Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-12-24
SPEECH OF VIM, LLOYD GARRISON.

AT the Boston C~ommemorstion Meeting, VIM.
Lloyd Garrison was one of the speakers. The
following 10 the concluding portion Of his remarks.
ThA v.rA;Nt NJ thA world. whether resistance to
tyrants is obedience 70 God has been rendered in
the affirmative 10 every sge and cline. Whether
the weapons used in the struggle against despo-
tism have been spiritual or carnal, that verdict has
been this:-
Glory to those who die in Freedoms cause!
Courts, judges, can inaict no brand Of shame,
Or shape of death, to shroud them from upplausel
No, managers of the martyrs earthly frame.
Your hangmen fingers cannot touch his famel
Long trains of i'll may pass, unheeded, dumb
Bat Vengeance is behind, and Justice is to come!'
loud applause.)
We have been warmly sympathising with John
Brown all the way through, from the time of his
arrest ill now. Now he no longer needs our sym.
patty, for he is beyond suffering, and wears the
%yictor's crown. Arc we to grow morbid over his
death, to indulge in sentimental speech, to content
ourselves with an outburst Of emotional feeling,
and not to come up to the work of abolishing sla-
veryf ] confess, ] am somewhat apprehensive in
regard to this powerful and widespread excite
ment, lest there may follow an exhaustion of the
system, a disastrous reaction, in consequence Of
neglecting to make it directly subserviont to the
cause of emancipation by earnest and self-sacri6c.
ing effort. / see in every slave on the Southern
plantation a liUing John Brown-one to be symp pa
thized with far more than ever John Brown needed
sym patby, whether in the Jail or On the scaffold a
Chariestown. see four millions Of living job,
D.o,,,e paad;ncr mn. thourbto onr evr,notb;ao on,
prayers, our noblest e~xertions to strike off theiI
letters. And, by Gods help, will we not do it,
What con we do? l do not know that we can d.
any thing for Virginia. She seems past all saliva
tion-to have been given over to believe q lie tina
she may be damned But here We stand, with
our feet upon the old Pilgrim ground; and l asl
the sons of the Fathers, are we not competent t.
make the old Bay State free to all who tread it
soil! Enthusiastic appluuse.) Are we to bav,
another Anthony Burns rendition? cNo!' MOI
Shall we allow any more slave-hunting from Berk
shire to Barnstable, C'No!' 'No!') How, then
will you pre- cent it7 You must make that decree
matter of record, through your representatives il
the State House; and if you want to do an effec.u
al work Tomorrow, and to Johr
Browns object as far as you can, see to it tina
you put your names to the petition to the Legisla
ture, now in circulation. asking that body to de
clare that, henceforth, no human being shall b.
regarded, tried or treated as a slave within tn
limits of this Commonwealth, Immense ap
plause.) But that is treason (lsughter,) AM
John Brown was a traitor The Boston Post ant
the Boston Courier are very anxious to discove
who were the instigators Of the Harper's Ferr
rebellion. Most disinterested and patriotic jour
nalsl When you read any of their editorials o,
,his subject, just look at the bottom and see il
staring capitals-'SOLD TO THE DEVIL, AM
PAID FOR daughter and applause.)
Who instigated John Brown Let US see. l
must have been Patrick Henry, who said--and b
was a Virginian-'Give me liberty. or gire m
deaaR Why do they not dig up his bones, an,
give Thorn to the consuming FIRE, to show their oh
horrencs Of bis memoryf 1t must have BEEF
Thomas Jeaerson-another Virginian-who sal
of the bondage of the Virginia slaves, that 'op
hour of it is fraugbt with more misery than age
Of that which our fathers rose 10 rebellion to op
poso'-and who. as the author Of the Declaration
Of Independence, proclaimed it 10 be q sELr-EvI
prsr TRUTH, that oil men sro created equal, suc