Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-11-05
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The parent power never relinquished her hold
upon this precocious child. But while she
was yet attempting 10 scourge her back to
filial duty, the young revolter cried to us for
protection. Our sympathy was excited by
her distress. We received her, therefore,, on
a perfect equality, into our sisterhood Of
States, and promised her shelter from farther
molestation, beneath The broad wings of our
national eagle. Our unseemly has L to adopt
this young sister, and to secure for her what
she had never been able to wrest from her in
jured mother, have plunged us into this war.
But for the annexation Of Texas we would
never have had this rupture with Mexico;
for otherwise there would have been no dis
puted territory, furnishing = preteXt for war.
This was an act also by which we trampled
in the dust our Federal Constitution. ! chal-
lenge any man to point out the provision in
that instrument for the annexation of foreign
territory by an act of Congress. The prece-
dent plead in the case of Louisiana alters not
the character of the transaction in question.
A previous violation of a solemn compact
furnishes no justification for a subsequent
one.
Let us 90 back yet another step, and in
quire whence sprang that sympathy for a
neighboring Province, which induced Con-
gress to violate the Constitution, and prepare
the way for involving us in war. There is
a system of oppression intertwined with the
very fbres of our government, which is ut
terly s%oulless. Like the foul Fiend, to whom
alone its paternity can be traced, it knows
nothing of benevolence or magnanimity. 1t
is wholly selfish. To accomplish its ends,
it will treat all other interests with contempt,
and perpetrate without remorse outrages the
most horrid and disgraceful. To the grovel.
ing meanness and cruelty of the Serpent, it
adds all his guile and falsehood. Hence,
though in interest only as one TO nineteen,*
it has always managed to control the conn
ellis, and shape the destiny of this great and
enlightened nation. And all its soullessness
and subtlety are called into requisition, for
the ignoble purpose of keeping in mental
darkness and physical bondage three millions
of immortal beings, created in the image Of
God and for the promotion of His glory, that
they may subserve its selfish ends.
About the time when Mexico became a Re-
public, American slavery was uhproductlve
in several of the moro northerly States in
which it existed, and they began to agitate
the question of emancipation. A strenuous
movement on the subject began also to be
made at the North. TIT fend was struck
with horror, and put upon devising schemes
for the support and extension of the diaboli-
cal system.
He fixed his snaky eye upon Texas, and
laid his plans in a manner worthy of a sub
tlety purely his own. He conided his pro-
iect only to a few, known to be imbued with
his own spirit, and whom selfish interests
would make faithful allies. 1t was to crowd
the fated Province with Shareholders and rem
egadoes from the United States, and then
strike for independence. This was DONE
Then it was his policy 70 awaken the SYM
pathies Of the chivalrous, though ignorant vo-
taries of freedom, and the avarice of slave
dealers, and bring them over to his aid. This
, effected, and independence declared, he I'M
t raveled to the initiated, some Of whom occu-
pied the highest seats Of power in our govern
. ment, his Interior designs, and appointed
a them his prime agents. He showed them
; his project Of anneXing Texas to the United
States-forcing Mexico into a Matchmaking
: our people believe that she was the aggres
II sor-taking her territory in the way OF lndem
s nity-converting it into slave States, and thus
giving the slave power entire and peTpelHa
; domination.
lie showed them also that the States sub
ject to his sway, in which slave labor wa
not productive, were adapted to slave grow
y ing, and that the territory TO be acquire
would always furnish a ready market for al
l the human cattle they could rear. Thus wer
J Southern demagogueism and avarlce fame
l. to a fame, and those under their lnfiuenc
prepared for the preparation of the most wal
ton deeds of injustice, raplne and cruelly.-
~ Meanwhile, with consummate art and deceI
re ton, he hoodwinked the enemies of the syS
TEN. With a show Of great magnanimil
er and horror of bloodshed, he persuaded thei
ne to relinquish their claim to a part of Orego
IN -made them believe that Texas, if annexed
q would become a great reservoir into whic
In the slaves from the older States OF the unlo
re would soon be drained and that, being CO.
Ply tiguous to Mexico, every embankment whlt
ne ~avarice could rear, would speedily be wv
De away, and they would be poured forth upt
PSI that free country, like a mighty rush oil W
,ey tiers. He made at the same time an lrresiS
oy BILE appeal to the cupidity Of Northern man
III iacturers, and the fears of their ~depende
ny operatives, which secured their alliance.
This he did by representing to them II
Great Britain had commercial designs up
Texas, which would be ruiRous to their
%terests; and that the proposed anneXatlon'
the giving to the United States the power OF
Ich ing a tariff on foreign goods, would sec'
go, for their fabrics a monopoly in a rapidly
OK c|reasing market. Thus is the old serpent
ler' one of his shrewdest imps, coiled In the he
the of this great nation, in the form OF the 81;
power, and by his subtle suggestions, ca
ing all the machinery of government to
nal worked in accordance with his wishes
the Through their lusts, he beguiles men IN
pe- tons Of power, and they control accordin
uo- all governmental operations.
.he Shall it be said that | am mistaken in
ern y The number of Shareholders in the L
rye ted States is about go q Allowing
IN domestic relation IN interest four nersons
eX- every case of slaveboldinn The entire num
concerned in The nernetnstion and extens
Aeif of the "peculiar institution is l,000,0
which is one twentieth of the whole pop
ie' tIon.