Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-05-29

give. rs my reasons, some facts which cam vt
have failed to come under tho observation Of all
who are present, together with some historical facts
which, perhaps, have not been so st~rlkingly noticed
rs they deserve to be by every we'll sisher of his
country and ihe cause of univers sal { cedom.
II. Mr.. Chairman, | shall 20 back but fifty years,
l shall matk-as every other man has done-wherc
American slavery stood ut that time, what part
the lending men in our country were taking in 1t.
where the press stood. where the pulpit stood, and
where the public sentiment was to be found upon
the subject. If | shall e. back even no further
than the time | have mentioned, | need not re-
main ignorant in regard to the sentiment which
was then extant in the nation respecting this sur
ject; ard whether | take my stand upon the his
tory OF that day or at the present moment in the
City of Washington, | am forced into a belief in the
name truth, tO.wit, that the American people are
destitute of prime pie, in regard to this question:
The scenes which have TRANSFERRED on the soil of
Kansas, as well as those which have transpired in
the American Congress-, go to prove this, If the
doctrines held by many Doctors of Divinity do not
prove it.
Whore, sly, are the colored people of the United
Statesr-and | refer to them only as an Illustration.
Where do they stand2 Why, sir, SO far as the
masses OF the American people are concerned,
they have no place in their regard, they have no
place in their esteem. And when l make this re-
mark, | want to say that it applies strictly to ev.
cry other man aud every other woman in our coun-
try, be their compilations what they may, if they
have a regard for the principles which uu1erlie our
glorious movement. Then, | repeat that the
friends of universal freedom in this country have
no other hope for the emancipation of the slave,
or for the rescue of the cause of liberty, by the
adoption of this plan, and that at the s~peediest
moment.
In the District of Colombia, we know there ex-
list a large number Of laws, all for the purpose of
recognizing slavery. If they were confined to
Washington, | should not have a word to say on
this occasion if they were confined to the State of
Virginia, | might not; but when | am made to feel
that the anne class Of laws does really exist, in
spirit, in every State of this Union, | DO insist,
now as before, that our question or cause comes
before and into the hands Of every man within the
limits of this and of every other State in the coun-
try, and as direct as it comes before and into the
hands of every colored man.
This. Mr.. Chairman, leads me to remark that the
question Of anti-slavery and proslavsry in the
United States is not the black mans question
that the question of slavery and anti.slavery is
practically an American question-all the way
American, from beginning to end-and especially
with every decent American. 1t strikes me that II
justice was done in this country upon this subject,
we should have a class of criminals a~rraigned be-
fore the gaze of the world such as few of us have
presumed to anticipate ; and | long for the time
when men shall be driven from their present hid
ing-places, in She the excuses. in the con-
cessions. in the compromises which they make,
in the reasons which they are giving, from time to
time, upon this subject. DR.. Cheever has very re.
Gently in his allusion to scenes in Kansas, and TO
TIE conduct of American Congressman, made the
remark tlat tIis Kansas controversy mas oeeh car,
reu on' iroh! peSlhnlnS W emu III rcielenoe ~ l.
white men in that Territory las the resolution
%impliesG and that the sin Of American Slavery has
not been touched.
Sir, | am glad that DIR Cheever has so expressed
nimset-lor many VII! oeheVe tue remark oo"ius
from tha' source, VINO IL seems 10 me hase no'
cared to notice the same truth when uttered from
this platform. All that | can make out of the last
effort of DR.. Cheever is, that he adopts the plat
.oLH y. ~ hn'r9laS1l1 oooo'y' WV
ou. ,uen'hy'ng h'"seii personally Will u "0''
"en''
Now, what l want to call attention to IS this
that men who have gone the entire round Of social
reforms, who have been conversant with every thing
written, published, or spoken on this SUBJECT nave
not ieit themselves called upon anti SO recently "
utter those truths which have been uttereo o.
otner voices 30 long, out nave lghoreu tncn'' 81 Id
as their presence at our meetings., their lnhuenc
ana their testimony are Concerned.
One other remark in this connection. Their
ore chose who believe that that man is a good anti
slavery man who goes for freedt in Kansas, bu
does not recognize the existence of slavery in an,
of the slave States. wish to take this oportunit,
20 say that [ ignore as heartily the sentiment or tn,
feeling of any and Of all men who, looking at THU
subject from such a stand point, profess the slight
est interest in the colored men of this country
Our friend Mr.. Garrison, in the resolutions he ha'
read, has told us that, step by step, in every
thing that should entitle a man to his freedom, tC
citizenship, to the popular respect Of a nation, ii
everything that should call forth the regard OIL
II great and growing people, the oolored people
have demonstrated their capabilities; and yet there
are reformers in this nation, who 90 for the non
extension of slavery into Kansas, who look with
allowance upon the existence Of slavery in the ma
ton. Sir, this is emporising-this is fragment
ary--this is selfish it is local, and l abhor it. Il
is in close %fiaity with the spirit of the American
party, which | equally abhor; and l earnestly
hope that, if. during the series of meetings or
whic h we have just entered, no other impression
shall be made upon those who are present, they
shall at least be forced to the conviction that thu
friends of this Society are in earnest, solemn ear
most, in their purpose to dissolve the American
Union and break into a thousand pieces the Amer
lean Government, for the emancipation of tn
black men of this country, as the greatest and bes
means for the emancipation of the cowardly white
10 the same nation (aprlause and hisses). | n
longer limit my remarks to the black men when
sneak of slaves in this nation for if | should o