Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-06-16
sPEEUII OF WENDELL PHILLIPS. ESQ.

AT Tie NeT England Aaii- slaUery Contention,
Wednesday, Nay 80, 1850.
Nh. CHAIRMAN, The resolution TO which | will
endeavor to say a few words, | suppose has been
read, but | will read it again;
(Mr. P, read the FIRST Of the series. See au-
other column.)
We are here to-day Abolitionists our great pur.
pose, to seek the abolition of American Slavery.
With the exception Of the Church Anti-Slavery
Society, which met on Tuesday, | know of no body,
at least in Now Eugland, if anywhere in the
whole empir,, that seeks the abolition Of Ameri-
can slavery. We have neither a Church nor a
party that seeks the abolition Of American Slavery
The question is neither in religion nor in politics,
anywhere. Let mo say a word upon tina. last
point.
The question is not in p %Ilitics, anywhere. There
10 a Republican party which undertakes to pro-
tect, to a certain extent, the rights of white men,
In cert4in localities but that party distinctly re-
~pudiOtes all connection with the question OF the
abolition of slavery, either gradually or immedi-
ately. 1t is not in their platform it is not in
the speeches of their leading men. More than
that; you never find their leading men on the
platform of any anti-slavery society. There
lie, therefore, no manifestation, in the polit-
ioal world, OF any intent or purpose to attack the
system of slavery. Certainly there is none in the
religious. We, therefore, and one or two addition
oil societies, are the only bodies that undertake to
deal with the question of American slavery. If
you take the platform of the Chicago Convention,
with the change Of a few words in regard to the
territorial question, they might just as we'll have
nominated Douglas as anybody else, because there
is nothing in his life nor in his speeches which
runs counter to that Declaration of Principles at
Chi ago. The only approach, therefore, to a DO
ltlcai anti-slavery novcmen is one so CLOSELY iden.
tilted with the old parties, and with the Democrat,
ic party especially. that there is no distinguished
element in it. Certainly its head and all it's lead
ets r~epudiate all connection with the auti-slavery
movement, as such.
| am the more anxious that this should be un.
derstooi |, because some persons suppose that
there are different phases of the anti-slavery
movement that there are certain Churches doing
something, certain politicians doing something.
Now, OF course, any man who undertakes to be a
free man, to express his own sentiments, to go
forth with a newspaper in his pocket, is, to q GER
tain extent, attacking slavery-because slavery
and freedom are so, not only antagonistic, but in
consistent, that the one cannot exist in the fully
developed presence Of the other but what l soy
Is, that no body Of men announces to the public
any intention of attacking American Slavery but
ourselves. We are in the thirtietb year of our ex-
is.ence we have labored with all the means at
our control and, in the thirty years of our exis-
tence, the Slave Power has had, and continues to
have, such omnipotent hold on the sources of
nnesa GNoko. oAI 800 ~, ..nno - eooL
the abolition OF slavery. 1t is a remarkable fact,
aod we'll worth noting. 1t is of great signif.
canoe. Itjustifes the policy which we urge upon
the nation, of radical, aggressive, unfinching at
tack on all the great sources of haracter-litera
ture, theology, politics, the Union, if they have
created a Union so bound 10 the car of slavery that
thirty years ofspgitation have not yet made one
politician brave enough to put i: on his banner
that he intends the abolition of American slavery.
Here is Mr.. Lincoln, proclaimed to be, in The
Courier, the man who, according to the best in
formed political authority, is the only man capable
of uniting the anti slavery sentiment of the North
ern States. He is The tide mark that shows how
high what may be called the Northern sentimeR;
(for you cannot call it the anti SLAVERY sentiment)
has risen within thirty years. Mark you he
says in this document speech OF Mr.. Lincoinl
in regard to such a point, for instance. as the abo,
lition of slavery in the District of Columbia, thai
he has never studied the subject that he has nc
distinctive ideas about it. That is the measure o.
his anti-slavery. Slavery on the very site o.
the Capitol, under the executive authority of the
General 0overnment-the simplest form of despot
ism-the simplest element of the question whether
the Union can make & slave--and he has no dis
tinctive ideas about it-he never thought it worth
while to consider it much but 50 far as he has
considered 1.-THE should be, perhaps, in favor Of
gradual abolition, ,cAen The Shareholders Of The Dis
trict ASK for ii !(Derisive laughter Of course he
would. doubt if there is a man throughout the
whole South who would not 60 as far as that.
When South Carolina wants to free her slaves, he
is reSe5 to grant thlt she may (renewed laugh.
ter.) That is the amount Of his anti slavery in
the very focus Of the Union, where the problem is
discharged of all Ingredients. excep. the simple
question whether the United States shall hold
slaves.
Then he goes into another question-that oil
the inter state slave trade. which the South her
self has, on frequent occasions, taken the Oppor
tunity to protest against. In regard to that, be
is not at all in favor Of stopping it and in .e
gard to the Fugitive Slave bill, he has no objee
tons to it, and he would have objections 60 intro,
ducing the question Of repeaIing it, as an element
of agitation (hear. hear.0 That is the amount OF
n ti-siavery, If you choose to call it such, which
according to the Chicago thermometer, the North
ern States are capable of bearing. The ice is Sc
tiia that Mr.. Lincoln, standing sir feet and foul
inches. cannot afford to carry any principle with
him on to is tLaugater.)
But take a more favorable element of the Re
publican moVem emit. as you might call it-Mr. Viii
sol or Mr.. Sumner, for instanee-the very besl
speeimcns, perhaps, of the Republican mind. Do
you ever see one of them here! Have they ever
a7owed their parPOse to seek. as q Distinctive end,
tbe alb AitiOn Of slavery 10 the Southern States ?
See how the man whom The Tribune defends, snd