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

anu go to the Queen City Of the West, and | am
there toid by the counsel Of another woman that n
more heroic effort for freedom was never made by
mortal man than that of Bobert Garner and his
wi'e TO secure their liberty, and remember that
they were dragged out of that city at MONDAY
and hurried back to bondage, l again make the
declaration. that the American Union is n failure
Ana then, when | 90 to Boston, in my own State
OF Massachusetts and find such men as Edward
Everett, Rufus Choato and Robert c.. Winthrop as
silent as q grnvestone in regard to this question Of
slavery, | assert that to he even u stronger proof of
the failure of this Union.
Sir, | might stand here and pile fact upon fact OF
the same character until they should be higher
than this hall, but | will not detain the audience
longer than simply to refer to one fact las | will
call ~ which has come under the notice of many
very recently. 1t is this | do not know that
l need sk this audience whether they consider me
a man or not. | do not care what people consider
me. l think the American people are coming to one
conclusion. and that is, that whether they will the
black people men or not, they are fast proving it in
this nation, and the last and the best proof of it is
and this is the fact to which | am now about to call
attention-that when the decision of Judge fancy
was made, silence, generally speaking, character
ized the nation, The blow, of course, was one
struck at everything near and dear to us as a peo
pie. and the impression generally prevailed thai
the colored people would hold meetings, from one
end of the country to the other, to protest agains
that decision, thus signifying an anxiety or
their part to know whether the doctrine
there laid down was to be allowed or not. The
significant fact to which ! would call attention is
that no portion of the American people have evin
ced greater carelessness with regard to that deci
sion than the colored people themselves. l lool
upon this as q good sign, if we may at all 60 by
contraries in this country and if they would BIZ
as careless about many other decisions to which
might refer. / bslieve the day Of redemption
would come to them sooner than it otherwise will
Now, | do not wish to be misunderstood in thi,
particular, and perhaps l shall make my meaning
clearer if | say, there are certain decisions which
have been given by Judges in thisTcountry, there
are certain acts which have been passed by certain
Legislatures in this country, there have been som,
positions taken by the American Congress in re
gard to the cololcd people, which | am glad tc
know that colored persons are careless of; and
long for the time to come when the American
slave shall be so careless Of his master, south O
Mason and Dixon's line, that he will wake up SOM
morning and resolve to 90 about his business, as i
there we're not an oppressor in the VIDE world
and, if he shall be resisted in the step he shall be
ready to say to those who enslave him, II am &
man! II you doubt it, we will measure arms. God
andFreedOm shall be my watch world" When tha
hour shall have come, the American people will be
ready, and if they are not now, to subscribe to The
doctrine, at once and forever, mo UNION WIFE
SLAvEHoLDERsW (Appiause).