Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-06-16


every peril, under the protection of the English
Gag, in Canada--the race that has given us such
men as have spoken to you this morning (applause)
has never been so degraded, its manhood has
never been so trodden out by the white men of
thirty States, that when it rises to claim it's rights,
it can be called Instruction loud applause). John
Hancock was not a rebel. George the Third vas
q tyrant, and tho man that rose against him was a
Tree man, standing on Gods platform, and claiming
%Gothing but his rights. The tYrants of the Caro-
linas, stepped in a blackness compared with which
George the Third was an angel of light-the men
who rise against them are free men, and not rebels
(applause). There is a great deal Ia words.
There is no State south of Mason and DixOn's
line. There is nothing but hordes Of pirates, in
midnight corclave, putting their hands into the
pockets and into the souls Of their fellow men lap
plause.)
There are a great many men very anxious-in-
deed, | have heard Mr.. Caleb Cushing express the
most profound anxiety-for fear such speeches as
these injure the cause of the slave daughter. y
Democratic Conventions all over the country listen
to speeches from very earnest and enthusiastic
men bewailing the fact, that the efforts of Mr..
Garrison and his followers have injured the cause
Of the poor slave Well, what have we ever done,
that Mr.. Lincoln is so much alarmed that he
thinks that to enter an anii-slavery meeting is to
throw bombs and shells into Kentucky'2 That
is the way he describes il; holds it at arms length.
| have nothing to do with that miserable agitation,
says he, which makes Kentucky unhappy. What
has that agitation claimed Has it claimed for
that slave in the Carol'nas justice? That poor
man, on the deck or in the hold of that Democratic
steamer which left Charleston, and who was sent
to the bell of the Carolinas, how much did be ask
of those Democrats? Justice f.! Did ho say to
them Gentlemen. for six generations l and my
fathers have cultivated the soil Of Carolina, until
it reflects the hues Of Paradise. l have poured
wealth into the lap Of the white man; / have sent
his sons to Europe and to the North for education;
l have nestled him in luxury; 1 have put him on
to the very highest level Of the nineteenth century,;
| have founded for him the ~stateliest mansions;
| have built for him the most comfortable cities; |
have subdued for him the most fertile of States; l
have filed his Golfers to OVERLOOKING; l have made
him The basis OF the commerce Of the world. Ma
ked, penniless, herded with the brute, all | ask is
to creep out from under this avalanche of orpres-
sion, and own the two hands that God gave mel
Loud applause.) That was al he claimed. lie
did not gay, Democrats men who hold to the the
DRY Of equal justIcel / claim Of that master that
he shall give to me q pittance of the wealth | and
my fathers have created. l claim of him that be
shall not turn me out hated and penniless, but
shall give mo clothing and food, a few months Of
education. aud a little something to start with iu
the world No! all he asked was, 'Drop me in
mid ocean! Sever me from the Caroliuas, naked
as l am! Give me nothing but the muscle which
your tyranny would lave taken from me, if you
j could have done it, for you have taken away
, everything else! Give me nothing but these, and
let me breathe: All l AK is what the seriosl
L criminal asks liberty to breathet' That is al
the anti-slavery enterprise has ever claimed, and
D that claim is so frightful that Mr.. Lincoln has moi
i had time to stretch his mind wide enough to take
> it in to rise to a lele Of morals and sublime vir
tue high enough to comprehend il! lie is ready
to be President, but does not yet know whether
t two and Two make four Qaughter) He is ready
o to guide the affairs of thirty millions of people,
but he does not know whether a man owns his own
S daughter, and has not made up his mind whether
t it is right to sell babies by the pound, and upon
t an auction block that is placed side by side with
r the CAPITOL Of the United Statesl One woman in
l. that very District, seeing her two children about
G to be sold to New Orleans, took their lives with
" her own hands; and when she was asked the rea.
o son, said she would rather give them to God than
e let them go down the Mississippi. They put her
d in the United States Jail, and the nation, shrinking
Q from its own guilt. found an excuse for pardoning
her, on the ground that she was insane! The Ser.
d mon on the Mount is crazy in this country. No.
body ever does anything right who is not ia zane.
IA v~oice-'True.O Nobody ever knows his rights
except he is crazy (laughter.) Nobody ever
: knows whether a father owns his child until he il
! fit for a lunatic asylum. That is the etheics OF
this country; and Mr.. Lincoln, who has been in
that District, seen the very Jail, walked over the
very bridge on which that woman stood when the
9 United States Marshal arrested her for the hero.
ism of protecting her own babes, for the divine
u act of saving her children from the Christian Re,
y public OF the nineteenth century, for the godlike
Q deed OF saving her children from Abraham Lin,
q coin (applause) the man who stood on that yery
D bridge has not yet made up his mind wheth,
er the system which crushed that woman into
o that necessity is fit for a Christian Republic O,
not! l cay. that if we would rouse such a people
VI 'uetr OWN uutles-l
q we would make them fit for the crisis in which
Q they stand, it is necessary that we should 20 down
l to the very foundation of the ethics OF sh;s ques
ton; that we should no longer confne ourselves
to the moro claim which the anti,s~lavery move
T ment has made of simple freedom-bare liberty
J peacefully letting men 60 out. after centuries oil
l oppression We have tried it thirty years, and
s poliiice has got down to that level 1.-THE speech OF
Mr.. LincOln.]
We have not room this week for the remainder
OF Mr. Philips speech. 1t is mainly devoted tc
' Mr.. Seward and the Church, and like the part VIZ
: have copied is complete in itself.
3 An INTERESTING MISUNDERSTANDING the res
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