Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-08-01
NEw-LIsBoN, OHIO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1915.

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the imperceptble spark TO powder. The universe in
arms cannot prevent the consequent explosion
Hence, the preventive policy pursued by South
Carolina, while the civilized world stands aghast al
her b~arbariiy, and our sufferance. She has no other
course 10 preserve her existence as q slaveholding
State; so dangerous is this deadly sin. 1t is for this
that she violates every natural right, outrages every
constitutional obligation, and overleaps every consti-
tutional provision, for The protection Of such a sys-
ten. 1t is for this that she assumes, in behalf Of The
Souihi
A right to discriminate between the innocent mem.
bers making up the crews Of ships of other States,
for the purpose Of Selling aud impr isoning whom she
thinks proper
A right TO lash at pleasure, citizens of other States,
solely because they may be found in The ships Of
those States a second time IN her harbors:-
A right to sell them into Slavery
A right to expel from her territory, citizens Of 9th.
er States, seeking 10 appeal 10 the courts of the Union
for support against The cruelty of her laws, even
though clothed with official powers as the representa-.
tives of their free State sovereignty
A right to punish by fine and imprisonment, any
individual from another State who dares within her
territory 10 question her right 10 imprson, to lash,
and to sell whom size pleases, without hearing or trial.
Florida, Immediately after The passage of the An.
uexaiion bill, was admitted 10 the Union as a slave
State. The following extract from her Constitution
shows oul character as a sIavehoIding nation.
ART1c1E XVI. General Provisions.
/. The General Assembly shall have no power 10
pass laws for the emancipation of slaves.
3. They shall have no power to prevent emf.
grants to this State from bringing with them such
persons as may be deemed slaves, by the laws of any
one of the United States, provided, they shall have
powerto enact laws to prevent the introduction of any
slaves who may have committed crimes in other
States.
3. The General Assembly shall have power to
pass laws 10 prevent free negroes, mulattoes, and 9th,
er persons Of color from emigraling 10 this State, or
from being discharged from on board any vessel in
any Of the pots of Florida.
We trust thetine is at hand when the word will &c
forth from the North, that shall stay this moral pesti
lence, 50 that We may 60 longer stand 'a wonder-a
) marvel to men," linked, as we allow ourselves as
States to be, with The body OF that moral death, Of
which the Infection ravages the fairest spots on earth,
and blasts the dearest hopes of humanity from the
discovery of this new world. But there is nothing
that should discourage US as Abolitionisis in all this.
On the contrary, there is hope from the very gross
ness of each succeeding outrage, that a people who
have closed their ears and refused TO hear, will be
obliged, in their own despite, to feel their danger and
their shame. Let US rejoice that the laws by which
we may promul gate moral principle, are more rapid
in their operation than the progress Of population
While Mexico has been slowly dismembered, and
Texas, by the aid of our refuse people and our slave.
led soldiery, stayed up on either side as an ~indepen.
dent province, while Shareholders have. by bullying,
and by cunning, and by force,-hy pushing, by par.
rying US as the case demanded, succeeded IN bringing
in their plan for the extension and perpetuation o
Slavery, Abolitionists have so far converted whole
States TO the principles of Freedom, that they probes
with one voice against The deed. Spread every sail
then, to catch the breath Of reaction which this meta
e rious project will raise. Light at first it may be, bu
il will not subside, as after the introduction of Mis-
9 souri, as u slave State. The circumstances are die
. ferent. There was then, no organized opposition, nc
8 embodied hostility TO Slavery. Now, The American
Anti Slavery Society exists, TO fan this flame of Free
J.. dom for which the South furnishes the fuel. So vast.
ly 10 the disproportion between moral power and ply.
;. steal force in favor of the former, that all past expe
rieace shows US how the Lord can save a land fol-
}, tens sake only, who put their trust in right. We call
8 upon all who hate the wrong, 10 unite with us for IFS
i extinction. "They are not yet quite ready" Go i0
work, then, members and friends of the American
Anti Slavery Society !-servants of the slave;-and
n make them ready. Spare neither time, nor money,
nor labor, nor life, if the times noed them ALL
Preach this gospel of doliverance as it we're a cru.
IS sade!-let each man see its cross pinned to your
shoulder. ls this a time 10 add house TO house, and
g field to feld!-to calculate the farIhing on cotton
freightiog, or speculate in factory stocks! Is this a
time 10 lInger round the Capitol for official spoIls
Is this a ;ine, men of America, TO Sit at ease in your
ceiled houses! Be covetous, indolent, meanly ambi-
h tious no longer! Leave party spite on one hand, and
e sectional prejudice on the other, and unite-just where
!. they now stand, with the only body 10 your country
that occupies The true posiIion-the only individuals
who care enough for Freedom to have identified them
e selves with her. You must come to them, for to you
e the exact right forbids them to return. "But they
q are few" Amen. Let your adhesion to their cause
help to amend that. "But they are SO weakw Amen
d Is not their hopeof right the stronger because theil