Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-02-18

sigie, and tt.a that the BtJis toas tie Gdrocoie
u siarlry." =" It is founded on the laws ct
God, written in the climate and soil ot I've
country" ia is your inferior clergy says
an able writer, Il northern man with south
ern cillzenship,"% "thai are teaching that
slavery is contrary 10 the laws of God :" you
cinnOI abolish slavery, for God is pledged u
ou>'rin it,
The idol is popular; to refuse its worship
IS found dangerous; - oppose it IS ianaii-
cisIn :" but 10 be on It's side, 10 feed II with
money and blood, is honorable patriotic
: POPULAR Well said the father of his coun-
Try, in his farewell address: Real patriots,
who may resist the inirigues Of the fanatic,
are liable to become suspected and odIous;
while its tools and dupes usurp the applause
and confidence of tho people, 10 surrender
their interests"
The STAKEHOLDER wanted new territory, for
slaves were falling Ia yalue on the soil Of the
old states. ln 1899, hlr. Up,jur sid in the
Virginia convention, " II il should be our lot
I" acquire Texas, tier price riH riss." IN
1912, Nh. Ghu.sOn, Ol She same state. thought
"iaa acquisition + Jer1s Uor}a raise their
price 5jty PER cent? II was feared sr preten-
drh, tIat Texas might abolish slavery; so ia
1915, Mr.. Jpshu5, then American Secretary
ut State, wrote officially To oar minister in
ieNhs, the establishment in tue very midst
o! our siayoh0ldinE states of an independent
g2yrrmea, .cruiddug the existence Of slave.
~, could not TAI. 10 produces The most uuhap-
py effects" There could not be any secu
rIly for THAT species Of property" Annexa-
lion IS absolutely necessary to the salvation
OF the South" In l8ii. he wrote to our min
lister in England, II Texas should not be
attached to the United States, we cannot
maintain thai institution (of slavery.) ten
years, and probably not half that time
So the South must have Texas. and extend
slavery over the soil whence the hicxicans
had scourred it out. Could the North pre-
vent it? Most certainly; even lItIlo New
England could have prevented it.. Mr.. Web
ster, who gratuitously thanks G9d that he
d" did not slumbrr over that danger" says,
3" Acw England might hare prersrisd il # she
lcoud. hut her Tegpie WOULD nol he r0usell'
But, long before, New England learned
TO crook the pregnant hinges Of the knee,
That thrift may follow iawning.'
Tue most dislniercS,ed enthusiasm of this
day-long directed against slavery in general,
fought against this special act. and a few no
BILE men spoke loud and long, but 10 reluctant
N''S N'' 'ChO AANb'NN' il4A klitiI tblllStl DEtI
followed. we should have had no annexation,
40 invasion, no war! But Il false idea had
gone abroad in New Engiand-that Southern
! slavery Is profitable TO the Norlh.a The Chi
vaIry' and the morality have one common
aiiection-not the love OF their country, nor
the love Of Right, but the love Of gain! 10
New England a~sseniel to annexation, the
North assented, a Wing Senate annexing
Texas, the fatal dover Of slavery in her land.
with the expectation Of a war. The South
has It's wish, the North i,s reward. The Ma
lien lanents the violation Of her constitution,
the debasement OF her great men-itw was vio-
lated by slavery, and to that her sons have
bowed the neck she behoIds the betrayal Of
her honor-it was betrayed by slavery she
mournS for thousands OF her children slain
they were murdered by slavery-which ella
morS still for more. Behold the beginning
Of the end-which is not the end itself.
See letters in the New York Courier and
Enquirer 10 Hon. George p. Marsh. by "a
northern man with southern citizenship"
Speech in Flneuil Hall, Nov. 9th, 1916.