Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-06-25

VI "a AlllllNhlEs Dbl !
| see no necessity Of counting our chickens
before they are hatchel. At any rate, .suai-
Client unto the day is the evil therroC.' IL Is
enough Tor the Liberty party to consult the
reasonable Preferences Of those who are in
1t. Besides, 1t is to be presumed, that the
Liberty party will in no case nominate a man
VINO Is not both thoroughly anti-slavery, and
wei qualified to discharge the duties Of the
oIlce Tor which he may be nominated; so
that no reasonable preferences" need pre-
vent any Abolitionist disposed to Join us
from cordially supporting such nominee.
| would like TO know, by the way, by
what authority the Herald pronounces, "con-
ining the curse Of human slavery 10 its con-
stitutional limits to be ''the great work.
of the Liberty party. | had supposed it to
be the work Of that party toabolish American
slavery. Had | supposed it TO be merely to
coniine the curse "to its constitutional linn
it's, and those limits, as the Herald would
make them, to be the several States in which
1t exists, instead ofjoining its ranks, ! should
have been tempted to exclaim with Wendell
Phillips, "Cursed be the Liberty party.''-
1t may be well enough for .anii-slavery
Wings" TO prate of 'conining the curse of
human slavery to lis constitutional limits"
We know it is their ''great work." TO talk
against the extension of slavery" is, in
deed, quite as great a work as could be rea-
snnably expected of men in their POSITION
But every decent Abolitionist, one would
think, must needs have found a bigger one to
do. For an Abclitionist to spend his breath
in so talking, is too much as it a Christian
minister should content himself, in a "world
lying in wickedness," with preaching "a-
gainst the extension of" sin.
| do not Sav NJ EI;tor ,b,. ,baro
good reasons for d%eferring till next year our
nominating convention. The question with
which | began this note, implies that there
may be such. J say only, that | have seen
none; and that as a Liberty man, | have felt
mortified by the remarks of the Era and the
Herald on this subject. The reasons sug-
gested by the Emancipator, of Massachusetts,
the Liberty Standard, of Maine, and several
other OF our prints, in favor of holding the
convention as early as the next Fall, are GER
talnly OF some weight, and, III "the absence
of all Others to the contrary" might we'll be
regarded as conclusive.
But the question, Whom shall we nomi-
mattel is incomparably more important, than
the question, When shall we nominated
Shalt we nominate men, who are in commun
ion with any Of those "American Churches
which our former candidate for the Presiden
cy declares TO be 'the bulwarks Ct American
slavery" or men, who will contribute to the
support of persons as preachers of the Gospel,
whom they would not vote for to 6ll the Of
flee of impounding stray cattle!-Shall we
nominate men, who admit, that our national
Constitution is a pro-sIavery instruments; oil
men who assert, with the National Era, that
in respect Of slavery, that instrument has no
character, that it neither favors nor opposes
tho mammnih tnnnStrncity - ~ ,Jr;t,;,r
in the same breath, that it robs Northern
freemen of the God-given right to protect the
man who has escaped unto us from the clutch.
es of Southern pirates III these two uues-
tons are to be answered in the negative, Their
| am sorry to say it, some of the very excel
lent gentlemen, who have been named as sui
table candidates for the offices Of PresideuI
and Vice President are not to be thought o.
as such, must be passed by as unworthy the
votes of the Abolitionists; for they are dis.
qualified by their position, in regard bott
TO the Churches and 10 the Constitutions
And if men so disqualified were to be put in
r nomination by us, this is certain, that W,
should fail 10 unite in their support the suf
ifages of the Liberty men. Thousands o
these will refuse to vote for any man who i
connected with a pro-slavery ecclesiastical
organization, unless, indeed, il be one tina
=, does not profess to make common honesty
condition of membership. And thousands @
these will refuse to vote for any man, VIII
. holds that the Constitution gives any legd
: sanction TO slavery, or who adopts the nc
! tons which have been put forth of that in
= strument by the Era, which, as | have int
= mated, commits the gross inconsistency {
i denying the Constitution TO afford any SUP
= port to slavery, while conceding it to max
> these free States a ~huniing-ground for Soutt
ern man-stealers.
" BY the course Of tie Era, on this subjeC
Of the Constitution, it ought not TO be cor
=, cealed, large numbers Of its friends are deet
ly grieved. Its gingerly Treatment of III
miscreant shareholders, its v%elvety handlin
OF those Colossal thieves, the Church and III
: State, between which, in this ''glorious land
70 of ours, humanity is in process of perpetna
cruciiXion; this, or much of it, they coul
readily excuse, perhaps Justify, nay, almo:
= commend, on the ground of the Era's loca
'o ton, there at the Capital Of this great natio
Is of ileshmongers. But when they found
g employing its ingenuity to wrench from the
'e hands that glorious Constitutional weapon
5 which they had begun to WELD with so 700
T. effect, against shareholders on the one sidi
III and disunionIsts on the other, this, while az
~ hitting the Era's perfect right TO do as
u pleased in the premises, they have regardt
as a calamity, almost too great to be comper
10 stated by the good likely to be accomplishe
.e by the establishment Of that paper. An
u however strange it may seem, they ha'
> been able to find but small reliefin the gor
"a natuTed editors assurance, that his views
III this subject, are thirteen years" old.
A. see our friends, Vim. Goodell and Jam
D. C. Jackson, with upwards Of forty othel
ia among whom, however, | see none of n
Id other old an,i-slavery acquaintance, have
of sued a call for a convention, 10 be held on
il three weeks hence, for the nomination
Presidential and Vice Presidential cant
he dates, on a basis Of numerous measures,
no which the overthrow Of chattel slavery is o
iu' only, But for myself, and simply as an AT