Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-07-31

himself after their stngs had been extracted and
their power therefore to harm taken away. Daniel
Webster is harmless; he never made greater
mistake than when he said Il still live and then
exrired for who is deader than Daniel Webster
ask you? But you have these other men good
men according to their standard, but the better
they the more unfit they are to be sent to Con
gress. | iuquire to-day if those two men who
murdered two State Prison wardens last year we're
still alive but heard, unfortunately Tor my pur-
pose that they were dead. was going to have
them nominated as the two Senators from Massa
chusetts to Congress- as the best men to be sent to
that den Of robbers and assassins. Applause J
do not want youJ Summers and Wilson's there.
there is no work for them to do OF which they are
capable. do not wish to have good men sent
from Massachusetts, if Massachusetts has the viii
tue and the patriotism, and the love Of liberty
which are accorded to her, because | am certain
that these virtues have not been Represented in
Congress, and have no expectation that they will
! be represented there.
! think what we have to do this year, in order to
accomplish the object proposed at the late New
! England Convention, is to lay our hands these
rational politicians, and, if possible, parlyze all
their influence, because they are not ready for any
such movement j noticed this morning, when
Mr.. Phillips proposed to make the soil Of Massa-
chusetts free, that the sentiment received with
very much applause l have no doubt that the
majority Of the people of Massac husetts are ready
for that measure, but do not believe Massachu,
seetts has man in Congress who is ready for 1t.
When | was in Ohio last year, in conversation
with Joshua Il. Giddngs; remarked to him that
thought that the people ahead OF their po'
litical leaders. lie said. oh no. we have to take
the people as we find them Well. went into
Mr.. Giddings's district and spoke to the people on
the subject. They said, We are ready for more
extreme measures, but we have to take our leaders
as we find them Laughter and applause think
it would be well for the people and the politicians
to come together and compare notes, and see who
really is ahead in this battle, and who in the
rear. The people seem TO be waiting for the
politicians, and the politicians are waiting for the
people; and rather think, that if the actual sate
Of the case were known, far as the great multi
tude go, there is not much difference between them
and that neither is very Jealous 20 run too swiftly
the race. And think this, also, that If you wish
to make the soil of Massachusetts free. you will
have to do it through different instrumentalitios
than those you have now in the Congress of the
United States or at the head of the Republican
party here in the Commonwealth; and say to
every body where go, Demand of your Senators
and Representatives both in the Federal and State
governments, whether they are ready for that
measure, and will sustain it. No matter what it
may ost,-Union, or Constitution, or Government.
or ifo, or death, or prncipalities powers are
you ready for thar measure? And if they say no,
let them be discarded and | apprehend it will
discard the great majority of those who represent
the interests of Massachusetts,, both in the State
and Federal governments.
Mr. Pilsbury then referred to the late revival,
and to the corruption of the churches and at the
conclusion of his remarks alluded to the indifer
ence which manifested by the people, in re-
gard to the support of radical anti'slavery news
papers In this connection he said So The New
York Tribune Of last Saturday contains carica
ture of the late Rutland Convention, which would
have done honor to the New York Herald, in the
palmiest days OF its depravty and diabolsm. And
yet, the Tribune is the pet Of the political papers
among the abotionists of the country That was
Ia Convention three days in session. larger in mum
Der than any of our anniversaries in Boston, and
gathering of more earnest, honest, devoted.
liberty loving, mln,lovng and God honCring men
and women, it has not been my happiness to meet
in the last twenty years have been connected
with the ami slavery movement. There has been
Il settled purpose, on the part of the New York
Tribuue to blast the reputation of that Convention,
| as il it were conclaye of libertines and demons
incarnate, who ought to be secuted from the ranks
of humanity. And you will let Mr.. Walcut go
home, perhaps, without single new subscriber
for the LiLerdtor and Mr.. Rowland without an
additional name for the Standard, ard pour out
your money like water for the support of papers
that, like the Tribune. caricature and ridicule the
earnest efforts of devoted souls to lift mp humani
ty, and restore the God.given right of liberty to
those who have been SO long deprived of that high
boon.