Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-02-19

IUi tnom WhO tApfesdeu VpiniVu
slavery as a matter Of principle. l have neve
t heard Of such. Whatever is done is done as
matter Of policy. One issue is yielded after an
other. When Texas was admitted, nobody com
claimed more: when the Missouri compromise wa
repealed. it was very easy to reconcile the countr
| to it , and when Cuba is admitted, the Republi
I can party will not quarrel very much afterwards
t do not think they will quarrel much belore
Whether they will make issue with regaid t,
the re'openng of the African Slave Trade, d.
not undertake to say st this time but if ther,
should be any Anti Slavery issue betwixt the tive
parties, in lS60 think that s must likely to b,
, the one.
As it was said here this afternoon, no tyran
ever surrenders his power. That old remark
which was made when little detachment Of troop
was ordered to lay down it's arms Come and tax,
them v-is the universal answer of all tyrants
d. when they are asked to lay down their puwer
Come and take it, they say and you will have
to take il by such as will be effectual in the
encounter. Our friend Higginson referred to the
raid made over into Missouri by Ossawattomie
Brown and his friends, and the liberation of those
fifteen or twenty slaves. He alluded to it as an
indication of what may come before long. see
the government has sent an armed force to resist
and prevent any repetition of such movements.
| tust that the angel Of God will protect old Os.
sawattomie Brown, and shield him in Whatever bat
tie he may engage. loud applause.) For if our
movements. or our age, even, has Cromwell,
that man is undoubtedly the Cromwell Of this gen.
GRAFTON, and hope that if one drop of his blood
shall fall to the ground by the bayonets of the
| M indiana of .Inmpa Rnphapan IL will snrinu N
in more than a dragon 's.teeth harvest of brave
men. that shall revenge it. not by slaughter and
blood but at least by the emancipation of every
slave in the land, before the sword of insurrecon
shall be sheathed. (Cheers.) If thae is treason to
your government. all have to say is let your gov.
ernment make the most of it. II can excite
among men who beve in violence the spirit of war.
that shall do. That is TO say. shall say to eve.
~ man. BE true to your convictions of right. If
you would defend your hearthstones, and your
own vile and daughter, defend the Iearthstone and
the wife and daughter Of the slave, or, at least,
place him in position where he may have a
hearthstone, however humble, and wife and
daughter be may call his own. like very we'll a
remark that our friend Garrison once made, and
wish no would make it about this time. lie told
Fugitive Bill. that he was non.resistant. and he
wished they all were. So say, that wish all
the colorsd people and all white people, too were
such non resistants as our friend Garrison. But
would also say. he said on the occasion to which
REFER since they are not. and believe in resist
ance to tyrants by violent measures. you must re.
memember that the names of Washington and
William Tell are very honorable names in the
history of mankind. God knows do not wish to
Sc" q drop of blood ; but God also knows, and to
him appeal for the sincerity of the remark. that
would rather see the blood of insurrection flow.
ing, than the blood Of the slave shed by rufiau
hands on the plantation. (Applause r
Yesterday. for the first time in my life. saw
Mrs. Stowe in this State Of Massacb usetts,
wished then, and have been wishing ever since,
that could have given her one hint. need not
say anything in praise of Uncle Toms Cabin,
but will tell you where think it's defect is. 1t
is. that there is no heroism about it, until herosm
is of no use l wish we could have an Uncle
Toms Cabin the heroism of which should consist
not in resisting the a,rocious and diabolical com
mands of Simon Legree, but the so:test and mos,
smiling simper of little Eva herself, if it were
made to Uncle Tom as a slave. (Applause.) hon,
Dr the heroism that will resist. by some means or
pther. the command of the tSrant no matter
though It be sung in accents more musical than
the voice of Charity herself l would see an Uncle
Tom who should say to Eva and her father, New.
or will obey one command OF yours, until our
relations are utterly changed, and you and l stand
upon tho same platform of humanity II would
see Uncle Tom leap overheard to rescue even LIE.
from Dir, nip ho did Eya hat 7 |.
nave him see all Mississippi drowned in her own ;
waters. bel re he would obey one of her sdicts.
Until the last vestige Of slavery was swept from
er escutchson. When We have such Unolo Toms /;
g that. we shsll have raised men who will under,
tand Liberty something higher aud nobler than $
be stuff out of which Fourth of July orators man
facture their rhapsodies. which minge with the Z
olng of drums and the booming OF cannon--the n
ne as senseless as the other. (Applause.) aaf ii
But. Mr.. Chairman, have forgotten myself I,
gau, and will bring my remarks at once to a !,
lose Let us, as have said, try to make our n
ork an earnest work in view ofjustce and right. b
y the grace Of God, will insist that men shall b
q true in some way to- justice and homanity that
lev shall. in come way, resist the tyrsnt for it e
,iona5ly true. that Resistance to tyraurs h.
obedience 10 Opu. Anu 10 NOT peiieVe tha
ave has any more right to be slave, than the g:
aser has to be tyrant The ono j: as guilty as h,
70 other, unless the power bo too strong a2d it lie
e power of the tyrant bs to strong for the VIC "a
M it is for us to come to tho rescue in the fear w
I'd in the love of God. (Applause.) tb
SPEECH OF WENDELL PHILLIPS. -
One thing like in the remarks that have just Bl
ZEN made. Did you ever observe. that when Ga
ings are about to happen, somehow or other to-
ere s bustlng in the air before they come Now SO
is nearly sixty years since the word 'insurrec'
on" has been familiar word in the the Amer. Pi
an vocabulary. Before the ADOPTION Of the Com NJ
tuition, the history Of Carolina is almost success
on of insurcections. Up to within twenty or th
rty years of abolition jamaica the history Of az
st island was history Of insurreotion. Instead VI