Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-02-02
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FROM AN ADDRESS or WENDELL PHILLIPS,
At Music Hall, Boston, January 20, 1861

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The FIRST duty of eociety is JUSTICE. If any
other basis of safety or gain were honest, it would
be impossible. ga prosperous iniquity," says
Jeremy Taylor, lis the most improbable condi-
ton in the world" We were not sent into the
world to plant cities, to make Unions or cave
them. Seeing that all men are born equal, our
frst civil duty is to see that our laws treat them
80. The convulsiOn of this houl is tho effort OIL
the nation to do this, its duty, while politicians
and parties strive to balk it of its purpose. The
nation agonizes this hour to recognize man as man
forgetting the color, condition, seq, and creed.
Our Revolution earned US only Independence
Whatever our fathers meant, the chief lesson oil
that hour was that America belongs to Americans
That generation learned it thorouhly the second
Inherited itias a prejudice; we, the third, have oui
bones and blood made of it. When thought passes
through purpose into character, it becomes the
Interchangeable basis of national life. That Revo
lutionary lesson need never be learned again, and
will never die out. Let q British fleet, with Ad.
mirals Of the blue and red, cover our Atlantic
coast, and in ten days Massachusetts and Carolina
will stand shoulder to shoulder; the only rivalry
who shall die nearest the foe loud applause, with
cries of "~gOOd":l
That principle is all our revolution directly
taught us. Massachusetts, was hide-bound in the
aristocracy of classes for years after. The bar
and the orthodox pulpit were our House of Lords.
A Baptist clergyman was little better than a ne.
gro. The five points of Massachusetts, decency
we're to trace Jour lineage to tho MayAower-
gradnata Mt Harvard Oollaaa-ha a oood 1o-nor
or a member of an orthodox church-eithe- would
answer (aughter) pay your debts, and frighten
your child to sleep by say ing Thomas Jefferson. p
Our theological aristoCracy went down before the
stalwart blows of the Baptist and UnitaIian-be-
fore Charming and Abner Kneeland. Virginia
and Carolina Shareholders, making theoretical de.
mocracy the passion; conquered the Federal gov
ernment and emancipated the working classes OF
New England. Bitter was the cup to honest Fed
eralism and the Essex %junto. To-day Massachu-
sets only holds to the lips of Carolina a beaker oil
the same beverage. I know no man who has ana
lyzed this passage in our history SO we'll as Rich.
ard Hildreth. The last thirty years have been
the Towering out of this lesson. The democratic
principle, crumbling classes into men, has been
working down from pulpits and judges seats,
through shop-board and shoe-benches, to Irish
hodmen, and reached the negro at last. The long
toll Of a century cries out "Eureka"-I have found
1.-THE diamond of an immortal soul and an equal
manhood under a black skin as sure as under q
white one. For this, LeggOtt labored and Lovejoy
died. For this, the bravsst soul of the century
went up to God from a Virginia scaffold misses
and applause.) For this. young men gave up
their May Of youth and old men the honors and
ease Of age. 1t went through the land, writing
history afresh, setting up and pulling down par