Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-12-25
Editorial Correspondence.
Obarlin ElcG,iOn--New Lyme COme-0nt-
eTS--L. L. Rice.

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been making a practical application of it:
principles Of Interpretation TO the Constitu
ton of Ohio; and admitting Illegal votes
If the members Of that party interpret theii
prjvaie contracts by the same rule that they
do their public ones, they would be regarded
as a set Of knlves, unworthy the confidence
and respect Of community. No man who
dealt with them would understand the nature
of the contract made, until it was fulfilled
and the written agreement destroyed. FoI
instance, one gives a note Of sixty days, al
the expiration of that time the holder de.
mands the money. o, says this new teacher
of morals, the contract is susceptible of an.
other construction-the word days is offer
used in scripture to signify years, SO this
Liberty party moralist justifes himself upon
scriptural ground in Withholding the money
for sixty years-and this would be no moe
dishonest than the course pursus1 by the Lib.
erty party judges at Oberliu.
Again, one Of these new moralists is a
merchant in New York city, we will say; he
contracts with New England manufacturer
for five thousand yards Of muslin, and by
muslin they both mean a coarse fabric, worth
some eight or ten cents per yard. Time pas
ses on, and the merchant sees that the con-
tract is susceptible Of another construction,
so he refuses to receive the coarse cloth, and
demands fine book muslin instead, which is
worth seven or eight times as much-thns he
attempts to cheat the manufacturer out Of two
or three thousand dollars, under his new sys-
TEN of morals. Such would be some Of the
workings Of this new kind tfethics-heaven
save our country from such morality.
At Andoyer we incidentally alluded to
this case of perjury at Oberlin-the receiving
Of Illegal votes. A Congregational clergy
manly the name of Roberts who had been
r%esorting to the smallest bubbles imaginable,
evidently to take up the time of the meeting
in order to defend Liberty party from the
charge, demanded our authority for the state
ment, and made the demand with such a
tone, and in such a manner as conveyed to
the audience the idea that he would not quiz
city submit to hear the party slandered, and
that as we had made such a charge, we must
either prove or retract it. The proof seemed
TO be satisfactory, for shortly after he %justif-
ed the deed--said it was the act Of intelli-
gent men, DESTROYS of carrying out that pro-
vision of the United States Constitution
which declares, that, "I'he citizens of each
state shall be entitled to all the privileges
and immunities of citizens in the several
s%tates.'
If such be the action of the party in its in
fancy, and while its members are compare
atively insignificant, what would it not do if
it were in the ascendant and had the control
of the government? 1t has been striving 10
unite the Gordian knot by which the Con
s%titntion is bound to slavery, or rather by its
skill in Interpretation and divination to prove
that the knot is a creature Of the Imagination;
but falling in this, it has avowed its inten-
tons in no unmeaning terms 10 use the
sword to cut it, and through the columns Of
the Emancipator has declared sit it were
possible for slavery to exist in this Union aE-
ter the opponents ofthe system had assumed
the reins of government, zoe should be in)qr0r
IF using Tie physical pcUer Of the nation to
put ii out GferiSience." "We go for sweep
ing from this planet by the shortest possible
cut, a set Of selfish, cowardly, cormorants,
who manufacture crime out Of woman's mer-
cy. Let Wings and Democrats distinctly
understand that our use of the 6aN0i-bor leads
to the use of the cariridge-j0r." If the f.
mancipator speaks the sentiments of Liberty
party, and its language is to be interpreted,
not as the party interprets Constitutions, but
by the rules Of common sense and general
understanding, its triumph will be the COM
mencement OF a civrl warts success the
destruction of the Constitution and of the A.
merican Union; net by the peaceable meas
ures we propose, but amid the tumult of bat.
tie and the confusion of conflicting hosts.
We were much g%ratiied with our visit al
New Lyme-the slave has many true friends
there, who are devoted in spirit and earnest,
and constant in labor. The lines of denmark
alton are clearly drawn-tbe people are ell
Their hot or cold. Disunion has taken SO
strong a hold upon the affections of many
has become so popular, that it has almost
ceased to be a term of reproach. The pro-
slavery churches have felt its power, and
their memters as much dread The presence of
a Come-ouier at their solemn meetings, as
the churchmen Of England dreaded the pres
ence of George Fox in their assemblies
The Come-ouiers at New Lyme are such in
v%oterate 'go-inners'' when a Por-slavery re-
meeting is to be held, that the secta-
feel as though they were torInented be-
their fine. The fnrmpr hava dptermined