Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-01-01


QUESTION, for The sake Of undoing some of
the heavy burdens, if thereby no innovations
upon their parties would be made. The
Wing loves his party more than he does the
principles of Justice and Liberty; and if he
joins in with the rising wave of Anti-slavery
sentiment, it is with the hope that that wave
will float his Banks and Tariffs also; and
when disappointed in such hopes, he deserts
the cause of the slave, 10 preserve the intc-
rests of his party, his banks, his tarins-fOr
the sake of Wing principles, or rather the
Wing creed, which is as follows: We be-
lieve the greatest good will be secured by
securing the greatest number of golden ea-
giles, OF silver dollars, of copper cents, even
though this be effected by violating every
principle of Gods law; or should he, (as
there have been some IT markahle instances of
Wings being changed into men, pursuing
the dictates Of an enlightened conscience, con-
clude that right being paramount to the in
terests Of party, has the greatest claims upon
him, he bursts his party letters, and is no
longer a Wing, for no man is a true Wing,
who believes and acts upon the principle that
there are higher duties for him to perform,
than those prescribed by his party.
On the other hand, the Democrat, while
protesting a great regard for the people, the
laboring man, him with hard hands and stout
sinews, is not ignorant of the fact that the
STAKEHOLDER holds the balance Of power be-
tween the Wing and Democratic parties, and
of another fact also, which is this The Wing
and STAKEHOLDER have both one common faith,
each believing in the golden eagle, the silver
dollar, and copper cent; both worshipping
at the same idolatrous shrine. This he we'll
knows and his knowledge of human nature
teaches him that these circumstances will
bind the Wing and STAKEHOLDER together, I'M
less they can be separated by a power supe-
rior to the strong affinity binding those togeth-
er who hold to one common faith.
The Democrat, to effect his purposes, brings
to his aid the Shareholders strong attachments
to the peculiar institution, and with profess
sions Of Democracy upon his lips-profes-
sions which the STAKEHOLDER well understands
to be a lie framed to gull the credulous hard
handed, strong armed laborer-he goes far
beyond the Wing in his devotion to slavery.
Hence the whole power of the Democratic
party has been arrayed with the stakeholder,
to maintain the institution of slavery and if
there be any one in the party, of sufficient in
telligence to understand its action, who has
any attachment to the principles of Demo-
crazy, he is compelled either to sacrifice his
love for those principles, and go with his par
ty in its high handed outrages against God
and man, or to abandon the party, and act
upon principle. We presume that no honest
and intelligent person will pretend in this
age of the world, that any one possessed of
an enlightened conscience, can, without a vi
olation of its dictates, submit to the govern.
ment of a party. The very fact that a per-
son is governed by a party, implies that its
prescriptions are the measure of his morality.
Hence the party man dethrones conscience,
abandons right, forsakes his maker, violating
his laws, and governs his conduct, and ac-
tons, by such rules as his associates may
prescribe. S.
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