Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-05-29

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time entertained a confident hope that the
aulaclous encroachments, which the slave
holders Were attempting upon the Constitu-
uoh' ana the undisguised prostitution of all
inc powers Of the Government, for the fos-
tering OF slavery, would at length kindle a
IRE IN the free, and, if united, irresistible
states OF the North, that would sweep Sla-
very and the slave power from this continent
forever.
1t was not enough that the robbers of hui
man rights were rewarded with the enioy-
ment and disposal of all the Offices in a Co
vernment, founded on Liberty and Equality :;
1t was not enough that they took such as they
pleased for themselves, and threw the ofals
to feed their Northern ianizaries; it was not
enough that the burden of taxation had al
ways been cast upon free, to the comparative
exemption Of slave labor; it was not enough
that an army and navy, the most expensive
OF their size in the world, were employed,
and the Indian tribes pensioned at our cost
as slaye-catlers TO their maiesties it was not
enough that the diplomacy of the country was
silently and systematically working to ward
OH imaginary dangers from slavery at home,
and for that precious purpose, to rivet its
chains abroad. These things, though mani
fest and unprincipled violations of the spirit
and faith of the federal compact, might pass
for abuses of administration and the dream
might be INDUCED, and was INDUCED by rood
men, that in better times and with a more en-
lightened public opinion, they would wear
away, and the Constitution come out without
any fatal Disagreement of its main features.
Estimating highly its capacity for good, they
hoped, as did probably many of lis founders,
that 1t would, at an early day, and without
violence, be purified Of its dominant evil
But the time has gone by for indulgence in
such decisions. Within the last two years
we have seen a career of conquest
ed, a career unjust and inhuman at best, but
when undertaken as this avowedly was, for
the extension of the horrors of personal sla-
very, 1t so overtops all national proGigacy, old
and new, as 10 render the sins of the Alexan-
ders, the CAESARS, the Fredericks, the Catha-
rines, and Napoleons, white as wool. The
slmulacrum of the Constitution remains, but
the substance is persisted its dignity and au-
thorlty are PROSTATE, trodden deep in the mud
Of the rice-swamp and tho slave pen. Per
haps 1t is best so; FOR it deserved its fate, but
not at the hands of slave-breeders and slave
caichers. Execution should have been done
upon it by freemen. The poor Constitution
commanded that our foreign relations should
be under the eyClusi fe management and con-
troll OF the President and Senate, and that a
two-thirds vote Of that body should be re-
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