Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-09-24
From the Libcraior.
The Wilm0t PrOyiSO.

Inv NllllJb lIUl ISU.
The whole history Of the United States
since II was gathered into a nation, has besI
a continual witness to the truth that there ca.
he 40 genuine Union between Good an,
Evil-betwecn Liberty and Slavery. Their,
never has been a LniDu of these States. A
Coalition there has been and its fate has beer
that ofevery coalition which has been nttsnlpt
ed 10 be made, between a good principle auc
a bad one, since the world began. The Bad
has predominated over the Good. The vic.
tory has been, as it should lave been, TO the
Evil Element Of the attempted Compromise,
Nen have often attempted to outwit the
Allwlse and to overreach the Almighty, bur
never yet with any very signal success. Nc
men ever tried harder 10 effect this than the
Trainers of the U. S. Constitution, but the
Omnlscleni and the Omnipotent laughed them
10 scorn. 1t might well move the mirth oil
Goo and man to see human ephemcra. in the
majesty Of their six feet and the pIenilude OF
their wisdom, of which the greatest triumnh
is 10 know that they know nothing, seeking
10 repeal and amend The Divine Laws IN their
solemn Conventions and grave Legislatures.
ct this Is Just what the American Nation
has been trying 10 do ever since it was swad-
died. But, as TIE Spanish proverb says, he
that splits at Heaven, splits in his own face ;
And so this people have found it to be.
The inhabitants Of the Free States, nearly
sixty years since, entered into a co-partnef-
ship with the Inhabitants of the Slave States,
for certain purposes profitable TO themselves.
But their partners would not sign the Arti-
Giles until their northern associates had agreed
10 recognize their right 10 deyour as much
human flesh as they liked, and, if they would
not pariake of The canuibal repast themselves,
at least TO wait behind the chairs Of those
that did. But it was not long before they
found that they We're being devoured, too.
That they were only the second course of this
Thycstean banquet. That all the privilege
they had gained by the alliance was that
granted by PolePheme 10 Ulysses of being
devoured the last, or rather the most at lei
sure. They have seemed TO be conscious,
now and then, that they were having their
bones picked but they have never appeared
10 refer 1t TO the terms Of their contract with
their devourers, by virtue of which it was
that they We're eaten up. OF course, they
deserve all they get. Tie Southern Reward
says with him in Esop, 'Chanticleer is very
good, but he is not enough - And so he
snaps up his peridious b%etrayer. They may
howl, but they have nobody to thank but
themselves. Who ever thought of pitving
Perillus when he was believing inside the
brazen bull he had made for Phalaris?
The only history, worthy the name, that we
have Ia this country is the narrative Of the de-
vices OF the North TO escape the laws Of Sla-
very, without taking her head ont of its
mouth. Attempts, more or less vigorous.
have been made, at various periods, to put
the monster on short allowance, but thew have
always failed. And they must always fail
as long as they are made in subordinalion TO
the agreement which gives slavery the now
or to help itself. The resistance which was
made 10 the Purchase, and afterwards to the
Admission, Of Louisiana, the Missouri con-
test, and the Texas Struggle, were conspicn-
Gus attempts OF this nature. And splendid
failures they were, all of them. The present
phase OF this spirit of resistance to the au-
gressioms of slavery is seen in what is called
the Wllmot Proviso, which cmbodics the
principle, that whatever Territory is acquired
by the present war shall be Free Territory.
A large part of the Wing, and a proportion
of the Democratic presses make a stand upon
this ground. Resolutions 10 this effect pass
ed the Legislature of Massachusetts. unani-
mously, and have also passed the Legisla-
lures of various other Northern States, Dem
ocratic as well as Wing. But this effort will
be as futile as any Of its predecessors. After
the vapouring about the Annexation of Tex.
as, and the smoke in which il ended, Slave
ry will be indeed a fool (and that il has nev-
er been IN lis generdtion) ii it be deferred bv
these demonstration from doing what it
likes.
Hopes have been entertained that the Dem
ocratic Party at the North would rally round
this principle at the next Election for Presi-
dent, and put Silds Wright, as its incarna-
ton, in the Chair Of State. But this hone.
faint as it should have been, has been dis.
PEELED by the sudden death of that States
man, and all the other prominent Northern
a%spirants for the place, will be ready enouuh
to Tepudiate it, for the sake of the only sun
pert which can give them a chance for a nom
%ination, much more Of an election. The
South has taken its ground firmly and deci-
dedly, and there is no doubt Of its maintain
ing 1t successfully. Its vantage is too treat
for defeat. If it want the whole continent 10
Cape Horn, II can have it for all the resist
ance the North VIII make. The heart of the
North must be renewed before it will be ready
10 make any e%ttectnal head against the irrup-
tions of the Slave Power. And that will not
be before the next election. OF which cir
cumstance the Democrats at least are well
aware.
And how stands it with the Wings : The
undivided front which they seemed at one
time to present, under this standard, is al.
ready broken. Southern Machiavelisln has
already made a crack, which, by due pains,
may be widsned into a split. The Hon. Mr..
Berrien Of Georgia, a pious stakeholder, and
one of the officers of the Bible Society and
Of the A. b. &. +. NJ, if we are not much
mistaken, has suggested the change of the
issue from mo more Slave Territory TO
mo more Territory Mr.. Sehouler, the