Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-04-28


free communities; itis, as said, from the fact
that Christian women went from Free States. and
that the Christian women Of Slave States
who have not the poor privilege that Sar ah Of old
had Of sending the Hagars and Ishmaels to the
wilderness maintained their purity aud their
Christian character, and their testimony against
the system that they we're prevented from that ret
recession toward bartarism.
Several Members That is what be said before.
Mr.. Lovejoy Sir, il you step into the Smith
sonian Institute, into the Paten. 0ce, you will
find implements of husbaudry imported from ia
pan aud China, showing just about the same de.
veopement in civilization as the implements you
find on the plantations. Now, Sir, the truth Is.
that the practice Of slavsholding dragS slavehol.
ding communities further below the plane Of the
Christian civilization Of the age, than the ciEiliza-
ton which the Slave receives elevates him above
the plane of hea;henism by being held in these
Christian communities Sir, how do they impart
civilization aud Christianity! 1t is q strange
mode Of Christauizing race to turn them over
into brutism without any legal marriage
Among the four million slaves in this country,
there is not a single husband or wife. There is
not single home or hearthstope among these
four million. And you propose to civilize and
Christianize people without giving them homes,
without allowing them the conjugal and parental
relations, and without having those relations, sane
toned and protected by Law. Mr.. Chairman, no
community can make one step of progress in civil.
zing race till you give them homestil you protect
the sanctity Of the home, as we held it should be
al in I'd IN kha nj aina
Of Utah. Christianizing them, Sirl Christianizing
them by new process. The Slave States have q
right to an exclusive patent for it. Taking them
oul in the sight Of tke church, as one was taken
out not long ago in the State of Tennessee, by a
Presbyterian elder, ana laid down on his face on
the gre uud his hands and feet extended to their
utmost tension and tied to pickets, and the Coz
pei whipped into him with the broad side Of q
hand ,saw, discoored whelks of sanct6cation be.
ing raised between the teeth every time the Gospel
agency fell upon the naked and quivering flesh Of
tho tortured convict. Laughter.
A Democratic member: Did lie get the Gospel
in. Laughter
/ MtS3ovejoy Christianized as young girl wat
ChristianiEed in this city since the session o.
Congress, by 5eiug whipped and sent to the gar
ret AMI found dead in the morning, with BLOOD
oozing from nose and ears.
Democratic Member: Where does that au
thorty come from?
Mr.. Lovejoy: DO not know whether religion,
rites were had or not l suppose como Pro.Sla
very priest was invited in to utter impious pray
ers before God that the last fagellation nigh
have whipped in Christianity enough to save hel
precious and never dying soul. Laughter. ADC
now, alarmed, good black walnut coffin is made
and decorated with white ribbons and placed in Ih
hearse, followed by hack containing, presume
the murderess ami my attention is called to th
cortege See, Mr.. Lovejoy, there ia slave funer
al! Is that treating them like brutes Look in
to the coffin Look into the carriage! You sa.
this is horrid. know it is horrid to hold men il
Slavery. know it is horrid to doom four mil
lion of human beings to the condition OF chat.els
to be held pro nu!iS, pro mortuis pro quodrupedic
taken for no persons. for dead persons, for fou
footed beasts-men as much entitled to freedom
as you and I. Sir, the testimony Of all religion
societies in the Slave States is that the slaves
still heathsn, and it is an utter impossibility q
ChristianiEe them and civilize them 5y this pre-
slaveholding is that it is conssutional-that it i
guaranteed by the Constitution OF the Unite'
States. Now, Mr.. Chairman, have heard it de
clared over and over again that the Constitution
guarantees Slavery. / deny it, In no article, Ii
no section, in no line, in no word, syllable, cal
there be any recognition or sanction Of human sls
very found in the Constitution of the United States
Il is not there. 1t always recognizes human be
ings as persons, and never as property. IL doe
not use the word slave or slavery Why, siI
when came up to take the oath - support th
Constitution, whispered buzz half in earnes
and lfjocular, passed around How can Love
10y swear to support the Constitution How ca
he lake the oathf could take the oath TO suY
port the Constitution, because / believe in tn
Constitution, because hold to it, because my heal
is loyal to it. Every part and parcel and pOrtiC
of it believe in; but do not believe in the cor
struction put upon it by those who claim its recoG
milton and sanction Of the practice of slaveholC
, ing
Mr.. BarLsdale, (Dem. Miss.l: No, sri 20
stand there to-day on infamous, perjored villain
/ Gale to order.
Q Mr.. Ashmore (Dem. S. C.): Yes, he is pc
} jured villain; aud he perjures himself every hoI
9 he occupies seat on this floor. Renewed cal
! to order.
+ Mr.. Singleton (Dem., MSs): And neg
T into the bargain.
Mr.. Losejoy swOre to support the oOnssit
tion, because believe in it. do not believe
their construction Of it. It'll as well known
any historical fact car be known. that she frame
of the Constitution so worded it as that it shou
never recognize the idea of slave property, fro
the beginning to the ending off But the adv
Gates Of slavery have affirmed a strange doctril
in regard to the. Constitution. They think th
: because swore to support the Consultation,
swore 10 support the practice of slavehOlding 81
slaVshOldiDg in Virginia is no more under Il
control and guarantee Of the Constitution. shs
slavery 10 Cuba or Brasil, or any other part Of u
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