Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-07-10

In Congress, declaring that war exists by the
act OF Mexico, is a liza nefarious trap set
oy demagognes to catch their opponents
AS snch we have denounced, and do d%enounce
u; out making this protest, we should have
done as the Wings did-havo voted what
ever supplies OF men and money we've asked
for, holding the President responsible before
the country and the world.
Our opinion is, that the war, so uniustly
and wickedly begun, should be pressed with
vigor. 1t is the only alternative left. Clouds
and darkness, In consequence, rest upon our
path in the future but it has to be trod.-
we act upon this necessity, and do not hesi-
tate TO support the Governments TO peril
MI to sustain IL for we war not against the
South, nor the people Of the South, but against
slavery; and when there is a common foe in
the field, and the summons comes to the
citizen soldier, we know, and can know but
one country and one duty, and would not
urge another to 90 where we are not willinr
ourselves TO lead.
But in taking this step, we shall neither
shut our eyes to a vile and wicked policy,
nor close our lips against the mercenary spirit
which has involved the country in the horrors
OF war. With our harness on, we feel, in
deed, a more unconquerable determination to
resist the giant cause of all this mischief; a
stronger will than ever to o~verturn a corrupt
dynasty, and elect as rulers, freemen who
will stand by and defend the free. Not a
lot OF prlnciple do we give up! Nota hairs
breadth of sentiment, of opinion, or Of oppo-
sition, shall we yield to the curse which,
vampire-like, is sucking away the life-blood
of the nation, and which, unless shaken off
forever, will destroy the Republic, while
Quitting its internal lust.
The people of the United States have a
hard task before them. The public offices of
the country, these many years, have been fill
ed, for the most part, by d%emlgogues, who
have sported with the public veal, as children
with their holiday purchases! And paid adj
herents, and a hireling press, have labored TO
gloss and glorify their selfshness, and even
while perpetrating and perfecling their gf-
gantic schemes of fraud, to embody their
names in the public mind, as the essence of
American greatness. We must be purged of
this rottenness. There can be no safety, Sc
curity, or stability TO liberty or property, un-
til we are. Now, as the only constitutional
remedy the people have is through the bal
lot-box, there must be established a sound
and healthy public opinion, whereby worthy
and honest men shall be put in the places of
the unworthy and dishonest. For this end,
W. AZ WIZ NV ~ PtdCo anu pIOSIeSS-Itl,
especially, every friend of freedom, to what
ever party he may belong-unite, and, heart
TO heart and hand in hand, labor with lusty
sinew and ceaseless energy, until the Con
sTITUTIoN and UNIVERSAL LIBERTY shall be
acknowledged of all men.
Good friends for whom we can vouch, who
know us, and who have stood by us from the
beginning, will conduct the True american
while we are away. They will be trammelled
in nothing. No position, taken by us, or ne
cessary to be taken by them, in behalf of
freedom, will they abandon or hesitate TO as
sumo. For the right, for justice, for %univer-
sal liberty, they will plead as strongly and
as fearlessly as ever! Our paper is fell in
this State, Eastern Tennessee, in the noun
tains of Virginia and North Carolina. Let
the reader glance at his map, and see what
an inroad would he made upon slavery if the
people of this large region were reused
against it! That they can be-that in our
humble way we are Fastening on this result,
we know. Not for ourselves, then, hut for
the cause, do we ask the friends of freedom
to sustain the True American