Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-03-09
General Wilson,.


OF New Hampshire, a Representative sent
to Washington by the Independent Demo-
Gratis of that State, in a recent speech empha-
tically said
"Talk not 10 me of the horrors Of Disun-
ion-I will not consent TO extend slavery 10
save the Earth from destr u%ction, The Universe
Itself fran dissolution"
We quote this passage, not to prove that
Gen. Wilson is a Disunionist, but that by
his own showing he ought to be, and would
be were it not there is something he has been
taught to reverence more than principle,
something he has been taught to abhOr more
than slavery. How stands the easel Slave
holders claim a right 10 take their human pro-
perry into the newly acquired territory Of
New Mexico and California, while Free Soil
ers demand they shall be prohibited from so
doing by a special enactment. Suppose that
Congress should continue to be as false to
human freedom as it has ever been, and adj
mits New Mexico and California as Louisia.
ma, Missouri, Florida and Texas were admit
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same footing the four now do! Would not
the National Government guarantee and pro-
tect slavery to the same extent and no more,
in those States that il does in these? Would
not the entire Confederacy stand Piled ged a
like 10 them all TO restore the fugitive and
crush the insurgent?
1t is not pretended by any advocate Of
Free Soil, that if slavery was established in
the territories of which Mexico has been des-
poiled, it would receive any other protection
from the General or State governments than
the Federal Constitution has declared shall
be given the institution in every State in
which it exists. And why should an in.
crease Of slaveholding States from fifteen to
seventeen be so strenuously resisted, so great
ly dreaded that the destruction of the Earth,
the dissolution of the Universe is to be pre-
ferTed, while the presence of the fifteen with
the terrible rayages slavery is making in ma
,ional prosperity. intelligence and morality
distinctly visible, is not a sufficient i~ustifca-
ton of a withdrawal of the protection of the
General Government from them and their ac-
cursed nstitution-a dissolution, or destruc-
ton of the American Union! Is not slavery
the same in principle everywhere? Or is it
a greater outrage upon "a mans rights to whip
him to unpaid toll in California than in Texas
or Louisiana! Is it a more henious crime to
wear him out by a plantation life in New
Mexico than in Florida or Missouri? If
slavery is TO be condemned because Of its
inherent sinfulness, rather than because Of its
locality g.; if God has as much OF a controver-
sy with the Shareholders on this, as on the
other side Of the Rio Grande /; if the %insiitu-
ton here is as vile as it is there, why does
Gen. Wilson make the distinction he does?
Why does he abhor man-stealing when COM
mitted ia The one place, and throw around
done in the other! We believe him to be
honest and sincere, and in his expression we
have quoted The spirit of a freeman spoke
out; but then, like many others, he is incon-
%sisient, and his protection of slaveholding in
the States which are now in the Union, great
ly weakens the force of his testimony against
its introduction into others. His organ of
reverence has been misdirected, he has been
taught TO bow TO the Fathers when Truth
and the Right should have received his un-
divided alteration, to dread the reputation of
a wicked bond more than the continued exis-
tence of slavery in fifteen States. He, and
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without regard to geographical boundaries, or
contracts written on parchment-ihey should
Judge it as Truth and Humanity would have
it judged. And if the spirit in which Gen.
Wilson made his Disunion declaration be a
true one, how much moro ought he to ex-
claim, 81 will not consent longer to uphold
slavery by supporting the Federal COnstitu-
ton, to save the Earth from destruction, the
Universe itself from dissolution ~