Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-02-19
SPEECH OF E. IL. HEYWOOD.

...... SPEECH OF h. III. Hey WOOD.
Mr.. CnnRuAN,-I am very glad that by th,
resolutions and speeches of to-day, the issue be
fore us has been distinctly put. We have beer
called upon look the question of slavery distinct
iy in the face. Only few weeks ago. the ~ Y
Times said that this Anti Slavery agitation was
ever. Not so. This agitation only be settled
by The extinction of slavery. Here are two open
ing systems. two bellgerent, defiant antagonisms
arrayed against each other like Gabriel and the
sroh iend upon thu plains of heaven. There can
be no truce, compromise between such parties
Temporizing cergynen and time serving politi
clans labor in vain. Slavery must be put down.
'Csrthage must be destroyed Politicians and
ministers blink this issue. To the American
Church it j. y stumbling block, and to the Ameri
s>u State it is foolishness. When We say that the
Church is prosavery, we do not mean that it pre-
fers slavery to freedom, but that it is not willing
TO pay the price of freednm. We mean that while
it serves Christ with the lips, j, denies him in the
life that whie it breaches Jesus, it practices
Judas. (Applause.) II has no anti.slavery orinci
pies. II does not put slavery into tho category of
sins. I want words to express my unutterable
contempt for the shutting and jesuitical policy
with which the Church has handled this question.
You have all heard of the negro who said, that he
had one source of consolation under all circum.
stances of u1ictiop, and that was-W ebster's Die.
tonary daughter and applause.) The whole
policy OF the Church Is to darken caunsel with
words Look at the resolutions passed by the
American Tract Society last May. proposing to
discuss the moral duties that grow of the sys
tenn of slavery! Can anything be basphe.
NOUS OF ridiculous?
No. there is such thing as compromise with
such wick ednese as this. The devil dies hard
Hack him in pieces and every separate bit will
make net devil. When evil entrenches itself
behind the forms of law. there can be no com.
promise made with it. The trouble with the
Church is. that it has no love for the slave. You
remember the story Of the woman Who wrote
TO her husband in California-'Say not that ab.
sence conquers love; the longer you stay away
the better love you.' daughter and cheers.
The Church loves the slave at the greatest possible
distance. I,r a
Evidently there can be no compromise in this
matter. The STAKEHOLDER must be agi,ated out of
church and State. This going against slavery
where it does not exist. is firing at nothing. and
hitting it. II is only boys who think to catch
T.
Seward begins to see the folly of all attempts at
compromise on this question.
Here. then. is the issue. Every thing must
come up to this plan of action. Burke said that
justice is the only settled policy Of society. and
any prominent deviation therefroni lies under the
suspicion of being no policy at all. To this we
must come-to the policy of impartial justice to
I'll men. care nothing about the comparative
superiority of the races. Locke says that men
arc very much the same in intellectual faculties n
all time. Mungo Park says that he found law
gers in Africa who could argue with as much abil.
isy and with great fuency and at as great
length, as in Edinboro.' (Laughter.) Why. the
last black baby Of South Carolina, with its great
cry and little WOOL is likely to be full great as
6hs asst specimen of Boston south side arstocracy.
(LAughter.) sm surprised that in New England
, man who stands as the apologsr for the foulest
pir of the age, can be countenanced for moment {
~ Christian minister. According to the record.
Adams fall occurred six thousand years ago. more
~ less but he did not touch bottom until 1854, 7
"a Essex street church, Boston (Roars of laugh.
NJ aud enthusiastic applause.)
The strength Of this cause 10 in the realm ofl ,
IDEAS. Of universal principles. Agitation i. its
stAE Of progress. Do not be afraid of it. We
sannot rely upon institutions. ss such. They do
not breast the current. but float with tho stream
Nothing is fixed on this earth but truth and Jus. 9
lice. Living principles the strength Of this re.
lbrn, and must be adhered to. II makes no dif. '
nrsnos how many men we have. il We have only