Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-09-19

States, and abolish slavery in the District of
Columbia and Territories; would we not then
as now have a Sk1cehoiiirg ~gOrernmcHR for
their President and all their members of Con-
gress would have to support the Constitution
or perjure themselves. The free SIT would
STILL be lending their aid to support slavery.
Is there then any probability, or even the
most remote possibility of slavery coming to
an end under the present organization of the
Liberty party! l think the party themselves
must see that the only plan to abolish this
great evil with all its horrid train of conse-
quences, is to come out and adopt the motto
mo union with Slaveholders,' for then as
has been shown it will fall for want of sup
port. 1t can get help from no other source
but the north, the whole civilized world is
against it. Humanity, Justice, Truth and
Reason are against it, and fall it must A.
part from the inhumanity and injustice of
slavery, we labor under very heavy p%ecunia-
ry oppression; we are taxed in various ways
to support a system we know to be wrong.
We are further oppressed as we have not our
just share in the affairs of the General Gov
eminent. From the times of George Wash
ington down to the days of James X. Polk,
a great proportion of the Offices have been
held by Shareholders, those men who steal
human beings and reduce them below the
level of beasts, revel in luxurious abundance
and prosper in their crimes. Is it not time
the free States should wake up to the sub.
iect and no longer be the willing dupes of
these sldveholding aristocrats! Can we en-
pect to remain pure in the company of Muir
derers and HOJbcrS2 Are we not implicated
in their crimes by aiding and abctting them!
Let us come out and be separate, let no man
go to the ballot box except to enter his pro-
test against slavery, and ere long it will speak
in tones of thunder to the oppressor. What
a spectacle do we present 10 the civilized
world; professedly the freeest nation upon
earth, declaring that ''aH men are BORN free
and equaL," get hohding nearly three millions
Of human beings in the most degraJing hand
are lie worH has erer knOgn. Look at the
members of our religious organizations, par
t~icularly the clergy, while they profess to be
the followers of Him who preached clad IL
dings to the poor, deliverance to the captive,
and the opening of the prison doors to them
that are bound, do they proclaim liberty to
the captive! have they any tidings of hope TO
the poor cnslaved Africanl do they raise their
voice against the oppressor! Letthem speak
for themselves. Have they not met in their
Ecclesiastical bodies al the South, and de-
clared slavery to be a divine institution, or
dainei of God! We need but read the pro-
ceedings of their various conventions to be
satisfied it is so; and many of the northern
churches havebut re-echo d this sentiment by
remaining in connection with these polluted
bodies. Verily we are a mutton gf hgpocrifes
Of the dasesf hind. The preservation of this
bID0d-cemenfed Union with murdcrcrs, rob-
bers and adulterers) has been a great hobby
with political dem1gOgues, and their frothy
illusions about Liberty, Equality, and our
Glorious Union, is enough to sicken the mo-
raj feelings Of any man whose sensibilities
have not been made callous to its influences.
They would fain make US believe the liberty
of the whole human family depended upon
tue perpetuation of this Union. Apart from
the subject of slavery, | cannot see what
great principles beneficial to mankind the u
nion of the States involves. A cldshinr of
interest has already nearly severed the South
from the North. But ] advocate it only on
the ground, that its dissolution would be the
means of striking from nearly three millions
Of fellow mortals the chains OF slavery, which
would he the first step towards raising them
from the depths Of degradation and Ignorance,
to intelligence, virtue and happiness.
Yours IN the Cause of humanity,
NATHANIEL HASWELL.