Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-02-09
Gbe Antt- 6Ioptrp Dugle.
From the Ohio State Journal.
BEWARE OF PHILLIPS.


Wendell Phillips has made another Of his pc
cular orations IN Boston on "The II,ur"
lie goes into Seward, with what somebody ba
happily called a vengeance; he salutos South Car
olina with the kiss of fraternity; he makes mocl
of this we'll meaning Unou. the remaining frag
ment of it; and utters tho usual number Of AZ
stract truths.
1t is sad thing that a man of Phillips voien
opinions, should be clothed with such wondcrfu
powers. We fear that before society can be peace
fully reconstructed. aud the Union made to takc
The medicine that is honestly meant for :ta good
such people Phillips must be suppressed. lie
talks altogether too finally. TAoso simple, hrei
sentences of which his speeches made up, form
him Goa! of mail, so ccrnirgly and closely
wrought that no lance can pierce It.
Phillips takes premises woch we all grant to 30
true, ard weaves upon them Gn enchanuuent Of
logic from which there is no escape.
Take, now, this instance Of the woy in which he
eeizes anothers weakness and makes it his
strength:
"The South seeks disunon 10 save slavery; the
North clings to the Uuion to save prosperity and
growth. Mr.. Seward says The Union makes us
safe and strong and happy. We used to think
that justice was higher than thrift, and honor
better than happinsss. have very littlo respect
for that patriotism which is the child of interest"
Weighed in this balance, does not Seward kick
the beam? Justice is higher than thrift; honor
is better than happiness Seward is made to have
the air of affirming the contrary. But has he ever
done so2 To whom would you rather eulrusl
power--to Phillips or Seward?
We all agree that slavery is great evil We
all hope that it will one day perish from the earth
We all think that the Union is the great bulwark
of slavery on this continent
Wendell Phillips takes these amiaLle abetra,-
tOns, and dovetails into them the pestilent here
sizes OF his tribe so that it seems if you give the
premises, you must grant the conclusion. He
says:
"Disunion is Abolitionism That is all care
for it. l care not for forms of government but
for its essence. The music of disunion 30 me is
that at its touch the slave breaks forth 10 jubilee
Disunon leaves Gods natural laws to work out
their solution. Insurrection is the tyrant's check
Let us stand out of Gods way, and his divine laws
will have free course"
You are hurried along by reasoning like this.
and cannot make a ready answer. The more you
consider it, the more mercessly logical it op-
pears. 1t strikes deep and pervades the ideas
UF.I
the argument is this: Liberty is the essence of
our government. When our government is no d
longer animated by liberty, it is time that the a
dead corruption of i:s forms should be swept '
away.
Here is another stroke of the same pitiloss t
logic: S
81 am not aware that at any time or any place e
Mr.. Seward ever named the virtue he would not a
sacrifice to save the Union. | think he is yet to
name the vice which he does not think saving the
Union would transform into virtue Remembe,- b
Ing the element OF his ship let me onolo
for you the key note of his late speech which is
this: n
The first object Of every human society is sofe- 81
ty security for which, if need be- they will and
they must sacrifice every other" tc
"If unqualified this principle sanctions every
crime. Under it James II and Bonaparte were n
aailts Suppose the Union does mean happiness
wealth, order, safety. No man has q right to buv
either with crime. Grans all that Mr. Seward
claims. No man has right to trade in sin, how ii
ever good bargain the devil offers him. A few
years ago, Tennessee and Kentucky both confess OF
ed by their representatives in Congress- that the
dissolution of the Union was the dissolution of he
slavery. The other day Senator johnson said th
that if he was aboltonst and wanted to break vi
up slavery, he would first set abou! breaking up VI
The Federal Union. In September Mr.. Seward la
said, "What are the Southern States in The Union pr