Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-03-10

his grandmOthers sparks Quit e(Great meFriment.)
1t is single man, therefore, like the single match,
that is too dangerous in powder factory like the
whole South; she doen't wait for a con1agration, !
sho doesn't want all Massachusetts; a sample
brick is as perlious
This irrepressible conflict, then, has begun in
just that shape. What we are doing is to &C.
knowledge, to recognize. to confess to bid it God
speed, 10 See it wherever it starts up to keep the
pubic Informed Of how far it has travelled. Men
say there will be instructions at the South Well,
you cun buy drunken marines to put them do En;
you con gather the refuse of New York and Bos
ton, and pay ten dollars month, aud i. whl do
anything, Put out its eyes and it will be just as
good; i has no need that it should see; only let it
hear the order and it will act But doubt much
whether if Virginia should rise--I mean the only
Virginia that has right to come to an honest
mans Imagination when he pron0unces the words
the Virginians that live on the bread they earn,
and that make the soil blossom and bear some
thing, in the providence of God--not the tyrants
that live by selling, and keep safe by shedding
the blood of honest n,-f Virginia and Carroll
ma should rise Tomorrow doubt much, whether
you could recruit an army in New York and New
England to 60 down and put out an iusurreetion
in these States, as the Constitution calls it. The
irrepressble conflict Las gone that far. The peo-
pie at the North are very willing that South Car
olna should keep her slaves if she can; they never
will help her. They are willing she should enlist
militia, at our expense, if she can get them; but
doubt, very much, if che can get Northern men to
60 down and put out irsurrections We have
reached yery distinct and unequivocal point
1--WE will do nothing to help slavery"-I am
speaking now in the name of the masses-"We
will do nothing to hel p, and we will do nothing to
harm; let them fight it OUT" | think-and it is u
very important point-that the Yankee says, 81
have no time to abolish slavery; | am making
needles aud pins cotton and wooden, money and
bread; have no time to help you put down slavery,
nor to help you put down insurrecton; settle
your own muss." / think that is the mood Of
the public mind; it is great gain. In 1896
Edward Everett said on the floor Of the United
States House of Representatives, 81 will buckle
on my musket readily, to aid you to put down al
instruction of slaves" Twenty years later
Robert G. Winthrop said in this city, to Grienl
Of mine, "Do you know that Mr. Everett neve
meant to be reported? He said that. it is true, anC
theHNhey made him print i'll" LaughterA Poo
manlf lie meant, like any other weed, to drift on
and always be found on the crest of the wave; bu
they nailed him down to the trough and there h,
is to-day Fresh laughter and applause.) But
meantime the sorry apology showswhere the puo
lie mind around him has travelled. They were moi
ready for such sentiment. The Northern mind
has got beyond it, the South feels that this is so
She knows that only So long as she clasps the
Government does she clasp safety The moment
it goes out Of her hands, the moment the laten
public sentiment can get itself organized, thai Gov
ernment itself will be on the other side.
Now, what have we to do2 1t seems TO me tha
wo are simply to go about warming into life thest
little spots on the surface of the dead body of th
State, that shews where the blood begins to circu
late. We are to take, for instance, the text o
John Browns movcmen! in Virginia not merol,
to elevate the man he needs no eu!ogy Of ours
history has gathered him INFO Ler bosom, and
marches proudly down to prosperity with her I'M
mortal trust (applause) what we need is, Il
take the ethics which he has started the collision
of principle which he has made evident before the
American people. May slave rise? May and
fulcrum upon which to crticse revOlts? All these
VIC are to carry out into the Church and State
iearlessy. There will be dreadful shaking of
the dry bones. 1t is one of those dividing periods
when men shrink back from the issue, 1t is u
fresh movement Of the upper and under stones OF
the mil Of public retribution; and Henry Ward
Beecher has been ground to fine powder in the
crisis. Applause and laushter) He has no.
stood the conflict to which one mans gallant mo-
ment of life has summoned HIM. Tried, and
found ipdnting, will be written on many a man
who calla himself an Abolitionst, He never be-
lieved that the black was. 10 reality, the same
as the white. Charles Remond touched the very
kernel of the question--he thought he did, but
that man run out the inference to its logical re-
suit, and be started back from it. What is to be
our twelve or twenty four months of la6orf That
argument. 1t does not need another revolt, it does
not need another bullet. They will come, beyond
all doubt; the echoes in those Virginia mountains
will be repeated, further South and further West
till the great organ, hymn of insurrection ascends
to the presence of God. (Applause.) You will
not live twelve months, nor Fix months, without
hearing them; it is not possible that the NORTH
. and Northwest, as excited as ourselves, such Q
torch should have been lighted, and no other con
aagration be seen except that Of Harper's Ferry
But, whether you see that confagration or not
like the touch which genius gives us, and all els
is imitation, the first blow struck at the slaV
system with the public mind in such readiness t
interpret and respond to il, is, as Mr.. Garriso
said, show us the hour Of the day, and is striking
new hour-s mark of the time--a new epoch. W
have turned over a leaf-we see new side c
American character.
The REFORMER.