Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-01-07


Curry of Alabama, We should think, much in
! this way ''ro what does all this amount? AS to
the Democrats of Massachusetts, the Oushinga,
Greens, and Halletts, know all about them.
We should as soon think Of caring to know the
opinions Of the Crockers and Sandbillers, and 9th
or poor whites. whom we to catch runaway
negroes, tar ahd feather suspected Abotionists
and do our dirty work generally, as theirs. AS to
MIR. Everett and Governor Lincoln, and Mr.. Ma
than and Mr.. William Appleton, and their like,
we have uch respect for them PERSONAL and the
more because we know that they have lost all po-
litcal influence a. home through their fidelity to
us and our institutions but for this very reason
the expression Of their opinions is entirely super
ogatory and Insignificant. But where we're the
men who do represent others The Governor of
the State, the President of the Senate the Speak
er Of the House, the Mayor of the city2 We Gao
accept that demonstration only as the expression
of the opinion of the men within the walls Of
Fanueil Hall (Which was entirely Unnecessary
and not as that of the State, or even Of the city
We should be simpletons if We took it for more"
In fact, the whole thing was treated joke
! generally, and most of the persons saw who had
given their names and presence were laughing
among themselves about their Saving the Union"
again. There was no kind of seriousness nor
earnestness about the affair, unless it were among
the worthy antilles, who made most prem
inent on the platform and in the newspapers. |
would not have you infer that all those who reius-
ed to have anything to do with the meeting were
in communion with Capt Brown. Very few of
them would have advised or assisted at his at
tempt But they did not think the panic which
he had luck into the Shareholders sufficient
reason for Massachusetts, to get down on her face
in the dirt to stop their believing The general
feeling, as far as can gather it, is that which
some expressed about Lafayette when he came
on his wild goose chase to this country-"What-
ever may De thought of his prudence, no one
can help adn,iring his spirit"
This meeting was striking contrast TO the one
/, held in 1885, at which Theodore Lyman, the May
or, presided, an Harrison Gray Otis and Pelec
: Sprague spoke. That was a real thing earnest
fierce, terrible. The men that called and manag
Cd it the that had absolute control of the
city and the State, and they weic serious in the.,
purpose to crush the Ant-Slavery movement in
its infancy. From it proceeded the mob of gen
'Itlemon of property and standing in fine broad
son could they have laid hold Of him., and from
whose hands Mr., Garrison was hardly saved alive,
though he was not the prime object Of their as
sault. From it, went forth the mu:derous spiri,
which ficd the streets of every Northern city,
and Of almost every village, with violence and
outrage. 1t helped. a. least, to shoot down Love
Joy at Alton, and to set FIRE to Pennsylvania Hall
and to swell the Reign of Terror which endured
for year or two. The pocket-Governor that those
Boston gentlemen owned suggested to the Legis-
lature IN his Message, that opinions hostile to
Slavery might be made punishable by fine and
imprisonment and Judge that bell nged to them
charged Grand Jury that such were indiclu5e
at Common Law But how are the mighty fall
en-
"Wha. change was here, my countrymea!"
The Boston Post has unwiscly recalled the meet
ing OF 1885 and tried to make this appear the
counterpart of that. The power and sign fcance
Of the two meetings were about as much alike as
he men that spoke at them Mr. Everett and
Mr.. Otis or Mr.. Gushing and Mr. Sprague. All
who remember Mr.. Obs know that for dignity,
grace, force and beauty of oratory, ho was incom-
parably the superior of Mr. Everett Aud as for
Mr.. Gushing and Mr.. Sprague-why. Mr.. Sprague
might be sawed and split into cartoad of Cush-
ing4,and leave barrel of chips over for kindings
The two meetings alike l grant you alike in
genus, but widely diverse in species. That Of fif-
ty-nine resembled that of thirty five just much
toothless old Tom-cat does hungry young
Tiger.
l must soy that think Gov. Banks had rather
hard usage at the hands of Mr.. Cushing, consid-
eriug the superserviceabeness of his Excelency
in the matter of the Webster statue, and other
particulars of Iunker interest. He said "a
band of drunken mutineers has seized hold of the
public opinion of the Common weath-avowed
and proclaimed enemies of the Constitution. 4
Where is the helmsman Has he sold himself to
the mutineersi No; but the mutineers stand
with pistol at his head, commanding him to obey
or die |" Now, this is too hard the Governor
and on the mutneers-which last must be the
Garrison Aboltionsts. l have some slight ac-
quaintance among this latter class of maliguants
and would exonerate the Governor from any Just
charge of subseryiency to them. and they beg also
to dsciam all responsibility for any of the do
ings of his Administration. Always excepting
the removal of Judge Loring. That was their
doing. Had 1t not been for their persisteucy, that
unjust Judge would have had charge Of the wid-
ows and orphans'of Boston unto this day. They
claim no part in any other Of the Governors acts.
And, by the way see that the House of Repre-
sentasves has ju;t passed resolution to pay 3d.
900 for the expenses Of the Inauguration Of the
Webster statue. And this, though the gift was
made and accepted on the express condition it was
not to cost the State farthing Whether this
measure be an act Of volunteered servility and
snobbishness IN the part Of our shabby legislators
or whether the Statue Committee have held oct
their hat and asked nm aims of The State, ! do
not know. trust it may be the first, for whatev-
or fault have ever heard found with the gentle
men comp sing the Committee, | belieye they