Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-06-04
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SPEECH OF REV. A. M. MILLIGAN.

IMr Milligan is a member of thea Covenanter
Church. and addressed the Am. Society on the
first day of it's annual meeting.
A Mr.. PRESIDENT AND FRIENDS OF TIE SLAVE: l
come before you this evening, to cast my mite In
mid of the cause Of Liberty and Humanity. This
is not a mere political gathering. not mere
souabble for the cmoluments of Office ; II II were
I had not been on this platform tonight. The
caoso for which we have corle together is ROT mere
" cause affecting the rights and liberties OF four
millions Of ceorcd people, but affecting the rights
and liberties Of twenty millions vf white 'nen
COMPOSING this great nation, and affecting the des-
.;,u of the untold millions who hereafter to
,oonlo th;s vreot. new country. While ore man
Wars chain. no man can be entirely free. This
fac, Of the enslnvement of a portion OF our citi-
xens is already making its mark very sensibly up
nm the masses of the inhabitants Of this country,
.;s ,ronirest in the imprisonment, in the City of
Rro,herv Love- in the dungeons Of Moyamensiug,
of an individual of pure white extractoh' 'or nav
ing declared. to one of those VINO hau hone ~
Mead her rights, that by the laws OF fehhsyisa-
mia she was free in the fact that arouhu 'h'
Courthouse in the city Of Boston chains are ora"n
and ruthless hands drag back to tonaage l'oo'
,eluc,nnt people a man who had cast oil his LETTERS
and sousht refuge and protection beneath the
shadow of Bunker Hill in the fact of the triai o'
.wentv most respecsable citizens of Ohio tor hav-
;ng snatched from the hands of the kidnapper
man who, by his own noble achieVments' hau
EARNED for himself freedom in the outrases IN
Kansas. and in the fact that II an ahti-sia'eiy
man nreaches 'deliverance to the captive, anu 'no
.onenine of the prison doors TO them tha' are
hound, within the southern limits OF this proics
sed free Republic he must do it at the FISK ol MS
life .r
The struggle which is now going on the ag''a-
y;on which exists in our country, is not the WORK
Of n few fan atica men it is tho Outgoing ot
great principle it is the lle'strugGie OF great
truth. whose birth was in eternity, ana the WOMB
Of whose conception was the bosom OF the htern-
al The sound which we hear is the deep rum
h,;r, of the volcanic fires enkindled in the great
heart of the community. The principles of this
great struggle underlie all the relations OF man 10
his fellow man. end the creature to mis- Creator. IL
IN fact that he who strikes at the subject, inVaoes
the sovereignty of the sovereign that he VINO at
tacks the sovereign assails all his subjects. lnere
,s bond of connection between those IN authority
and those under authority, that identihes then
so that he who touches one of them touches the
aonle of the eve of him who rules over them /; aho
hence those who assails the rights of the teebies
citizen strike at the very foundation of government
and he who touches one of those who are Christ'
subjects, touches the apple of His eye and hence
they not only levy war upon humanity ous a'S'
upon God, as he is the Sovereign OF the universe
as he is tho Creator of man, and It Is by lin
.hat man is endowed with those noble and mann
cable rights which he is bound to support. I'M
principle is very clearly, and in language almos
inspired, presented in the great Declaration
this nations Independence. II is there declared
that man is endowed with certain inalineabl
rights, among which life liberty, and tn
pursuit of happiness; that those rights are no
only privileges belonging to man, but that the.
ara privileges conferred upon him by that Beini
who created him that they are birthright priv
leges, guaranteed to him by his Creator, AM
that he is to bo defended in their enjoyment b.
Him who has given him those rights. This prin
cipIe is also very clearly and fully expressed II
the whole Word of God. The first great com
mandment is, Thou shalt love the Lord thy 90
with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all tn
strepeth and with all thy mind : and the secon
is like unto it, namely, this-'Thou shalt love tn
neiphbor as tbyself. Upon these two command
ments hang all the law and the prophets Tha
is. the declaration of Him who spoke throug
those inspired prophets that is the declaration G
Him who gave that law and we must come
one or the other Of two conclusions, either tha
the Word of God is inconsistent with itself and
tissue of fotions or that the whole Word OF Go
is in consistency with those two commandment
which require man to love his neighbor as hin
self, and to honor and serve his God. Hence VI