Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-10-01
WEBSTER's STATUTE.


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WEBSTER'S STATUTE.
The Inauguration of Webster's statute in the
grounds Of the State House at Boston, and which
Governor Chase so much regretted he was unable
to participate in (see his letter on our first page)
took place at the time, though not in the manner
intended; for nature threw a wet blanket over the
city on that day, causing the military to look as
disconsolate as water-soaked ~roosters, and com
pelling. the assembly who came together to dishon-
or themselves and Massachusetts by honoring
Webster, to take shelter in a hall, where the i'm
posing services were duly performed, including
the delivery Of the statute TO the Mayor OF Boston,,
his transfer Of it to the Governor of the State, Ev-
eretts Grafton and all ihat-the delivery Of the
statute being not actual, but poetical. Although
the Grafton had been in type nearly a week before
its delivery, it was go trans-cendentally sublime
(wbat a pity Chase didn't hear it) that the Repub-
lican members of the Legislature lovingly united
with the Democratic members-who, though they
cursed Webster while living, pretend to honor
him when dead in unanimously requesting the
Honorable orator to repeat his Grafton before their
Honorable body; which he will of course DO most
happy to do.
In addition to Natures wet blanket, which
would seem quite vexatious enough for ordinary
mortals to stand, the abolitionists of Boston i'm
tinently interfered, and placarded the streets with
posters containing extracts from Webster's speech
es on slavery, and in defence Of the Fugitive
Slave Law-pos'ers that were large enough TO
make Governor Chase open his eyes had he been
there, and perhaps made him feel a liWe uncom-
Portable at being an actor in such u farce. And
worse than this; as the inauguratOrs left the hall,
the a~gitators impudently thrust into their faces
tho following petition, which they insultingly
asked them to sign.
To The Senate and House Of Representatives Of the
Commonwealth Of Massachusetts,
WE, TIE UNDERSIGNED, Citizens of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, respectfully ask
you to remove from the State House grounds-as
no honor to the State and repugnant to the moral
sense of the people-the statute of Daniel Web
ster. whose last years were spent in defending
the Fugitive Slave bill, and whose last counsel to
the Commonwealth was to conquer her predju-
dices" against Slavc-hunting, and to return men to
bondage with alacrity."
The Abolitionists of Massachusetts, have deter
mined, and sent it forth as their fat "THE STAr-
UTE MUST De REMOVED" and having come to that
determination there is no question but IL WiN be
done =! If the politicians of that State had as mach
wisdom as the coon that voluntarily came down
when it met with Captain Scott, they would make
far more haste to remove the statute, than they did
to inaugura.e it. And even if not naturally as
wise as that animal. We should think that expe.
riencs had by this time taught them to always
ioop,a domp ,,1Jor sunb ircnmsfannaS nsppnio11u
as they cannot have forgotten the recent aboli-
ton Of colored schools, and the removal Of Judge
BORING, both OF which they were determined not
to do, and yet did, because they had to.
ART JOURNAL. We have received the 4th and
closing number IF the 3Td Vol. of the 'Cosmopol-
itan Art Journal" published by the Cosmopoli-
tan Art Association. The price of membership in
the Association is So annually; and now is a good
time for those who design becoming members for
the ensuing year, to send in their names and sub
s~cription. In addition to the Journal, which is a
large and handsome Quarterly, each number hav-
ing a plate engraving, and minor illustrations "too
numerous to mention, the subscription price to
which is S2-each member of the Association will
receive a beautiful steel engraving, 81 inches by
50 inches, Of Shakespeare and his friends" and
will have an equal chance with other members TO
receive the works of art which will re distributed as
premiums among them in January next. We had
the pleasure of seeing the original of shakespeare
and his friends" when on exhibition in Philadel-
pb;a; and If the engraving does Justice to the
painting, it will of itself be worth more than
the price of a membership.
Address c. L. Derby. Actuary G. A. A. No.
5lS Broad way, N. Y.