Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-06-09

WIN q olt vi RIHsb Dy winch IL was suppOseu IhHt
the original oil of conservation was removed.
think that when the mob shattered the window
pnnes of DR.. Cox's house, some oc the glass mt st
have fallen on his head loud laughter.
Then, sir, we have those sensitive doctors Of d.
vinty-oditors ofreligious journals ls-who are very
severe ag insl mutatons by Tract Societies, but
who do not dare to print in their own columns,
without mutilaton, an honest criticism on the
Churches and the ministry, merely because it hap
pens to tie upa white cravat into hard knot
lLaughtcr.l If that strikes home, let it strike
(Applause)
Whittier shall we Co. then TO find hope for the
slave The Commerce of the nge-like the com.
merce of all ages-is selfish. In Sparta, to pre-
vent the increase of slaves they were slain with
daggers in the public highways. Compare the
ancient with the modern times In Virginia, to
to hasten the increase of slaves they bred for
the market as farmers breed their stock
Thus the controlling forces Of our times are
bearing down upon the negro, ard he is c'ushed
under their weight. What aud whence is his re-
| lief?
The problem is, to get the Church to say, with
Wesley, that Slavery is the Of all villanies ;;
to get the press to say, with Coleridge that Slave
holders are legalzed bandtti of menstealers J;
to get the State to repudiate, with Lord Brougham
the wild and guilty fantasy that man can hold
property in man. Now, how shall we do it ?
When you wish to get bad man to do right
first give him conscience, and then teach him tc
obey it, So, you cannot expect slavehClding
nation to do right, until you touch deeply its NOR
al sense. Then, by the force of its own aroused
conscience, it will break the slaves chain. Blu
how are you to reach the national conscience ?
know of bat one way; and that is, by the SAM
uninterrupted agitation that has been going OF
for twenty years; by the perpetual appeal of nob
and true hearted men; by unceaspg proclama
tion Of the truth; by steady indoctrination of III
people into belief of the value of justice, IN
sacredness of liberty, the dignity of mnn W
are to demand of all the institutions of our times
of the Church, Of the State of the Courts Of th
Market-p -place-that all these, standing now on
low level, shall lift themselves up into a highe
plane
But here comes man, frownng upon the ag
tation and scowliug at the impractcable demand
Oft agitators, asking with indignation, Can th
Church be purified at q stroke Can politics
made clean in day? Will commerce turn un
selfish at BREATH Will parties grow honest 70
a preamble /"
Sir, reply, No! l remember Tennyson's line
how
"-----freedom broadens slowly down
From precedent to precedent"
| know that the reform will 20 on slowly enough
in spite of every eloquent appeal to truth and jus
tce to hasten it. But, sir, know also that
would not 20 on at all, If it were not for the eter
nal moral principle behind it, to urge it forward
The sun cannot call forth summer in a day; am
yet, without the sun, no blade Of grass can groy
no blossom will hang upon the stem-no !rui
will rpen for the harvest Men point to us, AM
say we are fanatics; they point to our meetings
and call them Improbable; they mock at our an
niversaries, and call them useless. Now, sir,
know that an anti-slavery speech in New Yorl
will not abolish slavery from single plantation
in South Carolina. What thenf Are word
worthless? Is speech nothing Is full
heart powerless? Is the tongue to kcey
silence? No, SIR for l need not say t
rational men that if the right to liberty
never were proclaimed, the act of liberty would
never be performed. Therefore, the STATE should
be taught, "There is higher law than the statute
the Church should be taught There is highe
ethics than the morality Of thepews;' the pOlitca
parties should be taught, There is higher plat
form than the prospectus of a Presidential cam
paignP Applause.l
Take, f)r illustration, the one great topic which
every days newspaper is :hrusting upon us afresh
| mean the present state of parties in the nation
Last Saturday, distinguished member Of the Re
publican party, on his way to Chicago said 10 me
"If Mr.. Douglas is nominated on the platform oil
which he now processes to stand, he will strk
from the Republicans the chief weapon of thei
warfare What was that? Why, the great an'
we'll nigh the successful argument against tn
Democrats in 1856 was that they were determines
to gx and fasten slavery on the territories. Blu
Mr.. Douglass, at Charleston, for prudential con
sideratons, refused to stand upon q platform
which thus unequivocally declared its purpose t
thrust barbarous institution upon an unwilln
people. That is to say, Mr.. Douglas virtual
yields in 1860 all that the Republicans demande
in 1856. Now, il the Republican party has n
higher aim than to keep out slavery from the tel
ritories, The moment Me territories are safe, that
publicans is, "NO slavery 10 the territories = MI
Douglas who knows that his horoscope is cast 70
1860 or never more, ,artfully catches up the sound
mimics it with an echo, and cries out We'll, the
so be it, the people will slavery in the terrific
riesp What is the result? Why, the Repubica
party melts away under the breath of Mr., Dougla
mouth a very unpleasant breath to melt under
! (Great laughter.l What is the remedy? The RI
publican party must take higher ground (Al
pause.) Do you ask, Shall more be put into tn
platform Of 1860, than was put into the patforI
of 1856? Well, perhaps; not, if present succe:
is the highest object to be attained. 1t may
inezpedent in attempting to move the masses
the people, to crowd them forward faster than the
are able to 90 Of themselves. But maintain, O
member of tho Republican party, that whethe
more antislavery sentiment is 20 be added to til
new platform than was in the old, il is tho dut