Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-03-13

soldier. His uniform, oven to the collar he
wears, uncomfortable and choke-like as 1t is,
must be worn so long as he receives the pay.
If he deviates in the least from the ranks, he
is shot as a deserter; if he refuses to obey
the word Of command, he is denounced as a
traitor to the cause. He must look as he is
directed to look, aim as he is ordered to, and
fire according to command. The soldier and
the politician are mere automata, moved and
governed by another's will, and made to
subserve the interests of party rather than
the advancement of principle.
The Wing party of Ohio, especially that
portion of it on the Reserve, have claimed to
| be the party that was to do all the anti-slave-
ry work which politicians, or party organi-
cation could do. The members OF that par
ty knew that a great work was to be done for
humanity; they knew that Ohio, though
young in years, was old in crime; for scarce
ly had the repose of her wilderness been bro
ken by the woodlands Ike, scarcely had the
plough of the pioneer traced its burrows on
her soil, when her hand inscribed the cruel,
statutes, denying to the colored man his
heaven-descended and indesiructible rights.
They knew that those laws were a disgrace
to any community which made the least
pretension of civilization and humanity that
there was less seeming palliation for them in
the West, where society had not SO substan-
tally settled down into classes, where the
aristocracy of birth and wealth were not so
much regarded as in the older States of the
East. They hung out the anti-slavery flag,
they procured votes under false pretences and
consequently the power they thus acquired
was dishonesty obtained. They secured a
majority in the Legislature, and we hope the
people will bear in mind, that every thing
that body did is chargeable upon the Wings
and for every thing that was left undone they
are responsible. The Wing members will
doubtless attempt to justify the action of the
party, will try to make the worse appear the
better reason, and about next election time,
will again denounce " those odious Black
Laws" expatiate upon the tights of mar in
general, and their own claims to reelection
in particular. Away with such hypoc risy
Let not the Wing party Of Ohio ever name the
name of anti-slavery, until it repents of its
shameful recreancy to God and man. Let it
no longer strive to hide its loathsome form
beneath the robes of anti-slavery pretension,
but stand forth as bold as it is devilish, and
proclaim in e~xulting tones" BY my power
was crushed the Bill to repeal the laws
which deny to the negro the rights which
the white man enjoys. At my bidding he is
robbed of his school fund at my bidding his
testimony is rejected by the courts of Ohio.
l have placed my heel upon his neck, | have
crushed him to the earth. l, the Wing par
ty of Ohio, have done these things, and | re-
joice in his degradation aud gloat upon the
destruction of his rights"
The action of the Democrats has been no
better than that of the Wings land as a party,
they were more united in w~ickedness. 1t is
not our business at this time to say that there
are both Wings and Democrats who are OPP
posed to the course pursued by the recent Lee
gislature, or how many of each may be num-
bered {; we are speaking of the Wings as a
party, and of the anti-slavery claims set up
for it as such. We declare those claims to
be unfounded, and the history of the Ohio Lee
g~islature for the past winter is our proof. We
assert that its professions are not to be tIust-
ed, and its own actions bear witness to the
truth Of what we say.