Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-10-31

w iiueidte the uhooTh! lhey VINO ASK equl-
~, the lawyers say, themselves must do
equity, and whilst the SHAREHOLDERS have
rights, they must remember the blacSs also
have rights and surely in The compromise
which we have proposed between the slave
aud the Shareholder, the stakeholder has the
lions share.
We wish 10 do Cassius M. Clay no injus-
tice, and we desire that none may be done
70 the anti-slavery cause, He distinctly de-
fines his position, and we hope our readers
will bear in mind that it is one of necessary
hostility to the doctrines of the Am. Anti
slavery society. That society exllts human
ity above law; c. NJ. Clay regards law as
to the rights of man, The Am. So
eiety declares it is the duty of the oppressors
to Immediately %relinquish their grasp upon ev-
cry victim; @. NJ. Clay proposes that the bond
mans chain shall not be broken for thirty
years more or less. The Am. society regards
first, the rights of the slaves, secondly, the
interests of the master; c., M. Clay consid-
ers the latter of primary importance, the
riqht Of the bondman to freedom, as second
airy. The Am. society repudiates the doc
trine of compensation to the oppressor; G.
NJ. Clay proposes the purchase of such
slaves as their masters may choose to iber-
ate, as a matter of bargain and sale. The
Am. society has ever borne its testimony
against all schemes of colonization which
are based upon complexlonal prejudice; Z,
M. Clay encourages suoh an one. The Am,
society has always regarded as despotic and
anti-christian any action of government
which denies a privilege to men because of
their color; G. NJ. Clay is in favor of such
distinction.
If we have not misunderstood the language
of his plan, it embraces these four points:
lst, a system of gradual emancipation by
law. end, compensation to the shareholders.
3rd, colonization. ith, political oppression
of the colored man. All of these we regard
as anti-democratic, anti-christian, partial to
the STAKEHOLDER, and unjust to the slave
Had the General Conference of the Metho-
dist church, or the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church proposed such a plan
VI ouldIlcipdtiOH NV loouCu hih ~ q III uU
dress defending its position, how would that
plan and that address ave been received by
abolitionistsl Would they have commended
them to public attention, and advised an ex-
tensive circulation of tho Documents How
ever much they might rejoice to have the
facts which such an address would perhaps
embody, they would show to the world that
the doctrines it contained were false, and
hurtful to the bondman's cause. Why they
should pursue a different course toward the
True American we are unable to perceive;
for they must certainly admit that whilo it
teaches such doctrines, however important
may be the facts its editor may collect, it is
false to the doctrine that all have a God-giv-
on right to the present enjoyment of liberty,
and that he who denies it in theory or in
practice is a tyrant and a despot.
So far as we can learn, the contest between
Cassius NJ. Clay and the SHAREHOLDERS Of
Ky. is not so much a contest in relation 10
principle, as a controversy about a question
of expediency; not whether a man has a
right to be free, but whether it would not ad-
vance the interests of the State, and remove
the blight from its prosperity if slavery were
abolished. And though the banner of the
True American which was stricken down
by mobocratic violence has been reared
again, yet we gFieyo to say it is no longer
o paper, whose editor, although a gradualiSt,
.L.a,,, opon ito columns fr tho pzpn IiSpuS-
sion of slavery, but a muzzled press where
men may no longer express their views I'M
less their opinions harmonize with those Of
Cassius NJ, Clay, for he says u shall adj
init into my paper no article upon this sub
ject for which | am not willing to be held
responsible" This declaration will doubt
less do much to allay the excitement which
the publication of the True American crea-
ted in Ky, especially whom tho people learn
what are the sentiments of the editor upon
tho question of slavery. This they may
know by referring to his Appeal, where in
disproying some of the charges Of his enc
mics, he declares in reference to his cleo
pioneering tour to the North, III addressed
but two abolition m~eetings--and then 1t was
to defend the proposition of II. Clay and
the shareholders, that that is property which
the law makes property" A more pro-
slavery doctrine than this never fell from the
lips of man. 1t virtually exalts Legislative
enactments above. the government of God,
and makes human rights a foot ball to be
kicked to and fro a 1.-THE P)we ha! le"
may will. 1t entirely docs ava with all
idea of the inalienal lie rights of man, and