Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-02-19
SPEECH OF WIN. LLOYD GARRISON


My friend Mr.. Pillsbury ru. into my mouth
speech that do not remember to have made
though it is possible may have made it. He said
that told the colored people that Washington and
William Tell were honorable names in history
Perhaps did. although do not remember i.
but if did, it was simply a truism, which every
body knows.
| single word in regard to the Republican party
Ii is because think my friend Mr.. Pillsbury il
unjust to that party that my regard for Justice
compells me to sny word, by way of fair discrim.
nation, wherein think he is lacking 50 far as
that party is concerned. The Republican party is
not 10 be measured by our standard. l mean, a
man may object to our standard, and say, Il do
not accept your standard judge me by my own :
Very well. Then l say to him. as Paul said to
the Jews who would not accept Jesus. will judge
you by your own standard. .Ye that live under
the law, do ye not hear the law! Cursed is every
man that continueth not in all things written in
the book Of the law to do them = And there he
had them. Men may properly object to our stan
dard-will they object to their own, When we
measure them with their own ysrdstck, they must
either get rid of that yards,ick, or confess that
they are found wanting. The Republican party
must be judged by what it claims to be and to do
Is not that fairy Has i. ever claimed to be an
antislavery party? Wbere.-when1 And if it
has not then 1t is to be measured by another rule
The party processes not to be an anti. slavery par
y, but non extension party. Is it true to it's own
idea! It's. Will any man deny ,i Will my
friend Mr.. Pillsbury deny it,
have not said that they have made 1t a vital
principle. and declared that the Union should bc
dissolved if they were overcome. That is not the
issne. But say, that up to that point, they do
carry out a.. their professions Of resistance 10 the
extension of slavery. ! hold that NAV give them
all credit for what they have done, withou, at all
compromising the AntSlavery cause, and with.
out at all diminishing my right to say to that par
ty-You are on a sandy foundation. after all :;
and though you may think you can do something
for liberty. believe you will fail in the end"
The Republican party, as matter of fact-And
We are dealing with facss-embraces the anri.sla.
very voters of America. wherever they are-with
the exception, it may be of the little handful who
voted for Gerrt Smith. The American people, /
'ay, who vote, and are anti'savery in spri, and
are all with the Republican party not
'ns is with the Democratic party. Among them,
II course, there are all shades of sentiment from
he most radical to the most superficial. There is
good dcal of warm and genuine anti. slavery
ympathy. generosity, kindness, pity for the slave
blindness of vision to q certain extent, q want of
moral courage up to a certain point; it may be,
ut, nevertheless, an earnest desire and struggle
o do something whereby this odious Slave Power
nay be driven back. hedgsd up. or in some way
estroysd in the land. [Applauss.] Judging it.
s We are bound to do. by its own test, therefore,
it disclaims being an aut'slavery party, as il
penly declares. that in regard to slavery where
now exists. it docs not mean to raise any sgita.
on, and only means to tryto prevent its exten.
ion. to that extent say, the party has been true.
nd my sympathies, to that extent, have been
ith tho party; for We also desire to save ths
reat West from the encroachmsnts of the Slave
over. and establish freedom on tho Western soil.
And yet, this being conceded, il does not follow
lat may no, here, as do everywhere, say that
70 Republican party. being compromising par.
!. never will succeed in heading off the Slave Pow.
:, and preventing what il is lsboring to prevent
nd think IL does not preclude me from saying,
at 10 .ssssupsto make . geographical distinction