Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-11-24

was the reply. And so II was
The Great Pamphlet was brought forth and
there was an end of what it did. What it did
not, and what it laid itself out to prevent,
was the very thing which is now laid upon
its memory as its reproach, and which makes
it a word of fear to all politicians on their
promotion. 1t had a mission greater than
that of the Congress of Seventy-Six, even
the finishing of the work which that body
had but begun, the real Declaration of the
independence of the Northern States; but il
rose and left it undone. 1t deserves neither
the credit nor the blame it has received
The Public Mind was charged with fiery in
dignation at the oppression caused by the
misrule of the Slave Power, and was ready
TO burst forth in storm and thunderbolts. 1t
served as u conductor TO lead the electric
flash harmless 10 the ground.
What would have been the result had the
Hartford Convention done its duty must be
left to the speculations of what the School
men called the Media Scientia, or the Science
that treats of the consequences of events
that never happened. We believe that it
would have been most happy for the true and
even the apparent interests of New England
and of the whole country. The Secession
of New England would have dissolved the
Union. The elements would have reunited
according to their natural aflinities. The
Slave States left to themselves would have
been compelled 10 rid themselves of their
intestine enemies by converting them into
friends. At any rate, we should have been
saved the guilt and iniamy of our base and
dastardly compliances with every demand OF
Slavery, whether of blood, of wealth, or OF
honor. 1t was unhandsomely lone of the
Hartford Convention 10 bequeath to the gen
erations that were TO come after, the task
which it was peculiarly set apart to perform.
The favorable moment which then invited
them must needs be long in presenting itseli
again TO their successors. The very pros
perity which we have eXtortcd in spite OF
Slavery and the obstacles it has ever thrown
in our way, is our greatest enemy. As Cob
bett said, at is hard making Il man with @
full belly n rebel" If the Slave Power
could but make the wreck of our prosperity
that it did by the Embargo and the Wa with
England, we should soon see the value OF
Northern Allegiance to the Constitution.
But Satan now is wiser than of yore,
Aud tcmpts by making rich, not making poor.
And with the price of the wealth Northern
skill IN industry AVE earned notwithstand-
ing the Constitution and the Union, has lac
bought us body and soul, at least for a sea.
son.
There is no class of men at the presen
day deserving the honor of being ranke,
Win those Whose earnest purpose cfeate'
the Hartford Convention, except the CARR
sonian Disunionists. Even the poor Ere,
Sellers dare not allude to any action agains
Slavery, without crossing themselves ant
calling upon the name of the Holy Uniol
and Constitution. 1t is doing them homo
overmuch to name them and the Hartford
Convention in the same twelvemonth. Thu
Abolitionists, properly so called, are the lie
climate SUCCESSORS of the Old Federalist
who dared to make the last stand against tn,
encroachments of Slavery. We stand upol
the ruins of their attempt and we see farthe
than they did. We should be blind indeed
if the floods of light which the last ten year
have poured upon our relations with Shaver,
had visited our eyes in vain. They saw on
ly the advent of Louisiana and they erie,
aloud, we have had the vision of Texas, New
Mexico and California, and the last " bears
glass that shows as many more" The DIES
potism which is wrapped up in the %"tlree
iiltils clause" ut which the Hartford Con
%ventlon aimed its empty protest, has deyel
opcd itself in shapes of which they neve
dreamed. We are Elder than they that wen
before us and we should know more tina
they. Our remonstrance has aroused til
Nation as it never aroused before TO its Wit;
connection with Slavery. We have create
the political demonstrations which have cI
deavored from time to time I" to lay their il
e%ffectual finger on the spoke of the grc'
wheel" which is crushing our best rights /;
it turns round. We have indicated the tru
and the only remedy. If there be anythiu
in the name of the Hartford Conventio
justly associated with the Dissolution of ii
Union between Northern Liberty and Soutl
ern Slavery, in the name of Justice, let
have the benefit OF it,. Q.