Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-07-21

WELL, says he, Il believe 1t well, SIR, do you
believe that Daniel was thrown into the lions den,
and that those ferocious lions refused to eat Dan
iel, but as soon as his acousers were thrown in,
they dovoured them p Does father believe it p
'Yos.' Aud mother p Yes And the Church p
Yes We'll, l believe it, Them Well says the
deacon, do you believe that Shadracs, Meshach
and Abednego were thrown into a forY furnace,
heated seven times hotter than was necessary, and
that those Hebrew children passed through the
flames and came out without so much as the smell
of fire upon their garments p Does the church
believe itS' Yes And father p 'Yes.' And
mother p Yes Well says he, IN be ID if
/ bclieve,it nor Tie fish story either p LOUD laugh
ter.) You see friends, there is danger of saying
too much
But what shall I say. in closing my imperfect
remarks I? l know how very imperfsctly l have
said my say. What can l say, then. Us a black
man, other than to thank the men and the women
of New England who have so nobly stood by tho
rights and liberties of my unfortunate race during
these long years of suffering and sorrow, feeling,
as their only compensation, that every wrong and
every outrage which we suffer
In the hot conflict Of the right, shall be
A token and a pledge of yicloryT
| know that, as an.i.slavery men, occupying the
high vantage ground of right, entering our earnest
protest against Government and Church, there ore
many difficulties to be overcome before men shall
fully realize the grandeur Of our position. As our
dear good friend, Gerrit Smith, has said, The
cause lie too sublime in its all-embracing purpose
for the hypocrisy and cowardice of the age.' But
the martyr spirit that inaugurated this movement
to free a deeply Nronged and injured people is not
dead. As Romeo says
'Beauty's ensign yet
Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,
And deaths pale flag is not advanced there
What an army of brave men the moral and polit-
ical necessities of twenty-five years ago pushed
upon this platform to defend, with more than
Spartan valor, this last Thermopyle of the New
World Then it was that our friend Mr.. CARR.
son, could, with inspiration not Of earth, brave a
Boston mob liz defence Of his convictions Of right,
in words of consuming fire, for the dastardly mean
and craven towards that thirsted for HE blood.
Theodore D. Weld, then in the freshness OF youth,
full Of hope in ultimate SUCCESS, his lips touched
with a live coal from the altar Of God such as in
spired the Hebrew prophet, plead like an angel
trumpet-tongucd, against the deep damnntion Of
human slavery. Then it was that the noble Beri-
alb Green, with a logic as strong as the concatena-
tions of an almighty purpose, was preaching him
self out of every pulpit in New England. Then
1t was that Elijah P. Lovejoy, whose mantle now
coverR a noble brother (applause),, gave to the
cause the printed sheet and the spoken word with
-, l. ,o,u ,;o1k &c H. rko,. ~ a. Ill H..
These were brave men. Then, too, it was that
that other good friend. Wendell Phillips, brought
to the anti.slavery platform the rare gifts of scaol-
arly culture and a magnificent rhetoric, to meet
the rounded periods of New highlands hunkerism
in Faneuil Hall. Then 1t was that such men as
Quincy, and IIovey, AMI Ellis Gray Loring placed
themselves upon the anti.slavery platform as offer
ings upon the altar OF freedom. Oh it costs men
something to take such a stand. The men who go
out into the desert Of old institutions and attemp
to tear down the rott N customs of society, clothed
in purple and fine linen, will find the property
and standing and gilded Responsibility of the age
passing them by on the other side. AS James
Russell Lowell has sung
Then to side with truth is noble, when we share
her wretehed crust,
Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and It's pros.
porous to be just;
Then it is the brave man chooses, while the cow
ard stands aside.
Doubling in his abject spirit till his Lord is cru.
cited,
And the multitude make virtue Of the faith they
had denied
At that time, colored men had not demonstrated
to the American people any of that ability which
has since cropped out and developed itself, as a
living testimony against the argument of the nat.
ural inferiority Of the colored race. Many who
have since added fresh trophies to American ora
tory were then in their chains. Henry Highland
Garnet had scarcely begun to give an earnest of
that splendid ability which has since manifested
itself in the orator and the gentleman ; the trunp.
ct notes Of my namesako, Frederick Douglass, had
not yet stirred the Intellectual sea of two CONT
nents to the e~uOrmitios of this country neither
had there flashed over the Bay State the fiery and
impetuous eloquenCe of Charles Lenox Remond.
Great changes have been wrought in the character
OF this anti-slavery work in thirty years. Alvan
Stewart is dead James @. Dirney is dead Eli.
jah P. Lovejoy sleeps in a martyrs grave on the
banks of the father of waters Ellis Gray Lorine
is dead Theodore Parker is dead. All these and
many other noble workers, have gone as Whit.
tier says
They died-their brave hearts breaking slow
But, seh-forgetful to the last,
In words of cheer and bugle.blow,
Their breath upon the darkness passed.
But, friends, while the busy fingers of our mem
cries are gathering flowers to bestrew the graves
Of the sainted dead, let us not forget one other
name-one other of those Immortal names, that
are not born to die We are standing to-day BY
the fyesh-made grave of john Brown (applause(
He has been gathered to his Fathers bosom from
a Virginia scaffold. Lamartinc, the great French
orator, said once tina. Wilberforce went IN to
Heaven with a million Of broken letters in his
hands, as evidence Of a life we'll spent. John
Brown has Como to join the glorious company Of
the lust made perfect in the eternaI odora,;ono 81