Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-02-19

y D"mihEo there was not o year that was not marx
r 90 by insurrecton. The German lecturer. Solger
a who says no man bss any rights who doe. no
J. show his title by constant struggle to achiev
j. them, and argues that therefore the black race
Is not entitled to freedom. must be ignorant of th
y lghastly scenes of murder boodshed and judcia
l. assassinaion which mark the history of Carolint
= and OF Jamaics-proving, If they prove nothing
}. else, that the negro forgot for hour thn
o he had as much right to his freedom and to hi
o own vile as the white man who robbed him o
e both. That title has never beer lost by reason O
ins neglect to try, at least, to enforce it. like
therefore, these speeches about insurrection for il
seems to me, that when the air is full Of them, il
{ is because the volcano and the earthquake are a,
work. That is why we smell the gas. The chinkt
8 are opening the lava is breaking OUT. Now, moi
only the South and Southwest not only valiant old
!, ossawattomic Brown. but the vanguard Of thinkers
oouotsrs, and apprehenders, all over the country
have talked for the last five years of insurIecon
II is not only meetings butif you watch the
papers, or look anywhere, you will see it; just as
3 titoen years ngo, Northern men began to talk
about disunon in a whisper. and now i. has been
talked about until it may almost DO said to be
; pabe Of cool calculation. Even the Tribune,
which is not remarkably rash, which looks at it's
dollar on both sides. and at its milled edge also,
: daughter even the Tribune has published a sc.
ries Of articles calculating the value of The Union
the very thing that Webster said never ought to
be done. like this augury of the flight Of birds.
il tells US Of something that Is to come and if
this race shall rise and, as it did in St. Domingo;
bew off its own chains, is certainly will not is on
our lips to reproach them. We may drink in cold
water. if not in Oxford port, the old toast of Sam
uel JOhnson-who though Tory, could recognize
the right Of the black man 10 freedom Success
to the first nsurrecton in, the Yves, Indies" Zap
plause
Speaking Of races-as our friend Haywood
said, think there is great deal in races but yet
there is not half so much in that as in circum-
stances; for, put them the same circumsta ices,
and the races will prove to be about the same. l
remember that in St. Domingo. in that last terri,
be struggle. when LeClerc ordered black colonel
to be sabred in the sight of his wife, he fingered
moment before submitting to execution like
that Roman under Nero, who, though the blool of
the bravest race of the old world filed his heart,
fingered before submitting his neck to the sword
his wife, you know, seized dagger aud stabbed
herself crying ont. "Peetus. it is not hard to die
$50 the wife Of this black colonel the island OF
81 Domingo who had never read Greek or Latin,
or even heard Of the Romans, seized a sabre from
a French cuirassier. and gave herself mortal
wound. saying. Husband. death is not the thing
to fear!" (Applause 1t was Roman blood
thong the skin flack (Renewed applause.
The same circumstances produced the same result.
think you will find il SO every whero.
But at the same time. whether it is so or not !
do persist in believing that the cause is nightly
onward. and shall be sanguine to the last. |
think that in this country of men who read and
write, and think. of newspapers and books-the
land Of brains-where as Waldo Emerson 80 with.
y says, the Yankee carries brain in his right
band than any other man does in his head--in
such land, it is not bullets that decide questions
the last il is discussion and thought it is pur.
pose and resolve. There is not Gibralter rocky
enough, nor. crowded with cannon Mr.. Hig1in'
painted it, there is not Gibralter fiery enough
To stand twelve hours against the united public
opinion Of thirty millions of American people.
do think, whatever my friend Mr.. Pillsbury may
at present anticipate, that there is nothing more
fixed than this,-tha: the thoughts of the Ameri.
can people at this moment centre the subject of
slavery. The statesmen of the last generation
made their reputations or lost them, on money
questions. the tariff and the bank. All over the
land you heard nothing but the clink Of dollars
and the rustic of new bank bills. Cotton wool fiji
ed the ears Of the American people, and their
hearts rere changed into tariffs and bank charters
That was the American idea of tie last generation;
but nobody can say that such questions make up
the history of our time. The nucleus of all things
in our country at the presnt day. is Slavery IL
was no joke of our President, but solemn truth
that Congress is turned into ti.savery debat
ing society. Nobody reads an thing that does no,
Ouch slavery. What loads down the telegraph
Slavery. What news do the people ask irst2 .Is
Cuba to be annexed2' Has Mexico rotted yet in.
C our hands?' Do you tell me that where the
minds of thirty millions Of people centered on
hat great question, that like stupid boys, we are
o pore over the lesson Of thirty years and not .
earn itf i 90 not believe il. Give a. Yankee a o
lin made by halfa dozen different men-the head O
y one man. the shank by another. the point made d
y another. and the shine put on by fourth, and
10 laughs at the whole Affair." and makes a ma a.
bine no larger than this cushion, that makes pins
y the barrel. and numbers Il EN- at the same time. m
low that same labor.saving race, that accomplish. b
more in ten years than tae old world does in ,s
ali century. has fixed it's keen, inevitable intel
'ct on this slave question I've do not mean liz d.
.ys! TO have il in our way long; it interferes a.
ith the location of the Paciic Railroad d-injures
10 value of Northern acres, interferes with the OF
.lue of gold miaes, distu.bs our foreign relations il
perils the stock of cotton. it Sill force Great III
ritain to cultivate cotton on the banks OF the si
anges and ruin the Caroliuas." think we are 81
% wise to suffer the system to exist; We shall wi
title the slave question in a generation. gr
MIR. Seward has been mentioned. My friend P,
lllsbury said he uttered bold words at Rochester.
n. Seward 10 too wise to say bold words. The tn
ords bold and politician do not agree together til
ere is no rule in the grammar to make them ty
,ree. Mr.. Seward said wise words, prudent or
ords, judicious WORDS at Roohsstsrnsvsr bold sr
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