Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-07-24
PROTECTION FOR FUGITIVE SLAVES.

PROTECTION FOR FUGITIVE SLAVES.
! The burden of Wendell Phillips speech at Fro.
mingham at the celebration of Independence Dav
was, Protection by Massachusetts, for all figitipe
staees That is something practical for dsoniop-
lists and Republicans in Massachusetts, and Ohio.
We present them with Mr.. Phillips remarks on
the subject copied from the Iiberator.
Another thing. We have settled it that that is
law which the people are willing to submit to-
Listen to tie recent discussions in Congress-
there is no appeal but to the acauiescenoe of the
country. Nobody goes back to the Constitution.-
| We havs reached a new era. What | ask of the
Aboitionists is to avail themselves of that posi.
ton. You that ore in politics, you that live under
law, take with you into your politics the
principle upon which the South governs L am
averse to politics. in the chains of constitutional
conscience, while the South is armed and equip,
ped with no seruples to do anything she lists and
wants. | believe, therefore, in the duty of Mas.
sachusetts, and every other Northern State TO
make its own constitutional law; and that is the
reason why want Massachusetts, at home to Law
down the principle that the moment a slave touch
es her soil, she has made law for herself that
the simple drTicat under the free trees of Massa.
chusetts is charter of liberty and emancipation
(loud cheers.) This is one part of my programmes.
You know we have got petition for it, ] do not
propose to sign that petition; do not ask or exnect
any non-voter, who has refused to vote under the
Constitution because it contains slave clause to
sign that petition.
will MT ask another to do what [ will
not do myself. But we are surrounded by set
OF politicians, who, when we ask them how they
can remain connected with this government saw
with Gerrt Smith, that there is no slave clause in
the Constitution, or, like John Pierpont, if there
is slave clause there, it is worth nothing il Ia
not binding it is clause binding us to sin. aud
therefore null and void. say, therefore, to the
Liberty party man, who follows Gerrit Smith, and
thinks there is slave clause in the Constitution
or who follows John Pierpont, and says if i. is
there, it is null and void, "If you believe what
you say prove it by going up to Boston next
winter, and passing law that, as there is no
clause binding Massachusetts to return slaves
Massachusetts, hereby announces by statute that
she has a cell in the State Prison ready for the
Judge or Commissioner-no matter what com.
mission James Buchanan has given bim-wbo
presnmes to return man from the soil of Massa.
chusetts on the ground that he is n slave" loud
and prolonged applause). If Free, Soil means
anything, it means this. The who comes
into our meetings, and when we charge him with
being connected with pro'slavery aud slave re.
turning government, 6ings it back into our teeth
and says he is not-that Charles Sumner does not
believe in it, that N. p. Banks repudiates it,
that this, that and the other celebrity. denounees
tive have the right to say to that man and that
party, Stereotype your individual protests into
statutes; and If Massachusetts politics does not
believe in returning slaves say so by the voice of
the State, and pledge the government to the pro.
lection of every who onee sets foot within
her limits. If you will do that-once let an old,
conservative, weight, original State like Massa-
chusetts fling herself out of the Constitution by
this construction, and you have set up barrier
against the Slave Power, by your construction of
the Constitution, such as no other act could do.
l am in earnest. / do not believe in the United
States government. believe the Slave Power
has got it and will keep it, If she cannot keep it
by fair means she will keep it by foul. There is
but on way by which we shall ever get control of
this Union. 1t is not by the ballot box; it is either
by blood, or il is by such checkmate of the Slave
Power, as shall show her a North resolved to sub.
NIT no longer.
This is home policy. l insist upon it. will
sail every Free Soiler liar and hypocrite who
refuses to sign that petition. or, in yopder State
House, refuses to vote for such law. No man
can stand under the United States Constitution
without being kidnapper who is not willing to
vote for that law. If you, Lysander Spooner fol.
lowers, believe in no slave clause vote for that
law! If you, John Picrpont men, believe that
the clause is there, but not binding, show your
faith by your works! We want no paper discuss
sion. Give me a Massachusetts that is able to
elect a fugitive slave for Governor; could not
have better. Flare him in the face of the Union
and defy the government. | would like to put the
very who preceded me on this platform EWs.
WELLS BRowN into the Governors chair OF Mas
sachuseus (applause) When you come to prin-
ciples, when you come to being understood, these
are the Blnu OF acts lnat are needed. men tn6
House of Commons turned John Wilkes out Of
their own body, really because he radical,
but under the prctence that he was Illegally elec.
ted the voters said 1--WE will send him back until
because, if you prove him in6del,
if you prove him dssolute, if you prove him rapa-
cious, if you prove him dishonest, if you prove
him fit for the penitentiary, no matter. We have
right to elect him as our representative, and it is
not for you to say that we shall not" So woalL
say to the Union, if | believed what these Liberty
party men profess, what care the shareholders fOs
a hint now and then, from Charles Sumner on the
floor of the Senate, that there is no slave claussf
Wnat care they for speech from Gerrit Smith,
demonstrating that there is no such clause?--
What they cannot swallow is the port of Boston
open to every fugitive slave that can conceal him.
self on board ship.
Then, again. if you Free'Soers believe slavery
to be the sin you say it is, go to Washington pre-
pared to refuse dollar to the government. I
know you will say am tedious from insisting upon
these two points. so often and 90 much. l believe
in concentration. believe Kansas is gone--a
slave State believe Douglas is rotten; you will
him Democrat within two years. j do not
believe in any political resistance to slavery except
that which the common people, the rank and file.
bully into their representatives (applause). do
not believe in any competent resistance to slavery
except State resistance, know what men do at o.