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

OF the New Testament. Do you sit with that I'M
concerned, confident frankness, and confess that
your soul lies in your pocket l honored him
for his frankness; l knew he spoke the truth; ]
don't know that it can be altered. There is some
thing in the organization Of these institutions that
seems to render II Inevitable that wealth shall
have tremendous power, and wealth to-day is
Joined to the will OF the Slave Power. Your mer-
camille wealth and manufacturing wealth is the
vassal Of the Slave Power. Opposite it stands
the New York pulpit, the second vassal Of q vas
sal l would separate New York, That is not
true of Manchester and Lancashire; it is not true
of Liverpool. III could break the political bands
that hold New York, she would leap up, like a
fountain freed from a mountain load, and 10 a de-
cent city. Free speech would not be tram pied;
f pulpits would not be filed by iumb doge that
cannot bark; you would not be able to count up on
your fingers the only firms that keep their goods
f for sale and not their principles; you would See
an American merchant filling the same spot that
the Englishman does in independence. l know
the weight that New Orleans aud Havana have
even on Liverpool. Now, let me count % what /
{ would gain BY the breaking up Of ths Union.
South Carolina would look into the eye fiber slave
and sayiif he chooses to rise, l have rot che means
of resistance. That's what Mexico said, what the
5 South American Republics said, ana they freed
him. Againi che would look into the eye of her
t uhskilled laborer. and say That way lies bank
= rnptcy; if 1 want bread Of the laborer, l have got
to educate him. How does all freedom come in
r Europe Z Through the Gospel 7 No. Because
b Kings Want i basis out of which to get taxes, and
they say We can't get them out of brutes, but out
i of edupatnd Him Urn nm Nnpo inta aNigfbnna.
| therefore, art and tfade-Eome Holland, full oil
art-come, Lancashife, with your looms: all
bringing freedom with you. 30 South Carolina
t would educate her b%ondmei, freeing theti first.
Again, Kentucky would look across the river and
e say, There is Ohio-what is my slave property
r worth? Nothing. For come night the property
will take legs and be absent the next morning
= And then she would look to New York and In
stead of seeing Rynders and DR., Sprague, and
e DR.. Dewey, and The Netp York Observer (Iaugh'
l. ter, he would see very different men and things
e here. You don't suppose any human being. even
the meanest, gets down on it's belly and eats dirt
It for nothing. No, indeed! 1t is full of the selfish
ness of the Yankee character; it is corrupted, and
e that is what | would save it from.
.e l know that l have not done justice to this sub
IS ject-of course | have not! 1t can't be compressed
into an hour. What l have to say is, that thu
Union is an arrangement Of men. 1t is a machin
10 cry that our fathers have set up. 1t may be
valuable machinery, and to a certain extent
Is don't deny it. All have to say is. that up to thu
h present point it has secured ntitLer liberty MOI
70 justice. Carlyle says that the great test Of gov
es eminent is to educate men. Certainly. DAME
IN Webster said, with a great deal more epigrammat
er ic terseness, the merit Of the Colonies was tina
m they p~rcductd Washington. The fault of tb'
Union is that it produced a Webster (hisses ant
A applause long contipued). Well, it is a sad rec
We ord. God gave us the heavist brain that he len
SO this generation. From his New Hampshire moth
he err he took as much vigor of will as most oshe
-. men have. lie promised to have ruin q race 0
distinguished and useful statesmanship, ~irhbibihj
from the New England atmosphere the broades
and most generous principles of Liberty. Yo
cent him to the maelstroth of the nation, poten
uf enough to swallow mp virtue stronger than his
rs, You added him to the list of all those that mar
is the pathway of the Union, the wreck of good teI
es ~utations, the skeletons OF statesmen who have bl
at trayed their age. It is no matter of rejoicing.
al. One thing why l regtet the Union so vastly
n that it makes the saddest record Of the Statesman
We ship of Our generation and the last. The Unto
ey allow it all its merits; the question is, is thei
y not something more valuable to-day Our be
if statesman, our foremost, he is obliged by the ne
nd essities of his position to say, for instance; tht
rs John Brown was a criminal, and justly hun
We Lay that record by the side of Mr.. Sewafd's be
III speeches. 1t don't cohere. What hope have 5c
We for the future 1t is in the struggle Of publ
so opinion. How can it be created ? Slowly, by Il
ed preaching Of rigid right and wrong. How can
ire create the public opinion ~ade9uats TO beat dow
an the Slave Power? Only by laying down The mo
in absolute principles Of right--only by ienotit
,er color only by asserting that slavery is a sin ar
on if it is a sin, what is all legislation that endeavo
,h- to cover in Three millions Of people, bendir
wn beneath the tax put George Washington in frol
lse of them, and marched to victory and to fame. I'll
yc world says right, glorious. Four millions Of pc
,g- plo, bending under a bondage compared wi
,u- which one moment is heavier than ages such
he our fathers rose to resist, put John Brown in frol
,m of them. He is a criminal justly hung. Out
to that decision can they get a virtue that will be
IRE down such a Slave Power as that described
lst you 2 Never. Now, all l ask is, that each ma
me shall make up his mind that every slave has
ar right to liberty. That is justice, right. If yC
f ! can get it in your constitution, God grant til
ew you may but get it. Dr.. boy told me two lal
,re ago, that he saw brought into his Missouri prison
for kidnapped from the Kansas Territory a youu
nix Black man, % years old, his hands manacled t
of gether. crying. Among his sobs he half %articul
lst ted 1 am a freeman | am a freeman! my fire.
he papers are in my pocket Tbs United States of
ats Ger who brought him in put his ham Is in thl
err pocket, took out the papers, tore them up, an
IN flung them into the hrej and the next mornin
ill those hands went down, melted into the slave pc,
lily ulation forever. Is this a a single instance I
MS have seen the Chief Justice of Massachusetts, 81
ut ting on the Bench of the Supreme Court with
le- fugitive 81 we who bad proved twice the right