Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-05-22
nOtl II SO, why disunion among our


notl Ii so, why disuuion among our
Permit me, as a Liberty party man, to
ask a question or two. No doubt you did
at the commencement of your paper, show
all the grounds of difference between the Lii
berry party and our Disunion friends; bat as
new subscribers are coming in, it might be
we'll to keep the Bugle to your lips and blow
the same blast again. Is there evidence that
Liberty men who seek office under the Con-
~stitution and take oath to support it, feel
bound to support slavery in connection with
it, If there is such evidence it stamps us
with either treachery or perjury. IL not, you
certainly are wrong in making such charges,
for without such evidence it must be conced-
ed that not only Liberty party men but many
Of our Wing and Democratic friends arc as
much Disunionisis as yourselves, having
emo union with slave-holders.'' My i'm
preston is that Shareholders look for no
union with Liberty men. They believe
that the Constitution, administered by Lii
bsrty men, would produce death to the
Peculiar Institution. Would it, or moth
If it would, can you not help us! If it would
not, are we not deceived !
Respectfully, JOSEPH CARDER.
P. s. Am on my way to Indian (Hills-
boro, Fountain county, Hope the Bugle
will meet ne there. Have no interest in
false positions. Desire to investigate and adj
vance Yours for union in true principles,
J. C.
Our friend speaks of Abolitionists turning
their clashing weapons against each other,
instead of directing them toward the conmo
foe. We view the matter in a different light,
and from a different point of observation.
When we do battle against Liberty party,
We battle against slavery, for w regard that
as one Of her most subtle agents, inasmuch
as it strengthens and s~ustains the system,
while it seems to oppose. Let not our friend
be deceived by the fact that there are good
aboliiionists in that party /; that proves no.
thing for the organization, only that it has
been able to dupe and deceive such into its
service. The same is true of the Wings,
and yet we suspect our friend never regrets
there should be a clashing of weapons be-
tween Liberty party and Wing abolitionists.
He doubtless regrets there should exist ocea-
SION for such a contest, and would be glad TO
obviate its necessity by having all Wing alb
olitionists refuse longer to sustain the pro-
slavery organization 10 which they belong,
and enroll themselves beneath the Liberty
party banner. As it is with him in regard to
Wing abolitionists, so is i, with us in re-
gard to Liberty party aboli!ionists. Disuni-
onists can no more harmonic with Liberty
party action, than Liberty party can halmo-
nize with Wing action, indeed there are few
er points of difference between the latter,
than the former.
He inquiries whether Liberty party men
who have taken oath to support the Cons,i-
tuition, feel bound TO support slavery in con-
nection with it. If they have so scared their
consciences that they disregard the obliga-
tons of an oath, perhaps they do not feel thus
bound. But if they look at the Constitution
as it was understood at the timo of its adop-
ton, as it has been understood by every of.
ficer of government from that time to this, as
it has been construed by the Supreme Court,
they must see that the oath requires them to
surrender fugitive slaves, to suppress slave
instructions, to maintain the South in a
slave representation, and sustain the Federal
Government in re-establishing the African
slave trade, whenever Congress shall deem
it expedient so to do. In relation to the de-
cis!ons of the Supreme Court, let us here re-
mark that its construction of the Constitution
would have made that instrument pro- slave
ry, had it not been so before, for the people
have agreed that what that tribunal saws is
Constitution, shall be Constitution.
Our friend thinks that the STAKEHOLDER looks
for no union with Liberty party men,
If SO, then he regards them as dishonest, for
he knows full well that the obligations of
the Federal Union bind them to each other.
that Liberty party men promise yearly that
they will unite with him in maintaining the
system Of slavery. If they make this pro-
mise and do not mean to fulfill it, they are
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