Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-02-12
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE

forbodes great and imminent danger. Here we
are, meeting In pence, not prosecuted, only neglect.
ed. This indifference is worse than the bowling
Of angry multitudes. Any one can mount guard
we'll in time Of open opposition the period of
quiet requires yet more resolution, more vigilance.
The unanimity of the Republican party is the sur,
es, token of its doom. When could a party ever
stand faithful to great principles when it was un'
opposed
The Slave Power stands behind all parties, and
all measures. We have cleared away many new
issues, settled many new questions but slavery
still sands there, silent but mighty. We have not
yet grapplod with that. When will the actual
struggle Gomez
The time is coming when our premature con,
CALCULATIONS will be checked by disgraceful defeat.
We stand in a position, the momentous Importance
Of which the most experienced among US do not
understand.
Anti Slavery is not a question, it is q fact. 1t
is a natural antagonism between two sorts of civil.
ization. We began by defending our own freedom.
We must advance to the ground of defending
freedom for all. Once the word instruction
affected Abolitionists with a shu1der. Now it
might be uttered without a shock in the Massachu,
sets Legislature. Liberty has been educating US
to liberty. The sense of liberty which begins by
defending the black man under our roof, ends
by showing the need that we should defend him
under his own.
This principle Of liberty is now working. both
in US at the North, and in a far greater number
than We suppose of slaves at the South. Large
masses of this latter population are affected by it 1;
and the wish is spreading among them, not as
formerly to 20 to freedom, but to have freedom
como to them. And who knows how speedily o
morning may arise to show us shat it has GOMEZ
The present time is one for anxious preparation.
and for graphing with tho sternest principles of
freedom. From my soul l believe that this fire
which has been 80 long and so fercely blazing
among our Inhabitants, cannot be qienched by
rosewater, nor removed with smiling unanimity.
Mrs. Foster introduced the subject of finance,
with ali appeal of intense interest and psthos.
Mr.. Garrison thought the tone of the remarks
this afternoon unduly responding and lugubrious.
Was it dangerous to our cause to admit that we
made progressG Was the recognition of this fact
an assumption that nothing Was to be done? 1t is
we'll for us occasionally TO review our course, and
to rejoice in what we have gained. We have no
occasion to speak in responding tones. think
the signs of the times cheering and hopeful.
AS to the Republican party, every political par
ty Will be proportionato to the character of the
people. This one is a time serving, a temporizing,
a cowardly party yet it is plainly distinguishable
in some respects from the Democratic party. The
Repu blican is a ~pie'bald, a heterogeneous, party,
very diverse in the constituents which compose it.
1t has never protested, as the old Liberty party
did, to be an anti.slavery party. 1t claims only 10
oppose the extension Of slavery, and it does op.
pose it. 1t has really tried to do the work which
it has claimed to undertake.
Henry C. Wright inquired-Does the Republic
an party claim to prevent the extension of slavery
in Territory where a majority of the whites desire
its existence?
Charles c.. Bu,leigh replied, that, as a party,
they oppose the extension of slavery without quail
ifcation. though many individuals of them seemed
to be drifting towards the popular sovereignty"
doctrine.
Adjourned 10 u o'clock, o, m.