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

Fahrenheit, let loose some new atrOcity, to make
them forget the other. The reason why the exceed
ingly weak memory Of Mr.. Speaker Banks forgot
the Fugitive Slave Bill, and his quarrel with it
4 was because his vision clouded and confused
by the greater and fresher atrocities in kansas.--
And even now, mems memories so weak,
venture TO predict, that in three years. the seizure
of Cuba, or the re opening of the African slave
: trade, will make Kansas AN old story and when
we come together in le60, it any speaker ventures
to treat Of Kansas he will be thought tfite and
tedous for he ought to be discussing the iresher
atrocities Of the day. We propose therefore to act
upon the aggressive; and we call upon the Legis'
inture to puss an act that any one who comes into
THIS State, bringing here peis with intent to
!, hold him as q slave, even with his consent--and
such he will bring the moment the Supreme Court
has passed its judgement in the Lennon case,--
shall be hect to thousand d"lars' fine, and inn
prisonment at least one year in the common
Jail. Loud applause) And we propose to add,
ly transpired at Lawrence we mean TO ask 1--WE uh'
practical dreamors that theLe ,slature will be kind
enough to say, that when man brings into this
Commonwealth person hitherto held rs slave
he SHALL before entering the State, record upon the
records of the County Court Of his place Of resi-
dence, or, upon arriving here, in the Supreme
| Court Of this Commonwealth, certified
deed o! emanc patton, TO inure to the benefit of
such person, whenever such n one chooses to claim
it, We will not only make the mir of Massachu-
setss too pure for slave to BREATHE but, having
once breathed it, it shall be record in the Su-
preme Court as evidence Of his freedom. Loud
cheefs)
Now that is very practical legislation. No man
can deny that it is within the recognized conStitu
| tionai law of the nation. Jf the decision in the
Lemmon case shall upset IT, wait until it does and
when 1t does, let us have Supreme Court that
will, for once, undertake to assert Massachusetts,
law against it; aud if the case goes against us
place it on record, Afer said of his country
70 81 ,.l,o
rebeOus slave to the very last. want
the history of unconstitutional aggression
written the records of the Supreme Court; and
the last the toughest, the most obstinate protestant
against such aggression ought always to be II Mas
sachusetts man. (Applause) Mr.. Parker we'll
said that the most obstinate of the most obstinate
Saxons was John Bull. Well, the nearest
of blood to John Bull we have got Bunker Hill in
our very hands. (Cheers.
! Mr.. Parker said that Mr.. Sumner vas u nnbler
and more cultured spirit than either of theAdamses
who preceded him in the Senate. Mr.. PARKsR-
AS noble. | care not to weigh carefully, with the
apothecarys scruples, any words of praise to so
dear and honored friend as the Senator from Mas
sachusetts. No! But still, cannot but remem:
Der that the political party with which be is con-
nected has never, to my knowledge, begun to at
tack the slave system on the floor of Congress-
This AntiSlavery Socety,--it is not an Anti-kan.
sas Society it is nota Territory Society: bu. an
Anti. StdreIy Society. We have clung with an un-
iutermitted tenacity to our original purpose--TnE
SLAVE The Scotch huntsmen, you know, when
the dogs too earnest follow the hot chase, and can
not be drawn of, drag red herring across the
field, and the whole pack lose the scent. SO when
the anti slavery struggle began we set out to reach
tho slave of the Caroinas. The Slave Po flung
the red herring Of the right of petition our
path. John Quincy Adams lost his scent we did
not but still pointed to the slave in the District
and in the CarOlinas. Other men,--the Liberty
party the Republican party, y,-went off, first on the
Territories, then on Kansas ; we have clung to the
slave. Outside of the State we have cung to the
great issue, the slave system and inside the State
VIC have clung to the purpose of protecting our
own culored citizens. Why no longer ago than
when Anson Burlingamo was member of this
very body in the other wing, five citizens of Mass
achusetts sold sor their jail fees in of the
ports of Texas. On the petition Of the Abolition
lists OF the State, the Senate raised committee to
investigate the matter. What did they do ? No
thing Five citizens of Massachusetts have been
sold for their Jail fees in port Of Texas, and the
State has not protested against it. Caleb
Gushing says that Massachusetts is despised by the
other States Of the Union. The other States Of
the Union have better reason to despse her than
| because her barren soil gave birth to Caleb Cush.
ing! Enthusiastic appluuse.) They have reason
to despse US, when they see that DO not protect
our own cilzens. They have seen that Massachu-
sets may be safely deiied and that she dare not
strike back. The Commonwealth that finds ONE o5
Its own citizens, the meanest, sold in port OF Il
sister State, ought TO wear sackcoth till it sends
duwn its most honored sons to lring him back,
and place him on Bunker Hill for in the meanest
citizen OF the Commonwealth, | see John Hancock
and Samuel Adams, and every man who loves Mas
sachusetts ought to see as good name III the
blackest and humhlest man who takes the sacred
protection of Massachusetts citizenship into for.
eiEn port. l mean to deride, aud rebuke and crit
clse, and trample under foot, the gallant and learn
ed members who insult Massachusetts by preten
ding to legislate for her, until they send deputa
ton down to Texas to bring back if they can bling
nothing else) the bones, repentant Florence
tried to do for Dante, Of those five citizens whom
she left to be sold in Texas for their Jail fees.
Mr.. Chairman, despse the Republican party.
i (Applause) despise the Legislature | would
not sit in it. | would 90 back 10 those old times
when the only honest party that ever illustrated
the Commonwealth, the Federalists, shook the
thunderbult of Massachusetts threats in the face o
the Union, and compelled it to make peace. The
day will come, if We are true TO our function,
when Massachusetts will show herself worthy Ht
, her ancient fame That cod - pointing to the
venerable representative from the Grand Banks
that hangs pendant opposite the Speakers Desk -
you ought to % have whipped spaniel here as the
, emblem ct Massachusetts,. daughter and ap.
plause) Mr.. Hoar driven out of Charleston. Mr..
Hubbard out OF New Orleans, five men sold by the
young, contemptible border. Rufans that have too
decent name when you call them the STATE Of Tex
, AZ and this is Massachusetts blood, Massa-
u
ought to have rung with nothing else but leg
islaton to aid them. | remember hen | had leis.
ure to read history,tha when the Long Parliament
and its predecessors met in the presence of the
first Charles, the first thing they did on assemblage
t was to Vindicate rights of citizenship; and when
the Stuart recommended them to waive these 'ab-
stracr questions, and pr Iceed to the consideration
OF matters relating to finance and trade they told
the monarch that there nothing for Parliament
to do until they had protected the rights of the sub.
ject l wish Massachusetts would take lie # out
OF English history. and remember, that until n
black man can stand in the streets of Charleston,
and claim protection as a citizen of Massachusetts
as well MS N. p. Banks. it is shame for any man
to live in the old Commonwealth. and not be an
Aboiionist, fanatic, crying out at the top OF
ker Hill, or the old Granary Burial Ground, some
? body who is worthy of l776. (Applause.)
. am glad we are here. 1t is possible that some
of the echoes Of our voices may last until tomor