Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-02-23
The Southern DemOnSIraliOn---SiaVer
and The Union.

THE stars in their courses fought against
Sispra.' when it was decreed that he should
f,ll and perish. 1t Is so now-so always
Whatever is doomed hastens to destruction,
the tfIurts Of friends and foes alike conduct.
iug to that end. lie who cannot now per-
cplve the hand writing on the wall with re-
gard To Human Slavery in the United States
must be smItipn with moral blindness. New
,r before did champion and adversary more
clearly though unconscinusly COW OK TO se-
cure the same result. The last grand s,rug-
Gle is evidently and rapidly approaching.-
Its advent will he herald9d ny The transform
alton Of ilmId, tlme-s2rving, un1rircipled
men throughout the Free States into lrpe-spO-
| Ken and lmmovalle conttlmncrs of the en-.
slavpment of one man to the use and profit OF
another. The mntal nature Of Slavery will
come To hold the first instead of the last
place in popular regard leaving the Constl-
| tniional uhligati"ns undertaken in behalf of
the Free States to follow after. Thinking,
conscientious men will first inquire and de.
iermine what is lheir duty IN God and HUI
manlty next, what is required Of them by
the South and the Constitution. Such is the
natural order; it will soon he ihe actual.
The proceedings OF the several cauruses
held with closed doors by the Members of
Congress from The Slave States have at length
been made public, and we lose no time in
spreading them before our readers. Judge
Bprriru'S Address. first because it WAS ultl-
ma,ply rejected, and 81 is no part OF The an
tlientIr expression Of Southern sentiment
secondly, because il is hut a diluted and in
off nsivp rrhash nf Mr.. Calhonn's which wa'
adopted. and which We make room Tor. lis
certainly q more polite aud less exec tlona'
bic Than the one adopted; but none 81 al
would have been sill better. We preGr II
know the worst and so thank the majority
for adopting Mr.. Calhoun's manifesto. Moth
ING was ever better adapted 10 The great worn
cf arcusing and fixing the North.
The Address is a lahored recital of South
ern grievances. which. closely scTuiinizrd
resolve themselves mainly into two. viz -
/. The North is not as good hunting groun'
for runaway slaves rs il used 10 be; and :
, The North is determined not TO suffer Slave
~ to nverspread the New Territories recent,
= added to the Union Both these allegation
are essentially true. What then?
The Shareholders Of The South have a con
! stitulional right TO reclaim their fugitive
: from labor throughout The Free Siates.-
They have a right to take them whereve
: they may find them-very few deny that
but have they any right to my services q
= yours to aid in their recapturel II any man
lime may he impressed for such a service tc
. day, il NAV he for ihree-fourlhs q tie time
> If we rightly apprehend The force Of the Su
: preme Courts decision in PIigg Is. Pennsy
vSnia, The STAKEHOLDER has n perfect lega
right TO take his slave wherever he may b
S found within the territory Of the Unite
States. This rannot lawfully he resisted
Q But hunting, tying. and carrying of iuglliv
slaves is The Shareholders business-it h
wants help, let him pay for H.. and ohtai
! such as pay will bring. The slave shall b
: delivered up. on proper proof that he rs
l slave hut this delivery is a legal not a poT
ular duty. The sheriff and his posse ProPel
l ly act only upon evidence not even an of
Ger can rightfully arrest a man as some olht
i mans property without giving some evldeDc