Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-02-18
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ced win himselt,-to act as sr has felt obi.
god to DOG a non-yo,er makes bri 4, sn,,y
hgnrc when, clappinG the voter on the shout.
dei, he cries-'Go on voting, friend. wicked
aS 1t is, but do amend your Constitution. ar
! clnuoi touch it, Better far when, prurt-
pt-llae. shaking the dust from his feet. ne
takes up the testimony Of Truth arainst The,
Babylon OF each a4e-'COma cut of her. ~,
prople-'Touch not the accursed th,nu'-
Break Up that Union 'iis a coyenant with
DEATH Which rebuke, think YOU, will be
soonest needed !
2I. We ask for Dissolution rather than A.
merdmpnt, because any practicable amend
m"nt would not reach the caus. OF the din.
Guilty. The terms ~ the Constitution IRA not
the real cause Of trouble. Cnion Itself IT,
fwseu 4 stare mt free SAFE is fs,7sssJk.
wiftout quit. Whlt il the union Of States
1t Is a putting into lmtnou Of their money,
arms, influence, character, and laws. One
hoicS the other up-guaranlPes peace in the
donuious Of the other. Ills is the nccss.
sary basis Of a Uuj.u, before any sn,cifc
terms are decided Oh. Without it, no Onion
Is possible. Now wGa' - p,ats in a sl.v.
State? 1t IS the 'otdtr' which 'ioicned in
Warsaw when Nicholas stamped ont with
tl' iron heel The last spark ct Polish ri,hts.
Peace Law aud orarr,' In II slavr Siatr. ,
means holding Inc opIurssJr's heel firmly ON
the neck Of the slave. They iueau. bu,lvirr
the slave into such stiffness, that the IN .,ter
can eat and sleep in peace. This IS what a
free State actually DOES. when she links hrr-
self TO = slave sister. liz matter what be the
terms Of the agresment.
The union Of the Northern and Southern
Church manifests this. No specific PLEDGES
were ever made, no compfouise in words
agreed 10. Sill, silently and sure as the
working Of gravity, the tone Of Northern
principle has sunk lower end lover, while
what Of character it has left is used 10 cover
up Southern delinquency, and browbeat the
censure of the world.
No amendment, then, except one abolish
ing slavery, root and branch. would be Of any
use. 1t would be idle to propose such AN
one. The man in the fable, who wanted TO
cross a stream, and stood waiting for it TO run
away, was a wise, not 10 say a restless and
impatient person. compared with the aboli-
ZIONIST who should remain in the Union, and
put oil ceasiBg to return slaves, Till such an
amendment could be carried. 1t is very GER
tain that the South. as a whole. would much
sooner consent 10 Dissolution. than to grant
such power to the Federal Government
= S'"Ht'F III Nhlh country Will never DC dDDllSn-
ed at a blow. 1t will crunble piecsmeal-
State by Siato--perhaps, county BY county,
kentaokyzbids fair 60 fail away frst-West.
ern Virginia. perhaps, next, and So on. Bnr
10 clear the North from sin. the plan must be
general. and finished at once. While one
State cilngs TO her iEfamy, all the CONFRONT.
ses OF the Constitution apply in full force
And it is certain while any number remain
slave States, those clauses will not be inter-
fcred with. South Carolina and Mississippi.
poor bankrupts, would cut loose from forty
mons, before they would part with the lit
lie property they have becn able 10 steal from
its 'rightful owners.
Sd. To propose a dissolution Of the Union
is the best way Of holding up such a mirror
10 the national mind, as makes it to see lis
own deformity. 1t gives men an opportuni-
W OF measuring themselves by a rnle Of alb
solute right. Amendment is a word hack
neyed by application to questions Of mere
eSpedlency-tarIilS, banks, etc. It suurests
not the idea Of night or wrong. but only con-
siderations of which is best and most useful.
1t pre-. suPpoSes that one is 10 remain and ojsy
the law while It lasts, and. in the character
OF a voting citizen, work for its change.
Conscience sleeps under such a call. and lets
the intellect, cold and Judicial, decide the
point. DisunlOn ]staGtles 4 man to thought.
II takes 4 lazy abOlitioUist by the throat. and
thunders ia his ear, '7hou art the slavehold.
CT" After that. let him vote, if he can. and
much good may it do him.
This nation has been covered by wave af.
ter wave Of anti.slayery agitation; each one,
as the scripture says, leaving its las, state
worse than its first Why! Because men
talked then Of the slaves chain. rs if it were
"A great way olf-forgetting to open their own
hands, good Northern priests, pedlars and
politicians where they would have found
one end Of that chain securely taste ned. and
seen themselves the slaves iailors. They
swore annually to return fugitives, and then,
wiping their lips, talked loud Of amendinr
the Constitution Pushed the sin convrn-
ieutiy back on to the shoulders of tlrir an
c%estors, and left repentance for ihgir chill
dren.'
At length, there arose a Nathan, who took
this huge Northern hypocrite by the beard,
and said, 'THoU ART THE MANI prophet,
not content 10 ask merely for straw, that the
PEOPLE might make brick the easirr-no dri-
wing back Of slavery into Constitutional, or
any other limlis-but, let my peopis gu
HANDS OFF THAT is the duty of the North.
His work will not need to be done a second
time.
1t will require less change Of public opin-
ion 10 amend the Constitution, than to dis
solve the Union. The same state Of public
feeling which could dissolve, would be paw
errul enough to amend, and thus avert the
necessity Of Drsuuion.'
This is-the argument. Granted. But that
is not tho question. The question is, would
keeping the idea If Amendment, alone, be-
fore the people, ever uorE the needed change
in the public mindl 1t is only by a%rousing
conscience, by proclaimirg the rigii rule Of
duty, Disunion, that We can hope for such a
result.
Apart from the desire 10 keep ourseIve,
pure, TO effect which we must spcede fror