Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-04-20
From the Boston Transcript.
WENDELL PHILLIPS FOR PEACE.

MIR. EDITOR Wendell Phillips delivered q lee
tore before our lyceum, last evening, intensely
political in its character, in the course Of which
he took occasion to comment on the news just re-
ceived from Charleston. i send you a specimen of
bis brilliant and erratio ideas, in bis own lam
guago. The lecture was interrupted by frequent
Kisses.
The telegraph is said to report tonight that the
guns ore firing either out Of Fort Sumter or into
it-that to-morrow's breeze when it sweeps from
the North will bring t us the echo of the fret
Lexington battle Of the new revolution. Well,
what shall we soy Of such an hour: My own feel
ing is a double one. IL is like tho triumph of sad
ness-rejoicing and sorrow. l cannot indeed con-
gratula,e you enough on the sublime spectacle Of
twenty millions of people educated 10 a twelve
month up to being willing that their idolized Union
should risk a battle, should risk dissolution in or
der at any risk to put down this rebellion of slave
States.
But ] am sorry that a gun should be fred at
Fort Sumter. or that a gun should be fred from II
for this reason. The administration at Washing
ton does not know its time. Here are a
series Of States %girdling the Gulf, who think
that their peculiar institutions require that they
should have a separate government. They have a
right to decide that question without appealing to
you or me. A large body of people, u~uficient to
make a nation, have come to the conclusion that
they will have a government Of a certain form.
Who denies them the rightP Standing with the
principles of '76 behind us, who can deny them the
righ,H What is a matter of a few millions Of dol
lars or a few forts2 Il is a mere drop in the buck
ct of the great national question. 1t is theirs,
v H.. -.:nN.- - t1a nc;no ~
Piles Of &c that Abraham Lincoln has no right to
a soldier in Fort Sumter.
But the question comes secondly, ~"Scplose we
had q right to interfere, what is the good of it?'
You may punish South Carolina for going out of
the Union. Thet does not bring her in. You
may subdue her by hundreds Of thousands Of ar
mics, but that does not make her a State. There
is no longer q Union. 1t is nothing but boys
play. Mr.. Jefferson Davis is angry and Mr..
Abraham Lincoln is mad, and they agree to fight.
{ Onc, two, or three years hence, if the news of tho
afternoon is correct, we shall have gone through o
war, spent millions, required the death of a hun
dred thousand men, and be exactly then where
, we are now-two nations; a little more angry, o
little poorer, and a great deal wiser; and that will
be the only difference. We may just as well set
Il tc ~ uO" 40
You cannot go through Massachusetts and re-
cruit meu to lombard Charleston or New Orleans.
The Northern mind will not bear it. You can
never make such a war popular. The first onset
may be borne. The telegraph may bring Us ne~s
' that Anderson has 5ornbarded Charleston. and you
9 may rejoice. But the sober second thought Of
, Massachusetts will be, "Wnsteful, unchristian
q %guiltyi" The North never will endorse such 4
war. Instead of conquering Charleston, Sou ere
: ate a Charleston in New England. YoI stir W
y sympathy for the South.
Therefore it seems to me that The Inauguration
Of war is not only a violation of principle, but j
is a violation of expedieney.
q To be for disunion iu Boston is to be an Adolf
ZIONIST. To be against disunion is to be an Abe
is litionist in the streets of Charleston. Now tina
very stage of things shows that the civilizations G
10 the two cities is utterly antagonistic. What
the use of trying TO join them? Is Abraham Lir
es coin capable Of making fire and powder lie dow
j. together in peace? If he can, let him send hi
II army to Fort Sumter and occupy it.
ID But understand me. | believe in the Union e.
~ actly as you do in the future. This is my prop,
10 sition: Go out, gentlemcn; you are welcome
US your empire; take it." Let them try the exper
III ment Of cheating with one hand and idleness wi,
Of the other. ! know that God has written ban
~ %ruptcy" over such an experiment. If you ca
So nonade South Carolina, you cannonade her in
4 the sympathy Of the world. / do not know no
we but what q majority there is on my side; but
TAT know this, that if the telegraph speaks true
Gu night, that the guns are echoing around Fo
Sum,er-that a majority is against US, for it W
cd Iaaa,ars aparu man intn n epcNssinnisl Raeide
or there lie another fearful element in tho profile,
he There is another terrible consideration. We CT
Nv then no longer extend to the black race at Il
zee South our best sympathy and our best aid.
m We stand tonight at the beginning Of an epo,
lii which may have the peace or the ruin of a gene
Did Grafton in It's bosom. INACCURATE war, we knc
is. not where it will end. We are in no condition
nd fight. The South is poor and we are rich. T
poor man can do twice the injury to the rich IN.
Of tina. the rich can do to the poor. Your veal
ok rides safely on the bosom of the ocean. All NJ
i3t England has its millions afJat. The North wi
of tens avery sea with it's wealth. The South has
me commerce. but che can buy the privateers Of eve
ny. race to prey on yours. IL is dangerous stTi
no when wealth quarrels with poverty.
m Driven to despsir, the Southern States may
poor and bankrupt; but the poorest man can be
SITS pirate, and as Icing as New highlands tonnage
yer a third Of that OF the civilized world, the Sou
Of can punish New England more than New Englar
ms, can punish her. We provoke a strife in whit
l. we are defenceless. II, on the contrary, we no
ourself to the strife of ideas-if we manifest tn
strength which deSpises insult and bidos its hou
we are sure to conquer in the end,
distrust those guns at Fort umter. / do n
believe that Abraham Lincoln means war. /
not believein the madness OF .hp cabinet. Not
,b- ing bet madness can provoke war with the Gu
States. My suspicion is this: that the Admin
ne tration dsres not compromise. 1t trembles befo
the i've hundred thousand readers Of the Ne
York Tribune.
Bot there is q safe way to compromise. 1t
this: seem to provoke war, cannonade the for