Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-09-04

The Evil Congress.

The Congress, whose session has dragged
its slow length along for eight weary months,
and which came 10 an unwilling end the last
week, only because Washington had become
too hot to hold it (would that the country
were so, too has signalized itself above all
its predecessors by the cheerful alaclity OF
its services to slavery. Many sessions have
done viIlanously, but thou hast surpassed
them all! Never did the presiding Divinity
Of the American people have its hellish litur-
gy performed with more religious zeal, by a
devouter priesthood, led by a mo-e willing
Pontiif, than it has found in the present Con-
gress and IN its Corvpheus, James h. Folk.
10 ausplcate fifty its career, this Cons ress
fastened, as its earliest act, 10 throw wide
open the doors Of the Union to Texas, when
slavery demanded her admission. And in
stalked the brazen Jczabel, r%ejoicing from the
plumber Of NJ 1xico, her garments rolled in
the blood of thirty thousand slaves, and took
her seat by the side of the legitimate daugh-
ters of the Revolution and Of the bastard
brood they had adopted as sisters. Many
men in those halls were aghast at the OBJ
scene presence, but none dared to resent the
insult OF the intrusion, Many abhorred, but
all submitted to her foul companionship.
so Tophet looked, 50 grinned the brawl-
ing Fiend,
And frightened prclates bowed and called
him friend =
But Slavery was not content with the por-
| ton Of stolen lands which this, her new hand
maid was endowed withal, and she demand
ed the aid of the nation TO be given to her
own banditti, to wrest an additional domain
from her feeble neighbor, for her own vile
uses. The demand was made. Circum-
stances had been cunningly devised to make
it plausible. The northern member raised
their eyes. and 10 the grisly spectre Of the
Hartford Convention gllded before them and
frightened them from their propriety. The
ghastly vision reminded them that to vote
against a war would put them under tho ban
of the Republic, and shut forever against
them the gates Of the Paradise Of Cabinet
officers and Foreign Missions. And, with
but fourteen exceptions, they bowed the knee,
and did the homage the tyrant required. To
be sure, they were obliged TO tsll a notorious
lie in the process,
But who, with such delights in view,
Would lose them for a lie or two!'
The northern vassals having thus done suit
and service TO their liege lady and sovereign
mistress, Slavery, it was time for her to dis
tribute her rewards among them. And the
way she did 1t was, slang apart, a caution to
brholderS. First, the West had been pro-
missed Oregon as the price Of Texas. Bat
such a promise was manifes,ly void al iaitio,
as hostile to The interest Of the sovereign
What wanted she of territory from which
she was herself expressly excludeL2 So,
she proved, at once, her generosity and her
love of pence, by making John Bull a pre-
sent of half of it. The great Agricultural
West beloved at being thus baulked of the
prize it had thought just within its clutch
But it was soon made conscious of its te;her,
and growlingly submitted to its fate.
Next, the merchants put in their claim for
all they had done, and all they had omitted
to do, to prove their allegiance 10 slavery
Hal they not mobhcd Garrison, and burned
Pennsylvania Hall} Had they not furnish
ed their southern masters with millions upon
millions of their goods, looking not for their
own again,-0r, at least, never getting 1t 3
Were not their vessels ready to be chartered
for the domestic slave trade? And had they
not in every way, discountenanced northern
fanaticism and vindicated southern rights ?
The ciaim was admitted, and the recompenso
awarded was-the Sub Treasury! A mea-
: sure invented and designed for the purpose
=. of crippling their energies and thwarting
their enterprise! Verify, they had their lie,
/ ward.
And, againAthe Northern Manufacturers
. humbiy sued for mercy on tho ground o.
their well-proved faalty. Had they not with.
n drawn their faint opposition to the banns o
n the Texan Union, when they found that sla
very was ~resolute that it should be com
4 pleted : Had they not, by the mouths o
q the very chlefest among ten thousand, de
@ clared that it was too late TO resist the ad
mission of the harlot, while she stood We
g knocking at the doorl Had they not dis
q countenanced all agitation against her recep
@ ton on the ground that such opposition
would endanger the Tariff Like Belisari
a US, they pointed to their wounds, an
O held out their hands, and cried, Date Obl
Y hum!' Behold our scars! Leave US III
two-penny Tariff for we incurred them -
IF And the ~insolent mink snatched it away an
laid them s~Prawling in the dirt, for thei
pains!
"a And, after all, it was by the votes Of tn
e. Senator's of that very Texas, which thei
n fears for tho Tariff had made them find tha
/. it was : too late 10 oppose, that the chang
IA they dreaded, and had made such concession
n. TO Slavery to avert, was precipilated upo
them! Justice is not always slow, and til
,e Aveuger does not delay his anger forever
~ Never was there such n instance of ~politica
> not to say %poetical, justice. 1t gave a pois
he nancy to the relish with which Slavery mu:
IN have enjoyed her triumph. 1t gave a smac
"a OF absurdity to the transaction to the locker;
,te on everywhere. One could hardly help
as sort of malicious pleasure in seeing me
of caught in their own craftiness, and founde
ing in the pit which their own hands ha
IA digged.
/ For tits the sport to have the engineer,
Hoist with his own petard! =
After having thus done more for slavel
i'll than any Of iIs predecessors, this evil Co
gress, on the 10th day of August, did at la
Is a good thing, by ceasing for a season to
anything. It adjourned, and though the
was no more dignity or decorum than usaa