Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-06-02

en- place to the more odious one Of looV' LUZ
purchase Of Louisiana led 10 the more recent put-
chase Of Florida, aud the ambitious designs upon
Cuba aud other territory farther south. Inc es'
tablishment Of slavery in the District oil COLUMBIA
led 10 the opening Of the domestic slave trace
there. The power Of our government at home has
been used to sustain this institution, while the
strength Of its foreign diplomacy has been direct
cd to its prosperity and its perpetuity. Learned
Judges have construed law in favor of human
bondage, and recognized in tho opprossor rights
which are denied ~ the advocates of freedom.
But it is needless to specify. 1t is sufficient to say,
the germ Of compromise planted in our organic
law has brought forth bitter and accursed fruit. !
trust that the scene which the present unfoids to
our view is the elimination Of that wicked and
mistaken policy which endeavored to unite and
protect 10 the same government the two opposing
princit les of human freedom and Of chattel sia-
very.
There can be no mistake in this matter. The
abuses of governmental patronage. the organized
violations of natural rights, no one will question I;
OF that avery effort which the North has made to
place freedom in the a sceBdant has only shown that
she is hopeiessly bound to the support of despot-
ism. In view of these facts l unhesitatingly de-
clare that while forbearance has ceased to be a
virtue, passive endurance has become the shelter
of the coward: [Applause.l
But we might let rnauy of these things pass as
a page of history that it is hardly worth while to
exhume, ae we live fast, in this fast age, and for
get very coon but there are the present aggres-
sions of tbe Federal Government trampling under
foot the rights Of every man who is hostile to sla-
a.. Konao. ond bar outro0ao mo- hn for0ottnn
by US, the trace of rufianism may wholly fade
from her beautifcl plains, yet we know there are
human hearts that have not forgotten, and that
never will forget, and, I suppose, it might be wis
dom in US to remember that, under like circum-
stances, we should suffer like indignities. Bury
in oblivion, if you wish and if you can, that base
attack upon Senator Sumner, and the shameful
neglect with which the Senate treated il, but don't
ask him to forget those days Of suffering, and that
weary pilgrimage in a foreign land and think
selfinterest might cause you to emember that
whenever a like opportunity offers, you may suffer
in a similar way. Forget, if you will, that the
United States marines were despatched for the
support of Slavery, in the hour of her extremity
at Harper's Ferry /; forget, too, that they guarded
the Virginia gallows from which John Brown pas
sed to a glorious immortality but don't ask the
stricken ones at North Elba to forget these things;
and it would be we'll to rem ember, for our own
sake, that our considerations convictions will avail
US naught in q contest with This power that oppres'
ses US.
Glass, if you will, Judge Taney's bred Scott de-
cision with the things Of the past, which are bound
by no visible link to the present, there is still no
lack eff matter to show that neither under State
co. TodaraI boa anu lo1ar If freadom
any adequate protection for his rights,
Go down to the city of Washington, enter its
Jail, and ask Thaddeus Hyatt how this matter
stands. Congress, through Senator Mason's lavesti
eating COMMITTED, attempted to compel him to ans
wer such questions as they chose to PROFOUND. Ht
denied their right and fully demonstrated thoirwant
of power. And this contumacious witness thereby
became guilty of contempt. With a wonderful ecOno.
my, the Offices of judge jury, accuser and execution
or were combined 10 one, andwithout any chance
of appeal, except to the high court Of public opin.
ion, Thaddeus Hyatt must stay in Jail till the Sen
ate shall conclude he has suffered enough, or until
he has purged himself of contempt; and do moi
see how any sensible man can ever purge himself
of contempt for the present American Congress.
IApplause.l Thus does the United States Senate
act, within the capital where it has the power.
1t sends its agents abroad-sends up to Concord
that holy battle ground-for Frank b. Sanborn.
He did not choose to obey their bidding. lie
was free and meant to remain so. They seized
him; tried to run him off south on an opposition
underground railroad. But for the timely aid of
q Massachusetts Court, he might now be lying in
Jail. hope Concord will vindicste the reputation
she once acquired. and stand ready to %inaugur-
ate a new revolution for the rights of man, no
matter by what power those rights are assailed,
and, if need be, to bring ont again those time
honored arms that were successfully used by the
rebels of ITS. loud cheers.)
Why wait any longer! Why delay the settle
ment Of this questions 1t must come sooner or
later. We have no reasonable grouhd for hope
that our condition will be bettered. I, is not with
US as it was with the Fathers. They had every
thing to encourage them. Then freedom was
strong, and slavery was weak. Freedom had been
nursed in the camp, and baptized on the battle.
field. It wac vigorous, and grew into stately
proportions. Slavery was lettering with feeble.
ness and wasting with want. 1t was expected
soon TO die, and the hour of it's dissolution ap-
peared to be very near.
Unfortunately, it lived. it grew, it waxed strong.
1t has become a legislator, a ruler, and twenty
millions of protested freemen now humble them
selves before its power. Now Freedom is weak.
She trembles with fear. She often hides away,
God only knows where. Not in the hearts of men,
surely.
We have very much to discourage us. When
men read the doctrine of human equality by the
cleaning light Of British sabres, they read it
Alright. When they wrote out their protests
against oppression 10 human blood. they meant
something. But now men look through the pow
erful lens of mistaken self,interest, and their
eyes are full of gold dust, and they can't see; and
they talk about liberty in ~faintest whispers, and
it don't mean anything.
Did not Lee, and Pinckuey, and Randolph and
Henry all unite in condemning slavery What.