Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-03-09
FROM WENDELL PHILLIPS.

FROM WENDELL PHILLIPS.
1.-The following extracts are from Mr.. Phillips
recent speech on "Progress."l
The gain to-day is, we have q people. Under
their vigilant eyes, mindful Of their sturdy pur
pose, sustained by their determination, many o.
our politicians act much better. And out of thi,
popular heart is groUihg a Constitution which will
wholly supersede that of 1887.
A few years ago, while Pierce was President
the Republican party dared to refuse the appropri
atoms fo- support of government the most dar
ing act ever ventured in a land that holds Bu1ke,
Hill aud Braulywine. They dared to persever,
some twenty to ihirty days. 1t seems a trihe: bu
1t isa very significant straw. Then for weeks wher
Banks was elected and a year ago, again, thu
whole government was checked till the Republic
cans put their Speaker in the chair. Now the
North elects her President, the South secedes. ]
suppose we shall be bargained away into compro,
mise. I know the strength and virtue of the farm
ing West. 1t is one of the bright spots that our
soeptre tends there, rather than to the seaboard
Four or eight years hence, when this earthquake
will repeat itself, the West may be omnipotent,
and We shall see brave things.
But now, spite of Lincoln's wishes, I fear he
Will U6Ver U6 hUl0 y SIAM uhUlDeb DehdTui 1Au-
ANS, half the Republican wire-pullers and the sea-
board. But even now, if Seward and the rest had
stood firm, as Lincoln, Sumner, Chase, Wade, ard
Loyejoy, and the Tribune have hitherto done, ] be-
lieVe you might have polleG the North, and bad q
response, three to one, ''Letthe Union eeto pieces
rather than yield one inch.r Ltoow 40 subsime
hour in history. The sight of these fwo month
is compensation for a life o. toll. Never1 let Eu
rope tauut us again that our blood is wholly cank
cred by gold. Our people stood, willing theiI
idolized government should 60 to pieces for an
idea. True, other nations have done SO. England
in t~640-France in l79I-our colonies in l775.
Those were proud moments. But to-day touches a
nobler height. Their idea vas their own freedom.
To-day, the idea, loyal to which our people will
Iingly see their Union wrecked, is largely the hope
Of justice to a dependent, helpless, hated race.
Revelations never 60 ackward The live force OF
human pulse-beat can rive the dead lumber of
government to pieces. Chain the Hellespont, Mr..
Xerxes-Seward, before you dream of baking the
Northern heart of its purpose-freedom to the
slave The old sea never laughed st Persian
chains more ~haughtily than we do at Congress
compromises. n
Compromise risks nsurrection-th worst door
NJ uAS ChpOi ~ ia
frage have free sway, and the ballot supersede'
the bullet. But let an arrogant and besotted mi
nority curb the majority by tricks like these, and
when you have compromised away Lincoln, Jou
revive John Brown. On this point of insarrec
tioo, let me say q word. Men talk of the peace
OF the South under our present government. 1t il
no zeal peace. With the whites, it is only tina
bastard peace which the lazy Roman liyed-ut 81
apriearet--that he might sun himself. It is onll
safe idleness, sure breeder Of mischief. With th'
slave, il is only war in disguise. Under that masl
is hid a war keener in its pains, and deadlier il
its effects, than any open fight. As the latin ad
age runs mars graUior sub pace latet-war bitter
er FOR its disguise.
Thirty years devoted to earnest use Of mora
means show how sincere our wish that this ques
ton should have a peaceful solution. If you
idols-your Websters, Clays, CdlhOIns, Stewards
Adamses-had done their duty. so il would have
been. Not ours the guilt of this storm, or Of tht
future. however bloody. But | hesitate no. to say
that prefer an insurrectiOn which frees the slave
in ten fears to slavery for a century. A slave |
pity. A rebellious slave I respect. I say now, as
] said ten years ago-I do not shrink from the
toast with which DR.. johnson favored his Oxford
pOft, Oucctb W u uTbt luouIrtctlOu VI Tue
blacks 10 Jamaica /" l do not shrink FROM the
sentiment Of Southey, in a letter to Duppa-
There are scenes OF tremendous horror which
could smile at by Mercy's side. An insurrec,iou
~hish should make the negroes masters Of the
West Indies is one" i believe both these senti
.aents are dictated by the highest humanity.
Know what anarchy is. know what civil war is
1 can imagine the scenes Of blood through which
a Eebellious slave population must march to theil
righia. They are dreadful. And yet, l do no
knew, that. to an enlightened mind, a scene o
civil war is any more sickening than the though
Of a hundred and fifty years of slavery. Take TIL
l.soken hearts ; the 6ereaved mothers the infant
~rung from the hands Of it's parents; the husband
and vile torn asnnder every right trOdden undel
foot: the biigbted hopes. the imbruted sOals, tb'
dsrkened ar6I degraded miliions-sunk below tins
level OF Intellectual life, melted ia sensGaiIty
herded with heasts-who have walked over the
turning mari of Southern slavery to their graves
aoI where is tbs battlefield, however CHASTITY, that
u not vhite-white as an Angels wing, compared
rftb the biackness Of that darkness which has
,&ooded oser the Carofinas for two hundred yearsY
Do you love nlesey7 Weigh out the fifty thou
saud hearts that base beaten their last pulse amid
sgOniss Of thought and suffering fancy faints to