fugitive slave shall ever be surrendered from
their limits, and no man shall within their limits
be nut ON trial as to the question whether he Ii
or ever has been q slave.
Now. Mr.. Chairman, allow me to say, we have
,>.ssed through . very strange month. From the
pp,hsr aide Of the water, the steamer brings ui
the news If il can be wholly trusted.-that th'
renrssentatiye of European despotsm has taker
tbs toal step to strike off every fetter in his DO
muions. Suppose that we can place reliance INC
mon the whole extent of his information: INT
dsspotism of Europe-Russia, with unlimite'
sonrces at her command-representin caim-th
rranits Aims. piled to the sky and rooted to tn
Ssntre for her emblem-yields to the spirit OF th
nineteenth century, and strikes of letters. on th
other side Of the globe, the representative OF Ln
Ednaatinu and Ideas. Wl0e