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"NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS."
J AMES HAUVtnY, fiiMI'liing AkoiiU
JtlAHIlS It. HOliO, Editor.
SALEM, COLUMBIANA CO.. OHIO, JUNE 14, 1851.
WHOLE NO. 300.
VOL. 6-N0.40.
S!
'TO ANTI-SLHRRY BUGLE,
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THE BUGLE.
, We hope every abolitionist, niter reading
the following eloquent, truthful mill scathing
remarks concerning Daniel Webster anil his
accomplices, will be sure to hand it his whig
neighbor.
CLOSE THE SPEECH OF
HON. HORACE MANN,
Delivered at Lancaster, Mass,. May 19th.
l!ut, fellow-citizens, ns our feelingd nro
stimulated to the keenest sensibility, in look
ing nt the infinity oi' wrong which slavery
commits ; ns wo poo tho millions nml mif
lions of Inimnn beings dimly emerging into
.view, and crowding down tho vistn of futu
rity, to blunt our eyes w ith tho vieiou of their
woe, a potent voice rings in our ems, ex
claiming, u Conquer yovr Prejudices " Co.t
QtER tocR Prejudice.." And this rxreru
lilo counsel is uttered in reference to llic in
finite crime nnd disgrace of pending into
slavery, without a trial,' those who are free
under our laws, tho men to hi ripen and
death, and tho women to the body's shame
nnd the soul's perdition. Fouler, baser,
more ungodly counsel was never uttered,
since it was said to our (hot parents iu the
turden of Kdcu: On tho (lay thou cutest
thereof, "thou shall not surely die."
And whnt is it hut this long-hnirnrod eu
logist of Liberty, hut now it great uposluto,
blasphemes with tho name of "prejudice ?"
If there bo one sentiment inoro deeply root
ed in tho public heart of Massachusetts t 'in 11
any other, ninro iutortwined und grow n to
gether with nil the fibres of its being, it in
the sentiment Ol .Liberty, behave drunk
it in with our mother's milk ; w e ln.vo im
bibed it from all tho lessons of tho school
room and the teachings of tho sanctuary ;
wo have inspired it with the atmospohcio wei
breiithe, and our organs have been alliiued
to it from our birth, by thu anthem ot the
mountain's wind and tho ocean's roar. It
was from the lovo of Liberty, t lint our ear
lier fathers plucked themselves up by the
roots from thut iialal soil into which they
had been fastening lor ccntiuii s. Fur ibis,
they wandered abroad upon iho ocei.u, be
cause its engulling surges were more tnler
nble to them than a tyrant's power ; and us
the sires were stricken down by toil and
death, the sous took up thu woik und bore
it on, generation after generation.
For this uoblu sentiment of Liberty, our
later Fathers encountered the perils and
deaths of n seven years' war, and amid pov
erty and destitution, amid hunger, unit eold,
ami nakedness, without uny of the protec
tions and defences of buttlu which tiic
wealth of their loo could command, they
bured their noblo breasts to the shock of tho
mailed legions of the llritish crown.
Now, there is not one of all those glorious
deeds, from thu embarkation at Dcllthuvcn
to the signing of thu l'eueo of lieiJ, or the
iunuirurutioii of tho Federal Government iu
17811, which was not begotten by the love of
.Liberty, or would have been pcrlurmcd with
out its creative energy. And yet, the urch
npostute, standing in tho city of Itostou, tho
Jioma of old Suniucl Adams and John Hun
cock, within a stone's lluow of tho spot
where llenjnmiii Franklin was born, in
sight of Bunker Hill, and w ith Lexington
and Concord, us it wcro, just hiding them
selves behind the hills lor shame, calls ull
this a " Prejudice j" and commands us to
castjjt from us us nil unclean thing. Was it
not enough to make the stones iu tho streets,
and every block iu tliut eternal shall which
marks tho spot where Warren fell, cry out
with most miraculous organ,' to rebuke him ?
We have another, and it is a kindred
" prejudice." , We have a " prejudice" of
sixty years standing in favor of tho princi
ple of the ordinance- of 1787. That ordi
nance has been cherished in our memories,
it bus been taught to our children, und wo
have displuyed it before the world both as
the pledge and the promise of our dttvution
to liberty. ' Five Suites, now numbering five
millions of men. wero tho battalions whom
that ordinance wheeled from the imiks of
JWliul to the Lord's side. Hundreds ot times
liuve tho Whig party and tho Democratic
,imrty resolved that the principle of that or
dinance should be maintained inviolate.
Mr. Webster.cluimed the application of it to
tho new territories as his thunder, and swag
gered as he rattled it. Now ho culls tho
great achievement of Thomas Jefferson and
Nathan Dane a "prejudice," and dishonors
lueir graves by his scolls. lie abandons the
vast regious of L'tuh and New Mexico to the
slaveholder; ho gives nearly one hundred
thousand square miles of territory to Texas;
lie gives ten millions of dollars in money,
(more than with all our devotion and self
sacrifice, we have been able to appropriate to
public education in Massachusetts, for the
last ten years;) and worse than this, ho gives
permission that she may carve out ot her
territory a slave State additional to what had
been unconstitutionally contracted lor when
sho came into the Union.
And for what does he flout us, by stigma
tizing all these sacred convictions, ond bou
timents, und " instincts, os " prejudices ?"
Only to feed the fuinineof his ambition. He
began to esp what every body else has so
long seen, that his vices were bringing up-
on him the retribution of rcinuluio old age
and decrepitude ; and that unless ho could
enter the White lloiiso tin next term, he
must waif, nt leat, until the grent Julian
Period should bring the world round again.
Ho parleyed with Southern tempters, nnd
fell.
Nor did he ottlr.igo our feeling only. IIo
sacrificed our pecuniary interests, our very
meiuiH of subsistence. Massachusetts would
bo prospering under an improved system of
protection fi,r our domestic industry, to-day,
but lor Mr. Webster's apostucy, which strip!
us of nil our power nnd of nil our unity, and
inflamed ihe spiril of Southern aggrandize
ment to demand every thing and yield noth
ing. Could tho issue bo now formed, and
Iho case tried, whether Daniel Webster's
course in 18.10 did not deprive tho working
men of the country of a tanir for tho pro.
tection of their labor, not an intelligent and
impartial judgo rould lie found thai would
not bring him in guilty. This result every
unbiased man at Washington, saw, last sum
mer; while ho was cajoling the men of tho
North with tho delusion that, if they would
surrender lilicrly, they should havo their re
ward in a tarilt.
Fellow-citizens, I will trespass upon your
attention but for a moment longer. I wish
to uilvntice one idea tor the consideration of
all sober, moral, and religious men. We
have nssumed the fidsity of n distinction be
tween a man's public and his private life.
We have supposed that tho same individual
might bo u bad man and a good citizen ;
might bo a patriot nml an inebriate, a faithful
oflicer and a debauchee, nt tho snmo time;
might tfervo his country during office hours,'
and tho powers of dm knees tho rest of Iho
twenty-four, lint I say, us of old, no man
can serve God and Mammon.
We havo been too prone to judge of men
by their professions and their connections.
We seem to have forgotten that the tree is to
lie known by its fruil, and a man by his life.
If wo are to take tho Pharisee's rule, and to
determine a man's piety by his creed, and
the 'lumber and length of bis prayers, then
piety will bu tho cheapest thing iu tho mar
ket ; nml as worthless as it is cheap.
In rb"osing teacher to be the guide and
rxempl.irs of our children, we demand high
moral woith.
In selecting our religious guides, wo f'-cl
almost justified iu being captiously and mor
bidly critical ; we hardly admit that wo can
be Uriel to a limit ; niui tho man who fails
to carry personal purity and cxeiupbit iness
into the pustoral Inn, it driven from it with
indignation and contempt.
How long have all good citizens iu Massa
chusetts labored iu the glorious cause of
J cnipeiiiuee. 1 hey have devoted tune, ex
pended talent lavished money, incurred oli
ioiii ; but ns their reward, they havo pluck
ed tho guilty 1 in m perdition ; rescued the
young, just losing Iheir balance over the pre
cipicu of ruin ; saved tho widow nml lath
ci less from tiuoltciahlc woe, and driven de
mons of discord h oni domestic I Mens. Now
why, idler all our toils and saeiillcesto up
hold mid carry forward the cause of temper
ance, and to makn its name as bonorublu as
it is blessed ; w by should wu demolish all our
w oik by elevating a man to a high political
station, or by upholding him when in ii,
who, iu tho liico ol the nation and of the
worid, will become so drunken that he can
not artieuiatu his mother tongue ? Is (his
an example you desire to set helbru the in
genuous mid aspiring youth of the laud ; ay,
belore your ow u children ?
We havo bad men iu thu Pieideutial
chair, not w ithout liuillb nml bhmishesol
character; but hitherto we may proudly say,
that wo never have had one there who
drowned his reason in bis cups, (iod grant
that we never may. Think of this iiiaunifi
cent Ship of Jstulo freighted w ith iwcuty
llirec millions, of souls, mid laden to the scup
pers with tho wealth of all the world's hopes,
with a pilot n' the helm, dnink!
We are an industrious and u frugal people.
Thu aptitude is born with us. A true Mas
sachusetts boy seems to take to ingenious
labor and to labor-saving contrivances, from
bis birth, like a duck, almost impatient to
bo batched, that it may gel into the water.
Dr. Franklin has stamped u family like
ness upon us all. His economical wisdom
is domesticated among us. Take a sound
and pure specimen of Massachusetts farmer
or mechanic, mid analyze him, and you will
find that, of bis whole composition, from
six to ten ounces in Ihe pound is umdo up
ol Dr. Franklin. Now why should wo root
out this luxuriant, h unhealing virtue? Why
welcome and court and feed the puxligali
lies and sensualities of tho Old Worhl, Jo
corrupt the pristine virtues of the new?
Can hu bo a republican alter Iho severe sim
plicity and graudeurof tho old Komau type;
can lie he an exemplary citizen, who must
havo his thirty, forty, or even filty thousand
dollars a year to squander upon what I must
not cull, " to (jars polite," his vices und pas
sions, hut more geuteely, " his tastes ami
feelings;" bilo millions of honest la
borers thunk God if by incessant toil they
can earn their daily bread for their families,
and tho broad of know ledge for their chil
dren ? Can they be good citizens ; or, ul least,
are thoy not grievously deluded, who will
give such purses to such a man for being tho
advocate ami agent of their special interests,
while there ore hundreds of sufleriug men
and women and more suffering children at
their own doors r Do you waul your chil
dren to crow til) inllamed by such examples
of excess and waiilutiuess? 1 know thut all
this is defended on Ihe irround that some
thing must bo done for a great man's family.
,7i, that family ! The progeny and costliness
of the vices, w hat Culiliiruia shall be able to
suport? I know, loo, thut it is uIjo suid wo
must liuve great talents m the public councils.
at whatever price. Well, if this be your
philosophy, don't do the work by halves, but
import Lucifer at once P . .
- Now, fellow citizens, you know that all
tho men who are guilty of these great dere
lictions flom civil and social duty, are tho
men who uphold tho Fugitive Sluve Law.
I ini'ht touch upon morn holy relations iu
life; upon virtues without which thoro is no
homo mid no domestic sanctuary; without
which them may bo children but the sacred
imtitutioii ofthe family is gone. IJiit I for
beiu , 1 only desire to awaken your attention
to tho great duty of extending Iho domain ol
conscience over politics; of holding public
men answerable lor those vices which it is a
great misnomer t' 'l juivato, when thoy
nro committed in iho fiie.o of tho world.
" The pulpit is fa I so to its trust," if it does
not follow and rebuke litem, under whatever
robes of olliciul dignity they may hold their
revels.
Throe great singes of development Mong
to the world. First, there was the period of
physical development, when thu tallest man
was crow ned king, when tho strongest mus
cles enacted the laws, when bi uto Ibrcc was
"His Royal Majesty," and claimed and re
ceived Iho homage of mankind. That ne
has passed, and how conteinptiblo does all
its greatness now appear. Then ciiino the
ago w hen tho mind lowered above tho body,
when a nation's power no longer consisted
in the millions of its men, but iu tho triviali
ties of its knowhlegoj when Iho intellect
took up tho vastest coiicenlrations of animal
strength, w hich seemed omnipotent beloro,
lifted them off their fulcrum, and they be
came, like a leather, iu the breath of its pow
er. That ago is Iho present. The Moral
Ago is yet to bo ushered in. Iu this age the
intellectual forces shall still retain all their
dominion nnd supremacy over tho physicul
world ; but the moral shall preside over the
intellectual, ami movo them as God moves
the stars, bringing them out of chaos, und
w heeling them in circuits of uniiiiagiuablu
grandeur, and for purposes of beneficence
yet inconceivable. In that day, the Lawgiv
ers of tho laud shall bo no longer "compro
misers" between Duty und Mammon, und
the judges shall judge iu righteousness. In
that day, the Merchant, tor the lucre of trade
shall not p'iy tribute in human beings, ami
send his flesh-tax ncross the free waters. In
that day, the Gospel of human brotherhood,
of doing as wo w ould be dono by, and of
loving our neighbors as ourselves, shall not
ho doled out to us by priests of tho broad,
phylactery sort, ill bomoepatbic doses, redu
ced to the five hundredth dilution. Ilut in
that glorious day, the men w ho sit in the
Areopagus of tho nation, clothed w ith the
ermine of Ihe Low, shall be, as the heathen
of old figured the emblem of Justice, blind
in llic outward eye; und nil they know of
color, shall bo to give no color to tho law.
In that day tho suc.rrssors of t. Piml sIhiII
preach us ho preached, standing "in tho midst
ufMurs Mill, "u God of equity and righteous
ness, of justice, ot benevolence; Iho Ijoci
w ho made "of one flesh all nations of men,"
w ho, nlas! to so many in our day is " tho
L'bksowm God."
In that day, w hen a w hole people are
uroused to ponder, with unwonted intensity,
upon tho gioat principles lor which t-ytlucy
and Vaue bled ; lor which Hampden smote
tho tyrant of his day ; tiir w hich tho heroes
ot tho revolution pledged lottuiio, hie ami
sacred honor ; no voice shall strive to scihice
them from their sacred work by its Belial
cry, "Co.Mjt'r.R vol u Piiv.jroiti:'s !" .
Slavery in Liberia.
The patrons of tho Colonization Society
havo taken great pains to contradict tho
staieinent of ('apt. Forbes in regard to shi
very iu Liberia, hut it seems from tho follow
ing letter w hich we copy from tho London
.Ktiriiiiif? lkitiltl that tho C'tipl lin still slicks
to his slaleuicut ami is able to j:ivu names.
" Aiijiy a.d Nvr Ci.iu, April 8.
" In reference to the article on Liberia iu
the last number of tho .vVaiia inn, signed
by ' llllioit t'resson and Thomas llodgekiu,'
1 Ii el called on to give some explanation.
"On the '-Mill of .March Mr. llodgekiu
very politely riq tested that I Would give my
authority lor Hie statements iu my work,
'Dahomey and the Dahninaus,' retelling to
Liberia, adding 'Thou will observe that 1
am not calling thy own accuracy iu question ;
but the assertions to which thou hast given
circulation are so strangely ut variance w ith
the accounts which I have receive ! from ac
tual visitors, that I fool deeply interested in
searching tlicm lo their foundation."
"Had Mr. llodgekiu published my an
swer along with tho letter of himself and
Mr. Crcssou, I should not havo had here to
continue the controversy. It was as fol
lows :
Forest, Windsor, March 20".
"My Dear ir, You ore right in your
conjecture tlmt I have not visited Monrovia,
although for six months I was stationed
within iwenly-fivo miles of Cano Mesuruda,
and ut Capo Mouiit met many Lihcrian citi
zens. That tho citizens of Liberia aro guil
ty of buying and holding slaves, I had ocu
lar demonstration ; and 1 know personally
two Lihcrian citizens, sojourners ut
Capo Mount, w ho owned several slaves, in
tho general use of tho term, but not iu its
legal sense, us regards the treaties for the
suppression of the slavo trade, as these
slaves wero whut nre termed domestic
slaves, or pawns, ond not intended lor for
eign slavery. These pawns, us 1 huvo stat
ed and believe, uro as much slaves as their
sable prototypes in the parent States of
America, ami my informants acquainted me
that almost ull labor in Liberia wus derived
from a system of domestic sluvery.
"'Of domestic slavery in Liberia there
are two classes the one common to all Afri
ca, ond practised by tho aboriginal inhabi
tants for the most purl the other not much
to be complained of, if not extended by
taking servants, hcliis, apprentices, or pawns
(choose tho expression,) obliging them to la
bor clothing, feeding, and instructing them.
"'In proof that I did not stato without
foundation that Lihcrian citizens held slaves,
1 will conclude by instancing that a citizen
of the republic otmlicd to me, as command
er of one of her Alajesliy's ships, to prociuo
for him pawns of value to the amount of
goods of which bo had been despoiled du
ring a civil w ar at Capo Mount. 1 am & c,
" 1 f. i:. loiiBKs.Com. it. n;
"The asterisks in thu copy of my letter to
Mr. HoilLckiii supply tho place of Ihe
names ul' Ihe two slave-holders nt Capo
Mount, therein mentioned as examples,
w hieli names I gave, in confidence, to Mr.
llodgekiu.''
SPEECH OF GEORGE THOMPSON.
AT THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE AMERICAN A.
S. SOCIETY.
GronoE Tuniin.N was repeatedly and
loiidlv called ' for, mid atlingili come for
ward and spoke as Ibllows: I merely rise to
tcriulnutn the suspense of this audience try
making au apolo lor my silence. I should
feel it mi act of great indiscretion to weaken
by any speech of mine the clloct of the ml-,
miriihle address we have listened to.
No man can disiiuiso from himself tho im
portance of the topic thai Mr. Garrison has
dir-ciKseil to-night, lis cl.i 'f importance
lies in this, that it is a question that must be
discussed because it is olio embedded ill
the great subject of the emancipation of
three millions iu this laud. It is not n ques
tion for mo to debate ; it is peculiarly your
oun question. My province is simply
to declare the piinciplo which lie-, nt Iho
root ol this gioat mailer of American Sla
very; mid that piinciplo is of universal ap
plication, that no man can hold properly in
his lelluw-inan.
If it be eternally wrong for a man to en
slave his Ii llow-lnen, then, my friends, the
World from its commencement to the pres
ent hour has never before witnessed the
commission of so colossal a crime us that of
a deliberate and organized conspiracy on
the part ol twenty millions of men to en
slave three millions of their li.llow-tiien.
All other tyrannies from tho beginning sink
into insignificance in comparison with this.
I cannot measure the guilt of your country,
nor can you,
Kail at Kussia and Austrin, mid the tyran
nies of tho Old World! Go! hang vour
heads, and learn of Atistriuns ami of Kus
sians tin! tirl principles of human rights;
nud when you have set lieu a nation iu
bonds, when you havo humbled yourself
lo tin) very dust, when Joii havo clothed
yourselves in sackcloth und nsbes, when
you have purged the toinplo of liberty from
Ihe streams of b ood that have flowed thine
for sevenly-livu jears, w hen joil have purg
ed your l.'onMiluliou Ironi u compromise
with siu, when you have redeemed your
land from universal degreoation ami pollu
tion, when you havo silenced tho clunk ol
the letter, the crack ol tho whip, und the
sighing of the prisoner, when you huvo
in I io that, then read lessons to I. mope, ami
set the world an cxuniplo worthy ot being
lotlowed! lint till then, any rcliukcs you
utter lo tho nations of the Old World recoil
iu thunder tones upon yourselves ; and you
do but hurl those rebukes to conic back ech
oed w ith u trumpet voice, ' ISuso hjpocrits!
learn liberty at home, mid learn that liberty
consists in righteousness, and iu using '.ho
strength which it gives lo deliver thu o-piCH.-cd
ft oi, i their bonds!'
1 can tell you this, because 1 am a repub
lican in soul. 1 can say to your country,
' Would that all tho nations of tho earth
were even as thou art, save thceo bonds."
Applause.-
1 tell j mi this, not as mi enemy, but ns a
friend. 1 tell you this, because 1 wish your
country well, and because it can neer bo
Well wilh you until slavery is abolished.
A nation in chains ! mid talk of sympathy
with the Hungarians, ami of sending n ship
to brills to the shores of this Country Koss
uth ! Why, it' Kossuth he a consistent man,
instead of bandying compliments with Lew
is Cass, ho would send him words that
would scorHi his very soul, mid say, ' Keep
your compassion for ':),0(IO,0)0,of you coun
trymen iu chains! If yon have sympathy
to spare, pour it over "ityiOO.CllO of chattel
slaves iu your midst! Though banished
from my country, from the banks of the
Danube to the bunks of the liosplmriiH, my
limbs wear no chains! No overseer drives
mo to lubor in the' morniiur ! No tyrant's
frowns wither my manhood! I am lieu un
der the Sultan of Turkey, and surrounded
by his protection ! If you, Lewis Cass, or
you, Millard Fillmore, or you, Daniel Web
ster, have a superfluity of "sympathy, send it
Southward, und let it console :!,UU0,(J00 of
Ana iicuiis m bonds! lvos.-ulli has enough
for himself and something to spare for them,
and he makes u coulrihiilion to the slaves of
America id' tho sympathy tendered to pat
riotic llumrariaiis!' ILnud nipluusc.l
I shall doubt the patriotism and lovo of
uiHiiiy oi every limn wiio conies ironi revo
lutionary F.urono lo these shores. In accent
the hospitality of slaveholders. (Cheers.) If
tie no a patriot, a lover ol liberty, whether
ho fly from tho bunks of the Danube, the
Seine, or thu Tiber, let him go to New F.tig
luiul, nml find u home' with tho persecuted
mid muligtied ubolitionists of Iho country!
IjCC Iiiui throw in Ins lot with them; let him
range himself under the banner ot Wo
Union with tumult'.' lint let bun not quit
the tyranny of a crowned despot in F.urope,
to lay his manhood before 20,Ut!0,0()0 of con
federated Republican (?) despots in this coun
try! Applause.
Tho question we linvo lo do with is iho
right of man to hold property iu man ; that
is the whole question. It is that which is
disturbing the entire frame-work of your re
publican fabric which gives the lie to every
profession you make which makes you a
by word nml a hissing uiuong nil Ihe na
tions. Iu this cause, it is the duty of every man
lo help the Abolitionists of America. There
is not u man on earth that has not nn interest
in this great question. America is the w orld's
property. She has professed to ruisu her
institutions upon sell-evident truths, and to
luuke thmii subservient to. und nroinotivu of
liberty and justice throughout tiio world.
Wo huvtju right to demand of you, thut
you do not nssnsinatn liberty in the homo
nnd sanctuary lo w bieh you have invited her.
We huvo n right lo expect, that, instead of
retarding the proirress of freedom ill Ihe
world, you should advance it by a pure and
consistent example.
Vou tlo not do so; ami Amciicn in I'ug
lanil is a laughing-stork in propoitioti ns she
brags of the liberty thai you have in this
country. Is there any virtue in Hint? There
was virtue iu your lathers throw ing off the
yoke of iho mother country; thu virtue id'
sacrifice, of devotion, of bravery, of dissolv
ing old mid endeared associations. lint I
cannot imagine any creature living so desii
Into of merit, ns a republican born in ibis
country, making a boast of being free be
cause do cannot help it!
Mr. T. then referred to ihefict that many
persons wero yel uninterested in this ques
tion, because they hud yet In be awakened
to n sense of its enormity. This but furnish
ed ndditional nud strong evidence of the ne
cessity of prosecuting the cause w ith renew
ed vigor. They looked for sucress from the
li'ecls of n renovated public sentiment. In
F.ngluml, iu carrying all reforms, the ques
tion was taken by 1 1 in people, and through
prsssurc from w ithout, the question was suc
cessfully carried. Il hud been so there, with
tho Aiu'i-Sliivery and all reliiruiatory move
ments. So Slavery must bo abolished ill
this country. When the public, sentiment of
America was renovated, and not till then,
would the divines discourse sound doctrine.
At present they seemed, by n in sterintis
coincidence, lo wrtlu their jjiMoons accord
ing to a model sent from niu ollice of tho
Secretary of State. Laughter.
They must not attempt to cope wi:h the
defenders of Slavery w ith their own weap
ons. In politics, the latter would beat them.
They must get into a higher atmosphere
it would choke Ihetii lo follow there. Ap
plause. Take your weapons out of the
heavenly armory, and they w ill not have a
shield to cover them.
They had a proof of the importance iu
which the cause was held. Did ihey think
that tho ready writers would bo there from
New York, if they did not l ur the c flints
they wero making; if they did not know
that there was a potency iu w luil they were
doing! He had only to tell them, that, iu
the results of this nuiliition. their worst fears
would be realized. Clieers.l
llubadollen been asked if he could, by
giving tho word, emancipate tho slaves of
America, would bo do ii at once. Hu bad
us often replied, ' I would not slop to say it
I woubr think it!' Ho hud no fears ot the
results of emancipation!
Mr. T. concluded his address ns follows:
' Whenever this system shall lull, not only
shall the skies bo ns bright und ns stable as
ever, but a sun more glorious than has ever
yet shone upon your country shall arise, and
beneath its kindly nml impartial beams tho
millions ol this country shall rejotco iu a
liberty that shall know no discrimination,
and iu a prosperity that shall know no dis
crimination, ami iu u prosperity that shall
know no end.' (Long and continued applause.)
Women's Rights Convention.
Mrs. Franecs D. Uayc, iom laKiny Ihe chair, mirl;
I am at n loss, kind friends, to know whether
to return you thanks or not, for tho honor
conferred upon me. And, when I tell ym
that I have neve.- iu my life attended a regu
lar business meeting, nud am entirely inex
perienced iu thu forms und ceremonies ot n
Ieliberativo body, you w ill not bo surprised
that I do not feel remarkably grateful fir my
present position. For though you have confer
red uti honor upon me, I very much (ear 1
shall not be ublu to reflect it buck. 1 w ill
try.
When our forefathers, left the old and
beaten paths of New F.ughmd, nud struck out
for themselves into a now and unexplored
country. They went forth with a slow and
aulious step, but wilh firm and resoluto
hearts. Tho land of their fathers had be
come to small for tho children. Its soil an
swered not their wants. The parents shook
their hands, and suid with doubtful and fore
boding liices, ' Stand still, stay at home.'
This has sufiiced for us wo have lived and
lijoycd ourselves here. True, our moun
tains ure high, and our soil is rigid and cold.
Ilut you wont find a belter, change, and trial,
nnd toil, will meet you tit every step. Stay,
tarry w'nli us, und go not foilh to the w ilder
ness. Ilut the children answered, Let us go.
This laud has sulliccd for you, but thu one
beyond tho mountuins is belter. Wo know
there is trial, toil and danger ; but tor the
sake of children, and our children children,
wo ore willing to meet ull.
They went forth, and pitched their touts
iu tho wilderness. An herculean task was
before them tho rich und fertile soil was
onco shadowed by a mighty forest, their
giuut trees wero to ho felled. Tho Iudiun
roamed tho wild, wido hunting groiuid, and
cluimcd them as bis own. Ho must bo met
and subdued, tho savngo beasts howled defi
ance from every hill top and in every glen.
Thoy must ha destroyed.
Did tho hearts of our fiilhers fuil ? No,
they entered upon their. now life, their new
w orld, with a strong J'uith and a mighty will.
For they saw in iho prospective a greut and
inculculublo good. It wus not tho work of
on hour, nor of a day not of weeks or
mouths but of long struggling, toiling, puin
ful years.
If they failed ot one point, uiey iook iioiu
ut another. If their pnths through tho wilder-
ncss, were at first croorked, rough and dan
gerous, by littlo ami little they improved
ibftni. The forest faded awny, the savago
disappeared, tho wild beasts wero destroyed
and the hopes, and prophetic visions of 'he
liir seeing powers in the new and untried
country, were more than realized.
Permit nn) to draw a comparison between
the situation of our forefathers in tho wilder
ness, w ithout even so much as a bridle pnth
throng! its dark depths, and our present po
sition.
The old land, of moral, social and political
privilege, seems too narrow for our wants
its soil answers not lo our growing and wo
feel that vo sen clearly a better country, that
wo might inhabit, ilut thcro are mountains
of established Inw and custom, to over
come. A wilderness of prejiidico to bfl
subdued. A powerful foe of selfishness ami
self-interest to. overthrow. Wild beast of
pride, envy, malico and hnte to destroy. ' IJiit
for the sake of our children, mid our child
ren children, we have entered upon iho
work. Hoping nml praying thnt we may bo
guided by wisdom sustained by hive, and
led and cheered by the earnest hope of do
ing good.
I shall enter into no labored argument lo
prove that woman docs not occupy the posi
tion in society, to which her capacity justly
entitles her.
The rights of mankind cmannto from their
natural wants and emotions. Are not tho
natural wants ami emotions of humanity
common too, and shared equally by both sex- '
esi Does man hunger and thirst, suffer cold
and licit, more than woman? Does ho lovo
and hate hope nnd fear joy ond sorrow moro
lliuu woman ?
Does his heart thrill w ith a deeper pleasure
in lining good can Ins soul writho lit
more bitter agony under tho consciousness
of evil or w rong ?
Is the sunshine more glorious, tho air tnoro
quiet, the sounds of harmony more soothing,
die perfume of flowers more cxqns'lte, or
forms of beauty more soul-satisfying to bis
senses than to her to all these hitorogatorics
every ono w ill answer, No!
Where then did man get the authority,
that ho now claims over ono hulf of humani
ty ? From what power, tho vested right lo
placo woman his partner, his companion,
his help-meet iu life in nil inferior position ?
C :ime it from nature? Nature made wo
man his superior, when it mado her his
mother his equal w hen it fitted her to hold
the sacred position of wife ? Docs he draw
his uuthoriiy from God from the language
of holy writ ? No ! For it soys thut, ' Malo
und Fciuulu created he llieui, and gave them
lomiuion.' Does ho claim under the law of
tho laud? Did woman meet wilh him iu
council, and voluntarily givo up nil her claim
lo be her own law maker? . Or did Ihe ma
jesty of might, place this power in his hands?
the power of tho strong over tho weak?
make man tho master? Yes, thcro, and
there only hu gains his authority I
In tho dark ages of the. past when ignor
ance, superstition .and bigotry, held rulo in
tho wurld. Might made tho law. Ilut tho
undertone tho still small voice of Justice,
Love and Mercy, huvo ever been heard.
pleading tho cause ol humanity, pleading for
truth und right. And tiicir low soft tones of
harmony have tollcncd tho lion heart of
might, and by little and little, ho bus yield
ed as the centuries rolled on. And muu us
well as womau has been the gainer by every '
concession.
Wo will ask him to yield still to allow
tho vuieo of w oman to ho heard to let her
tako tho position which her wants and emo
tions seem lo require, to enjoy her nuturnl
rights. Do not answer, thnt womnn's posi
tion is now ull her natural wants nnd emo
tions require. Our meeting hero together
this day, proves tho contrary. Proves that
wo have aspirations that uro not met. Will
il be answered, thai we aro factious, discon
tented spirits, striving lo disturb the public
jiower, and tear up tho old fastnesses of
society. Su it was suid, of Jesus Christ and,
his followers, when they taught peaco on
earth uud good will to man. So it wus said,
of our furcfuihcrs, in the great struggle tut
freedom. So it hns been said of every re-,
former that has ever started out the car of
progress on a new and untriod truck.' . -
Wu fear not man as an enemy. lie is our
friend, our brother. Let woman speak for
herself, and sho will bo heard. Let her
claim with a calm nnd determined, yet .lov
ing spirit, her place, nud it will be given her..
I pour out no harsh invective against thu
present order of things against our Cithers,
husbands and brothers, they do as they have
been taught. They feel as society bids
them, they art us thu lute requires. Wo-
man must acl for herself. . , . .
Oh, if ull women could lie impressed wilh
the importuuro of their own and . with one',
united voice speak out in their own behulf