Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-04-07
THE UNION.

Ny good friend, the slave does not ask your
aid. Take your awkward Yankee proportions,
Republican or Democrat, out of the light, that is
all he asks. Just tear that parchment to pieces
(hisses and applause). Well, now, I've a great
deal more patriotism than you have-a great deal.
| believe that George Washington and John Han
cock, and John Jay and John Randolph, | believe
that when they sat and made that instrument, they
intended what they say they intended-Liberty
Applause That's the talk.O l believe that if
' ou could raise them to-day from their graves, and
show them that speech Of William II. Stewards
they would soy Children, for Gods sake, believe
that we didn't mean it; tear our mistaken parch-
ment to pieces, and do US the justice to believe
that, if we could have seen our institutions SO
prostituted, W. would have seen them nunihilated
first. l do not believe, with you, that they were
hypocrites don't l do them moro honor than
you' / say tear that parchment in tatters in
honor of Washington (applause). Did you ever
hear Edward Everett ring out with those clarion
tones of his that favOri'e phrase describing Wash
ington, that immortal rebel'i We'll, John Brown
of Harper's Ferry was just the same Applause
and hisses). You see we don't apply our logic
rigidly to the line; you can't bear justice and log
ic. But let me 60 on; | want to finish my aTgu-
ment. l was speaking of the influence of the
Union. Why do | want to separate you from
New Orleans Why for this reason / want to
put you in relation to New Orleans Just where
Liverpool stands iG relation to New Orleans. just
see the difference. The New York pulpit is one
end of a telegraphi the New Orleans slave mar
| bot tho otbar That ainbt frua of Tiyarnoa1 Ic !
could separate New York politically from New
Orleans, William II. Seward would care no more
for the opinion of South Carolina than he does fol
Palmerston; The NeU York Tribune would think
as little of Toomos or of Keitt as it does Of
The London Times. We should intermarry Just
the same; We should have the same religion, the
same language, the same literature, steamboats,
running with the same frequency, the same inter.
change Of commerce. but, comparatively, indepen-
dence in thought. To-day, go'into a factory vii.
lage in New England, what IS the pulpit Only
an appendage to the factory, only a rich mans
kitchen; he pays the minister and turns him out
Shen be don'tlike him. Now, ladies and gentle
men. l don't mean any disparagement. | trace
my lineage back to Plymouth through an almost
unbrokeu line Of clergymen. know the services
the pulpit has rendered. but know this, the best
things my mother gave me Wero free lips, and l
mean to use them tapplause). A PROSTATE race
lifts up its hands and says to US, White man,
free man, give us at least the truth; it is the only
hope and the only weapon that is left US. And ]
mean SO far as | am concerned, that they shall
have it. Now, If you enter the villages of New
England, it is a melancholy truth, but i: is a truth
that the pulpit is the vassal Of wealth. l rode, AT
{ came 20 you, along the railroads of Connecticut,
and by my side sat a clergyman. 10 the limo
cent frankness of his heart he said TO me M
Stewards speech lie an awful disappointment;
wish be bad been boldeT. II the ministers coulC