Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-10-17

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and scourged: and in so ne instances hi
itself was taken, to prevent the pfomulg =
ton OF truth. Indeed, while | now writ
intelligence has reached our village OF ii
slaveholding mob convened in an adjoinint
State, for the purpose of preventing ,! vio-
lence the publication of a paper devOr d to
der to silence the tongue and pari We the
pen of one of the most devoted patriots Of
the age. Langulshing upon a bed OF SICK
ness from which he was unable to rise,
c~onclave of towards, headed by a late mem
Der of Congress, seized upon the opportuui
ty to display their valor. 1t was a most for
tunate moment, when the physical debility
of their victim held out to them a sure guar
anty Of personal safety. Never did | real
ize more fully the truth that "S!acery is a"
u~nmihgdied ~carse," than while | now write.
1t is truly a curse to the master-l curse t.
the slave-a curse to the States in which i
exists,-and a bitter curse TO The free S!q'eS u
this Union. Rather than see these outrages
continued, | would gladly see our Union
with the slaveholding States dissolved.
No gree ter insult could be offered to the
dignity of our free Suites than to tax then
for the reclpturs aud reiurn of southern slaves
who have flel from their masters; no gre ter
outrage than this could have been pcrpe,ra-
ted upon the Constitution. Vet the people
Of Ohio have paid for arresting and returning
such i~ugitiycs ut the rate OF eiLd' thu rlao
dollars per heal. We have b5en taxed for
the purchase Of bloodhoun Is to act rs auNll-
iaries to our army in Leading them - the hi
ding places OF women snd childran who have
sought liberty IL the deep recesseS OF the for
ests. Equally insulting 10 our character.
and subversiye Of the Constitution has been
tie employment Of our army in shooting ana
butcheIiug deteuceless women and children
for no other cause thln their attachment to
liberty. This deep disgrace, these damnlng
crimes, have been brou !ht upon us by our
union with the slavehOlling St,tes. Not in
pursuance. of the Constitution. but in suhver-
sion of that iustru nelI. With my hands
thus clottcd and dripping with the blood of
slaves, | cannot reverence a ualon with those
States that have thls involved us in such o.
overwhelming guilt AMI disgrace. For the
union with those slave Sites, who hl7e thus
defeated the great AMI paramount objects OF
our confederation; subverted the Constitution
waged war against the ri EhtS Of mlnkind,
entertain no attachment. Give me CJHsi.u-
tionai Union, or give me diSSolaiion.
If we look to the position which our own
Site holds in the Union, We Shall find but
little to cheer our hopes or cherish our pride.
Our soil is often polluted with slaveholding
violence. Neither the dignity Of our Stite,
nor the Federal Constitution hls been able
to protect our people from the slaveholiing
r~lpacity of adjoining States. Our colorcd
citizens have been seized, dragged from our
territory aud sold INTO southern s.avery.-
When the perpetrators of thes' icts have
been demanded under the provisions of our
Federal Constitution, such demand has been
rejected with a contemptuous sheer by slave
holding Governors md orr State Is now hum
bled, and as remediie5S as the savage tribes
Of Africa on whom like deprcd atoms are com
mitted. Colored people have been Shutdown
like brutes within our own territory, In the
presence Of our people. Our soil has drunk
their blood, but their slavcholdiug murlerers
returning to their own States, have hidden
defiance to our laws aud spurned with con-
tempt the obligations Of our political COM
pact. The people of the slave States have
become so ibituated to commit these outrl-
ges. and our citizens have become so accus-
toned to endure them, that free white inh ID
itants of our Stlte have recently been kill
mapped from our territory aud tlken by Inv
: less violence to an adjoining State under pre-
ttilCt llik llty Hiu CDIt dNGo III ollu Eltl
2 were opposed to he laws of our sister State.
5 The judiciary Of that State having inyesti-
5 gated the subject. has approved the act, and
reminded our kidnapped citizens to prison
. where they now rem lin. | have not time to
= hint further at the usurpations of the slave
1 holding interest. or at the outrigcs and ir
II suits heaped upon the people of the free
i Sites. | have said enough to show tn 1t on
n nnion u-itb tho Silva Ntntas has nrOvaD do
G s~tructi"e to the interests, the dearest right
and sacred honor of the free Suites; fatal t
h our Constitution, and disastrous to the fright
of man." Are unbridled Righteousness, de
It grading oppression, violence and bloodsheC
Is a cursel thea has our union with the slave
n holding States brought that Ncurse upoI
lie us. Are these millions f enemies with
L. in our government, held in subsection Onl,
lie by physical force "A cursel Then has our u
1t Mon with the slave St ties brought that ours
or upon us. Are war, rapine and human butch
Of cry a curse! then has that curse also b e
n brought upon us by our union with the slav
u States. To impress these facts upon tn
ID minds Of our people has been an importln
he object of my public efforts for the list tie
IN years. From my first entrance into Cor
IT, gress to the present day | have embraced a
a proper occasions to exhibit the outrlges an
he insults heaped upon the free North by tn
r. slaveholding power. The slave States ce
a. tainly have no claim on us further to shlI
b. the disgrace, or to bear the burdens, or
'g participate in the guilt, or to fight the b
C. Ties OF an institution eXecrated by clv.l!ze
" man and cursed of God. Rather than {
'st these, ] would dissolve our political cOnnec
ce ion with those States. would maintd
h the constitution in all its bearings. Althoug