Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-06-12

Ata Meeting of the AmericGn Anti. .Slarery Society,"
IN New York, May l2M. 1858.
After some in ntoducrtory remarks Mr.. Pillsbury
said
There is nothing in any part of our country
that can be called encouraging to the lovers OF
freedom. Our friend Mr.. Phillips called attention
yesterday to the fact that the most absolute des.
potsm in Europe is loosening its grasp on the
limbs and hearts of its victims When, think
you, will this be true Of our despots and our des
potism? Do you see, in the signs of the times,
any indications Of it? | do not know of any
On the contrary, it seems to me our other friend
from Philadelphia, DR.. Furniss, has clearer APP
probation of what is before us than most Of the
speakers who have addressed us-certanly of
those who have spoken to-day. | remember that,
not many months ago, my friend, Mr. Buiium,
took me in his carriage to town in his neighbor'
hUod. and we held an anti-slavery meeting. 1t
Just after the first pulsation began to be felt
in the cold heart of the Illinois Senator Stephen
Arnold Douglass and such was the throbbing
palpitation that began to be perceptible among
tho Republicans here at the North, that | ventur-
ed to predict that it would not be three months
before Stephen Arnold Douglass would be named
rs the next candidate for the Presidency by the
Republican party. Now, | never had much repu.
taton, never claimed any, as prophet, but 1t was
at once said, that what little had forfeited
by that rash prediction. The audience cried out
"No! Mop and even my friend Butfum looked as
~
But instead of being three months, it was not
three apeekS before Mr.. Douglas trumpetcd
from Mississippi to Maine as the next probable
candidate for the Presidency of the United States
by the party Of freedom. Since that time there
has been some little modification of the sentiment
or feeling but in what direction ? 1t i. only to
over the river, and fasten upon slavehoId-
er in the State of Kentucky-I refer OF course, to
the Hon. Mr. Critenden and the highest that
party now looks, in 1862 is to STAKEHOLDER, or
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be their standard bearer in the Presidential can
vass And as political parties always lower their
standard as men always grow worse when they
enter the political arena just as they do when
they join the Church. it is perfectly safe to utter
such predcton-and that party has scarcely
any lower deep into which it can fall. 1t seems
me that can look now for no more from the
Republican party than from the Democratic party
or any other party that may arise in the coming
three years.
Then, again, think we deceive ourselves as to
the character and position of individuals. Alu
sion has been made to the kindly event in the
workings of Providence, the death of the Senator
from South Carolina. But who made the most
haste to pronounce euloges upon that man p
Why, the two most prominent men in the Senate
of the United States, if we except Mr. Seward, Of
the Empire State; | refer to Senator Wilson of
Massachusetts, and Senator Hale Of New Itamp
shire. Senator Wilson went so far as to tell not
the country only but the Senate in particular, that
they. even, did not know the merits the peculiar
gifts and graces, OF that man. lie said, You
knew BIN only here in the Senate, and you who
knew him here knew him only to esteem him. l
knew him in tho Committee room, where we learn
men still more intimately and the more knew
of him there, the more highly did | respect, es
TEEN and yenerate him ~ That from a Massachu-
sets Senator, standing almost in the yet undried
blood of his colleague, Charles Sumner steamng
from the aoor of tho Senate Chamber, and calling
nd tnI nd OH
Hae's eulogy was in terms no less glowing. | re
gard these facts significant indications of the
position and character of the Republican party at
this time.
Then, again. we oil of us fancy that we must
.,Aeak we'll If Charles Sumper, however we may
spoak o. "teGi for the Presidency, who is
Douglas is nomn- -, firm supporter than
any more hkey 10 pe ni~ "ember of this
Charies sumner lie Is YET 3 of slave
Governmeht-the sworn and pledged ally ~.
ry sometimes fancy that Providence has pc.
mi.ted Charles Sumner to occupy peculiar posi-
ton in the government of the country. He went
to the United States Senate pledged to the support
of the Union and the Constitution. OF course,
that bound him to aid in putting down any insur.
rection that might occur, in whatever section OF
the South, among the slaves. Even Bully Brooks
own slaves might rise in rebellion, and then who
was more firmly pledged than Charles Sumner to
to it that that insurrection suppressed, if
need be, by tue strong arm oil the Federal Govern
ment, himself one of the great throbbing pulsa.
tions that put forth the terrible power? Now, it
was wri tten, not on Judean parchment alone, and
more than eighteen hundred years ago, 'With
what measure you mete, it shall be measured to
YOU again" Charles Sumner had sworn to be the
ally Of Bully Brooks, in maintaining order on his
plantation he had sworn to aid in inaicting what
ever Gaming" his slaves might require, in order
to preserve the peace of the plantation and the
terrible Nemesis, that avengcs the outrages done,
in the name of liberty, in behalf Of slavery hover