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


Of Republican leaders now, it will be their duty
during the coming campaign, 10 Hill be their duty
so long there is any battle to be fought against
oppression 10 the land, to lead the people step by
step to higher ground to teach them by continual
preccpt higher and nobler lesson OF liberty, to
i, educate them daily into higher appreciation of
mems rights and Of Gods truths When the city
of Leyden was beseiged by the Duke of Alva's
army, the besiegers, in their counsel Of war; said
Let smake our attack at the baston of the South
Gate ; the moment VIC scale that single tower, we
are in the city then the sword shall be naked
for the slaughter ~ The besieged, locked within
the walls of the menoced city, knew too well that
the weakness of their defepccs would not be able
to withstand the strength of the assault. The en-
gineers pointed to the solitary bastion and said,
The moment that is taken we all are taken They
knew their peril. How did they prepare to avert
it Silently, in the night without blast OF trum-
pet or stroke Jf hammer, they laid a granite founs
dation for another bsstion Of solid mason work,
that rose with slow strength to the level of the
6rst, and stood in the early ligh, of the dawn,
majestic and impregnabe, On the next day came
the cannonade, the assault, the scalngladders,
the mounting of the wall, the shout of victory
when suddenly, at the moment when high hopes
were highest and loud cheers were loudest, the
besiegers, whose Spanish blood was excited with
the thought that they were on the point of leap
ing down into the city, were confronted by the un-
expected column Of granite which had arisen in
the night, and there, standing exposed upon the
high battlementa, the assaiants were pierced with
, arrows, stricken with panic, and driven back in
!, dsmay AMI defeat Now, sir il in next Novem-
; her, the Democratic party, by desperate assault
should succeed in carrying by storm the Presiden-
tial election, there is only one way in which the
Republican leaders save the loss from being a
defeat and that is, to begin now 20 teach the
plant conscience of party how to harden into the
4 solid rock (ApplOuse.l The party can afford to
e lose an election if, in doing, they strengthen
= their conscience and maintain their principle
G Now, coming back to the point from which
wandered for illustration, this education of the
e public conscience is the lesson which the Aboli
tionsts teach and the way they teach it is by the
c agitation. There are two classes of reformers
a the leaders of the Masses and the leaders of thu
n leaders. know very we'll that is your middle
men-not the Abolitionists, but the Republicans
l. who win the popular applause. Yet these sam
IS Republican speakers at whose feet the people sit
c must come themselves to cit at tho feet Of Wen
e dell Phillips. (Applause.)
+ Has the Republican party no need of the agita
ton ? Go to the House of Ref resentatives at
Washington, and pluck out Mr.. Corwin for illus
. tration. Mr.. Corwin says, I love liberty love
the negro 1 would that the negro had his liberty
| dislike the Fugitive Slave law; nevertheless,
when turn over the leaves of the statute-book,
i and find that l am enjoned to return TO bondage
= the slave who escapes from his master, however
repugnant may be the law to my sentiments OF
: humanity, STILL because it is law, and so long
as it is law, must yield it my obedience and
support My friends, Mr.. COrwn commits the
common error of supposing that ho can afford ;C
I disobey the law of God for the sake Of o5eyng q
law Of man Mr.. Corwin thiuks that it is not
= safe to do right so long as statute-book com
mands him to do wrong. Look at it! What
l hope does So generous and honest q man us Mr.
Corwin-for generosity and honesty are qualities
which have always belonged to his personal
character-w what hope does Mr.. Corwin hold oul
to the slave lie says 20 the trembling fugitive,
20 weary, hunted man after you have broken
your cbains-after you have kindled many glow
ing hopes from the distant res of the North Star
rice swamps, aud the cotton fields. and the cane
breaks-sfter you have passed the many periis of
journeying through by-paths by night, and Of
lurking in secret hiding places BY day foot sore
and weary, covered with scars Of the drivers
whip, and newer scars from the wounds Of his
pursuing dogs-after all this suffering and des-
pairing, in which despair has still struggled into
hope, and hope at length has struggled into vcto-
ry-after all the long toll is over, ard at last your
feet have found a shelter on the free soil of Ohio,
: | bid you welcome"--cries Mr.. Corwin, coming
down to the banks of the river, with the statute
book in his hand-I bid you welcome to the hos
pitvlity of my roof tonight but Ohio is great
State, and / am its representative sympathize
G with you as felow-creature, but must not for
get that am politician sit at my table, and
u eat aud drink sleep in my garret till the morn
: ing light but when you wake, before you have
time 10 run away, will open this book and read
o you the Fugitive Slave Law will lay on your
9 shoulder hand heavier than iron will seize
J YOU, Lind you wrist TO wrist with hand
d cuffs, and lead you back returned captiVe-sick
rs heart despariug and more ready to die than tc
" live-through oil the long journey over which you
, have come until at last you are once more tied t(
" the whipping pos. Of your masters plantation II
+ the Carolnas-sco for sleeping too unsound
" ly in slaves cabin-beaten with many stripe
l. for having, in some restless hour of the night
n dreamed of liberty and the Northern hills "(Ap
: plause.")
Sir, ask all good men, solemnly, Has the Re
publican party no need of the agitation (Ap
.. plause,)
D. Well, sir, if the Republican party has need q
e agitation, am sure the Democratic party needs
N moro. The present position Of that party is not
IS little amusing. You will allow me to shed m
,e very cheerful tear-fOr my grief is merry-ove
,f the defeat and DEATH and burial of friend th
v honorable Jefferson Dayis-killed by the persist
IS ent compliment-the cold and cruel compliment
If of one Massachusetts, vote When his politica
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