Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-04-16

10 TAKE an Odtn u SuIICIb NV CONSTITUTION
Of The U. S. before they would permit him
TO enter upon the duties Of the Office, and re-
ceiye its rewards and em%oluments; and
wien the guilt rests upon themselves as prin-
cipals, and the President being only their
hired agent with the strong inducements
they offered him in the shape OF S25,0OO per
wear, and acting under the influence OF these
strong inducements is less guilty than them
selves who led him iuto temptation by hold
Ing cut these strong inducements to commit
crime. They employ the President TO per-
form every act which the Constitution aud
the laws Of the L. S. require Of a President
TO do, and it does not lessen their own guilt
to beraie their poor tool, the President, Tor DO
ing that which they have hired him To do
Ia the same way some blamed Gov. Barley,
their poor weak agent in crime, when he re-
ccived but poor pay aud tie little homer
which they award 10 a governor for collect
ing together a band Of hired assasslns 10 Kill
by the wholesale, for even poorer pay than
BARLEY himself received, hen the fact is
Barley merely acted as their agent, and in
accordance with the oath they required him
to take before they would even agree to pay
him one red cent for his services.
Again: we sometimes hear some Of the
Quakers who go TO the polls and vote eXclai-
ming against tbs Sheriff for putting a rope
around mems necks aud choking them 10
death, when he was only the hired assassin,
they themselves having employed him.
These Quakers first induced the man to en-
ter upon the duties of the Office Of Sheriff by
holding out as a temptation tile fees he would
receive in that situation, aud would not con-
sent that he should perform any part Of the
Duties of a Sheriff 5 office, and be paid for
what work he did perform, unless he would
agree to perform all Of the duties this work
of assassination being one Of the duties re-
quired Of him. And, forsoolh, after thus hi
ring the man 10 become a criminal, compel
line him TO takeA solemn oath lha; he ould
commit The crime be foTe they would pay him
any part Of the price, they turn round and
blame him instead Of themselves! This is
beautiful consistency is it not 7 and yet these
QuaEers aud others who commit these enor-
mites, actually try 10 persuade some of US
that they do not see how they have anything
TO do with hanging this man, when they
know as well as they know that the sun ri
ses in the east and sets in the west, that the
Sheriff is only their agent performing the
work they bid him TO DO under a promise or
oath which they extoried from him before
they would pern,i, him to act al all as their
agent or receive one cen! for his agency.
The voters in this country govern it by
force or compulsion, and any one or all Of
these can cease from governing without leav-
ing the country, merely by refusing to exer-
else any of the powers of governor.
The Emperor Nicholas is the Governor Of
Russia. Many millions acknowledge his
sway-he maintains his government by many
different means; these ] will not stop 10 dis
cuss. But his principle means of governing
are, by hiring both agents and large band, OF
soldiers, and assigning to these agents speci-
fc duties. Now will any one deny that the
Emperor Nicholas can resign the government
of the country, tina, is, cease to govern, and
escape from the guilt incurred by him in lis
present position, without leaving the country
where he lives! Certainty no one is so weak
and foolish as to deny this.
But if Nicholas was to associate anolhel
with himself, and they TWO were to govern
; the inhabitants Of Russia, they two would bt
= the actual governors Of the country. woulC
they not! and could not either or both o
t these individuals resign and cease to govern
without leaving the country where they live
Il Certainly they could. Or, il he was to asso
t ciate with himself 400 persons, then Their
o would be 500 governors of Russia but d.
a you dispute that any or all of these coul,
cease governing without leaving the country
y Again, Nicholas governs all who are nc
willingly subject to his will by compuI
Is sion. ! wish to ask upon whom does the re
sponsibility of his thus governing rest! UG
N on him who uses this compulsion, or upo
ct him who is the subject Of itl Upon hir
at who uses this force or upon him upon whor
10 the force is used You will answer upo
ID him who uses the force. Then is not tn
lg Emperor Nicholas responsible for what /
h. does as governor Of Russia, and are not tho:
who do not assent TO his government, but a
at compelled by a superior power to submit
it, free from that responsibility and innoco
to of his crimes! Certainly they are. o.
i'd other position, and we will make an apple
is ton of this illustration TO this country.
he Wherever a government Of force is institute
he there is, and must necessarily be, two elias
lis es-the governors and the governed. T.
Ter governors employ force and make use of col
ut pulsion-the governed are compelled to su