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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1849-10-27

based on a large number OF electors,
principally having regard to property.
Those elected, besides necessary qualifi-
cations, must be in the payment of GER
tain amount of taxes, which shall be de-
termined by law. The chiefs of COM
munes shall be named by us, and their
deputies by the governors of the province
from triple list presented by the commu-
nal council. A special law shall deter
mine the qualifications and the number of
the communal councillors, the mode of
election, the number of members of the
municipal administration, and shall regu-
late the duties thereof, making them con-
sistent with the interests of the province.
Art. 5. The reforms and amelorations
shall also extend themselves to the judi
cial order, as well as the civil, criminal,
and administrative Legislation. A COM
mission shall be named to occupy them
selves with this important object.
Art. 6. Finally, being always led by
the inclination of our paternal heart to-
wards indulgence and pardon, we wish
on this important occasion to perform an
act of clemency towards the misguided
men who were impelled to felony and re-
volt by the seductions, the incertitude, and
perhaps by the inertness Of others. We
must have present to our mind in these
circumstances what is called for by Jus.
tice, by the rights of Others oppressed or
destroyed, by the duty which is incum-
bent on us to protect you against the re-
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-03-16

its lightning eye dissolved our Southern
boundary, and scared the Mexican eagle
forever from his eyrie in the Cordilleras.
1t rears its throne of skulls in the palaces
of the Montczumas, and covcts the broad
valleys of the Amazon, and the sugar
fields of Cuba aud St. Domingo. Let it
but speak, and it is done, and none dare
say unto it-What doest thou!
Northern men dare not sever the chain
that binds them to the Union, though all
heaven and its inhabitants wait TO bless
and ratify the deed. Justice and human
ity. reason and conscience, God and all
nature, urge the consumation, and yet We
delay. We tremble at the consequent
ces, though they were the best benisons
Of heaven.
Severed from that ghastly corpse Of
dissolving destruction, our boundles en-
tcrprise, industry, economy and tenn
perance, joined to those in|exhaustable
resources of wealth, which nature has
scattered on every hill, opened in every
valley, and spread out on every prairie
between the two oceans, g. from Mason's
and DiXon's to the lakes, would soon rem
der us the admiration Of the world. We
should sit Queen among the Nations =
Every wilderness of our vast domain
would soon blossom as the rose. Every
desert would shout for Joy. Over us,
the morning stars would sing together.-
Peace would wave her white banner
throughout our borders. Gladness and
plenty would crown us forever.
But should none Of these millennial
glorics attend such q triumph Of Justice
and compassion, still the duty is not the
less imperious. What though the day
that saw our deep repentance, should al.
so witness all the woes that cowardicc
and cupidity have ever predicted ? Sill
the voice of the O~mnipotent, louder than
all the thunders of heaven, demands tina
our covenant with death be d%isannuled
that our agreement with hell stand
not.
What though it baptize the South il
blood What though smoking towns an,
desolated plantations should robe her il
a pail, black rs the midnight of despair
Still, from the depths of nature and tn
heart of God, the command is, fiat jus
titid ruat cGlum' be justice done, thong
the heavens fall.
What are states and nations, when OPP
posed TO the triumphs of Justice lie
+ them perish. Better far were it, thai
!, that slavery should endure, if enterprise
and industry were paIsiod forever, ant
national prosperity numbered with thu
things that are no more. Better tina
Commerce wrap itsclfin its own shrouds
and hide in the deepest caverns of thu
, ocean. Sooner let thrones and domin
, ions perish, and dizzy empires go reeIin!
10 the ground. Yea, let Justice be done
and Righteousness prevail, though il bu
ry every continent Of the universe in ir
recoverable and eternal oblivion.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-03-16
SALEM, OHIO, FRIDAY, MARCH Is, lS49.
Enr n. S. RnpL

BARKER the Grea! Religious and Political
Reformer Of England.
l hope every reader of the Bugle, will Pc
ruse with care the following which was pub
lished in tract form, in Great Britain. 1t
shows how well acquainted men in other
portions of the globe, are with our National
system, and also demonstrates that the Priest
hoods are the same every where. 1t is a full
answer to the question "Why do not the
clergy attend our Anti-Slavery Meetings.
The article may look lengthy, but read and
you will be deceived for once, it will be toe
short. Yours,
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-03-16
TUE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE

Is published every Friday, at Salem, Column
bionn Co., Ohio, by the Executive Committee
of the WESTERN ANTI-SLAvERY SOCIETY;
and is the only paper in the Great west
which advocates secession from pro-slavery
governments and pro-slavery church organl-
cations. 1t is Edited by BENJAMIN ). and J'
ELIZABETH JONES; and while urging upon the
people the duty of holding an union win
Slaveholders,'' either in Church or State, as
the onlv consistent position an Abclltlonist
can occnpy, and as the best means Tor the DE-
struction of slavery ; it will, SO lar as It's nm
its hermit. give a history OF the daily progress
of the apti-slavery cause-eXhiolt the polcy
and p~ractice Of Shareholders, and by iactS ana
ARGUMENTS endeavor to Increase 'he zedl anu
nciivitv of every true lover OF treedoW' III III
addition to its anti-slaveTy matter' II VIII,
contain general news, choice extracts, nlolal
tales. sc, 1t is TO be hoped thatall lhe IIienus
of the Western Anti-Slavery Soc'ety-aii 'ne
advocates of the Disunion movement VIII uo
what they can to aid in the support OIL we
~ i've in the West should sustain the pa
. ,ba, ;s published in your midst. The
Ruqle is printed on an imperial sheet and
Subscribers may take their choice OF the lol'
lowing
lEhMC'
Sl.5O per annum, if paid within the hrS'
months of the subscribers year.
If paid before three months OF the year na'
expired, a deduction of 20 cents Will De maze
reducing the price to 1928.
If payment be made in advance, or on mt NJ
recent of the first number, so cents VIII o'
deducted, making the subscription but @l'
To anv person wishing to examine the cha
racter Of the paper, it will be furnished
months, for SO cents in advance to all 9th
ers Is cents will be charged.
NJ No deviation from these TERMS
~ W. occasionally send numbers
,hNsa vim are not subscribers, but who ar
believed to be interested in the Disseminate
of auti,slavery truth, with the hope that the
will either subscribe themselves OF use , me;
influence to extend its circulation among the
friends.
nr Communications intended Tor lnsel
ton to he addressed to the Editors. All OIL
ers to the Publishing Agent, JAMES bARNAhA
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-03-16
From the Liberty Bell.
Dissolution of the Union.
nv PARKER ~PILLSBU

I, was ten years before the Annexation
ri Texas. that the event was predlcled
nv the Aboliionists. In 1887, the editor
az the Libera,or, in an address before the
New England Anti-Slavery Convention
uttered the bold words that follow =
EVERY is big with peril and
tho Annexation of Texas is obviously to
he among the first acts Of Congress-un-
less The people of the non-slave.hoIdlng
States sneak in thunder tones OF remon-
slrance. And the consequences OF such
a step will be 49,,
The opening of an immense and nigh
" fertile territory TO those bloody abom-
nations, Slavery and the Slave Trade
The further degradation and subserVl-
encv of the people OF the Norm TO me
demands Of the South.
Then the loss of the balance OF power
on the part ofthe North, and The suprem-
acv Of q Southern policy in Congress.
The ~perpetuity of Slavery and the
Slave T'rode in the District Of Column
bia. -,
The admission of as much sIove.hoId'
ing territory into the Union, us the South
shall desire.
A War with Mexico
Claiming no spirit Of prophecy, these
daring words were uttered and registered
ten Years ago and more, by William
Llovd Garrison. His best friends deem
ed hem visionary, Observation-Disclosures
ricol Aourishes a desperate instrument
,,Iitv Of a bold and determined spirit, to
u,aLon his besotted and slumbering coun-
,,ymcn. None knew so well as aboli-
,ionis,s, how deep was the degradation Of
the people, and how desperate the de
prayi,v of their rulers. But even theil
ewes had hardly seen, or their ears heard
~ hear, conceived, the things that Slave.
wv had prepared for its own enlargement
and preservation. All others at The
North spurned the proposition of annex
,,ion. with contempt and indignation
Democracy answered, is thy servant
dog. that he should do this thing = ant
the Wing party cursed the prophet in tn
name of all its gods.
Rut the generation has not passed away
and 10! all these things, and more' nav
been fulfilled. So true is 1t, tina Wit
slavery, all things are possible.
Who now shall say that the hour 10
the dissolution of the Union has not full,
come? Slavery, which, at the first, wa
. little cloud like a mans hand, nov
blackens our whole political horizon
Rv the terms of the national compac
the States are bound in chains, and III
people in letters of iron; and Slavery
thus secure, bids defiance to the worlt
Like some terrible giant, it has plante
one foot on the Atlantic strand, the 9th
on the shores of the Pacific. With on
hand it strangles liberty in the Nortl
with the other it hurls freedom from y
egon, and, on that virgin soil, seeks
rear its bloody altars. One glance fro
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-03-16
WHY DID THE
Ministers Of the Town Of Leeds
ABSENT THEMSELVES FROM THE
Anti-Slavery Meeting
ON THURSDAY EVENING LAST?

1t is not perhaps known 10 all, that at the
meetings Of the Anti slavery League, held
in the Music Hall, Leeds, and addressed by
Messrs. Douglass and Wright, there was
not a single minister to be seen. except Mr..
Wicksteed, the Unitarian minister OF Mill
hill chapel. Mr.. Wicksteed was present at
both meetings, and spoke at both but he
was alone in his glory. Not a Methodist
nor a Baptist, not an Independent nor a
Churchman, was there TO keep him compa-
nv. am told that at other towns II has been
very much the same. AT Darlington an In
dependent minister, Mr.. Pritchard, attended,
but ii was TO oppose the abolltionists, and
defend the pro-slavery and slave-holdlng
churches and preachers. At Newcastle an
Independent minister attended but it was 10
defend the faithless Editor of the Christian
WitneSs, the traducer and calumniator of the
slaves best friends. Generally speaking
the orthodox ministers throughout the coun'
try have kept alooi from the cause of aboli
ton. TO such an extent has this been thu
case, that George Thompson, at a meeting o
the League in one of our large towns, wheI
asked, Is this an Gnti-siarery meeting, or al
anti-clerical meeting! 2 was obliged to an
swer, 1t is truly, and in good faith, a pure
ly anti-slauery meeting; but am sorry II
say, that SuCn is Tue pOSlton, anu sucn is IN
conduct of the clergy, than an dnti-sharer5
must now of necessity be an antt-clerica
meeting 80.
The conduct Of orthodox ministers in this
matter requires explanation. This explana-
ton we attempt to give. Many are asking
WIZ were there no ministers at the meetings
at Leeds? This question we attempt to an
swer. Whether our answer be the right one,
our readers must Judge. We fear it's. We
grant that our answer condemns the minis
tiers but we have no hope that the ministers
will be able to prove that we have con-
demned them unjustly. In a part OIL
this tract We speak as in the name of the
minister's; but with no desire to do them
wrong. And we have no desire that ouI
answer TO the question should be the only
one; if the ministry will answer for them
selves, we shall be glad to read their answer
We have answered the question 10 the bes
of our ability, and we hope that both minis
tiers and people will receive profit, if not plea
sure, from what we have written.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-03-16
From tie New Concord Press.
EWhat is in a Name =

Everything Who has not heard the COM
mon sayings, : get your name up, and you
may lie till ten O'clock and you might as
well kill a dog as give him a bad name =
To some people in our queer world a name
is everything. 70 them nothing is good
which comes from Nazareth. Truth and fc-
tion-black and white-good and bad, are
all alike, if they com from certain quarters.
Some men might talk like angels, argue like
the Apostle Paul, and persuade with the elo-
quence Of Isaiah, and yet produce no effect
upon a certain class of individuals, because
with them a name has more influence than
both truth and eloquence.
Such will gag, and strain, and choke at an
idea or proposition coming from one quarter,
which, when it comes from another, having
a different label, or from one of a different
name, will 90 down, like the most palatable
food, without an effort, and afford intense gra-
tifcation. What is in anameP All, neigh
Dor A. just try it. If you want 10 effect some
laudable object, and desire the aid or coun-
tenance of your neighbors, or of strangers,
the first question you have to answer is, not
what are you, and what do you want; but,
who are you? If you write a book, the rea-
der wants to know, not what it is-with its
character, but, who is the author. Some
men look through such green spectacles, and
are so cGoss-eyed, that they see every one
who is not of their own name with green
glasses and crooked eyes. Call the devil an
angel of light, and they fancy him to be the
most beautiful creature. Call the most RICH,
teous man in community by a bad name, and
those men take him 10 be a demon. Label
whiskey barrel "a good creature of God ant
it is rolled into the celler for use. Call
man-thief a president, and he is an homes
man. And so we might 60 on, without end
to illustrate the fact that there is much il
a name with the great mass, especially witt
a certain class of blear-eyed men, who's
judgments are not formed by the matter the,
read or hear, but by the name of the persoI
who writes or speaks. Such we envy moi
If they are willing to be duped by those VIII
wear the livery Of heaven to serve the dew
in,' let them 60 on. They will reap tn Ell
own reward.
A SIGN.-While the Slave States hav
r only $500 miles of completed railroad
, the Free States have 1000 miles. An
, the projected and progressing railroad
are in much heavier proportion, favora
BILE to the spirit and prosperity OF I'll
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-03-16
Why, then, did the Ministers Of The IoWn q
Leeds absent Themselves from Tie .4nti-Slare'
ry Meeting on Thursday euening last?

RI Meeting on Thursday evening ast2
ANS. /. 1t was not because they are in
favor Of American Slavery. 1t was not be-
cause they have any objection to the aboIi-
ton of slavery. 1t was not because they
think that slavery is a natural or a happy
state for man. 1t was not because they think
that slavery in America is better than the
slavery once existing in the West India Is
lands. 1t was not because they are wishful
10 perpetuate slavery in America. On the
abolished. They would be glad 10 see the
world entirely free from such an unnatural
and inhuman system. They regard slavery
as the greatest curse of Humanity. They look
upon il as a mass of crime. They believe
with John Wesley, that it is the grossest
outrage upon human rights that can be per-
petrated, the bitterest insult TO a human be-
ing that can be offered, and the sum Of all
possible villanies. They are perfectly aware
that slavery must necessarily be a system Of
~cruelty-that cruelty and slavery are insepa'
rable. They are aware, that TO subdue the
spirit of a human being, TO reduce him TO
brute, and to fit him TO be used as property
the greatest c~ruelties imaginable are neces
sary. They are aware that slavery is a sys
tenn of stripes, of chains, of letters, of irol
yokes, of %brandings, of maimings, of insults
Of indignities, of violence in every form, an
Of cruelty in every shape. They are awar
that slavery is inconsistent with respect fc
the institution of marriage, with the sacred
ness of domestic relationship, with the vigor
and health of the benevolent affections, an
with all the dear delights and joys of homt
of love, and household blessedness. The
are aware that slavery is a system of polll
ton; that where slavery prevails, woman
unprotected, and subject to every indecenc
and outrage. They are aware that whel
slavery prevails, the husband is torn from n
wife at his masters pleasure, and the Wi
torn from her husband that children are s.
parated from their parents, and parents iro'
/, their children-that beauty, and innocenc
and all the attractions Of humanity, are bougl
! and sold, by selfish, sensual, brutal man.
! They are aware. that in the families OF Il
shareholders, as well as in the huts OF Il
: slaves, the grossest RIGHTEOUSNESS prevail
. and the most unnatural denominations. The
are moi ignorant Of the fact, that the most j
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-03-16

mons. lie answers, | denounced slavery, not re-
buked the slaye-holding Methodists, in the Confer
ence. Ia meeting with closed doors not in his ser,
mons, from the pulpit. lie eontrsdicts not q word
Of the charge, vet he wishes IL to be received as .
contradiction, and as such it was received by MIR.
Smith.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-03-16

xThey have charged Il. Newton. ID. -, with do
ing so. In a tract lately published, entitled "Alost
Horrible and Astounding Facts, or a Revelation OF
a Modern Mystery of lniquity, ;" it was stated that
when r. Newton went over to America, he never
once in his sermons. either denounced slavery, or
rebuked the slave-holding Methodists of that Land
A person, A.. Smith, Of Bradford, a member Of the
Methodist Society, wrote to r. Newton on the sub
iect, asking him whether the charge was true Of
false. r.. Newton sent the following answer;
DEAR Sir,
When in America, ! did in public Conference
denounce Slavery in the strongest terms | was able
to employ whoever speaks or writes to the con
trary, tells a lie. r. NEWTON.
In this note he plainly beirays both his conscious
ness of guilt. and his desire to conceal his gulltol
deceit. The question was, whether while he wa
in America, he denounced slavery, aud rebuked th'
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-01-25

burgh to .se money by loan 70 pay her deets
for the relief Of purchasers OF and from ine ''e
Trust Company Of View York ,
long debate occurred on the bil In favor o.
ing the Domestesd szsins; seizure and sac ioi wv
zfter which the senate al burned
ASSEMBLY.
Nr. Cross presented the memorial iron as 80
the Mayor Of Brooklyn. relative 70 the ChsrieI Oo'eN
ton Of that City. ..
Dill vas reported 10 extend the powers Of boAia'
q Supervisors
The Controller reported thst the amount an,-e-y
c. Robertson. Esq Code Connissioner, nsd ors~u
from the Treasury Of the state, vas -5uV i9I I., "
vices az Commissioner. and 500 for cifIA ar
There was evidence in the Controller once u 20
duties performed By Mr.. Robertson oeyono o' '"H
ststement -,
The annual report Of the Deaf and ID inns ins,,-0D
IN the City Of Neu-York. WA laid before the HOUSE
The Dill 70 amend the charter OF ths American ~
1st Home Missionary Society, was passed Ino -
Dill was recOmmt;ef % await fArtner nea,lnz -. -
the Nev-lork pilots On motion OF Ny II JOHN 'Ne
Bill was aid on the table
The Controller. in reply 70 resolutions repor,r1 'ne
entire expense Of the Commissioners OF tne 'Oo7 u
Practice with salary. printing Sc .,,s-r,-
The bi providing for the election Of tne Shiel o. ~
Ice IN Newfork BY the people. with ire o,.. ~ e. 800
% the Justices and Police Courts or me tiy % -
York. referred % the New FORK DeiesaNou' !" 'e
port upon them complete.
Mr. HALL aid on the table resolution N Ia'O' VI
presenting sword 70 MAJOR Bliss. OF the army.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-01-25

House from the dilemma OF Nes and Nay vote
thereon / say deliberately, and with thorough
conviction Of its truth, that the House would not
dare net. vote down Judge Embree's proposition
on direct Yea and Nay vote, If il had dared to
do this, il would not have gone round through the
labyrinth Of the Schenck amendment to avoid it,
The whole matter must speak for itself TO those
who have or shall have the facts before them.
Here, / presume, the discussion during this
Congress must stop. There is not the ghost of
chance TO get Mileage Reform bill per Sc before
the House for consideration there never has been.
apprehend there will not be another bill before
Congress this Session on which On amendment
reforming Mileage will be in order. There
is just one chance left for present action-namely
that the Senate will engraft proper proyiso Oh the
bill and send it back for concurrence therein
II will not be IN order 10 move such in the House in
case the bill comes back without amendment on
this point. Unless the Senate act then, nothing
can now be done Should any be inclined to offer
suggestions this head, they should be addressed
% Senators.
Bot the Reform Is only postponed-it cannot be
lost if those who already perceive the right aud
detest the wrong will but remember and act
And that they will Is my confident hope and
entreaty