Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-02-18

Tvs VIZ VhOs AhFHiobSosV u oa
in part, and for the present. If l may prepare ma
terial for John Brown, and induce millions to cry
out linen to The first echo Of his tiAes, and that is
oil that the Anti. Slavery movement has ever inten-
ded or protested to do.
But | charge il upon Republicanism itself that
any man has found it necessary to have recourse
to rifles. What says the candidate for the Speak
ership Of the United States House OF Representa-
tives : He says, Il say this charge Of interference
with slavery in the States is uniounded. The peo-
pie of Ohio, the State which | have the honor to
represent 10 part, do not wish or design to inter.
fere with the relations existing between the races
in the Slave States. If / had my voice, l would
not have one single political Abolitionist in the
Northern States. l am opposed to any interior
eDce, by the Northern people, with slavery in the
Slave States. I act with the Republican party
simply because the Republican party resists the
extension, but does not seek the abolition, Of slav-
D cry Now, Mr.. Chairman, for twenty years
certain parties have made the heart of the North.
ern people ache 10 abolish slavery. Certain par
ties have stirred up these States till the heart of
every thoughtful man longs to see the slave go
free. The Saxon rsce, left to itself. finds vent
through the ballot box but close up the ballot
WA, u ' iNouc NV INV ShVN'o "a iSfNc
lican party should write on its banner, abolition
Of Slarery.' What if John Sherman and Henry
! Wilson should avow that the political movement
t of the Northern States seeks tho freedom of every
: slave, through the Constitution-or over it2 For
4 the Constitution was not written by Gabriel, nor
nailed to the throne of the Almighty, is n
parchment which man made, and man can amend,
and there is no reason in the world why there
!, should not be q party with the purpose avowed
It from tho outset, to abolish slavery in the States
ave, and to change the Constitution of the United
States, if necessary. There is a party in Eng
land which seeks to put down Bishops there is
IL a party in England thet seeks to overthrow the
Aristocracy of the British Government. Why
y should not a party here avow the purpose to tear
ut the red stripe of blood in the Constitution oil
10 the United States1 No reason in tho world, OK
n cept the timidity of men that want to have office
in five years, instead Of fifteen. Now, if you will
give the country a party, religious and political,
n that writes on It's banner. 'Erery slare ought to be
fee, and we pledge ourselves. lifelong, to the effort
n 10 make him So you will unload every musket,
you will disarm every physical rebellionist.
% l do not believe slavery will go down in blood.
There is no. blood enough in the t~birty.one states
TO steep IL III. we 7 u hSutihS peopio'
d Our brains have got beyond II, North and South.
We are beyond it, and l should be ashamed it we
It we're not. If, two hundred years ago, this coun'
try was planted on a system of education and in
dividual interest 10 government, and in two hun
n dred years we have not reached that length where
& war is impossible as q method of reform,l should
y despond Of the schoolhouse and the church. I be
d lieve that neither in The North nor in the Soutf
n is there any such element as will abolish slavery
ls in blood. The Yankees will not fight. 1t won
70 pay. You have to convince the North that Siav
lr cry is Improbable before she will get upon bel
feet and put it down. Let me show New England
Of that it touches their pockets, and they will rise
a. Show that ii is profitable to put slavery down. ant
We there is not power enough in the slave states tt
RS maintain it. Every thinking man sees that il
tie Kansas and Harper's Ferry. The moment thu
al North Resisted in Kansas, the South backed out
h. The moment Pottawattomie wrote in the blood o
lie the oldest rufian the purpose of the North to clear
u out his musket and use it, as he had done eight.
years before, the Border Rufisns went back from
ID the line. They came there to find out if Yankee
l pedlers would fight they found they would, an
is they said, Good morning, gentlemen. we are don
~ with you.' The same thing would be true on tn
n, OT0aQ surface Oh tue OuiUH. II eumb was uu
IT ut Harpor's Ferry. Virginia was not ready to fgh
ar for the slave system. She never will fight for it
bur it is not lack Of courage that makes her unwi
n. ling to Bght. She knows that the system is NJ
nd defensihle. She knows that when the north OIL
II nounces its purpose that slavery shall cease.
m must cease. She knows as we'll as you do th'
MT when she cries Union, she only means robbery,
remember that, when l was a little boy, we wei
out on a Fourth of July, another boy and /,
,,t Boston Common, where they sold US things TIL
5s we're good to eat you remember Mr.. Chairman
,a. NV companion said, show much have you got
nd | said, Twenty-Five cents. How much have you
no I've got nine-pence. We'll said he, suppose v
IT, divide daughter That is exactly the case wi
as. the South. The North has twenty-five cents, ii
South nine-pence and she proposes an equal q
is. vision. (Renewed laughter and spplause.) 81
aa knows 1t to-day-she has always known it'll
ow when she cries Disunion. she is frightened at h
an. own words. She is not drunk enough, either wi
If pride or the prosperity Of the slave system, to u
vat lieve in disunion. There is q story told of q co
M pie OF sons Of Green Erin, who were at the be
nm tom of a building tina. was about being fnishe
the scafolding, three stories high, was about
bs removed; and the tall man bet with the lit
nn ono that be couldn't carry him. in his hod. to t
v ton of the house. They bet a dolla-j and the ]
- lie man took his ccmrade in his hod, labored
.o the frst scafold. the second. then the third, an
' with heavy tread. making his way from round
round of the ladder, reached the toPmost rid
and pitched him on. Now. give me your dolla
Och, and by the powers. / was hoping you Won
/, drop me, the last two or three rungs lGrt
merriment.)
the 1t is exactly SO with the South. IF she supp
ala ed she could be dropped from the Union. 8
a 4, would be like the fellow in the bod. She wou
the be dropped into endless. invisible and abysu
N depths, hey ond the recognition Of the nineteen
uu. century. She doesn't want it, She never mea
ous to have 1t. 1t will never come in that way.
bs. doubt il it will ever come by the offer Of dissO