Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-11-12

Of law, o! government, of right, Of justice, Of re-
ligion, anu they we're pirates that gathered about
him, and sought to wreak vengeance by taking
his life. The banks Of the Potomac-bistory will
visit that river more kindly because he has gilded
it with the eternal brightness Of his glorious deed,
than because the dust Of Washington rests upon
one side Of ii. And il Virginia tyrants dare hang
him, after this mockery ola trial, it will take TIC
Washingtons at least to make the name of the
river anything but abominable to the nges that
come after it. Applause and hisses] Well, 1
say what I really think. [Cheers, cries of Good
Good. George Washington was q great man.
Yet I say what l really think.
THE POWER OF A GUILTY CONSCIENCE.
The South is a great power-no towards In
Virginia. Laughter. Now, l try to speak very
plain, but you will misunderstood me. There Is
no cowardice in Virginia. The South are not
towards. The lunstics in the Gospel were not
towards when they said cart thou come to tor
mont us before tho time % [Laughterl They
were brave enough, but they saw afar of. They
saw the tremendous power that was entering into
that charmed circle they knew it's inevitable VIC
tory. Virginia did not tremble at an old gray
headed man at Harper's Ferry they trembled Ct
John Brown in every mans conscience. He had
been there many years, and like that terrific scene
which Beckford has drawn for us in bis Hall of
Eblis, where all ran around, each man with an In
durable wound on his bosom but still on incurable
wound. and agreed not to speak of 1t, SO the South
has been running up and down its political and
social life, and every man keeps his RICH. hand
pressed on the secret and incurable sore, with an
understood agreement in Church and State that ii
shall never be mentioned, for fear The great ghast-
ly fabric shall come to pieces at the talismanio
word. Brown uttered it, and the whole machine
ry trembled at it's very base.
l value that movement. Did you ever see =
blacksmith shoe a restless horse? IF you have,
you have seen him take a small cord and tie his
upper lip. If you ask him wha. he does it for. he
will tell you he does it to give him something to
think of. Laughter Now the South has some
extensive schemes. She grasps with one hand
at Mexico. with the other she dictates terms to the
Church, she imposes conditions on the State, she
buys up Webster with q little, and Everett with
nothing. Great laughter with applause John
Brown has given her something else to think of.
He has her attention inwardly. The nation says,
he lie mad. I appeal, from Philip drunk to Philip
sober I appeal from the American people, drunk
with cotton and the New York Observer, loud
and long laughter. to the American people fifty
years hence, when the light of civilization has had
more time to penetrate, when self interest hos
been rebuked by the world rising and giving its
verdict on this great question. when it is not q
small band of Abolitionists, but the civilization Of
the nineteenth century that undertakes to enter
the arena and discuss it's last great reform. When
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ma~rtyrs-tbese men who with severe purpose
unite honest method ?
WHO BLOT JOHN BROWN
There was not a Virginia gun fred at John
Brown. Hundreds of well-armed Maryland and
Virginia troops that went there, never dared to
pull a trigger. You shot him Sixteen marines,
to whom you pay So a month-your own repre-
sentatives. When the disturbed State could not
stand on her own legs for trembling. you went
there and strengthened her feeble knees and held
up the palsied hand. Sixteen men, with the vul-
ture Of the Union above them sensation your
representatives 1t was the covenant with death
and agreement with hell, which you call the Union
Of thirty States, that took the old man by the
throat with q pirate hand and, if he is hung. it
will strangle him with disgrace, for it will be the
ulsSTuCo u CIVILIZATION IL u RdllOWb Is ever
erected in Virginia that bears his body. "The
most resolute man l ever raw" says Governor
Wise "the most daring, the coolest. l would
trust bis truth about any question. The sincerest!"
Sincerity, courage, resolute d~aring-Virginia has
nothing-nothing for those qualities but a scat
fold Applause. In her broad dominions she
can only afford him six feet for a grave God
help the Commonwealth that bids such welcome
to tho noblest qualities that can grace poor human
nature Yet that is the acknowledgement Of Gov
ernor Wise himself!
A MoCKERY OF JUSTICE. r
Here is a man arraigned before q jury. or about
to be. The State of Virginia, as she calls herself,
lie about to try him. The first step in that trial is
a jury, the second is a Judge, and at the head
stands the Chief Executive of the State, who is to
put his hand to the death warrant before it can be
executed and yet that very Executive, who, &C.
cording to the principles Of the sublimest chapter
of Algernon Sidney's immortal book. is bound by
the very responsibility that rests upon him, to
keep his mind impartial as to the guilt of the pcr-
son arraigned, hastens down to Richmond, hurries
to the platform, and proclaims to the assembled
and representative Commonwealth of Virginia,
1.-THE man is q murderer, and ought to be hung"
Almost every lip in the State might have said 1t
except that single lip of it's Governor; but the
moment he had uttered these words. in the theory
of the English law, it was not possible to impan-
mel an impartial jury in the Commonwealth OF
Virginia. it was not possible to get the materieis
and the machinery to try him according to the ug-
liest pattern of English Jurisprudence. And yet
the Governor does not know that he has written
himself down q knsve, and tho Commonwealth
that he governs supposes it is still a Christian pol
ity. They have not the faintest conception Of
what goes to make up Government. Why the
worst Jeffries that has ever tried men in the dark
est moment,or ever climbed up a lamp post in the
streets of London; would not have tried a man
who could not stand on his feet. There is M