Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-08-04
The Great Conflict.

The parties are arming for the contest, and
the Shareholders 10 achieve success. are 40.
luging The country with false doctripes.-
The tdr-seelng believers in human progress
may feel secure in the ultimate triumph of
right, because such is the decree of Provi.
dence. But Will this absolve them from any
proper efforts TO accelerate that triumph -
Through their neglect, wrong may prevail
for ages to come, as 1t has, through the neg
lect OF their predecessors, prevailed for aces
past; and though right will surely come at
last. yet for all the intermediate wrong which
they might have prevented, and for all the
suffering Of its victims, they are responsible.
at least 10 impartial posterily. This Is The
day Of false doctrines against human riphts:
the day when opinions. not only in excuse,
but in justification of slavery, are boldly a.
vowed By those who, in the days Of their re-
evolutionary fathers, would have blushed I'M
der the bare suspicion. Those who once
condemned slavery as a deplorable evil; and
lamenied their inability 10 emancipate their
} country from lis blighting Influences, now
boldly defend tin Congress, in the Lepis-
l%atures, and The press Of the slave States, and
through politicians and aspirants in the free
States, as a salutary institution, a natural
condition, a divine ordinance, sanctioned NV
Revelation. And, as if Ms were not enough.
they boldly insult the common sense of man.
kind, by proclaiming that it is the best of all
Institutions for maintaining free government
in purity and efficiency. Tesi the seli-styl-
ed professors of The Democratic Republican
ism which is founded upon the natural e.
quality of rights, and has the warrant of Re-
~velatlon in the ommand 10 do as they would
be done by, boldly urge their daily violation
OF these rights, OF this injunction, as the cor
n%er-stone OF a government which claims such
rights for its foundation. And while thus
boldly preaching these doctrines, they de-
nounce all attempts IL refute them as a viola
ton OF their constitutional rights, as an inya-
sion of their domestic hearth, as fraupht with
lnsurrection, massacre to themselves and
dissolution to this glorious confederacv. Did
the poison of false doctrines infect slavebol-
ders only, it might still find an ahlidote in
the purer principles of the free States. But
the poison Is doing its deadly work, In re-
conclllng even the free States 10 the Guilt of
slavery. Northern politicians, born and train
8 ed at hresides where slavery was ever repar-
ded as a criminal violation of natural rights.
a severe moral and political evil, giavely tell
their constituents that it is necessary 10 the
, South; that the country can be afflicted bv
greater evils than slavery; that dissolution Of
the Union, an evil still more formidable.*
will inevitably follow any attempt of the Free
States to arrest its progress. When the
principles OF a nation are falling before cor
ruplng Influences when, through the So
ductlons OF interest, through dread of their
responsibilities, a people renounce the pure
sentiments, the high aspirations which once
lmpelled and guided them, their Institutions,
however excellent, are of short duration-
Eraaion, Code uiIt 10 M, go. IL. Il. s.
of developing his noblest attributes, of discbar-
ging his highest duties, cannot animate cor
rupt hearts, or guide perverted minds. ttbas
no fellowship with selfshness; no conpen-
lality with injustice. If the first of poets nj
tered eternal truth in saying that,
Glove fixed it certain, that whatever day
Makes man a slave, takes half his wStth
away
so is eternal truth involved in the declara-
tlOn, that, whoever robs another of his free.
dom, his social individuality, throws away
more than half of his own worth. If without
moral degradation, man cannot be enslayed.
neither, without such degradation, can he be
an enslaver. he cannot plumber, and be lust.
lie cannot rob, and do as he would be done
by. lie cannot close his eyes to the ipins-
tlce, the robbery, without moral perversiop.
Then, as this contest between right and
might is speedily coming and as right, THOUGH
sure OF ultimate triumph, may be temporari-
ly overpowered, the duty of all who would
contend for right,'is to consider this danger
of temporary defeat, and to spare no lust ef-
forts for an Immediate, as well as a perma-
nent victory. If the free States are %yictors.
they will arrest the progress, and prepare for
the extinction Of a baneful institution. which
has long been in conflict with their interests
and their rights; and the slave States will
hnally reach the only safe ground, freedom,
founded on universal equality of rights. If
the slave States prevail, their victory will
endure for ages; they will blast a large DOR
ton OF this continent with the plague of
slavery use 1t for ruling the Free States
with a rod OF IRON; prepare for the extinction
OF slavery IN blood, and severance of the Un-
ION into hoSille fragments, desolating each
other with civil war. The slave States will
contend Tor the extension of slavery over new
territory, as their only, vet sure Instrument
ofsupremacy in the Federal Government: and
the Free States. if true to themselves. 10 tho
country, to posterity, to human rights, will
| oppose ihis extension, as their only means Of
restraining a pawer which has been exerci-
sed against them with continually auemen-
ting severity, and which has never yet hest
tated in sacrificing to its own objects, pres
emit or prospective, their interests or their
rights Extract from a pamphlet addressed 10
NE Wigs and Democrats IF The Free States.
= 1t would be a positive good instead Of
an evil it would result in the abolition Of
slavery in the South, and relieve the North
{ f,om The weiobt which now ystayds baY pro-