Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-01-12

cepted hini as a goOd-and thus Identified win
your position his-so as 10 endorse him as a
fit President for you before God and mani
The question is not now whether it was your
duty 10 oppose him when you thought oppo-
si,ion f%rnitless; yon have not only not oppo-
sed, but going to the other extreme, you have
accepted the triumph as your triumph, and
rejoiGed over it, and for that you are now to
be held accountable. The facts of his cleo
ton were before you, and you all knew, or
might have known them. You knew that his
nomination was one lin the language of your
greatest mani mot fit TO be made You
knew that he was first brought forward by
uitrl-slavery men, avowedly as the nltra-sla-
very candidate that ultra-slavery men car
ried him through the convention, in opposl-
ton to the demand of the North, and then
threw the Wilmot Proviso on the floor. You
know that the ultra-slavery men of the South,
electioneered for and chose him on this
ground-bargaining, however, for as many
Northern votes as they wanted. You knew
that he was a man prolessedly Of not the
smallest political knowledg e, a mere warrior,
a mere stakeholder, and never could have
been nominated or chosen, but by this ultra
slavery influence. You knew all this, or
ought TO have known it, and yet when the
time came, and this so humililting final
siIOhO VI VIC SluNO HVNti NAuHhFhSNi y" -
cepted it as your triumph, and Illuminated
your houses!
And why did you triumph! Why did the
North, or any part of it, feel this joy? 9th
er reasons may have mingled, but | do from
my soul believe, blush as | may 10 say 1t,
that this one great reason stood, and forever
will stand in history, underlying all, over
topping all this, that slavery or no slavery,
consistency or inconsistency, honor or dis
honor, that spirit in the Northern people.
which : lives by bread alone had secured its
PRoTEcTtvE TARIFF.
Protection! That is the too fascinating
word which has taken its turn this year and
paralyzed the conscience and heart of New
England. as a miscalled patriotism did last
year. There is no intrinsic harm in : Protec-
ton as there is nothing intrnsically wrong
in Bread But when protection means
compromise of principle; when protection
means help to me, gained by the sacrifice of
honor, the sacrifice of pledges, the sacrifice
of the rights of Freedom and Of the slave {:
when it means, my dividends increased, by
my consent being given to the proportionate
increase Of slave territory when tins is the
meaning of that omnipotent word then ]
say, from such protection God protect us! For
we need 10 be protected against earthly bless
ings which gain so utter a triumph over our
souls. We need to be protected from the
condition which 'lives by bread alone and
20 which all things are a visionary dream.
A year ago, many of you were indignant
at the course pursued by the democratic par
ty, in regard to the war. You called it base
and wicked, and so it was. YoI said they
shut their eyes to plain facts, took back their
own words, were Indifferent 10 honor, justice,
and humanity, and voluntarily consented to
extend the area of slavery. But if it was
base and wicked TO do this-as they did
to make these sacrifices because carried away
by enthusiasm for the bloodstained glory of
war, by the childish love of renown, by the
contemplate pride Of brute force-tell ME
how you christen it, when precisely these
self same things to-day are done, only under
+ different circumstances, and more glaringly,
by the other pariy-from the enthusiasm, not
for renown, not for force, but ford PrOiec-
tire Tariff?
Do you doubt these things? They are Ca
sy of proof. TIL dust of conflict and the
smoke Of victory may hide them now, but
history will record them with terrific plain.
ness. | think no one even now who took
much part in the canvass in this State, car
: doubt that it was that terrible bread alone
I which carried the day. Other things were
: freely agilated- they would do to talk abou
they would do to salve mems consciencei
-impraclicabilily Of a third party-objeclioI
to Mr.. Van Buren-choice of evils-thesC
( would do to help out those who hated to &C
o knowledge the base reality but a reality i
was, none the less. A few ,~horough-goin!
n men might stand for party, merely as party
@ through every thing; a few unthinking me
might be sincerely convinced by shallow
g newspaper arguments, and shallower dema
-, loalan,,ti,,a tho, Eaa 'naylor ras
n second Washington, and that the buyer G
300 slaves was, on the whole, an anti SLAYER
candidate and in many minds, these thing
i come in secondariIy to p%allia,e the dee
wrongfulness of the act still the deep wrong
fitness remained, and it was that simple
overwhelming Tariff, firstly and lastly, upo
which the conscience of the North foul
%shipwreck.
Thus much for the motive, and as for Il
act-it is so old a story that | am weary
telling it. A party protesting 10 be anti-sl
very and anti-war, has elected 10 the pres
. dency one who never could have been Oh
sen, had he not been both a STAKEHOLDER al
a warrior. Never was there a political 4
umph in history more curiously thorough
. its completeness, than this of the slave POI
lis err over the Wing party. Think of it on
ST. again. Gen. Taylor, nominated at first e
1t Enthusiastically al the South, by conventions
'e- all parties, solely on the ullra-slavery groul
ed those very conventions las in Georgia. a
It's p|lauding the conduct of Mr.. Calhoun and
ne friends-supported enthusiastically by lea
wv ing Southern men from both parties, on III
en- ground and NO OTHER first urged in I
&C. Wing convention by ultra-slavery men,
a the exclusion of all the old leaders recei
It's ing at the first ballot 50 ont of ITO slavehol
. ing votes thus nominated and thus urge
Ut he received the endorsement of that conve
Al, ton who after nominating him took no Of
y er position, except contemptuously TO reje
an the Wilmot Proviso. This was his intI
ID duction to the freemen of the North; and \
81 yer since then, in a single case, have b