Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-08-04


three years, and let him study jurisprudence and
the SCIENCE Of government lie is not quite Ger
tain about the traffic between the States in human
beings. suppose he has no difficulty in regard
to the traffic in cotton, and sugar, and rice, and
tobacco, even-I suppose bis mind is fully made
up on that scarcely ever saw Western man
who had any doubt upon :hat sutjecs- (aughterl
but here is question Of the traffic 10 human
beings, and he has not studied that subject sufi.
cienly to be ale to have any opinion about it /
must say, however,, land want you to hear this !
that If L should be Of opinion that Congress does
possess the constitutional power. | should still
not be in favor Of the exercise Of that power un
less upon some conservative principle, akin t
what have said in relation to the abolition o.
slavery in the District of Columbia daughter
Now, | see before me vast concouTse of ntelii
gent looking men and women. doubt not larg,
majority of the men present are members ant
jealous supporters of the Republican party Ir
your suffrages gentlemen, for Abraham Lincoln
did you expect you wero voting for euch doctrines
and such doubts, as have here read
But have not quite done reading. will trcu-
bic you but for a moment. Cur friend Mr. Garri-
son, read one resolution from the Republican plat.
form; permit me to read one other passage from
t That the maintenance, inviolate, Of the rights
OF the States, and especially the right Of each
State to order and control its own domestic insttu-
tons according to its own judgment exclusively,
IS essential to that balance Of power upon which
the perfection and endurance of our political faith
depends; and we denounce the lawless invasion,
by an armed force, Of any State or territory, no
matter uRder 0hat pretert, amongst the gydUeSt
Of crimes Did you suppose, in voting for Abra-
ham Lincoln; that you were going to vote John
Brown, the grayost Of criminals? Because, if so,
God have compassion on you'll The gravest Of
crimes was the act of John Brown-our only
hero of the nineteenth century! The poor old
century, as Carlyle would say, had plodded on
three score years without hero, and without one
heroic act, and |, for one, was beginning to despair
of our country ever producing hero, in the popu-
lar sense of the term hero, for moral heroism
Is quality too sublime for the perception of this
generationj and SO when John Brown appears, in
the true spirit Of Lafayette, initiating if not Jesus
certainly Moses and JOSHUA Why the Republican
party is about to decree him the 'gravest of ciini
nals;' by its elevation to the Presidential chair OIL
Abraham Lincoln of illinois. Did you mean to
do it? Does Henry Wilson believe that John
Brown committed "a grave crime? God forbid
should charge him thus. I know that when sum-
moned before Mr.. Mason's senatorial inquisition,
be rather shrank from testimony which think his
son, forty years hence-:f ibe bright looking boy
liyes-wil be very sorry to say his father forgot
to give. There were several champions of the
Republican party summoned 70 the bar to testify
what they knew; and one testified i know not
the man; and a maid saw him in an inn, and she
said, Thou surely must have been with him, Cor
thy speech betrayeth thee. But he began to curse
and swear, saying, l know not the man. And
many q cock has crowed since, but have seen no
bitter weeping over the sin. daughter aud
applause.)
Think you, Mr.. Chairman, that the sons of
these men will not one day blush that their faith
ers said they knew nothing of John Brown and
ais movements. | happen to beiiere (you need not
tel Mr.. Mason of it) that some of them did know
about it. They did not choose to tell him; do not
know that should have told him, if | knew;
should have done as l pleased, for l hold that
Shareholders have no rights that anybody is bound
TO respect (Laughter.)
But here is the Chicago platform pronouncing
John Brown the gravest of criminals Why,
Governor Wise did not so badly as that. lie said
be was the bravest man he had ever seen; OF, to
use his Virginia parlance, the pluckiest man he
had ever seen, and he had seen Mr.. Wilson
among the rest, (laugher)-and he could trust
him to any eztentp Think of that The Repub,
lcan party brands him as q criminal, but the Gov
ernor of irginia says he could trust him to any
extentl Put it on record. And there is the record
Of the brave old man. l wish there were a tele
graph between here and North Eba, that those
who have gathered there to-day might know thai
the old man is not forgotten. But, fortunately
there is a telegraph between me and where the
old man'a spirit rests, and he knows all about it.
Now. our friend Wilson's record is not quite
what wish it were. / wish be world come to the
platform, and tell me what he meant by a passage
in one of his speeches in Congress. lie usualy
speaks to the purpose and if his is not the polish
ed eloquence of Everett, which amounts to nothing
it is generally that Kind Of slodge. hammer dealing
with facts which amounts to every thing. But,
here is a slight exception to Lis usual fidelity, ,apd
should ike to know what is meant by i; for, il
mistake not, he is going to put our friend Garri-
son in the same category with John Brown, and
call him the gravest oil criminals, fer he proposes
to hang whosoever lays hands on the Union
North or South. and send his name down to pos
terty, stained with the doom Of traitor | dom
believe you want to hang Mr.. Garrison, any NOR
than you wanted to hang John Brown. / appre
hend that Senator Wilson, if he were High Sher
ff Of the District Of Columbia or Grand Exenu
tOnerin Chief of the country, would hire some
body to put the halter round our friend Garrs on
neck, if he was to be hung. To be sure, he ha
not laid hands upon this Union, but am might
ly afraid that what he has done induced Johr
Brown to do it, and therefore he might be huns
as particepes eriminiS. i am very sure sbouIc
give my vote for it, if was upon the jury. Their,
is no Republican here who means any such thing
Honest old Ate, tho man whom you are talking
about rdnning into the Presidency that not very
digni6ed vehicle, rail, he may mean it and
think according to his doctrines that is the pron