Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-10-09

was a position in support Of human govern.
ments, Il question entirely separate f.om that
Of slavery, and which the Disunionists have
uniformly refused 10 discuss upon the anti.
slavery platform, although Liberty party is
continually Juggling in that extro neous topic.
The second consisted in Rising a false issue.
He laid down this positiun-lhat it is not
wrong to unite with bad men to do a good
act, provided you do not thereby counter nee
them la their evil way. There is not a Dis
unionist in the land but will Assem-, to this,
aud yet tho speaker talked az though he be.
lieved, and wished the audience to believe,
that the denial If this was a prominent article
Of faith in the Di>union creed. As for our
selves, we recently wrote "A long editorial to
prove this very position, and yet probably
many were there of those who do moi like to
BIZ bothered by examining both sides Of the
question, that really believe Disunionists op-
Constitution he admitted hat il was pro-
slavery, admitted that for twenty years ii al
lowed the importation of slaves; that It gave
authority to the master to take b eek his fugilive
slave wherever he might find him and thai it
gave to the shareholders a slave representa-
ton; the clause about domestic violence he
very wisely RETAINED from abiding to. Wher
he spoke Of the duty OF officers aud ciuzens
10 support its slaveholding clauses, he dis
posed OF It very sumn4rliy by saying, that
these clauses were no more IA part Of the Con-
stilution, that a wart an d man's face is IA part
of the man, and that IN swearing 10 support
the man, you do not swear to support the
wart. GouvERNEUR MuRRls, of Pa, one IF
the trainers OF the Constitution, said in the
Convention which framed IL, that Ssh very
Is the moi prominent eHHe in the aristocrit-
&c countenance Of the proposed Constitution.
y y y He wonld sooner submi.
himself to ID tax for paying for all the negroes
in the United Sites, ihin saddle po,terity
with such a Constitution So far Az we
learn, there was not a single member either
from the North or South but felt that the sem
timent was true, that slavery was the most
prominent feature Of the Constitution. In re-
gard to the clause slnciioning the foreign
slavc-trade, the speaker said that rs that trade
had expired by its own limitation, he Dis
unionists need have no controversy about that.
4 great mistake If the trade has expired
by lis own limitation, the clause has not, il ia
yet in existence, and under it Congress, at
its next session may Constilutionally resus-
citatc the trade. 1t does not declare that Con-
gress shaH abolish the foreign slave.,rade in
1908. but at that time simply gives it juris-
dictinn over The 81 ive-iradp; and our abnli.
tionlsm leads us to oppose a Constitution
which confers upon Congress the right to i'm
pert slaves from Africa whenever it sees fl
10 do so; and if there were no other obiec.
tlonable feature in the document, this sh luld
be sufficient Of itself to condemn it in the s.
timation Of every intelligent dbolitionist.-
Concerning the fugitive clause he remarked.
that it only required that we sh uld moi inter.
fere TO prevent The sIaveholdrr taking back
his escaping slave ; aud said it as though he
thought th"t was a uIfiing compromi". II
oMIy required that the people Of The North
should gi|e up their soil as hunting ground
for the South, that they should only stlnd by
and see the man-Tubber seize his prey. that
they should only tolerate sIave-catching in
their midst, that they should unity subj either
no, ses to Invasion and themselves TO insu
from the southern nj lurtudrr! The latter p II
Of the clause which declares .'he shall be de-
Iivered up,' was kept entirely out OF sight
I'D It net been, Terchance some f his audi
tors wonld have supposed thai they, as sup
p"rlers OF the Constitution, were obliged 10
hold themselves in readiness to act as the
posse Of the u. s. NJ lrsh Ill. when he comrs
after the fugitive, and to and in crushing all
opposition that declares hy its action he
shall not be delivered IN" As TO the three
fiths clause. he wishrd it was moi in the Con-
stiIution, but the trainers OF that document
had to do the best they could under the cit
cnmstances, and they consented to have il AL
though they did not want it.
He ridiculed the idea Of secession from the
government and said it was impossible; that
a was horn into the government and could |
not g't ont Of it. This doclunp we suppose
will Mt apply to women AMI niggrrs," see
ing tn y are not RENDERS Of the government !
-Whie macs ouly, arc bora with a right If
citizenship. Il strikes us rs rather an nrigi.
nal idea that some souls are born members #
a government and can't get out Of it, while
others who are not born members can't get
into it. Our fathers. according to English
usage, were born suhjeci.members of the go-
vernmeni Of Great Britain, hut they managed
to get cut of il; and unless the American 90
vernment Is far more tyrannical than that of
England. and the men of &c FIR more derpn-