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

sigh! strange to my eyes glad to stand once more
IN the clear light Of the sun-remembering how 1t
shines alike upon the evil and the good, upon the
Ist and the unjust Then recalling the words
nf DR.. Ross thought, "Ah sir, you are terribly
crongi" and, remembering Wilberforce in his
grave, said hal! aloud, in the streets at that
slave city, "IIe was SuJlmely rigMW (Loud
applause.l Yes, Mr.. Charles O'Conor there was
q time when John Randolph, of that samo State
of Virginia. arose IN bis place in the House Of
Representatives at Washington and said, "I envy
neither the heart nor the head of any man who
rises here to defend slavery from principle" But,
sir Vrginia--that great Stac!-once the mother
of Presidents, but now tho mother Of slavesl-ln
her long and loud plaudits Of the New York law
yers words, virtually bids welcome to n foreigner
and Irishman to trampie on the grave Of John
Randolph of Roanoke In the gateway to her
Capitol, on one side there stands, erected in
bronze, q statue Of Thomas Jefferson, holding in
his right hand the scroll of the Declaration Of In
dependence, in which, for eighty years, our faith
e-s and ourselves have read, "All men are created
free and equal" On the other side stands anoth-
or statue, likewise in bronze, OF Patrick Henry
holding in one hand a drawn sword, and in the
other a scroll with tie words, "Giye me liberty or
give me DEATH" When the setting sun throws
his last slanting rays those bronze statues, the
shadows that g creeping down the hill steal like
Iili-omened ghosts over the thresholds of slave
pens, where, from morning until noon of every
day, men, women, and little children are sold,
like goods and wares, at auction sale
Such is the nockery of freedom in free land (!
In tIo hoor &C 10
Sir, the plantation is an empire, the planter is an
emperor, and we are a people governed, not by
the President of the States but by the Czar OF the
Carolnas. And how patiently we submit to it
The government says, "I must have revenues from
the cotton-feld slave labor must be used; there
fore l will make men slaves that slaves may make
cotton, that cotton may pay tax" In the Hotel
dOrient at Athens, it is said perpetual fire is
kept burning fed with the roots of the ancient ol
i've woods, at cost Of hundred francs a day
With US, liberty is an ancient fame that many
men would Ike to see kept burning, but they can
not afford to sacrifice for it IL cents a pound or
cotton, and so they smother the fire with the
bales.
What is the attitude Of the American peoLlt
toward the slavo2 How stands the State? How
: SIuHuS Tue CHuTCu! llOW Slduub every UTuuCu VI
our political institutions?
Go to the Supreme Court Of tho United Statesi
knock at the door and ask, "What hope is there
for the saye" All, sir, will tell you what will
DO the reply. Cdrafa-the Austrian Judge JET
frics--iiied up his hands, and cried, IF l had
one drop Of blood in my veins that could ever
throb in sympathy with the lIungarans, | would
bleed myself to death" Chief Justice Taney--
the American Judge Jefries-- taking up his pen
to writo sentence of condemnation against a
poor man begging for his liberty, virtually deelar-
es, "If have in my veins one drop of blood that
beats in sympathy with the negrO,I now shed it on
this white paper" and so he gave his decision to
tho world Jlood-Stained. That, sir, is American
justice sitting in ermne on her supreme benchl
Shall turn to politics. to find hope in contend
ing parties2 Yedius Apollo, the friend of the
Emperor Augustus, fed his G,hes with the flesh of
slaves; that is the way we feed our politicians
Qaughter) Take the lighted lantern OF Diogenes
If so be that it is still burning.-and hunt up
and down the highways and by-ways of politics,
in search of an honest man! Where will you go?
| will tell you where you will not go; and that is,
to Albany (laughter). A friend Of mine who was
in that city few days ago, told me, on his return,
chat 10 one of the halls Of the Capitol long row
of portraits of Sta Senators and Representatives,
hanging on the wall, stared everybody in tho face
who passed by. After the introduction Of the re-
cent "Gridirou Bill" into the egislatuIe--a grid.
iron that was loaded with Fat spoils--some wag
went in the night and posted over the portraits
a placard in great black letters with the fattering
announcement, "ROgues Gallery" (laughter). |
have not yet heard that he has been sued for libel
(great laughter.) Historians say that the Spanish
soldiers in the Netherlands, plucking plunder
: from conquered province, washed their horses
feet with vine. Our American politician wade
to then votes washing their feet with bribes Sir,
both parties ere guilty. Though standing here
as Republican, charge almost equal criminality
upon both the Democratic and the Republican
party (applause). Plunder is n no less guilty
word when written in the private memorandum
{ book of Republican State Senator, than when
craven upon the open palm Of Democratic
cOrruptionist (great applause) Now, sir what
hope is here for the slave, who by the very pow
er:y of his bondage, is too poor to come bearing
| in his hands bribeH
Do you point me to the ChurchI Now, sir,
{ make no indiscrimnate charge against the
Church. The Church is the Churchesj the
Churches are not a uniti they therefore cannot
, fall under one condemnation. In Olden times, il
men, driven hard by persecution, and fleeing for
their lives, could take refuge at the altar Of ca
theGral, they were safe. No hand could lay its vO-
lence upon theml And there are Churches now
whose altars are bulwarks and refugees against OPP
preston. You may coun: them from Music Hall
to Brooklyn Heights, from Union Square to the
Rocky Mountains (applause). But these are few;
tho others are many. Why, sir. look at it Six
hundred thousand human beings held in bondage
by ministers and members of tho American Pro-
testant Church Now, believe it is the natural
tendency of men, whose thoughts are in any deg
rec accustomed to rise in religious contemplation
towards God, to stand from national instinct
and sympathy, on the side OF freedom, justice, and
truth. But the pulpit is ever more dragged down