Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-08-28

ground, for we have slave-holding admission
Of its truth, (alihough now, some of the ex-
IRENE abolitionists have united with extreme
shareholders to deny this pOuer to Con-
gress.) (2.)
There was therefore left but two ways by
which to effect the overthrow Of Slavery. The
one BY moral power manifested, 4" by consist
ent political action " at the ballot-box-the
other by revolution, terminating in a red sea
of human blood. The choice Of means was
in our hands. We chose the former for
we are mathematical as vile abettors and
co-partners with the Shareholders. (3.)
In the first place, the most respectful and
process was to ask our National and
State Legislatures to do this, which was re-
peated again and again. What next! Hav-
ing petitioned year after year, and the work
was not done; but instead, our W represent
atlves in Congress struck down the right of
petition, and consigned them unread, unheard
and unconsidered under the table. Should
we then have folded our arms and done moth
ing more?
The relation that we sustain to our repre-
seniatives makes us responsible for their
acts, because we are not the c]ringing slaves
of self-created despots. We are not the sub.
jects Of a government we had no hand in Gre
atlng. But we are a portion Of the sovereign
peoplc-thc rulers of the State and Nation
are our agents. We have defined the pow
ors with which their offices should be invest
ed they must do our pleasure, or else we
are bound TO show by our votes against them
that we are diSplcased with their actions
We cannot shift the responsibility, and as
sert that we will have nothing TO do with
them for although we may refuse to use the
elective franchise, the wheels of government
will still move on, by our aid, so long as we
in the government. (l.)
This was not all our petitions to our rep
-esentatiye rulers were accompanied with pc
itions TO the GREAT RULER of the nations
hat lie would give us wise and good men
o rule over us, who would rule in His fear,
nd break the rod of oppression. If, then,
We were sincere in our petitions, what was
ieXt to be done! Every intelligent being in
he universe anticipates the reply We must
lot vote in favor Of the Legislators who will
against the slave I! (5.)
We soon found that the two political par
were welded to the slavcloldinr into
esis, and had been vieing with each other in
iubserviency to court Southern favor, so that
whether Wings or Democrats were in the as
aendent, our prayers were alike disregarded.
Hence there was no alternative left, but to
our vote upon our W candidates.
previously selected, and pledged 10 make the
great question of humanity the paramount OBJ
Jet. The men engaged in this enterprise
actuated by no selfish motives, but a
high sense Of religious duty, feeling that they
were responsible before God for the manner
n which they discharged their duties at the
oallot-boX-lhat they would be rccreant TO
and the slave, TO leave him in his
chains half dead, where they had placed him
by thel: W crvants-ihat il was not enough
10 step out of the Union by mental reserya-
non and fold their arms, and wash their hands,
and assert their innocence-that God would
hold them accountable in the day of Judgment
if they did not labor TO break the letters by
the same and e%lcctual instrumentalities with
which they were bonnd. (6.)
But we are met at the Threshold, and told
that by using the ballot-bcx in favor of Lii
berry, in the act Of voting, we swear to sup
port sIavery-which question | may hereafter
examine. Suffice it to say here, that we do
not so understand obligations imposed upon
clllzens of this Republic. But we honestly
and sincerely believe that the glorious prin-
clples OF the Liberty party, fairly carried out.
are the only principles which will save, Sc
cure and perpctuate free institutions, which
secure to us the instrumentalities with which
10 carry forward ills good, holy and God-like
enterprise, 10 its final consumInation and tri-
lmph. a.
How 1t must wound the heat of every true
Phllanthropist, to witness the present unfor-
strife, this manifestation of the most
'IruIent and determined opposition, by those
who oughtlo be co-laborers in the great work,
and that too, at the very moment when the
salvation Of the country and the deliyerance
OIL The slave are suspended upon the success
Of our united eXertions.
Though this great moral and political re-
is admitted to be the great object
Tor which we labor, yet, because we cannot
see eye 10 eye as to the best mode of damn
the work, therefore the motives of those who
the attempt, or the means by which
they make it, will always be wrong, and il
will ever be impossible to devise a ripbt vav
until those rancorous partizan feelinps he bu-
RED, which impugn the motives, and malinu
the characters of those who differ, onlv as 70.
CARDS the best method Of pushing the contest
oil Liberty and Slavery to It's final issue (8N