Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-02-16

Pile of those states 10 hold slaves and then re-
ward them for doing it. And that is precise
ly what the United States Constitution does.
1t says 10 the Shareholders of the South
Fl" you may hold slaves as long as you please,
and the North shall give you votes for doing,
it" And in this way it actually creates slave
ry. BY this reward it tempts men to become
Shareholders, and Shareholders to become
greater Shareholders. Therefore, by this
temptation, that constitution has actually re-
duced hundr eds of thousands of men 10 slave
ny who otherwise would have been Free
And yet the people Of Ohio will talk of a.
mending their own Constitution, TO benefit
themselves, while at the very same moment,
by swearing their allegiance to this one, and
paying the internal bride it offers, they are
as really enslaving these hundreds of thou
sands of men as if they welded the cowskin
over their naked backs, with their own hands;
out upon such hypocrisy
Yes, let Ohio cease b~usying herself ever
lastingly about such infinitely little things as
banks, tariffs, and corporalions-about the
dreeches pocket, and go TO work in right good
earnest to redeem her slaves! Let her take
back The bride. Let her come out from the
slave-league. Let her cut loose from the
Union! IT'S her duty to do it, her first, her
greatest, and till done, her only duty. Till
she does this, everything else that she does is
sin, and nothing Lut sin. Till she does this,
God will accept-humanity will accept, Of
nothing else that she may do, however good
In itself, as right at all. Even the repeal of
her own vile black laws, though that is a
duty and one more mighty than any one she
has ever performed since the day she became
a state, and one too, the non-performance of
which up TO this time, granting they should
be abolished Tomorrow, will be sufficient TO
consign her name 10 infamy for long genera
tions-even the repeal Of MOSe laws, is no
duty TIL The other rs done. And it will not
be accepted before. God shall account the
very repeal a sin to the people of The state,
seeing the lying hypocrites but make it a
cloak for still continuing to commit that 9TH
ef and far more diaboliGdl crime Of enslaving
thousands Of his chiIdren-a crime compared
with which these black laws bleach into in
nocence.
1t is the business and duty Of Ohio, then,
TO walk out of the Union, and therefore it is
the business and duty of the Legislature to
call a Convention for doing it. 1t is its first
business, it is its highest duty. The very
next motion made upon either Of those floors,
should be a motion for this convention. And
yet the members don't know it; they have
not even thought of it. Abolitionists of
it is your business TO tell them of it,
and to ask them 10 take instantaneous action
on the subject. 1t is your business to petit
ton them to call such a convention. And it
is your business, not only to sign petitions,
for This convention yourselves, hut
also TO circulate them among your ~neighbors,
and ask them TO sign too, multitudes who are
not disunionists are willing to do so. Try
then and see. Copy the following petition
a paper, with a line to separate the names
of legal voters from those of the women and
minors, and circulate it through your neigh
borhoods, obtaining the signatures of all you
can over the age of fifteen, and then indorse
it 10 some member Of the Legislature, whom
you may know, or to some Free Soiler, with
the request that he will present it to the
house of which he is member, as soon as
practicable.
To the General Assembly of the State Of
Ohio, in Senate and House of Representa-
lives, convened
The undersigned legal voters and Others,
over the age of fifteen years, residents in the
township Of, in the County Of,
in tho State of Ohio, earnestly pray your
honorable body to call a Convention of the
people. to consult measures for e~fTecting a
speedy and peacable secession of this State
from The Union, for some or all of The follow
ing reasons
/. Because the connection Of the State of
Ohio with the Union is voluntary; and a
Free State cannot be voluntarily associated
in political relations with Slave States, with
out giving the countenance and sanction Of
that voluntary association 10 the Slavery of
those slave States, on the principal that a
State, as well as a man, ais known by the
company il keeps: :" and therefore Ohio, keep
ing company with the Southern states, is res
ponsibie for their slavery, and while in the
Union wiA the slave States, is by that very
connection one Of the slave States.
3. Because by continuing in the Union,
the 2,oOO,O 900 of people in this State are
throwing the shield Of their responsibility
over 10000 600 southern Shareholders, as a
screen from the rebuke due their horrible
crimes; on the principle-that Respectable
ty goes with Numbers-that a Nation is more
respectable than a State-and, that a rebuke
that would be felt, if permitted to come down
on the heads of three hundred thousand, would
be thrown away, if taken off from tEeiI