BENJAMIN S. JONES, EDITOR. ,
"xVO UNIOX WITU SLA YEUOLDERS."
ANN PEARSON, PUBLISHING AGENT.
VOL. 15. NO. 43.
SALEM, COLUMBIANA COUNTY, OHIO, SATURDAY, JUNK 0, 1SG0.
WHOLE NO. 7G5.
The Anti-Slavery Bugle.
DEATH OF THEODORE PARKER.
The telegraph yesterday announced the decease,
t Florence, on the 18th inst.,of Theodore Parker,
of Boston. This announcement will carry sorrow
to many hearts in this country, and tho departure
of such a man will be felt as croating a told not
soon nor easily to bo filled. In hiiu philanthropy
has lost one of its foremost living champions, the
pulpit, ono of its most renowned and efficient
preachers, and tho cause of learning, oue of its
brightest ornaments id America.
Theodore Parker whs horn in Lexington, Mas
sachusetts, in 1812. Ilia father was a plain Mas-
cachusctts farmer, and his grand-father a Revolu
tinnarv soldier, whose musket did good service in
the battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill. Tiieo-J
dors was born heir to a vigorous constitution, an
iroa witf, great intensity and force of character,
nnd no worldly possessions. At a very early ago
tie began his struggle witb the world, resolved
upon conquering tbe difficulties of nil the sciences,
and becoming a scholar. Ha received only a
common school education, and bought himself a
Latin grammar with the boardings of his own
labor, which he studied to so good a purpose, that
at the age of seventeen be was competent to open
a school. By tint of pinching economy, and by
studying all the long winter nights, he was ena
bled to enter the Divinity echool of Harvard Col
lege, where lie graduated with distinction in the
year 1830. In 1837 he was settled as pastor of a
email country parish of the Unitarian denomina
tion at West Roxbury, where be continued about
bix years, etudjing voluminously, preaching spar
ingly, and writing for the Dial and tho Christian
Examiner papers, whoso bieadth of thought, and
vigor and eloquence of style, attracted very wide
attention.
In 184J, Mr. 1'arker wcr.t to ruropo pr a
year, and returned well-stored with the spoils
which are gathered only by the most wiso and
cultivated of travelers. In 18-15, ho accepted a call
from an organization, of roligious worshippers
known as tho 28th Congregational Society of Bos
ton, to become their minister. This society grew,
under the power and attraction of his pulpit dis
courses, until Mr. Pakkkr's audiences, first in the
Melcdeon, and afterwards at the Music Hit II, were
the largest congregations in America, with the
single exception of Henuv Ward Beeciier's. It
grew into a common rcmnik, that no one could
be said to have been in Boston, unless ho hnd
heard Tbeodobe Parker.
Ilia reputation as a bold and original thinker
epread through the country, and his services were
early enlisted in the lecture-room, upon socitl
and educational questions. He was a proline and
multifarious writer, both in tho reviews nod in
books published under his own Dame, an indofuti
grille worker in all the roform movements of the
times, a laborious and most effective preacher, and
a-life-long, unwea.ied and well-nigh universal
ecbolar. His reputation among tho learned men
of New England was that of a profound nnd
thorougly-read student. His writings and dis
courses are heavily freighted with learning, not
thrown in in bulk or at random, but perfectly as
similated and applied. No science and 1.0 litem
ture was neglected; like Lord Bacon, he Bcemed to
have taken all learning to be hia province, and
nothing ever came amiss to that enpacious and
insatiable maw. Ilia private library, gathered
with the assiduous pains ot ninny year?, was one
of the large-1 in New England about 17,000 vol
umes and it was his cherished purpose to be
queath it at his death to the city of Boston.
A man so active and unsparing in bis drafts up
on bis bodily energies as Mr. Parker, could not
look for long life, and, accordingly we find him
after many premonitions, breaking down amid bis
many labors, and compelled about a year since to
flee for his life, to a sea-voyage. The last sermon
he ever preached was January 2, 1859. A pulmo
nary oomplaint had fast bold of him, and hemorr
hage ensued on tbe succeeding Sunday. He sail
ed, witb his wife and several friends, in February,
1859, for tbe West Indies, and after tome months
epent in Santa Crux and Havana, went to Switxer
Itnd, and afterwards to Rome, where he recruited
for a tfme, only to be utterly prostrated at last.
His brilliant light was burnt to the socket before
it was extinguished forever. Even in hi lust days
of pain and weakness he would not lay down the
pen, but wrote an autobiography and a history of
Home during the winter just passed. Iho partic
ulars of his death have nut reached us. 11 is wife
survives him, but be bad no children.
The sources of Mr. Parker's power ovor the
mind of the age have been partly indicated above.
His uncommon attainments, mind of wondrous
scope, extraordinary intellectual independence,
and, more than all, the ardent spirit of humanity
which burned within him, gave bim aa influence
euch as falls to the lot of few. The character of
Mr, Parker was that of a singularly earnest,
simple-hearted and brave man. Few natures were
ever oast in a nioro heroic mould. No maa ever
had more devoted and enthusiastic friends, peo
ple 'hom he drew and inspired by the force of bis
character, the unspotted purity of his life, and the
loftiness of bis aims. Possessed of abilities whioh
would have enabled him to shine in any walk of
life, be devoted himself with a etern and resolved
purpose to tbe work - of reforming errors and
abuses, lie cared nothing for popularity, favor,
or applause, but fought steadily on In the faco of
obloquy, opposition, and. reprooob, heedless of
everything but humanity, reverencing nothing but
justice, devotod wholly to freedom.
Whatever feelings might be cherished by those
who could not sympathise with bis views, there
were uono who did not respect, and few who
could help admiring bim. It was his fortune to
awaken fierce enmities and strong passions, for he
stood for the most part on the unpopular side, aud
was by no meaus free from the acorbities of con
troversy which are so easily indulged in by men
of strong and earcastio puwers. Yet ho lived to
seo most of his ideas taking wido root ia the
minds and even in the institutions of his country
men. He wrought, and toiled, and thought, for
' .....n,, ruso, Tho animosities
which pursued him while living, will now be laid
down at the gates of the grave. Tbe noise of the
wariV.ro is hushed, and the calm and sober esti
mate of the results is to come. His harsh sayings
will be forgotten, whilo hia generous nnd golden
words will be gnthored up, to stimulate and cheer
the workers in every liberal cause, and to crown
in a fitting manner the full hei'iage of bis fumo.--Ciit.
Commercial.
SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY
OF THE
OF THE NEW YORK ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY.
Reported for the Standard by W. H. Burr.
j
JheAew lork (Uty) Anti-blnvory Society held
Soventh Anniversary in tho Cooper Institute
on Wednesday May 0th, 18G0. Although anen-jBrili
trance fee was charged at iho door, the spacious
nan was crowaea to the utmost, many being com-j
polled to stand in the aisles during tbe whole pro-j
ccediD8"'
The chair was occupied by Oliver Johnson, who,
having called the meeting to order, said i
Ladies and Gentlemen t I shall introduce
you, as the first speaker on tbe presont occasion,
a young man who, in ono respect is a prodigy;
and I hope that in saying so I shall not prejudice
him in your estimation. He is one of the small
number of young mon in this country who dare,
for conscience sake, to differ with their ministers
(applause). I think that you will agrei with me
that this is a great merit, especially when it is
considered that his minister is none other than
Henry Ward Beecher. If this is not sufficient
proof of bravery on hia part, I trust his speech will
supply whatever may be lacking in that porticu-
lar. I intn duce to you Mr. Theodore Tilton, of
the editorial staff of The Independent.
BrEECII OF THEODORE TM.TO.V.
Mr. Tilton, on rising, was greeted with hearty
applause. Ho spoko as follows :
I remember once reading in the Autobiography
cf Robert HayJon, the English historic il painter,
his account of taking a ruli-length pla3tor cast of
a negro whoso fine physical proportions had at-'
traded tho artist's eye. The Btalwart man stood
in a high and narrow box, fitting around him as
closely us a coffiin. The soft plaster was poured
iibout his body, and began Fetting into hardness.
1 1 is limbs weregralually embodied in the mould,
as if they were fossils in a solid rock. He etood
unmoved as a statue, without contorting a musclo,
until the plaster, as it roso about bij chest, tight
ened upon his lungs, and the strong mnn, helpless,
unable to stir, began to suffocate. Writhing his
face into an expression of agony, and uttoring a
groan of despair, he summoned the artist to his
leliuf, who seisod a hammer, and with one blow
struck the cast, broke it into fragments, and se
tho man free!
So our American institutions are Inking their
impress from the negro, and crushing him in
(heir grasp. Already his face is turned towards
us in piteous appeal; already big groans are heard
throughout the land. We como to-night to lift
tho hammer, to striko the imago, and to freo the
man 1 (Aaplause). Nor let any one say that wo
lift rudo and unholy hands; for, since the world
was old enough to havo n history, the imago
breakers havo boon God's truest workmon (ap
plause. The question of tho hour tho question of the
age is this: Is slavery right, or is it wrong?
And in coming anew to the discussion this year,
I think we have ono great advantage over all for
mer years, for, at last, we have bad the question
stated nakedly and honestly by our enemies.
A groy-baired lawyer of this city looking into
'.ho eyes of seven thousand of his fellow-citizens,
and speaking in the ears of thirty millions more
has declared that tbe only point at issue, the
only point worthy of a national discussion, is
whether slavery be.or be not.benigrl.beneficentand
just; and he gave his judicial opinion, and added
to it his moral conviction, that American slavery
is benign and divine I That was a new 'glittering
generality,' kindled at tbe biasing footlights of the
Academy of Music, and held up as a flambeau to
wbicb the Democratic party might come and light
their torches in tbe coming campaign I
And so we have the House of York at the Acad
emy of Music, and tbe House of Lancaster at the
Cooper lostitute, and we wage again, as of old,
the war of tbe whit and tbe red rosel
Who is right, and who is wrong T
I walked, oue summer day, on the summit of
Richmond Hill, in front of tbe Capitol of Virginia,
in company with that cccontrio man of gouius,
Dr. Ross of Alabama, tho leader of that portion
of tho New School Presbyterian Church that en
camps on tho other side of Mason and Dixon's
lino. He said to mo with great seriousness as if
there bad flashed into his mind, in the sunlight of
that beautiful morning, a momentary suspicion of
tbe divinity of tho divine institution I be touched
me on the arm and said, 'If I am wrong, I am
torribly wrong, and if tbe Abolitionists are right,
they are sublimely right!' I parted witb bim, and
strolled down tbe slope of tbe hill. While
walked thore came to me, borne in upon my ear
in tbe stillness of the summer air, a succession of
strange monotonous sounds "Going! going! go
ing!" and as I turned my steps in the direction
whence they came, I was beckoned by a red flag
that ought lir, to have been a black flugl to
the room of an auctioneer, in which, the moment
I entered, I saw standing upon tbe auction-block
a woman with a child folded in bor arms, and
with another stauding by her side, I remember
bow tho auctioneer announced bcr to tbe crowd
of buyers "This woman, of the uaiso of Maryl"
Think of It, sir I A trembliug woman bearing
tbo sacred namo that bowed last and lowost at tbe
cross on which Christ died 1 standing there amid
the strife and rivalry of bids, exposed as mer
chandise to publio sale! Well she was sold, witb
tho little child on her bosom, to one State; the
boy at hor side, to another; and two other children,
lying In tho Blavo-pon, near at band, to two differ
ent States ! Thus a littlo family, alroady robbed
of its father by a provious sale, was now broken
a socond timo, aud scuttored to the four winds !
I walked out from the crowded rooni, sickened at a
, i,er long and loud plaudits of tho New York law
its I TCt'g vrordfl, virtually bids welcome to a foreigner
Xrialimnn to trample on tho grave of John
IUndolph of Roanoke 1 In the gateway to her
Capitol, on one side there stands, erected in
bronie, a statuo cf Thomas Jefferson, holding in
his right hand the scroll of the Declaration of ln-
I dependence, in which, for eighty years, our fath
cr8 ond oursciTCS have read, "All men are created
to'fYnn nA mini " n !,, nthr .M .t.inrls nnoth-
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sight to strange to my eyes, glad to stand once mow
n the clear light of the sun remembering how it
shines alike upon the evil and the good, upon tbe
jjstendthe unjust! Then recalling the words
of Dr. Ro3 I thought, "Ah I sir, you aro terribly
icrong!" and, remembering Wilberforce in his
grave, I said half aloud, in tho streets af that
slave city, "He was suhlimcly right I" (Loud
applause.) Yes, Mr. Charlos O'Conorl thero was
a time when John Randolph, of that samo Srate
of Virginia, nroo in his place in the House of
Representatives at Washington nnd said, "I envy
neither the heart nor the head of any man who
rises hero to defend tlavery from principle." But,
sir, Virginia that great State! onco tho mother
of Presidents, but now tho mother of slaved in
cr statue, likewise in bronze, ol Patrick Henry,
holding in ono band a drawn sword, and in the
other a scroll with tie words, "Give me liberty or
give me death." When the setting sun throws
his last slanting rays on those bronze statues, the
ehadows that go creeping down tho hill steal like
ill-omened ghosts over the thresholds of slave
pens, whore, from morning until noon of every
day, men, womon, and littlo childien are sold,
like goods and wares, at auction salq !
Such is tho mockery of freedom la a free land
Un t10 bc!Ut of ,!l0 public we have a despotism.
Sir, tho plantation is an empire, the planter is an
emporor, and we are a people governed, not by
tho President of tho States, but by the Cr.ar of the
Carolina. And how pationtly we submit to it
The government says, "I must have revenues from
the cotton-field ; slave labor must bo used; there
fore I will make men slaves, that slaves may make
cotton, that cotton may pay a tax." In the Hotel
d'Orier.t; at Athens, it is said a perpctunl fire
j kcPt burning, fod with tho roots of the ancient ol
ivo woods, nt a cost of a hundred francs a day.
With us, liberty is an ancient flame that many
men would Tko to seo kept burning, but thoy can
not afford totacrifico for it 11 cents a pouud on
cotton, nnd so they smother the fne with the
bales.
What is the attitudo of the Amoiionn people
toward the slave? How stands the State? How
stands the Church? How stands every branch
our political institutions?
Go to tho Supremo Court of tho United States;
knock at the door nnd ask, "What hope is there
for tho slave?" Ah, sir, I will tell you what will
bo the reply. Ciraffu. the Austrian Judgo Jef
fries lifted up his hands, nnd cried, ''If 1 had
ono drop of blood in my veins that could ever
throb in sympathy with the Hungarians, I would
bleed myself to death." Chief Justice Taney,
the Amorican Judge Jeffries taking up his pen
to writo u sentence cf condemnation against
poor man begging for his liberty, virtually declar
es, "If I have iu my veins one drop of blood that
beats in sympathy with the tiegio.I now shed it on
this white paper," and so ho gave bis decision to
tho world blood-stained. That, sir, is American
justice, sitting in trniino on her supreme bench!
Shall I turn to politics, to Cud hopo in contend
ing parties? A'edius Apollo, tho friend of the
Emperor Augustus, fed his lit lies with tho ilesh of
slaves; that is tbe way we feed our politicians
(laughter.) Tuka the lighted lantern of Diogenes
if so be that it is still burning! and hunt up
and down the highways and by-wayB of politics,
in search of an boncet man! Where will you go?
I will tell you where you will not go; and that is,
to Albany (laughter). A friend of mine who was
i j tbat city a few days ago, told me, on bis return,
(bat ia one of the halls of tbe Capitol a long row
of portraits of Stalk Senators and Representatives,
hanging on the wall, stared everybody in the face
who passed by. After the introduction of the re
cent "Gridiron Bill" into tbe legislature a grid
iron that was loaded witb fat spoils some wag
went in the night and posted over the portraits
a placard in great black letters, with the flattering
announcement, "Rogues Gallery" (laughter).
have not yet beard that he has been sued for libel
(great laughter.) Historians say that the Spanish
soldiers in the Netherlands, plucking plunder
from a conquered province, washed their horses'
feet with wiue. Our American politician wade
to their votes, washing their feet with bribes ! Sir,
both parties r.ro guilty. Though standing here
as a Republican, I charge almost equal criminality
upon both the Democratio and tbe Repnbliean
party (applause). Plunder is a no less guilty
word when written in the private memorandum
book of a Republican State Senator, than when
graven upon the open palm of a Democratic
corruptionist (great applause.) Now, sir, what
bope is here for the slave, who by tbe very pov
erty of his bondage, is too poor to come bearing
in bis hands a bribe?
Do you point me to tbe Church? Now, sir,
make no indiscriminate charge against the
Church. The Church is tbe Churches; tbe
Churches are not a unit i they therefore cannot
fall under one condemnation. Ia olden times,
men, driven bard by persecution, and fleoing for
their lives, could tabe refuge at tbe altar of a ca
thedral, they wore safe. No hand could lay its vio
lence upon them I And thore aro Churches now
whoso altars are bulwarks and refuges against op
pression. You may count them from Music Hall
to Brooklyn Heights, from Union Square to the
Rocky Mountains (applause). But these are few;
tho others ore many. Why, sir, look at it I Six
hundred thousand human beings held iu bondage
by ministers and members of the American Pro
testant Church I Now, I believe it is tho natural
tondoucy of men, whose thoughts aro in any deg
ree accustomed to rise In religious contemplation
towa'ds God, to stand from a national instinct
and sympathy, on tho side ol freedom, justico, and
truth. But the pulpit iscver more dragged down
to the dead level of tho pows. Dr. Cox was
aguiutt slavery uutil ho was mobbed; tbeu hu
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ment over to the other side. Sir, during tho In
quisition, when a Catholic priest became a Pro
testant pervert, his shaven crown was scraped
with a bit of glass by which it was supposed that
the original oil of consecration was removed.
I think that when the mob shattered the window-1
panes of Dr. Cox's house, some of the glass mtst
hive fallen on his head 1 (Loud laughter.
Then, sir, we have those sensitive doctors of di
vinity oditors of religious journals who are very
severe ng.insi mutilations by Tract Societies, but
who do not daro to print in their own columns,
without mutilation, an hontist rniicicm on the j
Churches and the ministry, merely because it hap-
pens to tie up a white cravat into a hard knot 1 1
i, Laughter.) If that strikes home, let it striko
(Applause.)
Whither shall we go, then, to find hopo for the
slave ? The Commerce of tho age like Iho com
merce of all ages is selfish. In Sparta, to pro
venl tbe increase of elavos, thoy wore slain with
daggers in the public highways. Compare the
ancient with the modern times 1 In Virginia, to
to hasten tlio incroase of slaves, they aro bred for
the market as farmers breed their stock.
Thus tho controlling forcos of our times are
bearing down upon the negro, and he is cushed
under their weight. Wbatand whence is his re
lief t
The problem Is, to got the Church to say, with
Wesley, that 'Slavery is the sura of all villaniej ;"
to get the press to say, with Coleridge, that 'Slave
holders are a legalized banditti of mcnstealcrs
to get the Stato to rcpudiate,with Lord Broughan
the 'wild and guilty fantasy that man can hold
property in man.' Now, how shall wo do it ?
When you wish to got a bad man to do right,
first give him a conscience, nnd thou teach him to
it. So, you cannot expect a slaveholding
nation to do right, until you touch deeply its mor
al sense. Then, by tho force of its own nro-osod
conscience, it will break the slavo s chain. But
how ore you to reach the national conscience ? I
know of but ono way; and that is, by the same
uninterrupted agitation that has bcon going on
for twenty years; by the perpetual appeal of noble
and truo hoartod men; by an unceasyig proclama
tion of the truth; by a steady indoctrination of the
people into a belief of the valuo of justico, the
sacredness of liberty, tho dignity of man I We
aro to demand of all tho institutions of our times
of the Church, of the Stato, of tho Courts, of the
Markef-place that all these, standing now on a
lowjevel, shall lift themselves up into a higher
piano '
But hero comes a man, frowning upon the agi
tation and scowling at the impracticable demands
of tho agitators, asking with indignation, 'Can tho
Church be purified at a stroke ? Can politics be
made clean in a day ? Will oommerce turn un
selfish at a breath ? Will parties grow honest for
a preamble ?'
Sir, I reply, No 1 I remember Tennyson's line,
how
"freedom broadens slowly down
From precedent to precedent."
I know that the roform will go on slowly enough,
in spite of every eloquent appeal to truth and jus
tice to tiaston it. Hot, sir, 1 know also that it
...
would not go on at all, if it were not for the etcr-
nal moral principle behind it, to urge it forward !
Tho sun cannot call forth summer in a day; and
yet, without the sun, no blado of grass can
-no blossom will hung upon the stem-no fruit
wia ripen ior tuo Harvest, i'len point to us, unu
say wo are fanatics; they point to our
meetings,
and call them unprofitable; they mock at our an -
niversarics, uud cull them useless. Now, sir, I
know that an anti-slavery speech in New York
will not abolish slavery from a single plantation
in South Carolina. What then ? Are words
worthless ? Is speech nothiDg ? Is a full
heart powerless? Is the tongue to keep
silence? No, sir; for 1 need not say to
rational men tbat if tbe right to liberty
never were proclaimed, the act of liberty would
nevor be performed. Therefore, the State should
be taught, "There is a higher law than tbe statute;
tbe Church should be taugbt, 'There is a higher
ethics than tbe morality of tbepews;' the political
parties should be taught, 'There is a higher plat
form than tbe prospectus of a Presidential cam
paign 1' Applause.)
Take, f jr illustration, the one great topio which
every day's newspaper is thrusting upon us afresh.
mean the present state of parties in tbe notion.
Last Saturday, a distinguished member of the Ue-
ruililinan tiartv. on his way to Chicago, said to me.
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"If Mr Douglas is nominated on the pi. ora on
which he now professes to stand, be will strike
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well nigh tho successful, argument against the
in 1850 wus that they were determined
to gx und fasten slavery on tbo territories.
Douglass, at Charleston, for prudcutial con-,
eiderations, refused to stand upon a platform
which thus unequivocally declared its purpose t
thrust a barbarous institution upon an unwilling
peoplo. That is to say, Mr. Douglas virtually
in 1800 all tbat tbe Republicans demanded
inlhSG. ISow, if tbo Republican party has no
higher aim than to keep out slavery from the ter
ritories, the moment lite territoriee are safe, that mo
ment the party ti useless. The watchword of Re
publicans is, "No slavery in the territories 1' Mr,
Douglas, who knows that bis horoscope ia cast for
I860, or never more, artfully catches up tbe sound,
mimics it witb an ooho, and orios out, 'Well, then
so be it, if the people will; no slavery in the territo
ries!' What is tbe result ? Why, tbe Republican
party melts away under tho breath of Mr. Douglas,
mouth ; a very unpleasant breath to melt under
(Great laughter.) What is the remedy? The Re
publican party must take higher ground 1 (Ap
plauie.) Do you ak, 'Shall moie be put into the
platform of 1800, than was put into the platform
of 1SSG ? Well, perhaps; not, if present success
is tho highest object to bo attained. It may be
inexpedient, in attempting to move the masses of
tho peoplo, to crowd them forward faster than they
aro ublo to go of themselves. But I maintuin, as
a member of tho Republican party, that whether
nioro anti'bluvcry sentimout is to bo added to the
platform than was in the old, it is tho duty
dismay and defeat Now, sir, if in next Novem
obey her, the Democratic party, by a desperate assault
growcoulmon orror of supp08iD(1! thnt i10 cttn offord
i .j:, ,he law of 0od for tho ,ok, of obeying
hope and hops at enK,h bM gtroggled into vioto
I rjafter 8 the long toil Is over, acd at last your
feet hase fuund a 8beiter 0n the free eoil of Ohio,
: state, ana 1 am its repreaeuiuuve , a bjuiiuiiuiih
I wi,u Jgu ag a fell0w-creature, but I must not fur
Democrats ga ,hat j am ft politician i sit ot my table, and
Buteat ftnJ driok . Bjeep my Kret till the morn
Mr. ;ng ,iab, f but when you wake, before you have
j (ime , run tiVAJi i win open tbi book and read
Lott tbe Fugitive Sla Law ; I will lay on your
ehouider , band heavier than iron ; I will-eeiie
J0U wriat to wr;8t with hand
yields j ff d ,ead you back -turned captive-sick
of Repnbliean leaden bow, it will be their duly
during the coming campaign, it will be their duty
so long as there is any battle to be fought against
oppression in tbe land, to lead the people step by
step to higher ground, to teach them by continual
precept a higher and nobler lesson of liberty, to
educate them daily into a higher appreciation of
men's rights and of God's truths ! When the city
of Leydcn was besciged by tho Duke of Alva's
army, the besieger's, in their counsel of war, said
'Let usmnke our attack at the bastion of the South
Gate ; the moment wo scale that single tower, we
are in the city ; then tho sword shall be naked
fr the slaughter ?" The besieged, locked within
tho walls of the menaced city, know too well that
the weakness of their defences would not bo able
to withstand the st-cngth of the assault. The en
gineers pointed to the solitary bastion and said,
'The moment that is taken we all are taken.' They
knew their peril. How did they prepare to avert
it ? Silently, in the night, without blast of trum
pet or stroke jf hammer, they laid a granlto foun
dation for another bastion of solid mason work,
that rose with slow strength to the level of the
first, and stood in the early light of tbe dawn,
majestic and impregnable, On tho next day came
the cannonade, tho assault, the scaling-ladders,
the mounting of the wall, the shout of victory
when suddenly, at tbe moment when high hopes
were highest, and loud cheers were loudest, the
besiegers, whose Spanish blood was excited with
the thought that they were on tho point of leap
ing down into the city, were confronted by the un
expected column nf granite which had arisen in
the night, and there, standing exposed upon tho
.1. ;
iiigu oaiuemonts, tne assailants were pieroeu wuu
arrows, stricken with panic, and driven back in
should succeed in carrying by storm the Preeiden-
tial election, tbero is only ono way in which the
i Republican leaders can save tho loss from beng
defeat ; and that is, to begin now to tcacb the
' pliant conscience of party how to harden into
solid rock 1 (Applause.) The party can afford to
lose an c.ection, if, in so doing, they strengthen
their conscience and maintain their principle 1
' Now, coming back to the point from which I
for an illustration, this education nf the
public conscience is the lesson which tbo Aboli-,
tionists teach ; and the way thoy teach it is by the
agitation. There are two classes of reformers
the leaders of the masses, and the leaders of the
. leaders. I know very well that it is your middle
mon not the Abolitionists, but the Republicans
who win tho popular applau;o. Yet thee same
Republican speakers, at whose feet tbe people sit,
must come themselves to eit at tbo feet of Wen
dell Phillips. (Applause.)
Hat the Republican party no need of tbe agita.
tion ? Goto tho House of Rcfrosentatives at,
Washington, and pluck out Mr. Corwin for illus-
(ration. Mr. Corwin says, 'I love liberty ; I love
the negro ; I would that the negro bad bis liberty;
I dislike the Fugitive Slave law; nevertheless,
when I turn over tbe leaves of tbe statute-book,
and find tbat I am enjoined to return to bondage
the slave who escapes lrom bis master, however
iiCiiSihui .....j ua (.no .v. ...j et.u.iu.E.i.0
0Ulnaili,yi .till, because it is a law, and so long
a3 it ia tt kw I mu8k jicij it my obedience and
8UDrort Mv fri.uds. Mr. Corwin commits
repugnant may be the law to my sentiments
; jaw Qf man j
Corwin thiuks that it is not
srn j. .:,, ,n i,,n n9
!
statute-book corn-
!nmnd8 t0 do
wrong.
Look at it 1 What
hope does so generous and honest a man as Mr
Corwin for generosity and honesty are qualities
which have always belonged to hit personal
character what hope does Mr. Corwin hold out
to tbe slave ? He says to the trembling fugitive,
"0 weary, bunted man I after you have broken
your chains after you have kindled many glow
ing hopes from tbe distant fires of the North .Star
after you have made m clear escape from the
rice swamps, and the ootton fields, and the cane
breaks after you bate passed the many perils of
journeying through by-paths by night, and of
lurking in secret hiding plaoes by day ; foot sore
and weary, covered with scare of the driver's
whip, and newer scare from tbe wound of his
pursuing dogs after all this suffering and des
pairing, in which despair has still struggled into
. , , i : nr. nn..;n
1 diu you -
t0 tho batlk, of tll9 river. with the .Utile-
book bU bandI bid SOu welcome to tbo hos-
.... ... . . . .
puviuv Ul my roui tu-uigu. , ii vrun, .
, ... - . T . .
.,. r( H.nirinlr. and more readv to die than to
live through all the long journey over which you
have come, until at last you are once more tied to
the whipping post of your master's plantation Iu
the Carolina scourged for sleeping too unsound'
ly ia a stave's cabin beaten witb many stripes
for having, in some restless hour of the night,
dreamed of liberty and the Northern hills T'lAp
plause.") Sir, I ask all good men, solemnly, Has the Re
publican party no need of the agitation ? (Ap
plause.) Well, sir, if the Rcpudlican party has need
agitation, I am sure the Democratic party neods
moro. The present position of that party is not
littlo amusing. You will allow me to ulied my
very cheerful tear for my grief is merry over
the defeat, and death, and burial of our friend, the
Moooralle Jefferson Davis killod by the persist
ent compliment tbe cold and cruel compliment
of one Hassachusetti vote 1 When bis political
obituary conies to be written, It shall bo said of
him, as a Boston paper eaid of gool deacon who
II
a
a;iu tl0 jierty 0f the slave. Ho would throw
RW8y tn0 Constitution, and dissolve the Union,
thomerej ag metheds of liberating the slave. Othor
j mcI1 ann the same object in view, would take
j part-altbough my opinion can be of but little
j worth to any one else I neither reject the Consti
wandored tution nor would destroy the Union (applause.)
On the contrary, I claim the Constitution for free-
;
away lrom I
1 Bdeli Si
1 the baB;B 0f
theln m,.
of
it
a
died In that city, 'The deacon was a relative of the
Hon. Caleb Cusbing, but was in all other points
a respectable man.' (great laughter.)
Well, there are those who say of the other can.
dldate who is not yet killedof course I mean
Mr. Douglas that he is anti-slavery at heart. In
deed! Tell me how much? A young husband,
shortly after marriage, sat down with hie wife to
one nf those romantic dinners that are very good
becauso of the occasion, but seldom because of the
cooking (laughter). They had chicken-soup, and
the soup was very thin almost as thin as water.
The man sipped a little for love's soke, but fin
ally, for hunger's sake, exclaimed, 'My dcar,couIdn't
you persuade that chicken to wade again through
this soup ?' )Grc.t langhtor.) Now, Mr. Douglas
is said to ho a game chicken, but be must wide
again through the soup before he can make at
swallew it (renewed laughter.) A young lady who
bad fallen in love with a man who had a huge
moustache sent a complaining letter to Vnc&
about the great quantity of hair on her lover's
face, asking what she should ii, in her dtstress,
about bis beard. 'Do about it ?' said WA,
'Why, my charming friend said he, 'set your
faco flat against it' (laughtor.) So, sir, Mr. Doug-
las tells the public that he dues not like the bris
tling beard of the Slave Power, but sets his face
very resolutely, yet very lovingly, against it I
(Laughter and applause.)
One word more, and that serious This agita
tion is not pne of methods, but of principles.
It therefore summons to its aid all who love God,
liberty and their fellow-men ; asking that they
COmc without distinction of party or creed, to aid
witIl their good will and good work ia pressing
forward the groat cause. The Abolitionists have
always been misunderstood, and therefore misrep
resented. Mr. Garrison, fur instance, is said to
seek, as the chief object of his life, the dissolution
I of ,jie Union of these States. Not so I His chief
different mothodi to accomplish it. For my own
dom, and claim the Union as the theatre on which
to work it out (applause.) Nevertheless, what is
j my chief object ? It is to free the slave I What
is Mr. Garrison's chief object ? It is to free the
slave I Thoreforo I clasp hands "on this platform
with Mr., Garrison (applause.) This being his pur
poso, this platform is his place ; this being my
purpose, this platform is my place ; if this be
your purpose, this platform is your place I (Ap
plause.) I would be ashamed to call myself a man.
if I had so little manliness that I would not dare
to stand side by side, in this great work, with
iien with whose more methods alone I disagree.
but with whose leading aims, and principles, and
especially witb whose beautiful and heroio lives, I
stand in glad and willing sympathy.
Nor have t much opinion of any man's moral
' coura wb0
suffers himself to be frightened
mm frnm tins nhitform bv the absurd crv of in
ir, as for myself, I am content to make
my abolitionism the inspired word of
the;r..,, TSn nUifnrm on which I take m stand aa
oan Ab(,lit;oni8t ;8 tVlg book holuing ttp a B;
Up 5onder in tbe Fifth Avenue, thero is a
ible.
o vonder in tne nun Avenue, mere is a Dew
t,r:t. i. lirrh. in the tmlDit of which stands, oa
Sunday mornings a venerable man on whose head
eighty winters have piled their successive snows.
Tbat ministor has said, 'The Bible) ia no agitator 1'
Sir, these words are a slander on this book 1 (His
ses and great applause, both continuing for some
minutes.) I should judge by tbe hissing tbat some
of the persons present have been reading, in this
same book, of the creeping thing mentioned in tbe
firdt chapter of Genesis (laughter, and renewed
hisses and applauses). The Bible no agitator?
Tbe Bible is tbe anh agitator j and it la tbe agita
tlon with which this book has stirred the world
that I bring to this question an agitation which,
I know, will sooner or later touch the heart of tbe
nation 1 (Applause.)
Infidelity ! What Is it T Sir, I am a Christian
man, I trust, by Christ's grace, and I utter no
slander but speak only the troth wbtm I say, that
Infidelity is the religion of Fifth Avenue Church
es, accepting tbe divinity of Christ, but denying
the humanity of man 1 (Loud applause.) In
I. . .lnn Iim.Ii.h M.I.K anlil
i 1 v
boulder, they drive a wooden wedge into it, and
hom ,eT. the d wooi b moi;,ene(1
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IM WOOC, 108
e fibres begin to swell, and before the
morning the great rock is split asunder. Martin
Luther, taking up tbe old vellum of ibis book,
dropped it as a wedge into " the great rock of
tbe papal beirarcby. What happened T There
was an earthquake in the world, which shook the
dome of St. Peter's with its Jar ! To-night, In
God's name, I put this book as a wedge into tbe
walls of tbe house of bondage, with tbe firm hope
and faith, (hat whether 1 lite to see the end in my
day or nut, the prison-house will surely be burst
open, and tho oppressel will go frsel (Applause.)
May God, in his providence, speed tbe hour, ana
crown tbe work l)Loud applause.)
It "111 b tonanibmd that Mr. Cu.blnf , In tht ChtrlaitM
OonTtnUoB, cut hti oU tdllTi through 160 InlloU, lot JC
futon tYl, vhfch wu tht only voU IhM fr ntluun r -mi
ltd.
Tub Suva Tradi Oj'xnkd iu a Htw War.
Special Despatch to tbe Philadelphia Press, May
24. I learn that the government bos received in
formation that the fishermen off the ooost of Flori
da and South Caroliuo are ia tbe habit of running
over to Cuba, on the preteno of disposing of their
fish, nod roturoiog with two or three native Afri
cans, bought there at a low figure, which tbey die
pose of at a great advanoe to parties who meet
them on the eoost, purchase the negroes, and take .
them into tbe Intorior. Tbis gross and Dptorlous ;
violation of low has been going on for some time,
... , -i...u.. .... ....... -.it
aou 11 remains to u iovu nuvt.fi m"t v iu -be
taken to arrest it.