Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-11-17

chaff before the devouring fire.
For, what are the spiritual and political
leaders of the North doing TO invigorate pub
lie sentiment OH this great question of HUI
man Rights? They are preaching peace (;
crying alIs well, The Wing journalist can
find nothing to dcnounce but the Free sol
" factionist," and the Democratic Journalist
is trying TO suppress all agitations and dls-
fractions about slavery, so that the brother
hood may once more obtain control OF inc
spells of office. A year ago there were indi-
cations of a new life among the opponents OF
slavery, but the lie has been repeated so Of
ten that there is no danger-the Proyiso lisa
humbug, the agitation is all about nothing.
slavery cannot go to California, &c.-thatt the
People begin TO think they may safely abstain
from any active measures of prevention
Would to Heaven the strife were over, aud
the victory won for Freedom! But, suppose
California, through Senators King and Gwyn,
came seeking admission as u State, next win
ter, with u Constitution silent on the subject
of slavery, what would be the result?
Are these friends of Freedom prepared to
say what they would do in that contingency ?
Would their representatives be unitod?-
Have they contemplated the possibility of
such an event? Have their party journals
prepared them for action in that emergency?
just lllt ltNCiSC Has DCNH hlOh NilNCuNOi'
They have lowered the public mind they
have diverted it from the question of slavery;
they have promoted dissentions among the
friends of freedom, and divided their efforts.
Perhaps we take too gloomy a view of the
state OF things, and may be needlessly alarm
ed. We hope the result may be better than
our apprehcusions, But, we cannot but fear
the worst, when we see such carnestuess and
union in the ranks of the pro-slavery men,
and such dissensions, such false confidence,
such indifference, such Il want of concert,
and such treachery, among the opponents of
slavery.
o. Having written thus far, we received
the New York Tribune of the 18th, which
furnishes an answer 70 some of the inquiries
i'll the foregoing article. We wish to know
what the Wings would do, should California
send us a Constitution with no safeguard
against slavery. The editor of the Tribune,
representing what little of efficient a%nti-sla-
very sentiment there is in the Wing party,
informs us. We beg the attention of the
People to the following extraordinary decla-
ration. ii occurs in an electioneering cdito-
rial of the Tribune, in which with Pharisai-
cal self-righteousness, the editor is contract
ing the services of his party to the cause of
Liberty, with the tfeachery of the "Locofo-
cos lifting up his eyes 10 Heaven, and
thanking God that he and his brethren are
holy and unspotted, and not sinners like the
Locoloco publicans:
"Since that time, we have seen many muta-
tons, and passed through another presidential
struggle, n struggle not devoid of pcrplexitics, |
but in which we took the course best calculated
to subscrvc the great end Of keeping now terri
tories pure from the tread of slavery. The end,
so far as the vast region stretching west of the
Rtn (ar1,,NN and +hoH D,n.Ea - ,A,r- -1,s - I |
There is to be no Slavery--there can be no Slave
laws-ina all California and the vast region sprea-
ding thence to the Rio GraRde. The resistance
organized under the banner of the Wilmot Pro-
viso, has done its work, whether that proviso
shall ever take the form of positive law or not.
BY agitation, by the diffusion of truth by the
defeat of the only candidate for president who
ever denied to Congress the power to establish
by positive enactment the freedom Of all men in
the territory subject to the express and cXclu-
sivc legislation Of that body, the great end has
been accomplished. California and Dcserct will
come into the Union-no matter whether this
year or ncXt-nom matter even if without express
prohibition of Slavery in their constitutions-as
free States, with no law authorizing one man to
hold another as his chattcl, and with no shadow
of probability that such q law can ever be en-
acted. So far as regards that vast region, the
work is virtually finished, and has been ever
since Virginia, South Carolina, and their slave
breeding conGcdcrates were defeated in the last
presidential election.
".No matter even If i0itt0ut express prohibi-
ton of S'duay IN their Constitutional We
now know where the editor of the Tribune
stands. Fin Congress next winter, he would
vote to receive California, irithOut any cypress
prohibition Of .S,GrGy. Once he was "A VIII
mot Proyiso man now he stands, practically,
a Neutrality-suspicious.. He occupies precise
ly the same platform, practically, with Sena-
tor Cass, whom he reviled as IA Doughface;
with Senator Walker, whom he denounced
as n traitor; with the Washington Union,
which holds that Non-iniervention is the vi
tai principle, SO far as slavery is concerned,
of the Baltimore Platform. What were the
doctrines of Cass and Walker? That the
laws of Mexico, excluding slavery, continued
in force in the Territories-that slavery was
the creature of local law-that there would
be no local law in California authorizing one
man to hold another man as his chattel-that
physical circumstances would prevent sla-
very going there therefore, the Proviso was
unnecessary. All ga f~anatical agitation"
cries Senator Walker. "a humbug." saws
General Cass. "Goat's wool" adds Senator
Benton. "A matter of perfect indifference"
chimes in the editor OF the Tribune ".No
matter even if without express prohibition of
slavery in their Constitutions ~" Now, if
Senator Cass and Walker deserved the exc
~cratiops of the Tribune for contending that
the express prohibition of Slavery in Cali
iornia was unnecessary-a mere matter of
moonshine-what does the editor of the Tri-
hume deserve for maintaining that very
ground? lie sneered at Gen. Cass for the
change his mind had undergone on the sub
ject, but the same change, in the same space
of time, has taken place in his " mind
Why? What circumstance have changed?
Is it any better established than it was two
years ago, that the climate and soil OF Cali
iornia forbid slavery? Is it any more gem
orally admitted, in the slave States, than il