Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-06-05

lisinterested love-a philanthropic spirit is
manifested, almost without a parallel. For
{ is clear that all who unite and vote with
The Liberty Party sacrifice all their p%olitica !
and many Of their political friends
and bring upon themselves many sarcastical
e~pithets, such as lovers of negroes-in a word
they are called almost every thing but lovers
of their country. Yet they, in view of all
the vituperations that are cast upon them,
are seen urging onward in the manly strife
against slavery, that vile system Of all ini-
guilty, at the sacrifice of every thing that APP
pears selfish. For these reasons with many
others that might be given, l think the con-
scientious voters in the Liberty Party, who
are members of the Wesleyan Methodist
Church, may be fellowshipped by their non
voting brethren, without their church beco-
ming accessory TO the stealing Of men; or in
other words, without becoming a little one in
the great Brotherhood of Thieves.
2nd. My position in regard to the Disu-
nionists is the following That they are
right and will do more in proportion 10 their
numbers, to overturn the system of slavery
than the Liberty Party, or any other party
now existing. And l therefore think that it
is highly opprobrious to call them tories or
haters of their country (; for they are truly the
lovers Of their country, and the haters Of the
selfish system of slavery. For surely, say
they, that part of the Union which has
already cost us (the North) eight hundred
millions Of dollars, and the lives of a num-
Der of our peaceable citizens, and the i'm
prisonment of many others, and which con-
tinues TO insult us with this kind Of Ian
guage, pay us (the South yourmoney, and
we will shoot your men; contend you for
our union toge ther, and we will tear your
men, husbands and fathers from their wives
and children, and consign them to the damp
sickly walls of our prison houses; continue
ye subservient 10 our nod, and we in return
will give you tar and feathers, pistols and
bowie knives enough" Surely such a Union
IL v a olAo OiC <AIu III L ~
that the Disunionists should be regarded as
the lovers of righteous and reasonable union,
but as the most inveterate haters of that union
which is kept up at the awful sacrifice of the
flesh and blood and souls of three millions
of human ~beings-and also at the sacrifice of
all that is honorable or Of good report be-
longing to ten millions more yea as the
haters of that system which has glutted it.
self on the warm hearts blood of not only
three millions of living slaves, but also upon
about two millions more whose deathless
spirits have gone to their God and which
after all this vile outrage, turns upon US, the
plant dough-faces of the North, and dis
gorges from its heHish maw all the putrid ex-
crescence that has been contracting for ages,
by devouring the images of God, and the pur-
chase of Christ; causing us to stink in the
nostrils of the world as bad as the dregs of
hell, and then lifts up its demon head and
asks for union, while alas the north re-cchoes
back the cry, Union. Such a Union Is dear,
Chat is, it costs enough.)
Sd. My position with regard to the Liber.
ty Party and the Disunionists conformity is
That they fall not out by the way that they
spend not a moment in contending with each
other about small matters, or in trying to teal
out each others eyes. But that they (though
they differ as to the means,) agree as to The
end-the downfall of slavery and that tAey
labor in harmony to accomplish that end, ant
that end alone. And further that each party
should be necessarily engaged to enlarge
their borders, (if they believe that they are
right and that they rally all their strength
to the ballot boxes of our country, to record
their testimony against slavery being a part
OF the union, or having On existence under
its auspices. And further, that they lose
none of their influence by neglec,ing to MAKE
their strength known; while the Liberty
Party men vote for principle through men
thus, for President, James G.. Birney-anC
the Disunion.sts for principle without men
thus, g No union with Shareholders" They
should feel alike interested in reporting through
the public prints, their numbers, and having
the same heralded throughout the North anC
South, that the North may be strengthened
in their good work, and that the South ma,
be made to feel that the days of slavery ar,
numbered.
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