Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-10-06


traders, slaye-drivers, slave-hunlers, slave
holders; with kidnappers and men-stealers,
TO establish justice and secure the blessings
Of liberty i! Was ever madness more in
sanel And dearly have they and their pos
terity paid the penalty.
And how has this unnatural and man-im-
b%ruting and God-defying and God-insulling
Conlederacy with man-stealers promoted the
objects so formally and s%olemnly sci forth in
the preamble 10 the Bond Why, under its
fostering care, slaves have been multiplied
from GOO, 900 to 5000, coo, and slavery has
been extended from 100000 square miles of
territory to over 900, 900 and the whole
nation has been made to bow humbly and
lowly at the shrine of the demon. The mo-
raj constitution Of the nation has been ship
wrecked and the religious and social senti-
ment Of the whole land has been made a mu-
milton Of rocks TO defend the sum of all
villany" against every assault. Thus has
this far-famed alliance with men-stealers
established justice" promoted the gene
raj welfare" and secured the blessings Of
liberty" Here was the fatal step-the open
ing of the sideways of tyranny and corrup-
lion. The experience of sixty years has
proved it 10 have been ga covenant with
death and an agreement with hell" 1t has
been the most potent obstacle on earth to the
progress of liberty. But for this fatal alli-
ance, there had not been a slave on This con-
tinent now; nor a despot in Europe. Her
blood-stained thrones had crumbled to dust
long ago.
Will you allow yourselves to be swept
ing alliance! You must, if you vote for the
President next November. Every time you
vote at the Constitution BalIot-Box you
ratify the deed-the terrible deed-of your
fathers, and make it your own you renew
that alliance with kidnappers 10 establish
justice"
Would you enter into a confederacy with
sheep-stealers to secure your sheep from be-
ing stolen! Or, with murderers to secure
life? And then offer to the thieves and the
purderers power and influence in the confed-
eracy in proportion TO the number of sheep
they can steal or human beings they can
kill! But, if you 90 down to vote for Mar
tin Van Buren,, or any body else, next No
vember, you do enter into an alliance with
earth's most systematic, iron-hearted and
impudenttyrants to " secure justice and liber-
ty." and offer TO them power and influence
in proportion 10 the number of their slaves.
If it was an outrage upon man, and an insult
to God, for our fathers to form this slave
stealing, kidnapping alliance, it is no less so
for you to continue in it. If it was ~uniustfn
! its inception, it must be sinful in its ~continu-
ance. If it was wrong in them TO form it,
erred, (and who can doub, they did y gross
ly, fatally and foolishly erred, in admitting
Shareholders to an alliance avowedly TO eX
tend and perpetuate liberty, you err ten times
more grossly, fatally and madly in helping tc
continue the confederacy, after more than
half a centnry's terrible experience.
Beware, abolitionists, beware, and stand
firm to Freedoms only Watchword-NC
UNION WITH SHAREHOLDERS IN
CHURCH OR STATE. Remember tina
COMPROMISE WITH SHAREHOLDERS, though un
der the most pressing circumstances, ha
been this nation and Europe's greatest curse
, Can you hope to benefit freedom by renew
ing that COMPROMISED Surely you have les
to hope from it than had our fathers. Sc
f how theirs has ended. Stand aloof fror
that Ballot-Box. 1t is dripping with tn
o tears and blood of three millions of slaves.
HENRY c. WRIGHT.