Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-08-04
WHOLE NO. 773.

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have not referred to the passage that Mr.. viii
son read from the Chicago platform, but for
a moment. 1t is true that the declaration which
Mr.. Garrison read is contained in hat platform.
but the misfortune is that with such platform as
that, you should have nominated Abraham Lin
coin. 1t is not your platform Of which complain,
in that particular, but it is Of your cnndidate and
inasmuch as the President, if it be Lincoln, 10
i likely enough to be little more than James Bu-
chanan said he should be--Ior you know he said
he should be nothing but the platform, and l am
sure he told only the truth)-it is important we
should know what he is going to be aud, fortp;
hately for US, and fortunately for you, if you are
honest r,en and want 20 know the truth, ] can
tell you what BIO is, as differing from the platform
to which friend Garrison called your attention,
Stephen A Douglas drove Mr.. Lincoln. when they
were cauvassing Illinois, two years ago. into the
very closest corners l admit and l should be sor-
~ to hold him responsible for everything that the
little giant wrung out of him for be was not as
fortunate in that pilgrimage as Bunyans Chris
tian was, in having a Greatheart' to overcome the
giants for the little giant was too much for him.
without any 'Greatheart.' You heard Mr.. Doug
that the little giant has no heart at all. Hers
is what Mr.. Lincoln said on the question Of slave
Territory Mr.. Douglas complains, that do not
fully answer the question. If haze the sense to
comprehend and the sense to answer, have dong
so, fairly Well now, If he has the sense and
judgment to comprehend, l suppose l can under
stand bm when read what he says The Judge
says | do not declare that | would in any event,
vote for the admission of slave State into the
Union There, you see is where Judge Doug,
las drove him. / admit it was q close contest; but
then, these are not times, as our friend Garri-
son said at the close of his remarks, these are not
times for compromise and we must be willing to
meet the closest strictest and severest tests,-to
go down, if need be- into the lions den and into
the fiery furnace. If l have been fairly reported
heretofore, he will see that gave ar explicit ans.
we, to that question. did not merely say tha.
would dislike to be put to the test, but said clear
ly, if were put to the test, and Territory from
which slavery had been excluded should present
herself with Constitution sanctionng slavery
most extraordinary thing, and not likely to hap
pen,-I do not see how l could avoid voting for
her ad ission.' (Hear, hear.O That is Mr.. Lin
coin, no. the platform and I hope he will. be
rather more, if he is anything, than James Bu-
chauan, who said be would 6e no longer James Bui
chanan, but the Democratic platform; and here we
have the distinct avowal that he will be something
more than the platform, namely, that if a Terri
tory from which slavery has been excluded
marx by act of Congress otherwise, shall
apply for admission with a slavehoding Constitu-
tion, | see not how / could withhold my vote.'
The other day. Mr.. Greeley, or some one in
the New York Tribune, said, We gave 100000
votes for John c. Fremont; but to elect our can
d!date next November, we must cast two millions
of ballots Mark that Two millions of bal
lots.' And what does ballot mean? If 1 un-
derstand it-aud am willing to submit that
question to you-a ballot is more nor less than
the utteranCe of a declaration which you ere will
ling to defend, and that, consel luently, on the
same belt with your balotboz, you have hung,
also, your cartridge box and that you ballot is
but the paper currency,ol which your bullet is the
specie redemption. Well, then, two millions of
men in the field, with Abraham Lincoln as CON-
mander-in-chief Two millions of men,-not wo,
men, God save you You won't let women vote
l blame you not, il you to elect men GEe
Abe Lincoln to the Presidency of the United
can tax them, but you don't let them vote where
the money shall go for what John Browns 10
shall rear scaffolds, or for what Thaddeus Hyatts
i it shall build jails in Washington. You can tax
them to build the jalbut you do not ask thep1 who
shall 60 in. You can tax them to rear scgFolds,
but you do not ask them what John Browns shall
danglc upon them. For be it known to you, il,
was the Republicanism Of the country that hung
John Brown. 1t was your marines, brought up
from Old Point Comlort-the only com Portable
point that Virginia has and that only comfortable
because your mGries are there to protect her. No,
you tax the women, and then hang their husbands
and their brothers for doing deeds that will pur-
chase for them tho kingdom of heaven or heav,
en- is not worth possessing. Two millions OF meb
not boys for The youngest voter must be over
TWEEN ty-one. Two millions of men the night
est army ever marshaled under ancient CONQUER
or or modern usurper Two millions of men -
twice the army with which Xerxes invaded Greeca,
and conquered wherever he went; four times the
army that Bouaparte led into the field, before
whose fiery breath Smoeska melted away, and
Moscow, with oil her grandeur was known 90
more Two millions Of men, sworn and pledg-
ed on that Chicago platform, that John Brown
was one of tho 'gravest criminals that ever died
by the halter. Mr.. Chairman that is not what
these Republicans cheered when Senator Wilson
stood here, to-day. Oh, if Senator Wilson would
only go through the State preaching that doctrine,
and then go to Washington, and preach it there
But then, that is asking too much of human ma
ture--it is asking lmpossibilites. Senator Sum
nor has proved how little and how much can safe.
!. ly be said in Washington.
Now LET me say one word, and will stop. At
ter all it is Dot of your candidates. nor yet Of
your platform, that complain. You have made
a League with these tyrants, and they ore towards
but for you John Brown proved that, With
eighteen men, prd five Of these connecting links