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

and took her place as the cohtrUllnR element OI
the future, and Paganism died away, just so
will it be with slavery. For sixty years she has
held the empire. There Las been no irrepressi-
ble conflict, because the whole nation was slave
government. No freedom in Massachusetts,, any
moro than in tie SOUTH that is, freedom
against anything that South Carolina wished to
oppose. From the very first moment, there has
been no such freedom. Sam Dexter, OF this State,
merely launched taunt in the fret Congress- at
the slave system. The oath Of naturalization,
you know, requires If stray noble comes, that
be must renounce his titles Dexter merely pro-
posed to add that if a stakeholder comes, be
should renounce his slaves: and he was a bank
rupt politician, thenceforward in Massachusetts.
Nobody knew what killed the Federal Party. The
difficulty was, they had found out the secret which
no American dared utter, that in the Presidential
chair sat the slave whip; and they were foolish
enough to attack it. Tho party died of the mis-
take and there has been none since, that has not
taken a lesson by that fatal mistake, and avoided
the revelation of that Mokanna, the veiled Pres-
dent of thirty masquerading States. (Applause.)
But now the rrepressible conflict has begun
The only difficulty is that men are SO half-and-haf
trying to resist the very influences of their own
creation. Now begin the free press, the individual
conscience the interests of trade, the natural in
dependence and the awakened conscience of the
Northern people to interfere with the South. 1t
began, frst in this matter of fugitive slaves. We
were unwilling to return them. Ou: Christianity
rose to that level. 1t was the first symptom Of
life in the Northern conscience. Y ou could not
return the fugitive slave. A law safely defed
touches its downfall. The moment that ever in
dozen or a score of towns, the Fugitive Slave
Law of '93 was safely de6ed, it touched its down
fal. The moment that, in the towns of the South,
that provision of the Consti' ion, which gives you
and me right to go there, . safely defed, it has
touched it's downfall. That is the reason it does
not cease to exist. But, to-day within twenty
years, in this generation, we have launched q
new ISSUE You know when the Great Eastern
was launched she had two ponderous engines, Of
immense power, splendidly finished, the product
of two rival machine shops; and the head of each
shop claimed the right to 60 to sea with his own
machine, one, Of course, hating the other, and
each meaning to prove, within twenty-four hours
that the others engine was a failure. The conse
Iquence was, that while one went forward, the
other backed water and the Great Eastern stood
still (Laughter.) just 80 stand the thirty State
at this moment, William II. Seward representing
the average of Northern intelligence ard com
merce and thrf.,-feeling that, for once, the
shield he has hung out to the nation has been
touched, and the challenge made; and, of course,
the nation rocks in tho trough OF the sea, and can
make no headway. One after another commence
the evidences of this irrepressible conflict. An
honest clergyman, who thinks he lives in Fvee
State, breaches a sermon, somewhere in the coun-
try against the system Of slavery; they turn him
out, and he comes to Boston to beg bread; and he
is one of the evidences. The Tribune puts in COM
petition the merc.less satire OF Congdon and be
puts eighteen millions of people, twice week, on
a broad grin--another evidence of the conflict
The wit of the North, that irrepressible love oil
fun which marks it, and in which the South, in her
phantom house of horrors, seems to have no share
her conscience is too much disturbed to love
froic-:hc free-hearted, jovial North, from the
Atlantic back to the river, who has no concealed
skeleton at her feasts it is that really creates
American huwor; and the high priest of it stands
in the Tribune, with his pililess arrows assaing
the system of slavery, in the face of the world.
And, better than all, Puritan conscience awakes,
and firgs its spear down into the centre Of Vir-
ginia, in the revolt of John Brown; and the world
says, Do l approve Of him Well, he is your ell
dest born, you ought to know him. he bears your
ineament, you ought to acknowledge him. He is
the natural product of The thought of the North
seeking vent some here The irrepressble con
fct has begun-not between State street and
70 Az Vaeposian said
when they brought him the tax from n foul source
non olet, it does not smell; State street touches
the gold that comes from the coinage of New Or
leans and says, 1t weighs as much as that which
comes from the free State Of California it doesn
matter to me, so long as it is gold, and rings on
the coulter of the bank vault. No, the irrepressi
BILE conflict has not begun there; it will be a long
TINA before it begins. 1t has begun in difereD
quarters.
Mr.. Garrison has told US that we cannot 90 to tht
South and talk anti-slnvery, yet we will allow
a Shareholder, in Massachusetts,, to talk slavery
forever Aye to be sure; but the case is different
If you walking down Washington street, to
night, and saw a match, even burning, you woulC
not care, you wouldn't step aside and tread it out
No, you must have whole house in conaagrahoI
before you will cry fire. and send for an engine
A Southerner here is nothing but dead match
what do we care? There is nothing for him to Sc
on fire. (Applause and Laughter.) But ever.
man who walks Oliver Whipple's powder manu-
factory if he sees even dead match, stoops dOwI
, and throws it out of the window. South Caroln
has keen scent for a Northern masch-it may b
even dead one-she doesn't like the looks of il
(Renewed laughter and Applause) When tn
Spaniards and English took a town from th
French, in the Peninsular war, il there was man
ulaotory or mill Of powder, they always wen
searching among the stones, to see whether th
treacherous French had put flint there so tbs
the first motion Of the revolving wheels woul
strika fra and blow the whole 70 pieoes. No,