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

great politician falls, it makes Abolitionists. We
Liz men out Of the mire into which Daniel Web
tier plunged them, and set them op on the feet
heir mothers gave them. This process has been
going on for years. John Brown ia q part Of it,
Kansas lie a part Of it. If the great Republican
party had said to Kansas, NO use for your rifles
we will protect you on the floor Of the United
States Senate; there shall not a man dare to touch
hair Of the head Of a dweller in the loneliest
shanty in Kansas, that the arm Of the Union shall
not 10 stretched out efficiently to protect him,
there never would have been war in Kansas; there
never would have been any border forays. Do
you suppose that the South can rise up ard send
out, by hundreds, our merchants, our Travellers our
residents, guilty of nothing but a Northern dialect,
and, although that craven United States Senate
dare not call for the execution of this United States
Constitution, which we arc called upon to laud ev-
cry hour of our lives, do you suppose it is forgot
ten in the records of the Nor,bera peoples No.
Every one of these men has a circle, and that cir
Gle are Garrisonians. One Of the young and gal
liant men Of our city, rich, patriotic. brave, ardent
said to me Il carried a musket down State street
when Anthony Burns was carried ehamefully back
T., slavery. Two months after, my own brother,
.hopelessly i'll of consumption, was obliged to
skulk through Georgia and the Caro!inas in a bag
gage car, for fear his name, from Boston should
be known, and even the last relics of the strength
which disease had left him be taken by tarring and
feathering; and that is the last musket that shall
ever raise for the Union of our thirty slave States
I(Applause.) That conviction to which this young
Boston member of our holiday troops came, every
circle Of these banisbed men came to throughout
the Union. If you do not give them the ballot
box, they will take the rife if you do not give
them the Anti, Slavery movement, they will tear
the Church to pieces.
Men talk of abolishing that movement. Abol-
ish it! You should have heard Ralph Waldo En-
ersop, at Salem, the other night. Men talk, said
no, of destroying John Brown | think the AL
mighty created mercy as the fac of despots and
| somewhat doubt whether Virginia can annihi.
late mercy. (Applause.) 'Ob, oo,' he continued.
rising into still finer voice, that Oldest Abolition
ist Of you all, who piled the Shenandoah noun
tains, whose first name was Love, and his other
name Justice--I think lie existed before John
Brown, and will probably survive him. (Renewcd
applause.) | think be will. And unless you give
this principle channels, it will tear the Union,
Church and State, asundcr. While you have q
stakeholder in the presidential chair, while you
have towards in the United States Senate, you
you will have John Browns atIIarper's Ferry. And
he is not the last of them. You cannot control it.
You must give it channels. lie, me borrow again
from Emerson. He told US, on this very platform,
Two years since, that, two hundred years ago, men
said there is q devil in every teakettle if you dc
not let him out, he will tear tho house to pieces
and make an earthquake throughout the city. Sc
men made o hole in the lid, and the DEVILS steam
came pouring OUT from every kettle. By-and-by,
came a thrifty genius, and he said. Why waste
this devil =? make him q groove-le, him move il
safe channels and the Cunarder came across tb,
ocean, the locomotives welded States together il
a day So men said. years ago, there is a devi
down in the heart of these ignorant millions
keep him q~uiet;put a Bank on him,then a Throne
then a Pope. By-and-bye came a thrifty man
and said, Give him channels, give him the pres
and the tallot.box : and he takes up the world
ard carries it along as it has never gone before.
So this anti slavery movement is seeking to fin
channels for this anti.slavery purpose 10 move in
Give us the ballot. box; give US a political move
ment in which the selfrespect Of men can ALLOW
them to operate; give us a Church that represent
not rascals, tut Christians; give US a press tina
i will afford expression to the ultimate wish and tn
: entire heart of the American people; and We shaI
not be clumsy enough to 90 back to the rude, WI
gar, awkward system of tive hundred years age
we have got a better. We shall abolish SLAYER
in the swift purpose Of eighteen million although
I III :-o-:.,. V..In1 I.s "A ,.Il 800 I
'. it, the land will shake with constant CONFUSION
Virginia will in vain Danish Helper. She will i
vain fight against the multiplication tabls-fc
. Helpers book is nothing but the multiplicatio
table printed two hundred times over. Mr.. Ga
rison said that when the Southerners fougt
: against Helper, they were fighting against th
multiplication table. Two and two make four
o two and two make twenty-five. John Brown an
II his associates went down to ~IIarper's Ferry, an
made a good deal of the multiplication table. OF
no, the South understands this question fully I
well as W. do. She does not need enlightenment
as The North does. The reason why we CRITICS
as Mr.. Martin excerpts to our doings, the rel
gious and political machinery of our country,
because we mean to have both. We mean to ha,
a party outside and above the Constitution, tn
Z writes Liberty on its banners, and the use of O
means that God and nature put into OF
70 hands to achieve it. We mean to have a Churt
ie that reads the Sermon on the Mount, and endea
oEs to practice it, knowing no races, no castles, I
conditions, but believing, with the Declaration
Independence, that oil men are created equs
~ And until We gain those two channels of nature
u legitimate, usual Saxon work, the land will shaI
with that outside agitasion-t the bees rushing
and fro, until the queen bee is fUund-the natio
~ striking and ~clashing against each other like +
~ gates in a storm, until the battle is fixed, and t
thunder begins to rattle from one side to the 9th
vs. Of the marshallsd hosts. (Applause.) We a
be coming to that reriod. The South sees her ds
Id ger in Harper's Ferry. She knows that t
al ground-tier ID reached; she knows that the who
th mass of Northern mind is, at last, reused to !
ms trial. rejoice in insurrection for that very +,
] son-not that il will ever achieve emancipatic
D. not that the negro will ever be competent to