Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-03-24

six years, and for that time are Independent
of all mortal control. The Slaveholding ell
cment is thus the governing principle of thu
nation; for it has the power of blocking thu
wheels of government, through its majority
in the Senate, as elfrctually as the Common,
those of the English government. There
has been no such olighrchy in modern time;
as that formed by the Slaveholding majority
OF the United States Senate. None, at ltast
since Venice
Sunk, like a sea-weed, into whence she
rose !"
ms forms the great distinction between
the English and the American Polity, aud
accounts Tor the different results that flow
from them. The English Constitution has
an elasticity which enables it to adopt itself
TO every new state Of things. The King and
the Lords must be conservatives or reformers
according as the general will of the nation
dictates. The Prime Minister is merely the
FdIlnurns of the Ship of State-'the pilot
That weathers the slorm'-not the Deity that
Iouses the tempest and rules the waves
mus, when in 1871 the people Of England,
tlred 81 the lneiiiciency and 'inality' Of the
Wings, madeS ir Robert Peel, Premier, it WAS
iondly thought that a Tory Ministry was cs-
tabllshed' But, 10! 1t was not long before
ne found that it was only by becoming more
Nhiggish than the Whins, and almost as
Radical as the Radicals, that the ship could
be sailed. And so a Protectionist Parliament
was compelled 10 lay infanlicidal hands on
the policy of Protection.
The American Constitution, on the other
hand, has no elasticity in lis nature. The
Slaveholding element, which it has made SUI
preme, never yields, but is ever encroaching.
1t Is politically omnipoient, and, of course,
VIII act its pleasure. No political pressure
from without can modify its action, as long
as such pressure must be directed according
TO that same Constitution which gives it des-
potic power. The only hope of Freedom is,
that Its very unyieldingness NAV, in process
OF events, break the machine in pieces; so.
that a wiser scheme OF government may be.
constructed out Of the ruins. and with the ex-
perlchce, Of the original failure.
THE REMEDY.
Such is the crime, and such the punish
lnent, OF the American Nation, For tie pun
lShment there is but one Remedy, and thatis
only to be found in the abandonment of the
crime Until we are ready to put the wick
edness away from us, we must expect TO sub
mt to the penalty, The. doom ofzman is me-
10 be reversed for us. As we have planted
SO must we reap. Full measure, pressed
down and running over, must the harvest of
our sowing be poured into our bosoms. Re
pentance and reformation alone, can bring us
tlle better harvest of a better life. To Guide
ms wicked nation into the WAYS of pleasant
ness and prosperity, and to tell her of the
tnings that pertain TO her peace, is the pro-
phetlc mission OF the American Abolitionists.
clearly must they discern, and boldly must
they proclaim the truth and the way Of this
redemption. Like all who have ever accep-
ted The ungrateiul task Of doing n nation
GOOD, they must be content 18th the reward
Which the heneticient attempt carries with it.
ne highest service that can be lone to in
dlvIduals or TO nations, is to tell them of their
SINS and to point out a way of escape. But
II Is a service that can scarcely look for the
pressing or the gratitude of the admonished
offender.
In proportion to the fidelity with which
me American Abolltionists have done their
duty IN mis- matter, has a blessing waited
upon mem, Their success has been greater
'iah 'helr day, or their strength, had promis-
eG mem. They have aroused the nation,
'hey nave awakened the church, they have
maze The people and the world aware of the
oihhipresence and the omnipotence of Slave
~, within The reach Of its influences, as they
never were before. The stcrtorous sleep of
the STATE, ana the tat slumbers ofthe Church,
are broken forever. Never can either fold
their arms and lie down in their former letl-
argy. lhe very vitality into which our ari-
lallon mas aroused Slavery herself, is a seal
oil our aposlieshlp. And in the Anti-Slavery
spirit which we have created or fostered, in
tne southern country, do we discern the'prools
OF an e%ilectual ministry. Whether we look
towards The North or the South, whether we
regard The imperfect reachings after a refor-
ma'loh here' or the desperate fury of the
masters and the longings Of more generous
sPlf's Tor better state of things, there, we
perceive that a Revolution is begun which
must go on TO a decisive result in favor of
Liberty or of Slavery.
Though the Abolilionists, like our Propll-
cts, are without honor in their own country,
they stand already in the midst of the fulfil
hlent OF their own predictions. When their
voice was first heard, like the Voice of One
crying IN the Wilderness, they discerned but
a part of the Message of which thew were to
be the Apostles. But that part was despised
and rejected of men, with scorn and violence.
Men shut their Eyes, and rushed blindly up-
N'HICin''hP anu applying the
simplest axioms of Liberty. But, even now,
we perceive that the Stone which was thus
rejected is, by degrees, recognized as the
true Head of the Corner. The Principles
which the Abolitionists were mobbed for dis.
seminating in 1885, have now been proclaim
ed by the Legislatures of SOVEREIGN States.
from the tie which connects together large
mlnoTllles, to say the least, of the Great Ma.
llonal Parties. And this, in spite of the yati-
of the Prophets of iii, who forebo-
acc nothing but mischief to the cause of Lii
berty in the Free States, from the agitation
the impracticable fanatics. So, in the
South, 1t was declared that we had made the
shadow go backwards on the dial Of Eman.
n,Ipatlon, and had stopped the Sun of Free
dom IN his journey through their skies. This
cry was re-echoed from the Norh. and was
made the excuse of the cowaSdly and the