Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-11-05
The New York Wings On Slavery.

The following extract is from the address
issued by the New York Wing State Con-
~ventlon
"FELLoW ClTI2ENS:-Disguise the Next
can war as sophistry may, the great truth
cannot be put doEn, nor lied down-lhat it
exists, because Of the Annexation of Texas,
that from such a cause we predicted such a
consequence would follow. aud that but for
That cause, no war would have existed at all.
Disguise its i%ntents, purposes, and consequent
ces, as sophistry may struggle to do, the fur
ther great truth cannot be hidden, that its
main object Is a conquest Of a market for
slaves, and that the fig our victorious le-
gions rally around, fight under, and fall for,
is to be desecrated from its holy character Of
Liberty and Emancipation into an errand of
bondage and slavery. In obedience to the
laws, and in Il due aEd faithful submission To
the regularly constituted government Of our
Constitution, we will rally by and defend
our flag, on whatever soil, or whatever sea it
is unlurled-but before high Heaven, we pro-
test against the mission on which it i is sent /;
and demand its recall to the true and proper
bounds of our country, as soon, as in honor,
it can be brought home. We protest, too, in
the name Of the rights Of man, and Of Libcr-
ty, against the further extension Of slavery in
North America. The curse which our mo-
taer country Inflicted upon us, in spite Of our
fathers circumstances. we demand, shall net-
er blight the virgin soil Of the North Pacific.
We feel that it would be a horrible mockeTy
for the columns of Anglo Saxon emigration
to be approaching, and looking down upon
the dark, b~eGighted races of Asiitic despo-
tism, with Africa enslaved under the banners
that head their march, as Westward the
star oI EnIuIrn takas ItS Wayi w InVa No
desire TO infringe upon any one of the com
promises Of the Constitution. The Consli-
tuition as it is, and the country as it is, is good
enough for US.
The Wings of the North are Conservators
of the Constitution, in its essence, and in its
every word and letter. The fell and mis-
chlevous results Of Abolitionism are no where
better understood, or more condemned, than
in New York. But we will not pour out The
blood OF our countrymen, il we can help II,
to turn a free into a STARE soil. We will not
speed from fifty 10 an hundred millions Of
dollars, per year, to make a slave market for
any portion of our countTymen. We will
never tor such a purpose, consent 10 run up
an untold National Debt, and saddle poStrri-
~ with Fund mongers, Tax Brokers, and Tax
Gatherers, laying an excise or an impost up
on every thing they taste, touch, or live by.
The Union as it is, the tchyLe Union, and
NOTHING but the Union, we will stand
by 10 the last-but M more territory, is our
Observation-Disclosures IT BE FREE.
Powerless as We are at present, the Com
mander-in-Chie of the army and navy, who
created the war, alone having the power to
initiate the treaty or take the steps that can
end ii, we cannot, and we would not if we
could, withhold from our forces in Mexico all
necessary relntOrcements and all our Sympa-
lhy, hut We hold up to the condemnation OF
mankind, to the apprehension Of a Christian
world, and to the admonition of freedom eve.
ry where in lis struggles for Constitutions
liberty, this alarming ONE MAN POWER of oul
Republic, that in spite of Congress and il
defiance Of the popular will thus starts anc
carries on a sangulnary war, If justihable, ye
unnecessary and uncalled for, and in every
way detrimental to the true glory and int
rests OF our country.
This one-man power, be it borne in mind
whose order removed our batteries from tn
peaceful tents of Corpus Christi and planted
them frowning upon Matimoros, a p~opulou'
Mexican city, no matter what millions of u,
humber citizens may think, can alone star
a treaty, or alone recall acolumn of ourtroopI
now in a foreign country, and thus as long a
one man Pledses, the mothers, sisters am
wives OF all who have relatives in the hear
of Mexico must culver and tremble IN appTe
hension over every newspaper OF The day
aud we who deprecate his measures are re
duced to the painful alternative of abandon
ing and sacrificing our brethren in their peril
or Of giving to our civic chieltain, (saf
enough in the marble halls at Washington.
the means Of realizing vain and ambition
dreams through the blood and sacrifice Of hi
coGntrymen."