Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-06-16
SALEM. OHIO, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1913.

1t contributes hundreds Of millions to the an
nual products of national industry, and is not
so much the cornerstone, as the whole ioun-
dation of our Commerce. This is one source
of difference between Slavery in l7S9 and IN
1918. Then as TO its more exclusively poll
teal progress, what is its tone now! In lhe
Revolution Slavery was weak. Remember
1t was then spread over the whole thlfteeh
States, and remember, also, that although the
wave has retreated, and now only covers one
half; although all The tendencies Of the aye
are in favor of freedom although the strong
est throne in Europe has gone down in a day
before The working men in Paris, and although
the current sets in favor of freedom, and you
can hardly count the kings as they lily along
the highways, still our accursed SYSTEM the
vileSt the sun shines on, has been gaining
strength in the citadel; political power In
the Government itself. Al the time when
the Constitution was formed, where did Sla-
very stand .! A suppliant at the door of the
Convention on Bonded knee, coniessing her
sins: seeking liberation, only for a few years.
Like Morris, in Rob Boy, she might be said
to beg only :" life, lie it it were to be pro-
longed under tortures and prlvatlons-only
breath if it were TO be drawn in the lowest
dungeons Of our hills"
Men had Just come from articles OF coniede-
ration, which had then been in being Tor some
five or seven years. Those articles did not
recognize the slave population. They DID
not make it, as our Constitution does, the ba-
sis of Government; the articles OF coniedera-
ton did not direct the slave once escaped to
be returned to his master; he was free under
the old law of Deuteronomy, till, like the Pu-
ritans. they could make a better. But this
supplication of Siayery at the door OF the Con-
vention was successful: she was permitted
to creep in. at the lowest room, a subject OF
2 shame to the nation, not to he named among
, Christians. How is it now! Overshadow-
t ing the land, looming up from every quarter
: sending out d~iplomatists stepped to the lips
J in her principles, taking the very four corners
a of the Government and lifting them mp at her
pleasure, asserting that the Union was made
2 to guarantee the institution of Slavery, that
. the primary purpose of National Government
i is a crusade against the world 10 champion
the sins of South Carolina. A few days la
e ter. how stood the great men of the Repub-
d Iicl That Democratic President. one OF
whose slaves was among the sevenly-seven
Re who endeavored to escape just now from
Washington, James Madison, in the meridian
D. strength of his intellect, in the Congress oil
) the United States, endeavoring 10 make a
a way, if he could find it, by which to abolish
e. Slavery from the country. AT the door o
is Congress, in the fniiness Of his years, stoot
" Benjamin Franklin, eDtreating the first Con
n, gress TO go to the very verge Of their Consti'
o. tuuonal power to put down the system of Sla'
very. All over the country the great mer
lie were pledged to the same ideas. Wythe and
Id Jefferson almost saved Virginia. Jay cover.
d. ed New York with his angel wings, and
n, Samuel Adams Numbered in Faneull Hall.
~, VI H. I..,I- l,,ax =, IQn- fNla,
ID the abolition of the Slave-rrade was deemed
N to be the abolition of Slavery itself. Thai
Z, was the lesson which Wilberforce and Great
10 Britain were teaching the world. By the ac-
j. complishment of that, 1t was thought that
lie the Union would be sundered from the sys-
n TEN of Slavery and as soon as it was posi-.
IN BILE, in 1907, with a public sentiment almost
s. unanimous, the act Of abolishing the Slave
1t Trade was passed amid great national rejoic'
e, ing and a DISQUALIFICATION, which has lasted
m till our time. We come on a little and be
lg hold the scene changes and States from Slave
o. Territories demand admission. Kentucky
y, and the rest present themselves, and are SNUG
H. gled in under the excuse of being part o
~ our original territory. Then Louisiana is ad
ed mitied.
d. Where now are the Wythes, the Madisons
of the JefTersons, and the great men of the South
ng Poor Massachusetts only is found tallhtu
among The faithless. She stood alone in he
re indignant protest against the introduction o
n. Slave States west of the Mississippi. "lf
us slave a rebellious one" as Alpen sings. w,
u come again down a little later and Arkansas
he and Missouri are admitted then public sen
&C. timent is aroused by the act TO the impoTtan
Ia subject. 1t nearly rocks the Union asunde
nd again with excitement; but by a few votes
nj { -, ~ 80 .Ao 81 49,, - tra may thn eNH
20 iect is put aside. There was sounded tn
n. death knell of the American nation the
1t Slavery triumphed, by the knowledge game
on there, by the prestige of success. She ha
ter gone on since conquering and to conquer
ng Now she stretches out her hand and grasp
'ut all Mexico, announcing that she will anne
In enough 10 secure her Institutions. Take mex
OF the Texas question. The North rouses heT
lis self again to action arguments long unsee
is fill the air again; old notices issue from lhel
TO municipalities the meek, hali-awakene
be North, thinks she has thrown up a barrie
la over which Slavery can never pass. She gle
ge ries in mighty numbers; in the brave words
ut of statesmen. The South like an angere
In beast draws growing back, and bldes he
time. "TeXas in and we are out" shout
la the exulting North, and then folds lis arm
%! to sleep. Watching its opportunity the Sout
1t stoops, like a falcon on her prey, and all
ny over. Where now are your "Texas in an
he we out'' men! Get a spaniel and think c
I'm Webster and Massachusetts,, and imagine ih
mt answer.
iS Allow me to pause a moment, and allud
TO- in this connection to the melancholy occul
ne renee which happened to Daniel Webster
er- the particulars of which he has not commun
en- Gated to the public till very recently. In III
a' midst of the Tyler movements, in behalf {
Texas, he went home to Massachusetts, h
he says, despairing of his country, and anXlou
elf to get up an anti-Texas meeting. SO he WEI
So 70 Massachusetts and there. either his cred