Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-06-09
WHOLE NO. 765.


died In ,ha, city, The deacon was relative Of the
Hon. Caleb Cushing but was In all other points
o respectable man. (great laugh,er.)
Well, there ore those who say Of the other can.
ddate who is not yet killed-of course | mean
Mr.. Douglas-thst he is anti.sIavery at heart. In
deed Tell me how muchi young husband,
shortly after marriage sat down with his wife to
one Of those romantic dinners that are very good
because of the OCCASION but seldom because Of the
cooking Qaughter) They had chicken-soup, and
the soup was very thin-almost as thin as water.
The man slipped little for loves sake, but an
ally for hungers sake exclaimed. Ny dear, ,couldn's
you persuade that chicken to wade again through
} this soup ?? )Great laughter.) Now, Mr.. Douglas
is said to DO game chicken, but he must wade
ngain through the soup before he can make us
? swallow it (renewed laugher) A young lady who
t had fallen in love with man who had huge
mous:ache sent a complaining letter to FNnch
about The great quantity Of hair on hcr lovers
face, asking what she should d., in her distress,
about his beard. DO about iti' said Punch.
Why, my charming friend said he, set your
face fat against IL Qaughtor.) So, sir, Mr.. Doug
las tells the public that he does not like the bris
tling beard of the Slave Power, bat sets his face
very resolutely, yet very lovingly, against i;
} daughter and applause)
One word more, and that serious. This nrita.
ton is not one of methods but of principles.
1t therefore summons to its aid all who love God,
liberty and their fellow-men asking that they
come without distinction OF party creed, to aid
| with their good will and good work in pressing
forward the great cause. The Abolitionsts have
always been misunderstood, and therefore misrep-
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seek as the chief object of his life the dissolution
e of the Union of these States. Not so ! His chief
a aim is the liberty of the slave. IIo would throw
away the Constitution, and dissolve the Union,
merely as methods of liberating the slave, othcr
men, having the same object in view, would take
different methods to accomplish IT, For my own
part-although my opinion can he of but little
worth to any else-I neither eject the Consti-
@ tuition nor would destroy the Union (applause.l
i On the contrary, claim the Constitution Cor free
e dom, and claim the Union the theatre on which
to work it out (applause.) Nevertheless, what is
e my chief object 1t is to free the slave ! What
lie is Mr.. Garrison's chief object 1t is to free tho
= slave Therefore clasp hands on this platform
10 with Mr. Garrison (appause) This being his pur-
t. pose, this platform is his place .his being my
n purpose, this platform is my place; if this be
your purpose, this platform is your place ! Zap
l. plause) l would be ashamed to call myselfa man,
1t if had so little manliress that would not dare
s. to stand side by side, in this great work, with
e Men with whose mere methods alone disagree,
=; but with whose leading aims, and principles, and
, especially with whose beautiful and heroic lives,
!, stand in glad and willing sympathy.
Nor have much opinion of any mans moral
r courage, who sutfere himself 10 be frightened
Il away from this platform by the absurd cry Of in.
6 fidelity. Sir as for myself am content to make
the basis Of my ubolitiOnsm the inspired word of
e God The platform on which take my stand as
o an Abolitionst is this book holding up Bible.
a Up yonder in the Fifth Avenue, there Is a new
It brick church, in the pulpit of which stands on
l. Sunday mornings a venerable man on whose head
It eighty winters have piled their successive SHOWS.
T. That minister has said The Bible Is no agitator
IS Sir. these words are sander on this book His
u ses and great applause. both continuing for some
It mnutes) should judge by the Kissing that some
. of the persons present have been reading. in this
same book. Of the creeping thing mentioned in the
= frat chapter Of Genesis Clahgher. and renewed
Kisses and applauses). The Bible no agi.ator'
The Bible is the arch agtator and it Is the agita-
tion with which this book has stirred the world
that bring to this question-an agitation which.
know, will sooner or later touch the heart Of the
nation (Applsuse.)
InAdelity What Is iti Sir, am a Christian
man, trust, by Christ's grace. and l utter no
sander but speak only the truth when say, that
Inadelity is the religion of Fifth Avenue Church.
cs, accepting the divinity Of Christ, but denying
the humanity Of man Loud applause) In
. Germany, when the stone breakers wish to split
boulder, they drive wooden wedge into it, and
go home, leaving the dry wood to be moistened
by tho dews of the night As the moistureIenters
the wood the fbres begin to swell, and before the
morning the great rock Is split asunder. Martin
Luther, taking up the old vellum OF this book,
dropped it as a wedge into the great rock Of
: the papal hierarchy. What happened There
. was an earthquake in the world. which shook the
d dome of st. Peters with its jar Tonight, in
Z Gods name, put this book wedge into the
walls Of the house Of bondage, with the firm hope
and faith, tha, whether live to see the end in my
day or not, the prisonhouse will surely be burst
o open, and the oppressed will 60 frse Applause.
May God, in his providence, speed the hour, and
20 crown the work IlLOud applause)
cit will be remembered that Mr. Gushing, In the chareStca
Convention cast steadily through ballots
feson Davis, which the only vote that gentleman
eeyed.
e. The SLAVE TRADE OPENED IN NEw WAY.
P Special Despatch to the Philadelphia Press, May
o4-I learn that the government has received IN
of formation that the fishermen off the coast OF For
il da and South Carolina are in the habit oil runoing
over to Cuba, on the pretence of disposing oil their
" Rsh, aud returning with two or three native ARR
er cans, bought there at low figure, which they dis
,e pose of at great advance to parties who meet
H. them on the coast purchase the negroes and take