Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-10-22

ID" III apoiOR'bes, anu begs us not
70 DC startled With his strange new views, having
h'ed 50 long in tho air Of his own vanity that he
does not know that we have had q broad church
Tor n'teen years--broad enough for all races and
ooiors, oil cects, creels and parties. Tor heads and
hearts too broal enough to help the poor. teach
sne ignorant, shield the weak. raise the fallen and
hit the high higher, to honor God and earn tho
hs'o oil bad men administered to by one whose
broad diocese is bounje ON the north by the linz
us OF habitable land, runs ives. with civilization,
and eass with tho English language, aud on the
south stretches to the line where men stop think
Ing and live only to breath and to stand. loud
spplause.)
This Broad Church reformer knows hs place
20 little, ths, he sncer, at Spiritualism and Social
Ism, as "vices entitled to no terms" One, An hon
sst effort however mistaken, to make all men
wholly and really brothers in life, property, and
thought and the other, that r~oaching Into the
land Of spirit, which has stirred the heart, and
reused the brain Of the best men Of al nge., and
given 20 literature its soul. Does Ia, give no heed
90 that profound maxim Of OoleriJge-"There are
errors which no wise man will trea. with rude
hess, while thoEo is a probability that they may be
Va oSuN 6'Sebh ~ eh'A Wv ~
horrizon'i
Yes. this Broad Church Humanity would
weep IT il ever came, for one Of its doctrines Isl
that the Statute Book is more binding than the
Sermon on the Mount, and that the rights Of pri-
vate Judgment are q curse. Save us from a church
not broad enough to cover women and the slave,
Gil Tho Room being taken up by the g-og-shop and
'hea.re-provided the one will keep sober enough
to make the response, and the other will lend its
en- broidered rags for this new playhouse. Laugh
ter and applause.)
The honors We grant marx how high we stand,
and educate the future. The men We honor and
tiaxims we lay down in measuring our favorites,
show the level aud morals of the time. Two
names have been in every ones rlouih OF late, and
men have exauste1 language in trying to express
their admiration and their respect. The courts
have covered the grave Of Mr.. Choate with culogy.
LIST US SEQ what is their idea Of tho great lawyer.
We are told that she worked hard"-"he never
neglected hi, clienr"-"he flung over the discus
sions Of the forum the grace Of q rare scholar
ship"-"no pressure or emergency ever stirred
him to an unkind wori." A ripe scholar.-a pro-
found lawyer-a faithful servant Of his client-a
gentleman. This is n good record surely. May
he sleep in peace What he earued, CID grant he
may have! Bat the bar that seeks to claim for
such an one a place among great jur;sts, must
itself be weak i%nieed-for this is only to make
him out the one-eyed monarch of the blind. Not
one high moral trait specified not one patriotic
act even mentioned not one patriotic service even
claimed. Look at Mr.. Webster's idea Of what a
lawyer should he in order to be called great, in
the sketch he drew Of Jeremiah Mason, and no.
tics what stress be lays on the religious and NOR
al elevation, and the glorious and high purposes
which crowded his life Nothing of this COW l
forget. Mr.. Ha!let did testify for Mr.. Cboate's
religion daughter and applause); bat the law
maxim is, that o witness should be srnsted only in
matters he understands, aud shat evidence, there
fore, amounts to nothing. (Merriment.) Iaces-.
SAINT culogy; but not q word Of one effort to lift the
yoke Of cruel or unequal legislation from the neck
Of its victim not one attempt to make the code
of his country wiser. purer, better ; not one Of
fort to bless his times OF breath a higher moral
purpose into the community not one blow struck
for light or for liberty, while the Battle of tho
Giants was going on about him not one patriot
ic act to stir the hearts of hs idolators not one
public act of any kind whatever about whose mer-
it either friend or foe could even quarrel, unless
when lie secuted our great charter as a glitter
ing generality" or jeered at tho philanthropy
which tried to practise the Sermon on the Mount!
When Cordus. the Roman Senator, whom Tiberius
murdered. was addressing his fellows, he began
: Fathers, they accuse me Of illegal words
plain proof that there are no illegal deeds with
which to charge me-" ST. with these eulogics-
words nothing but words; plain proof tina. there
were no deeds to praise.
The divine can tell us nothing but that he hand
ed a chair or a dish as nobody else could laugh
teri; in politics, we are assured he did not wish to
sail outside of Daniel Webster and the Cam
bridge Professor adds to his pupils, for their spe-
cial instruction, that be did not dare TO think in
religion, for fear he should differ from Southside
Adams loud laughter and applause The Pro-
fessor strains his ethics to prove that a good man
may defend a bad man. Useless waste Of labor !
Ia Egypt. travellers tell us that the women, whol-
~ naked. are very careful to veil their faces. So
tho Professor strains his ethics to cover this one
fault. Useless, sir, Will. the whole person is
nude
Yet this is tine model that Massachusetts offers
10 the Pantheon Of the grea, jurists Of the world.
l am a Boston boy, and l should like to criticise
ID.
Suppose we stood in that lofty temple of juris-
prudence-on either side of us the statues of the
great lawyers of every age and clime-and let us
see what part New Observation-Disclosures,
free New England-would bear in that pageant.
Rome points to q colossal figure and says--"That
is Papinian, who. when the Emperor Caracalla
murdered his own brother, and ordered the law
yer to defend the deed, went cheerfully to death,
rather than sully his lips with the atrocious plea;
and that is UlI ian. who. aiding his Prince to put
the army below the law. was mastered at the
foot of a week, but %virtuous throne"
And France stretches forth her admiring hands.
crying That is D'Aguesseau. worthy, when he
went to face an enraged king, of the farewell his
vile addresses him--'Go forget that you have q