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

everything with color: If man only owns the
color, lie has predjudce against color. There
is hot one relation Of life that cannot be endured
with color black as heFitis. if it is obly owned
It lie only when color owns itself that there is pre-
judce against 1t.
SPEECH OF WENDELL PHILLIPS.
1.-THE following extracts from lecture given
citation of Boston.
Government arrogates to itself that it forms m en.
As well might the man down here in the Court
House, who registers the birth of children. in,ag
inc that he was the father of all the children h6
registers loud laugber.) Everybody knows
that government never began anything. 1t is the
whole world that thinks and governs. Books,
churches, governments are what tIs itate them.
France is Catholic, and has got Pope but sAe il
the most tolerant country in the world Now
England is Protestant, and has federation written
oil over her statute book, and sine has Pope in
every village, and the first thing that tests boy's
courage is to dare to differ from his father. TAP.
plause.) Fopesl why. we have got two as signal
Popes as they had in Europe three centuries ago
there is Bellows at Avignon, and adams at Rome.
(Great mcrrimeht. followed BY loGd applause y
So with government. Men think government
forms. Let us take an example. r
Take Sir Robert Peel and Webster as measures
and examples 1.-TWO great men, remarkably alBs.
Neither of them ever had an original ides-
(Laughter.) Neither kept long any idea they bor-
rowed. BJth borrowed from any quarter, high or
low North or South. friend or enemy. Both vot5
weathercocks, not winds; creatures, not cteat5rs.
Yet Peel died Hngland's idol-the unquestiohed
head Of the statesmen Of the age; Webster the
disgraced and bankrupt chief of broken ahJ ru.
ned party. Whyi Examine the difference
Webster borrowed free trade Of Calhoun, and tbs
tariff of Clay took his constitutional principles
from Marshall, his constitutions. learning from
stUty and his doctrine Of treason from Mr.. George
ficknor Cdrts (laughter,) and he followed Chan
ming and Garrison little way, then turned dough-
face in the wake Of Douglas and Davis (ayplauss
and few hisses) at first. with Algernon Sydney.
(my blood boils yet as think how used to de-
claim it, declaring the best legacy he could leave
his children was free speech and the example Of
using it; then of Preston S. Brooks and Eegres
he took lessons in smo,herng discussion and hunt
ing slaves. IN 1890, when the world was asleep;
he rebuked the savetrade; in 1850, when the bat
tie hottest he let Everett omit from his works
all the best anti-slavery utterances
Sir Robert Peel was just like him. He "chang;
ed every opinion. violated (so says one OF the Re-
views), efsit pledge, broke up every party. and
deserted every colleague he ever had," yet his sra
went down in glory. Why? Because his step was
ever onward he lived to learn. Every change
sacrifice. and he could truly use, in 1929 the
glorious Latin Webster borrowed of him, "Fera
pro 9ratis"-I tell you unweleomo TRUTH" But
Webster's steps, crablike, were backwards! Zap:
plause and hisses.) Because thou ait Sifteous;
shall there be no more cakes end ale ~ Because
you have your prejudices. shall there be no bis,o-
~ written? Our task is unlike that Of some
meetings of late History. not fattery (Applanse)
Webster moved By cowpulsoh or calculation, not
by conviction. lie sunk from free trade to tar:
if from Chief-Justice Marshall to Mr. George
Ticknor Cuttis;-from Garrison to Douglas;-from
Algernon, Sydney to the slave overseers. l read
in this one of the dangers of our form Of Govern.
ment. As De Toqueville says SO wisely, The
weakness of Democracy is. that unless guarded.
it merges into despotism." Such life is the frss
step, and half dozen is the Niagara carrying Us
over.
But both "builded better than they know"
Both forced the outward world to think for itself,
and become statesmen. No man, says bIsraeli,
ever weakened government so much as Peel.
Thank Heaven for that so much gained Chang
ing every day, their admirers were forced to learn
to think for themselves, In the country once
lived with Democrat who never had an opinion
on the days news till he had read the Bos ton Iost
(Laughter.) Such close imitation is little too
hard. Nebsters ietsiners fell Of into .be easier
track of doing their own thinking. A German
once sketching Middlesex county landscape. took
a for his fixed point of perspective she NOV
ed, and his whole picture was muSde. Follow
ing Peel and Webser muddle: hence came
the era of ontside agtatior-and those too lazy to
hink for themselves at least took fixed point for
heir political spectiys-6arrison or Charles
Summer. for Instance.
We shall have enough to 30, if We do our duty.
Tho world is awake-some wholly. and some only
lalf. Men who gather their garments gscornfully
md close about them when their fellows offer To
Express sympathy for the bra vest scholar and most
christian minister the liberal New England see.s
timid little souls make daily upfoaf
q the market-place crying FOR broad church, q
'RoAD church-and one who lives by venturine .
bold theory to-day and spending tomorrow i1
aking 1t back !; finding that he has been '
Dropping buckets into empty wells,
And growing old in drawing nothing OF g."
assures you that it 10 not cJwardice, but lack Of