Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-06-09
SPEECH OF MISS MARY GREW.

SPEECH OF MISS MARY GREW.
My FRIENDs-We do not come here merely to
sing Gloria in Ercelsis; to look into each others
faces, and predict good things for the future
There is something else which we have to do, and
one most important matter is to consider that our
work is not yet done. 1t is very pleasant thus to
look back upon the past, and upon the great work
which lay before US at the commencement of our
enterprise, much of which we look upon, now, as
already accomplished anG SO congratulate our
selves upon that past. 1t is right thus to rejoice,
if thus we gather strength for the future but
little use, otherwise, would much rejoicing be-
The Importance of this consideration was especial
ly impressed upon my mind this morning, as |
listened to the gentleman who occupied this plat.
form q short time ago, and who, after rendering
full justice in his testimony to the influence of this
Anti-Slavery Society, and paying high compli-
ments to those who have labored in connection
with it, informed US, as we have often been in
formed before, that wo d. not propose any practi-
cal remedy for slavery. Now, if we have not pro-
posed a practical remedy, who in this nation has
proposed one? What is the practical remedy for
error but the continued, uncompromising utter.
ance Of the truthr What is the remedy for any
sin bu' its opposite, righteousness? Our remedy
has always been the same, the preaching of truth,
applied to this particular sin of slavery, in all its
forms and phases; r~ebuking it in season and out
Of season, according to the ability which God has
given US, and opposing it in word and deed and
in daily life. What other remedy can we bring
against sin but exhorting to righteousness?-what
other remedy for falsehood but the TRUTH And,
sir. if it had needed any answer to this charge, l
think ! could have found it in the gentleman's re.
marks. He speaks of the Republican party, and,
in connection with it, of the power of ideas, evi.
IDENTIFY feeling, as deeply as you or l do, the
great power CT an idea. lie knows, as we'll as you
or l do, that it cuts deeper than a sword, goes
farther than a bullet, and that there is nothing
like it in all Gods universe; and he says, as the
highest praise that he can possibly give the Re-
publican party, that it has got for one plank in its
platform, a great idea. They have caught a
glimpse, l think he said, Of some great truth, and
have made ii a plank in their platform, and on
that he firmly planted his foot in defence of that
party. Why, sir, our whole platform is made of
it; and that one plank he acknowledges
they borrowed from US. Welcome to it, right hear
tily, are they; / only wish they had the whole of
it. But if their Que plank makes their platform q
practical remedy for slavery, how much more is
cur remedy a practical one, and our movement
important! (Applause) 1 wish, sir, that that
gentleman, and all other defenders of the Repub-
can party, who, looking upon the American Anti
Slavery Society, honor its aims and intentions, but
somehow think it is not practical, would look at
some of the other planks in thetr own PLATFORM
How do they propose to abolish slaveryf We re.
pudiate the fugitive slave statute, which we would
not ike to sully our, lips by calling law. Doe,
the Republican party repudiate it, Do any of the
leaders propose that, if the Republican party
comes into power, that infamous statute shall moi
DO enforcedf We propose to lift up the black
man, free and enslaved, in this country, to q lev
ell with the white man. by teaching the doctrine
of the equal brotherhood of man and the equal
political rights Of all men; by repudiating that ter.
rible prejudice against color which has trampled
so many of our fellcw-countrymen into the dust,
depriving them of all means Of moral intellectual
and spiritual elevation. How do they propose ia
remedy 1T.
A Voice. By voting.
MISS GREW. Voting for whom, sir2 For the
man 1.-THE best of them ally who repudiates, in the
name Of the Republican party. any desire to make
the negro equal with the white man2 Applause.
Vote for him, the best man you can put into Office,
and what will he do when he is there? Will be
r~epudiate the Fugitive Slave ~statutel Will he lih
his finger to give the black man any of his politi
cal rights2 | suppose that one plank of which We
have heard is the non-extension of slavery, which
the Republican party boasts of-of which it ha,
a right to boast; we are glad to grant to il all tina,
it may honestly claim. But how is it going tc
remedy all these other evilsf How is it going tc
abolish American slaveryH The great thing, az
ter all, that we are banded to destroy, is slavery.
Is is not the millions who may hereafter be enslay
ed 10 the Territories for whom we are working
especially to-day; it is tor the millions who are
now wearing bonds in our Southland. Is the Re
publican party going to set them free2 III is
its leaders are continually misrepresenting and
belying it. Is it not continually asserting thai
il is the white mans ~party?'-that it will moi
disturb the institution of slavery where it exists
only it viii! work migLtil to prevent the chains OIL
slavery from being put upon any other victimsl
That is very good, so far as it goes; but is that O
remedy, superior to ours, for this great evil thai
lcuTses our land?