Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-09-01

fraud and injustice, needs TO be watched
with especial jealousy. 1t must be essen
tally corrupt from its origin, and therefore
especially liable TO perversion. In the pres
enl case, the party, coming intqspopular Ia
yor gives its consent TO the existence oil slave
nv with all its horrors within its present State
limits /; it only processes to be opposed to It's
further extention' Our hopes are that 1t VIII
perform more than it promises that 1t VIII
not only resist the extension {; but advo-
cate the extinction of slavery. These hopes,
however, may be disappointed. Sudden &C.
cessions to popular favor, with all its tempt
atoms, may check theg neros,uimpulses,a and
change back the half formed purposes oil
those who have now the control OF this
movement, or may introduce into its direction
others, actuated from the beginning, by no
other motives thai a desire for their own ag-
grandizement. In such a case, ii is easy 10
conceive that this new party might become
one Of the most powerful conservators OF the
evil it was hoped it would cure, and the
deadliest foe of those who are laboring for
It's abolition. Such a result would not be
without abundant precedent in the annals OF
political history.
While, therefore, abolitionists rejoice in
the present uprising of the North, and hope
much from the resistance it will offer TO the
usurpations of slavery, let not their hopes be
too confident. or their rejoicings unmingled
with apprehension. And above all, let no
one be carried away from his principles by
the current of this popular movement. Now,
as much as ever, do we need to stand by
our principles; now, more than ever, do we
see the wisdom of their adoption. They
are not only just in themselves, but their
maintenance is in the highest degree, expe-
dent. They will soon we doubt not, prove
even to those who are now skeptical, to have
been the salvation Of the AntI-Slavery cause.
Nothing but a deep conviction of the un-
righteousness of the Federal compact, and
the guilt Of giving it their support, can be re-
lied on to keep abolitionists in times OF high
political excitement, when an opportunity is
afforded Of gaining an apparent advantage to
the cause, from being swept completely from
their mornings, and lost in the vortex. The
probability now is, that those who separated
from US eight years ago, and embodied them
selves in a political party for the promotion
of the cause, will in their organic capacity,
in a few months, and perhaps in a few days,
be swept from existence, and not have even
a name to live. If we had listened to their
persuasions, or were now TO adopt the same
policy, the anti-slavery movement as a dis
tinciive organization, would cease TO have a
being, and the hopes of the slave be doomed
to an indefinite postponement. Let us be
admonished by thee reflections. Let US not
be too inpatient for the final consumation.-
1t will come as soon as the people are pre-
pared for it no sooner. In the meantime
our duty-our mission, is plain {: it is to
abide by our principles, and rejecting all
political contrivances and temporary expedi-
ents, to labor on in the steady use Of our
well approved moral means, till the public
mind shall become saturated with anti-slave-
ry truth. and public sentiment completely
revolutionized. Then the day will be at
hand-and not till then, when the people of
the North shall be released from the guilt of
supporting slavery, and the bondmen of the
South delivered from its chains.-RepOrt Of
Pa. a, S. Society.