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

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that those men intended to establish justice g.
libertymerely because they said so,when their
whole lives were a lie to their professional
They knew full well what justice was; they
could not endure the slightest form of OPP
preston themselves, ''not even the paltry
menace Of a chain" Had they been in ig-
norance there would have been some excuse
some palliation for their crimes. But in the
language of Thomas Jefferson they knew,
that some hour of the slaves bondage was
fraught with more misery than ages of that
which they had risen in rebellion to oppose"
and yet they could rivet the letters, and pro-
vide for the perpetuity of the system with the
most perfect GOODNESS, and then tell us for
sooth, they meant to establish Justice and lib
erty. The world has been duped long enough
by such hypocritical pretensions. They new
er meant to establish justice, unless it be just
to rob a man Of all his rights, and reduce him
to a chattel slave; unless it be just to rob him
of his wife and children, and sell them in the
market with brutes; unless it be just to break
his spirit, blunt his sensibilities, trifle with
his affections, blight his intellect, and murder
his soul. They never meant to promote the
general welfare, unless that welfare can be
promoted by legalizing piracy, and theft, and
wholesale pollution. No one has the audac-
ity, not even Liberty party, to deny that they
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twenty years;-no one doubts t~hatthey meant
to give the slaveholding districts more politi-
cal power than the non-slaveholding ones;-
and it is admitted by this entire nation with
the exception of a few Third party men, that
it was the intention to have the fugitive sur
rendered, and the insurgent put down. With
these facts directly before us, it seems like
the height of folly to base an argument upon
the intention expressed in the Preamble
We should not adduce evidence to prove the
pro-slavery character of the Constitution, from
the Madison Papers, did not concurrent facts
show, that that is reliable testimony, Had
the subsequent conduct of the trainers been in
direct hostility TO the institution of slavery,
the Madison Papers would only convict them
of hypocrisy, and not Of any real intention tc
guard and protect the system. 1t seems inn
possible to exculpaie them from deception
and filsehood, have it which way we will
If they did not design to guarantee aid in ia
vor of the system they acted the part of hyp
o%crites in the National Conveh ion, that fran
ed the Constitute IN, and if they did design
to give such aid, they uttered a falschood II
their Preamble.
We know that the charge of hypocrisy ant
deception as applied to those whom we have
been accustomed 10 venerate, does not fll
very pleasantly upon the ear;-but it is tint
that we were done with man worship,-anC
that We look upon things as they are, and es
innate men by their real merits, and not by
the adulation and p~anegyric of their friends
We admit that when the character of thu
trainers is canvasscd, all the circumstance
in relati N to the case should be duly consid
e,ed. The strength of the temptation tina
beset them, the numerous obstacles they ha,
to overcome in the formation Of a new gov
ernmeRt, their extreme anxiety to unite tn,
States, aad the anticipated advantages ofsucl
a union, should all have their due weight i
= forming an estimate Of their character. w
must also consider, that temptation never jus
titles crime, for if so, all crimes would b
y, justified. We must consider that impedi
ments to virtue, and Integrity are no excus
i for transgression. 1t seems to us that moth
iuT can justify the course pursued by tn
trainers in framing the Constitution, and thu
y they were highly c~ulpable for holding the
u own servants as cha,tels no one can deny
But then we do not believe they were sinner
} above all others. Those who renew the col
tract avery year, who create the governmeI
" anew every November, are more guilty eve
than they, for the world has made some pr,
gress since their %day;--the principles of Ill
u orty and chattelism, are better understood
y tlan they were then. If the deeds of Il
y fathers are highly criminal, the deeds of Il
" Wings, the Democrats, and the Liberty pa
-. ty of the present time, rest under a conden
III nation ten fold greater than theirs.
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