Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-09-25
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.


But | will not this evening 90 further in this ar,
gumens founded on the American constitution, but
turning from that point, | will give my attention
Tor a lew moments to the speech of my opponent.
MY reference to it shall be brief, for my friend
tells me that he has not yet reached the main is.
sne.-and was aware Of il without his telling me.
lie being on tho affirmative, | shall defer begin.
nlng anything like a serious reply to his speeches,
untli ne Digs his way up within, at least, some
reasonable proximity Of the question that we have
come b ere to debate.
MY friend has urged as authority in support of
siaVery-the Bible. When he shall bring for
ward his provt, then, if / am not able to meet it,
and meet it successfully, | will give up my oppo.
sitlon to the institution Of slavery. But | am not
to be drawn into the ingeniously set trap of max.
l,ng a negative argument against a position which
he simply Declares, and does not deigu to argue.
Let hun give us his argument, and then, if | do
not meet 1t, you may say that | am unable to do
So lie tells us that slavery has always existed.
SAD MS 1t may be to confess it, | have not the
slightest disposition to deny it. So, since the day
when Cain aud Abel met unfortunately by the AZ
tar Of God, and Cain raised HE cluL aud sleS his
brother, murder has always existed. But does
that make it right2 (Applausc.)
because q hoary wrong has with stern and
IRON tread, walked down the line of centuries,
chrushing millions under its ponderous heel, does
length OF time baptize it with sacredness, make
it innocent, and give it e~anctity ? Or does it add
J NN'N1' HpN ShSh tOliitE JCht
and each diurna! revolution of the earth, the deep
or damnation OF u deeper condemnation to every
age and hour of it's outrageous existence !
Slavery is defended by the length of time which
1T has existed. Ay and that length Of time has
projected the groan of humanity in one long wall
down the stream Of centuries, and is has gone M
to God cvermore crying Tor vengeance upon op.
pressors and the outragers of the poor and
though men may, by time, have become familiar
with the crime, in Heavens eye, 1t has not hated
q jOf nor title Of its frightful mien since its intro.
duction on the face Of the earth. (Applausc)
My friend refers to Abram MS n stakeholder.
When he tries to prove it will meet his argu.
ment. (~Laughter.) lie tells you that Babylon
and Egypt were built by slaves. Yes and when
God Almighty, with the outstretched arm of ven.
geance, Numbered OF Babylon in her i~niquity,
one Of The reasons that the prophet gives why it
was done, is that she dealt in slaves and the
souls of men," loud applause.)
My opponent tells US that slaves were held and
are still held in Africa. The poor African, he
tells us, after two hundred years Of amelioration
and cultivation under Southern piety, and planta'
ton godliness, is not yet fit for freedom. Yet he
refers US 10 the African in his darkness and heath
enism centuries back as a model for US. we are to
hold slaves because he didl Laughter and ap-
plause.)
pass over many Of the points which | have
noted bearing on the Bible argument, because /
shall pursue this subject further tomorrow even.
ing.
The last half nearly of my friends speech was
taken up with abusing-no, | will not use that
word-%ith saying hard things of the Northern
men and Northern society. Ii is unfortunate that
in some of these hard things / shall be compelled
to purity join with him. OF the scorn and indig'
nation which he projects at New England slave
holders and slave owners, and New York slave
holders and slave yraders, | take so for as | am
concerned for those States, my full share. But il
Nan VIA ,rnp he nrttt in I,yin 80 G1,rpu
and working slaves-if New York is to be shamed
at and scorned tor having been a slave.dea!ing
and a s!aSe'hOlding State a hundred years ago
what is to be said Of Tennessee. that continues
the practice in the noon Of the nineteenth century.
Laughter and applause) If New England and
New York were by 2%ocritical in stealing men from
Africa to make them slaves and selling them at
the South what, has becoms Of the old adage that
the "partaker is as bad as the thief" daughter
The man who buys stolen goods, knowing them
TO be stolen, lacking the enterprise and the cour-
age to steal them himself, gets them into his hands
in a lazier but not a noble way. Applause and
laughter.)
If Northern men have bowed in base and toady'
ing subserviency to the spirit of villainous polit.
ics, the reason is to be found in the fact that the
national capital is on slaveholding territory
and the vilest slaveholding spirit, dcmoralizing as
il is, and whatever it touches. has often,imes
overborne the bulwarks of Northern virtue. i
shall charge the delinquencies Of Northern men
upon the seductions Of American slavery as pre-
scented by the South; 30,
"Lay on Mackduf,
And"
| will not complete the sentence. daughter and
applause
By every argument which proves that northern
men have bowed in %cringing subsorviency to Anne
rican slavery, you prove that slavery is the spiri
Of rufhan tyranny, and holds such SWAY, ever
with such insirumentalities as to destroy the vlr,u'
of such northern men as come under its power
II northern men have ever been sneaks, SLAYER,
has made them so. (Applause) If northern mel
have shown themselves lacking in virtue wheI
they got to Congress, it was after they had beer
subjected to the corrupt influences with whicl
they are surrounded by the South,
= My friend tells us-of course il is Of no &C
accout to the argument-that some Northern Ado
litionists are 50 mean that they would steal tn
pewter ornamen of the cane head Of the slave
Let me retort that the law of the South is so tyr
annical that it permits the Shareholder to steal til
slave, cane and all (Applause.)
; Mr.. Pryne then concluded his remarks b
3 thanking the audience for their attention. and eS
/, pressing the hope that on the remaining night
. Of the debate, there would be a !ull and fai
T representation in attendance Of the men of hearts
2 and women of soul Of the city of Philadelphia.