Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-05-12


had Numbered in his ears the sentiments of
the Disunionists- Constitution or no Con-
stitution, Law or no Law, the slaves must
be free-must enjoy their God. given rights"
The Senator further declares he has no de-
sire to wage any other war against slavery
than that which convinces the understanding,
subdues the affections, and moves the sympa-
thies of those who now sustain il. Add TO
this the withdrawal of ecclesiastical and po-
l%itical support from the system, and it en-
brac es all the measures of the Disunionists.
But how can the members of a party which
looks to legal enactments as tie remedy for
slavery, which contemplates the exercise of
so much compulsion as is necessary TO en-
force the anti-slavery mandates Of /" tie pow
ers that be-" endorse such sentiments Is it
not throwing away their staff Of accomplish
ment, and repudiating the doctrines taught
by their leading editor in New England when
he informed the Wings and Democrats that
the use which he and his party made of the
ballot-boX led directly to the carlfidge-boX?
DO ballots and bullets, and Legislative enact
ments convince the understanding! do they
subdue the affections 7 do they move the SYM
pathiesl This is the mission of moyal, not
poHtical power-of truth uttered in its sim.
plicity.
The American people have been taught to
regard the Senate as adignifed and somewhat
aristocratic body, whose members were ele-
waited above the eXcitements incident to COM
mon men, or if they possessed them We're un-
der solemn obligations not to disgrace their
station by manilesting them on the floor Of
the Senate Chamber. There, the bitterness
Of pro-slavery hatred must wear a veil, the
courtesies of debate, the outward seeming of
politeness must be observed, whatever may
be the feelings which dwell in the hearts Of
those who occupy it. But all this has been
entirely forgotten by at least two of its mem
bers. Calhoun and Foote have displayed all
the ridiculous arrogance and mnrderous spirit
which slavery engenders. The former can
denounce his brother Senator-Joln p. Hale
as a mailman, because he holds that the
rights and interests of man are the SAINT the
world over; and can refuse to stoop from his
hIly position 10 discuss the right of the OPP
pressor to grind the face of the poor; and the
latter can very coolly tell him that ii he will
come to Mississippi he shall be hung with
out Judge or jury. So desperate has slavery
become, that its defenders are driven to the
extremity of advocating mOb-riOicncc and MUIR
DER upon the floor Of the American Senate.
And these mobocrats, these murderers, are
law-givers for Ohio, and proiessed abolition
lists recognize them as fit Legislators and sit
down in political companionship with them
to enact laws for the benefit of the American
people. And although these hot-b1ained
Southernors insist that others shall keep with
in the bounds of the Constitution, they have
never hesitated themselves to violate any OF
its provisions that stood in their way, and
have virtually dissolved the Union which
they pretend SO carefully to cherish and what
is worse, the craven North submits to all the
indignities which their Southern masters
choose to heap upon them.
We were pleased with the rebuke which
Calhoun gave to Douglas; for however
h]eartless and detestable is the course pursu-
ed by the great champion of slavery, he has
ever been a consistent advocate Of the insti.
tuition. He will brook no Interference, tole-
rate no inquiry, listen to no suggestion. The
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gently nor roughly and in this we believe
he truly represents the leading minds of the
South. As Henry Clay once declared, the
) right to discuss implies the right to delibe.
| rate, the right to deliberate the right to act
! and that the South will have none of.
; Every development which is being made
in relation to the system of slavery, tends
more and more to deepen our conviction, thai
. the slaves hope of redemption and the liber
ties of the freeman depend solely upon TIT
practical adoption by the North, by peacea
BILE or forcible means-and we hope for tn
= former-of mo Union with Shareholders.
> AMERICAN MISSIONARIES IN MEXIco.-Lieu
! tenants Hare and Dutton, ofthe Pa. volunteers
together with five other Americans of less not
recently attempted a burglary in the city o
Mexico. They had been robbing on account Q
u the government for some time, had indeed dis
: tinguished themselves in its service, the fol
" mer having been presented with a sword fo
. his gallantry. Becoming tired of %inactior
they commenced business ''on their ow
" hook" thinking probably that burglary on
small scale was better than an utter stagna
zion of the business. Several other arm