Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-09-10

The Pennsylvania Democrat who hores 10
receive the nomination Of his party for the
Presidency, has. in accordance with the mo-
dern usage of aspirauts for that office, been
trucking to the slave power, and giving it
his written adhesion. In a letter to the De-
mocracy of Berks co., he says;
"The question of Slavery, in one of its an
cient aspects, has been recently revived, and
threatens to convulse the country. The De-
mocratlc party Of The Union ought TO prepare
themselves in time for the approaching storm.
Their best security, in the hour of danger, is
TO cling fast TO their time-honored principles.
A sacred regard for the Federal Constitution,
and for the reserved rights Of the States, is
the immovable basis on which the party can
alone safely rest. This has saved us from
the inroads OF Abolition. Northern Demo
Gratis are not expected to approve Slavery in
the abstract; but they owe it to themselves,
as they value the Union, and all the political
blessings which bountifully flow from it. to
abide by the compromises of the Constitu-
ton, and leave the question, where that in
strument has left it, to The States wherein
Slavery exists. Our fathers have made this
agreement with their brethren of the South {;
anu II 10 lIOL LOT iUt utSCbtutlL OF tllllbT par
ty, in the present generation, to cancel This
solemn compact. The Abolitionists, by their
efforts to annul it, have arrested the natural
progress of Emancipation, and done great in
jury to the slaves themselves"
All of these pro-slavery politicians talk
about ga sacred regard for the Federal Con-
siitution," and advise their party to cling to
the ''glorious Union" and it is perfectly nat
ural that a pro-slavery man should fly to a
pro-slavery shelter, and equally natural that
an anti-slavery man should fly from it.
We do not perhaps know as well as the
leader of the Pennsylvania Democracy what
is expected Of Northern Democrats, but we
know that many of them do not only sap
prove slavery in the ABSTRACT but also in
the concrete. Pierce Butler, a Philadelphia
Democrat, was a stakeholder at the time he
represented the party in the Convention
which framed the present Constitution oil
Pennsylvania, and many other Northern De,
mocrats are no better in principle, whatever
necessity may compel their practice to be-
we suppose lnal IN me eSlllldIlOn oil james
Buchanan, all that can reasonably be asked
of Northern Democrats is, that they should
not approve of slavery in the abstract, allho'
we doubt whether this is not presuming toe
much upon their Democracy, especially if
they be church members. Such abstraction
may be very good, but We suspect he would
hardly be satisfied with the abstract opposi.
ton of the Democracy to Whiggery with its
banks and tariffs and other party measures
and party machinery. 1t does very well for
Democracy to talk about abstract, negative
opposition to slavery or any other peccadillo,
but when such heaven-daring institutions as
banks are to be destroyed, it must have con-
slant, practical, energetic opposition.
In relation to the Wilmot P%roviso, Buchan-
an says:
"The question is not one of practical i'm
portance. Its agitation, however honestly
intended, can produce no effect but to alien
ate the people Of different portions of the
Union from each other; TO excite sectional
divisions and jealousies; and to distract and
possibly destroy the Democratic party, on