Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-06-04
HON. FRANK WADE

Recently addressed a mass meeting at gainesville !
in the course of his remarks, he said, in reference
to the subserviency of the Democratic party,
1T was not always so in the old Democratic par
ty. Time was when men thought for themselves,
but times have changed, and parties have changed.
The Democratic party has hois:ed into Office an old
blue Federaldist. and now he can hardly keep pace
with the infamous requirements Of his party.
But in this effort Of that party to trample the
rights of freemen in the dust. they have done it
through the influence Of wicked and corrupt Judges
just as tyrants have done through all time. Were
not the murders in Kansas committed under the
name of law and order? From the time of Ponti-
US PLATE, when he condemned the Savior Of the
world, judicial authority has been perverted and
subverted to carry out the damning behests of ty-
rants.
And now we hear of men by platoons and com.
panies brought up before corrupt Judges for no
crime save that of exercising n ~brotherly sympathy.
Criminals and felons have ever had the right of
trial by an impartial jury, but is it not a damning
fact that these men in Cleveland have been tried
and convicted by their political opponents to a
man? In this country we have never seen the
like. In no country since the days of Jeffrey, has
The like been seen. 1t is the first case in our
country of such outrages, and l trust in God it will
be the last. Suppose a parallel case had been
tried in the Southern Courts and tho Court and
Jury been packed with Abolitionists, neither the
Court or the Editor who would uphold such q
course, would be for an hour safe from the fury of
the outraged people. [Applause.l They would
be drawn and quartered, and | am not prepared to
say they would not have done right. IGreat sp-
%plruse. Not that l advocate violence; / am glad
they have gone according to law, and / am q ad
that it has been shown that we can do and suffer
until We can remedy our condition by the laws.
Look into the Southern papers and see there
how the African slave trade is openly advocated,
and yet not q hair of the heads Of those who thus
advise open violation of law, has been hurt. The
Convention at Vicksburg has openly avowed tina.
the slave trade should be opened. And yet they
tell us that We Northern men are the only ones
wis do not obey the law. Note the difference, and
the malice that is heaped upon the just men who
at O5erlin and Wellington did what / honor them
for doing, and what they could not but do if they
we're men. Can such a Government live louei
1t is no longer a question whether the Africans
shall be slaves, but shall we Northern Anglo.Saxon
men be slaves. These men are put into prison at
Cleveland for taking away a slave from a man
who was engaged in hunting negroes upon shares.
Why ! Judas iscariot was a gentleman compared
with this slave-hunter. No doubt there was a k-
topJeelin9 in the Court for this man. Many of
my old associates-no. not associates, thank God
my acquaintance, have agreed with the President
on the slavery question. The only question asked
them is-not whether you are q Democrat or a
Wing, but will you seal-will you hunt niggers p
If you will, you are a gentlemau-if not.you are q
cursed Black Republican. (Laughter.) Is it not a
~dignifed business for such a great party as the
Courts of the United States to 20 forth in crusade
to perseccte the four millions Of slavesi What do
you think of their Judges who allow you to tram
pie upon them and hew them DOWN. Sir it is the
meancst and most h~eaft.ess, the most damnabls