Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-01-07
From the Liberstor.
WENDELL PHILLIPS ON THE PURITAN
PRINCIPLE AND JOHN BROWN.

kRANSikGh avn JOhN bhO W.
On Sunday last, the desk at the Music Hall
was occupied by WENDELL PuiLilrs, ESQ who
delivered an impressive discourse upon The Puri-
tan Principle, the manifestation aud fruit Of which
he found in the present generation, in the charac-
ter and life OF The man whom Virginia has Just
doomed to the gibbot, Notwithstanding the very
severe storm, a large congregation assembled, and
at times the speaker ELECTED irrepressible applause,
The alias aud Bee Of Monday, contained a com
pleto report Of the discourse 10y Mr.. Ycrrinton.
We regret that we can find. room for only the con-
Guiding portion Of it +
What has John Brown done for us ? The
world doubted, over the horrid word instruction
whether the victim had n right to arrest the course
Of his master, and even at any expense of blood
to vindicate lis rights; and Brown said to his
neighbors in the old school-house at North El5a,
sitting among the ~snow,-whcre nothing grows
but men-wheat freezes,-I can 60 South, and
chow the world that be has a right to rise, and
can rise.' lie went, girded about by his house
hold, carrying his sons with him. Proof OF a life
devoted to an ideal Nosa single spasmodic act
of greatness, coming out with no background, but
the towering of sixty years. The proof of it, that
every thing around him grouped itself harmoni-
ously like the planets arourd the central sun. lie
went down to Virginia, took possession Of q town,
and held it. lie says-'You thought this was
strength; l demonstrate it as weakness. You
thought this was civil society l show you it is a
den Of pirates Then he turned around in his
sublimity. with his Puritan devotional heart, and
said to the millions, Learn And God lifted q
million hearts to his gibbet. as the Roman cross
lifted a million of hearts to it, in that divine sacri-
fee of two thousand years ago. To-day, more
than q statesman could have taught in seventy
years, one act of a week has taught these eighteen
millions of people. That is the Puritan principle.
What shall it teach US? Go thou. and do like
wise. d. it, by a resolute life. 20 it, by q fear
less rebuks. Do it, by preaching the sermon of
which this act is the tex. Do it, by standing by
the great example which God has given us. Do
it, by tearing asunder the veil of responsibility
which covers brutality calling itself law. We bad
q Union meeting in this city q while ago. For
the first time for a quarter Of a century. political
brutality dared to enter the sacrcdncss of the sick
chamber, and visit with ridicule the broken intel
lcct, sheltered from criticism under the covei Of
sickness. Never, since I knew Boston, has any
lip, however excited, dared to open the door which
Gods hand had closed, making the inmate sacred
as he rested under broken health. The four thou
sand men who sat beneath the speaker are said to
have received il 10 silence. If 80, it can only be
that they were not surprised at the brutality from
such lips. Aud those who sat at his side-they
judge US by our associates they eriticise US, in
general, for the loud word Of any comrade-shall
We take the scholar of New England, and drag
l:,, 49,, 70 tLo io,oI sc 49, lx,kol -, Of noI;
ties, and Judge him indecent because his associates
were indecent thank God for the opportunity
of protesting. 10 the name of Boston decency,
against the brutal Ian guage of a man, thank God,
Z not born on our psninsular, against the noble and
a~benighted intellect Of Gerrit Smith.
- On shat occasion, too, q noble island was calum.
mated. The New England scholar, bereft Of
everything else on which to arrrign the great
movement in Virginia. digs up a forgotten lie
about St Domingo, and hufls it in the face Of an
ignorant audience -ignorant, because no man ever
thought it worth while to do justice to the negro.
Edward Everett would be the last to allow us to
take an English version of Bunker Hill, to take
an Englishman's account of Hamilton and Wash,
ington, as they stood beneath the scafold CT An,
DIRE. and read it to an American audience as 6
uituiui ptlOh v IN cCGut- Dub u IL
wants to maligu a race, he digs up from the preju
dice of an enemy they had conquered a forgotten
lie-showing how weak was the cause he espous
ed, when the opposite must be assailed with false
hood, for it could not be assniled with any thing
else.
l said that they had Como to sleep, and only
turned in their graves-those men in Faneui
Hall. 1t was not wholly true. The Chairman
came down from the heart of the Commonwealth
and spoke to Boston safe words in Faneuil Hall
fer which he would have been lynched at Rich
mond, had he uttered them there that evening
Thanks to God, l said as l read it, a bunker can
not live in Massachusetts, without being widel
awake than be i~magines lie must imbibe fan
atheism. Instruction is epidemic in the State
treason is our inheritance. The Puritans planted
it in the very structure Of the State and wheI
their children try to curse a martyr, like tn
prophet of old half the curse at least turns into
blessing. thank God for that. Massachusetts,
Let us not blame our neighbors too much. Their,
10 something in the very atmosphere that stand
above the ashes of the Puritans, that prevents tn,
very most seryile OF hearts from holding d meet
ing which the despots of Virginia can relish
They do not know how to be servile within fortl
miles of Plymouth. They have not learned tht
part; with all their wish, they play it awkwardly
1t is the old stiff Puritan trying to bend. and the,
do it with a marvellous lack Of grace. read en-
enlargement in the very signs-the awkward al
temp.s made to resist this very efor: of the glc
rious martyr of the Northern hills of New York
Virginia herself looks into his face, and melts
she has nothing but praises. She tries to sea
his traits; they arc too manly, and she bows
Her press can only speak Of bis manhood. On
has to get outside the influence Of his persons
presence before the slaves Of Virginia can dig up
forgotten Kansas lie. aul hu'I it against The pictur
which Virginia admiration bas painted. That doc
not come from Virginia. Northern men yoluntee
Z, do the work which Virginia lifted for a momer
by the sight Of martyrdom, is unable to accom-
pli.h. A Ne~buryport man comes to Boston
and says that he knops John Brown was ut tn
au,acr of pnttovntomia Ua was onlv tunrt,