Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-02-20

Sumner. This very State House struck him. 1t
is an old maxim. as old as Mschiavslli that pow.
er safely dehed touches its DOWNFALL. When
South Carolina took Samuel Iloar the Represent.
ative of Massach huoetts, and MObbed him out of
Charleston and then,by legislative enactment shut
her door against Sister State, and has not heard
SO much rs n lisp against such an atrOcity, II was
II fitting sequel to such an act, that she should
strike your Senator in his chair. Ii Massachusetts
does not know how to protect every one of her tit
izcns she must not expect any one Of her citi.
izens to be safe. The difficulty is, Massachusetts
has never had any anti.slayery method she has
never listened, rs she orSht, TO the recommenda,
ton of this anti slavery society, which has always
we think offered her the true method.
! The gallant and learned member vas pleased 10
say that this Society dragged Massachusetts at its
heels. l thank him FOR the compliment; it is very
true am familiar with these halls when occupied
by very different body from ours and | know
we had never come here, except the last time, u
bOOtess errand. Every thing we have ever asked
OF this body, but one Is now On its Statute book,
Men say that this Anti Slavery Society is not u
practical body, thatt is an abstract dreamy, nys-
teal body. Mr.. President, the statute book tells a
very different story. The history Of this Society
is best written on the statue book Of Massachusetts
and that record is this. The first thing tnas this
Society asked OF Massachusetts was that she should
acknowledge that slavery is sin and national
weakness. ana ought to be abolished. Massaohu-
setts recorded her assent to that proposition, the
groundwork Of all anti slavery effort. The next
thing this Society asked of Massachusetts was that
she should take from the colored race the stigma
Of the law, which had rested on them for u centu.
ry and halt, prohibiting intermarriugc between
the races,-a law which resulted in numberless
cases, IN the most atrociOus wrongas every lawyer
ut the bar knew The result of that request is writ
ten on your statute book. The next piece Of ad-
vice that this practical Society gave to Massachu-
sets was, Open your cars, your public highways
to all races that inhabit the COmmOnwe Com
pei these State corporations to do justice TO the
black man! Every man that has travelled, as all
0t us have in other States, and has cOored
men driven with contumely and violence from the
railroad cars will remember that to the remonstran.
ces of the radical Abotionsts, the fanatics OF the
State, it is due that the Of Massachusetts are
free equally to all her citizens. (Applause.) The
next thing that this practical Society, asked Of the
Massachusetts Legislature, was that, they would
open the schools to the children Of colored parents
and that, tov, granted The Personal Liberty
Bill grew out Of the hatiner statute, passed on
our petition.
Are all these practical points, practical
anti'savery points This Society gained its pur.
pose the whole of them. The last thing this
Society, iu II State capacity, has asked of this Le-
gisature is to respect its own statutes, and make
them respected by contumacous Judges of Probate.
1t is yet to be seen whether this Legislature has
sclrespect enough to take the advice of 'dreamers
of the Massachusetts, Anti Slavery Society," and
place its State sovereignty on a proper basis.
But | clalu yes claim it as the merit of the
dreamy 'unpractical,' abstract Aboi;ionsts of
the State, that every practical means which gds
your statute, book today, originated in the wish
and was bolstered up by the petitions of the Abo.
liionists of the State. | met Republican leader
in these very streets of Boston, after the election
of Mr.. Banks was proclaimed as certain, and ask
ed him what he supposed would be the effect Of the
vote on Judge Loring. We wait to know what
you want US to do. he replied. Yes, we, the tri.
umphant palpabe, State body having just count
ed votes, certain we shall sit in the Governors
chair in month, we wait to know what you want
US to do. That is we, the State. organized, prae.
tica, successful politicians, who, it this judge be
toppled out as he deserves to be, mean to take
piece of laurel peculiarly green, put it in caps
and go to W ashington,-we mean to place en- the
shoulders Of the Massachusetts, Anti Slavery Soci
ETY. the burden of holStering them up with ten or
fiteeen thousand petitioners. The labor, the druid
gerry, the toll is to come upon to give them
pretence, reason, an excuse, for doing their duty;
and they never begin to do it until this outside
pressure is brought to bear upon them.
claim, therefore that in respect 10 State sover-
eighty thlsvcry body has been the practical LeglS-
lature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts;
and claim, further, that if our wishes had been
Needed, if the demands of these Impractical Abo-
ltonists had been stereotyped into statutes Charles
Sumner would not walk AN invalid in the streets
OF Boston to day. We said, when Charleston mob
Ucu ouI IcpIeseHtutlEc Out OL Oi'y ibOa'
ought TO be sent back to Charleston, and Massa-
chusetts ought to claim Of the General Govern
ment that her citizens shall be protected In every
State Of the Union The answer of the politici
aus Of that day was, I'VE don't know how 1t Is to
to be Zone We replied-'When your fathers did
not know what was to he done in the quarrel be-
twixt them and the British Government, they went
up Bunker Hill, and found out" (Applause. -
Until Massachusetts comes to some decision, until
she comes to the decision that she will make point
somew here, and refuse to submit, she will never
do any thing against the Slave power. Suppose she
had taken her stand then. Suppose she said-'W e
send no Senator or Representative to congress, we
admit no custom house officer to our ports, until
the rights of Massachusetts citizens nre protected
IN the port of Charleston, South Carolina, as the
Constitution guarantees them protection do you
suppose the slave power would have gone any lar
ther? Suppose Massachusetts had done as John
Quincy Adams advised when Texas was annexed,
suppose she had said We will never come into
that Senate house as long as n Texan Senator slts
there, do you suppose the Slave Power would
have gone with the Compromise Measures, and
the outrages in Kansas? Never! Suppose
she should say now, we do not recognize the bred
Scott decision law. and we mean to place on the
bench of this State such men as will trampe 1t IN
der foot, Union or no Union. do you suppose the
| Lennon would go on, and be decided in the
same tone? Never! As long as the North is OF
her present temper and says, Gentlemen, we will
iIceist uut "HCu you youi poi"'i W. wa
submit of course. they will carry every point they
can. Where they cannot bully they will buy
You know that, instead of eighty.seven thousand
dollars Of which we hear so much just now, the
Government at Washington has eighty-seven mil
lions and it can buy up Speakers ad ,Nfaitam.-
Of course, such a Government can. The only pol
icy that will ever checkmate policy that
says, Thus far, and no father here We
stopp There is story down on the Cape of a
mate quarrelling with his captain, who said to him
Go forward, sir, and take care of your part OF
the brig and I'll take care of mine The mate
wen, forward. let go both anchors then walked aft
touched his hat, aud said he, Captain Spooner,
my part Of this brig is anchored. daughter and
applause.) When massachusetts says, with regard
to this constant drifting towards proslavery sub.
mission. My part of the Union is anchored !! Bu
chanan will stop--not till then.
We propose, by the resolutions on our table, to
ask of this Legislature something more than tha,
they turn out Judge Loring; for we are not body
curious only about past events. we mean to be up
to the level of the present hour. The policy Of