Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-04-28

| will sell it like a calf; | will sell it like n pig !"
What righ; has that mother to her babe Was it
because she was Fanny FORESTER the gifted au-
Was it because she was the wife Of a
venerable and veneratcd missionary' No, it was
because she was its MOTHER and every slave mo-
Their has just as good a title to her babe, as Fan.
ny Forester" bad to hers. | say, in Gods name,
my child is mine and yet | have no right to my
child that a slave father has not to bis child. Not
a l~artiole, The same argument that proves my
right to my personal liberty, proves The right of
every human being to his. The argument that
prov es my right to my children gives the same Ii
tie, the sam sacred claim 10 every father. They.
as l, get it from their God, and no human law can
annul the claim. No, Sir, never Therefore eve
~ slave has a right to bis freedom, in spite Of
your slave laws. Every slave has a right to run
away in spite Of your slave laws. | tell you. Mr..
Chairman, and l tell you all, that il II were e slave
aud had l the power, ard we're it necessary to
achieve my freedom, | would not hesitate to gil up
and bridge over the chasm that yawns between
the hell Of Slavery and the heaven of Freedom
with the carcasses of the slain. Give me my
freedom | Hands of Unthrottle that man
Give him his liberty | He is entitled to it from
his God. With these views, | do not think, Of
course, it lie any harm to help off a slave. l told
you that a year ago. l need not repeat it.
A Member You steal them.
Mr.. Lovejoy " no steals. when a man comes
and takes my child from my hearthstoneH Who
steals when he comes and takes the babe, flesh Of
my flesh, and bone Of my bonef Who steals ! /
tell you l have 20 more hesitation in helping q
fugitive slave than l have in snaicbing a lamb
from the jaws of a wolf, or disengsging 40 infant
from the talons Of an eagle. Not a bit. Long
enough Las the nation crouched and covered in
the presence Of this stupendous wrong. Here and
now l break the spell, and disenchant the Re-
public from the incantation of the sccurscd sOrce-
ress. It is simply a question whether it will pay
TO go down into the den where the wolf is. Laugh
tor. If you would culy go into your lair,
and crunch the bones and tear the flesh Of your
victims, we might lot you alone, but you will not.
You claim the right to go With this flesh in your
teeth oil over our territories. We deny it.
My time is passing l must 60 on. l wanted
to say considerable moro about John Brown.
Mr.. Adrain, "a. L. Democrat, New Jorsey) |
propose that we give the gentleman more time.
Mr.. Loveioy l will answer all questions if the
House will give mo more time. [Cries of mo I!
no !" give him time" &c
Mr.. Singleton, Dem. Miss No, Sir any gem
tleman shall have time, but not such q mean, des-
picable wretch as that.
Mr.. Lovejoy When the Jews could not do
anything else they spit upon Christ, and said be
was possessed Of a devil. Laughter. One of
the earliest settlements of Virginia was made by
a fugitive slave. John Smith was captured in war
and sold to a heightened and chivalrous Turk
and put at the task Of thresbing. The master rode
up to the barn-door one day, and said, Jack, you
rascal. why don't you thresh faster 2 Jack
horresco reterrens !-aew at his master. killed him
. with his fail, lob, for o Harper's Ferry Commit
y tee y sprang into the vacant saddle and esca
ped, ard came and settled Jamestown. Oh for q
8 South side preacher TO admonish John to stay
o with his master, whose money be was, like a go1t
0 Christian dog! A moment, sir. Let US look a
this question aside from its moral aspects. AnC
n | ask what right slavery, or a STAKEHOLDER, has tt
20 with his slaves into the common territories o.
h the United States. You talk about the equality o
s the States, and l grant it. The citizens of a Slav,
& State have all the rights in the Territories that
q citizen of a Free State has. You have the right
I concede, to go into the Territories and live Their
II with any kind of property we can take, but yo'
have not the right to take slaves. This is the cis
~tiuction | make. AT liberal estimate there al
not more than two millions of people in the Uni:e'
States interested in slave labor. There are onl.
d four hundred thousand shareholders. There ar
N thirty millions of people in this country. Their
are twenty eight millions interested in the system
Of free labor. The free system accommodate
some eight millions 10 the slave states better tha
the slave system. Here is the point. If SLAYER
J goes into the Territories, free labor cannot e
there. The presence Of slavery without any loca
m law for the purpose is The exclusion of free labor
If you take slavery there. l cannot go there wit
the New York Tribune, the Evening Post, the IL
dependent, or any similar paper, religious or SEE
; ular. / canno, go with the minister | desire t
q hear preach the gospel. Free Schools cannot 3
there. You say, indeed we can 60. Yes; so q
= may 20 to a public house. 1t is common to a
who choose to make it their temporary abode
All ara invited to the table dhote, The landlOr
IT opens tie doors Of the dining hall, and says
Walk in gentlemen but If a man sitting there
d leproue, dripping with a contagious disease, n
one will 90 in. It is really as much an exclusion
as if the doors we're closed and barred against hi
entThnce' ~ ~ CS'0Ig BoSSt HI0SuOm Ouuhot X
a favor the equality Of the States. ] favor .h
right Of every citizen Of a Slave stateto 60 into tn
Be Territories; but deny that he has the right
practice slaVeholdipg there, for it is not an institl
to ton it was never instituted; never established b
IL ~law-but a practice like polygamy, l say this
st they have not a right to 90 there and practice thi
IN high crime. 50 injurious to mao, and so offensiv
~ to God. And this is The question; whether thes
Sc twenty. eight million people shall be accommodated
or two million people shall be accommodated; fol
| repeat the presence oG Slavery is the utter excl,
ng sion Of free labor and the institutions of Freedom
| deny no one their rights. The Slave States al
equal 10 the free States. It is a poor, pitiful an
't paItry patriotism that cannot take in the exter
n of it's country; but | do deny that Slavery has ii
OF same right as Freedom in this country. Freedol
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