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

DlsnnlOn!-we have not yet got TO that j want
somebody on the floor Of Congress to stand up and
refuse to pay Judge Mclean his salary for return
ing Margaret Garner the nobest American woman
that this generation has produced. Cloud ap
plause. u want somebody to stand up, and insteao
OF declaiming against governmental interference
in Kansas, refuse to pay the bills. That is constr
tutional, aud Yankee. (Laughter.) want Repub-
licaism TO begin its resistance to slavery by re'us
ing to furnish it with the seven regiments it asks
for and when the bills come in refuse to pay them
it they are voted over their heads. | don't care
whether they succeed in checking the wheels 0i
government or not; they may be IN the minority
and lie outyotei | on every ballot; but want them
to becinl You remember Bailie NicOl Jarvie tells
MacGregor, when they meet in the prison, that
had it not been himself he would have seized the
best man in the Highlands. 'YoC would have tried,
cousin replied the chieftain. | want the Repub-
lican party to try. want TO see the pluck OF the
bloodhound that at least tries to spring at the
throat and if it fails, will give it credit Cor the
attempt. Here is party, with its representatives
in both houses of Congress- and only once have
they stopped the supplies and then backed out of
it. Even Governor Chase, of Ohio, proclaimed
that the act Of stopping the supplies, the boldest
and most effectutal ever attempted in the history
of the government. Then, again, want them not
to be led astray 10y the red herring Of Kansas Dor.
der-rufanism l want them always to keep in
their desk the proposition for the abolition Of sla-
very III tue D!SuICt. les, anu III UeUeN" tHe
Constitution to be an anti slavery instrument as
they say they do,) then let them bring in bill to
abolish slavery in the Carolinas. Why don't they
begin? Suppose you should elect Stephen A.
Douglas as the candidate of the Republican party
in lSG0,-and suppose he will be their candidate,
for it is out of such timber they are made. Dou-
gas is elected where does the Republican party
stand, as an anti.slnvery instrument just
where Clarkson and Wiberforce stood in 1887.
The question will then again to be discussed
Shall we inaugurate effort FOR the abolition Of
slavery? and they will 20 on twenty, thirty, per
haps fifty years, to discuss the slave question
Tte Republican party will have triumphed-
triumphed for whit? To defend Territory that
does not exist. Triumphed for what? For some
political purpose.
We are an Ant- Slarery Society. We have but
two objects in the orld. One is to make Massa
chusotS decent State to live in. and to be bur
i ID in and she never will be- until Charles Re-
mcnd shall be Just as much protected as the most
popular Mayor in Boston. What are laws worth?
They are only nusances for popular men; they
are only in their way. Government is a necessary
else: and the more you
put it out of the way, the better The only thing
that ust6es its existence is not the protection Of
the rich. Abbot Lawrence, honored. respected,
with troops of friends, his Golfers running over
with gold he could protect himself. The white
men you meet in churches do not need your pro-
lection. The men wEo need it are the hated the
espised, the trembling fugitves from another
government; the men whom it is tho interest of
every body to oppSess. The law that protects
them ustfes its existence; the law that does not
protect them il an unmitigated nuisance The
statute book Of Massachusetts, that does not pro-
tect the rights Of THE coored man is an unmiti.
gated nuisance. The government that undertakes
to exist, and does not meet out protection to every
one Of those from whom 1t claims allegiance, does
rot Justify iss existence in the sight of Heaven
mean just what say. | am using language
justified by the seVerest and closest logic. mean
with your cooperation, and that OF the friends
gather in this hall, to make it possible for
The blackest and newest fugitive from Carolina to
walk up and down the streets of Boston, and
write his name on his forehead loud ap-
plause)
Mr.. Remond has told us that he knows man
in Salem, who did not dare to write Salem after
his name in n Southern city. / am ashamed to
write 'Bostun' after mine, when | recall the pas;
ten years of her history. / mean to labor until,
when | make my tour through the States, l shall
be proud to write the name of my city as large
rs John uancock's, so that It can be read from
Boston to New Orleans; but it will be when the
most hated, the most desyised, the newest fugi-
tive from an oppressed race shall no sooner set
his foot on Boston streets than he will kiss the
very pavements that insure him protection. Loud
Cheers | do net think that much. The old Qua
kers who had special and secre5 cellar at New
Bedford in which 20 conceal the fugitive slaves
who went there. were very good men in their way
honor them; they did noble work; but think
they did half way work. | want Massachusetts
TO send message out all over the Union, that she
is lust that refuge. If she sits in that Congress,
she sits there Only to checkmate the Slave Power
She shall not he bribed by any tariff on cotton.
by any increased duties on wOoilen she shall Ga
there for one great purpose,-to checkmate the
E,Jo Il ant
cate this with the mad. one.idea energy that be-
comes the State. Refuse every dollar to the Gov
ernment; refuse every appointment to ofhce,
whether the man is Clifford, knowing no law. or
"a Curtis, who has exhausted the learning of the
law; vote nobody into cfice let the machinery go
to pieces checkmatc the Government; poverty
is much more honest than wealth This is what
claim as duty of the Anti.Slavery party. They
have NJ right to strengthen the Slave Power,
that is holding with one hand the newly grasped
territory Of Mexico, and balancing the other to
seize Cuba, and holding in its heart to reinstate
the African slave trade. Every body knows IL.
What is building up the Government? The poll
ties of the Northern States. Now, our policy
outside the State, claim is practical, n consti'
tutional policy,-a policy this side Of Dsunlon.
1t is to use all constitutional measures to check
ihe Government in its career; and 1t can be done.
We want to educate the public mind up TO this.
There is my friend Parkers catalogue which he
drew two years ago. and tol us it would be made
history ere long:-it will be history two years
hence But three years will run on, and this
same party tina: is building up public opinions.
will be waiting for that opinion to grow. In the
mean time, slavery has got Cuba aud st. Donin
go, it has put its hand on the whole territory Of
Mexico, it has girdled the Gulf with slave States
and seated in the centre Of the continent it may
laugh us to scOrn. Why not say now before she
gets this power--Geutlemen you may admit Ran
n f,1h I'm Xra ullI mi admit
with her = To-day, the New York Tribune is mo-
discussing the question, Shall Kansas be slave
State? but whether she wants TO be slave
State. The Republican party commenced lin thu
form of the Liberty partly with single pri.cipl'
No new slave States Where is it now |
is discussing the question whether Kansas want
to be admitted a slave State. There has no
been line in the Tribune (tAs acknowledged
representative of the Republican party for
twelvemonth, intmatng purpose to keep Kan
sa sOut, if she wants to come in as slave State
A red herring with vengeance tLaughter.)
Iwant voice from the Republican party, say
ing to the Captain Spooner' on board the ship o
State, We have anchored our part Of the ship.
(Applause) The North writes Tariff --'Interna