Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-10-06
WHOLE NO. 213.

chase of Louisiana and Florida, ofthe slaugh-
ter of the Seminoles, of the seizure of Tex
as, of the Conquest of Mexico, fearful as that
a small part of them.
Nor has the North as yet made any bold
and manly resistance. When the Annexa-
ton of Texas was first whispered in secret
places, it was believed the very ~odiousness of
the Scheme would forever be n full security
against its success. Nor could any warning
voice of the abolitionists of that day break
the slumber. More than ten years before its
consummation, the eye of Garrison, the Pr
oncer of Freedom, Amounted from Oh high, |
foresaw its accomplishment; and, as with
the inspiration of prophecy in olden time, he
predicted it with most u~ncrring certainty,
and all the dread consequences which have
attended it. But the Democracy answered,
{" Is thy servant n dog that he should do III"
and the Wing party cursed the prophet, in
the name of all its gods.
evitablc. The North, for once, was alarmed
all political parties, all religious associa-
tons, all pulpits and all presses united i'll a
stern resistance. Lyceums debated, Conven-
tons protested, Legislatures resolved, the
people p%etitioncd, and the pulpits prayed
against the impending catastrophe. The
non-slaveholding States hung up their unan-
imous Indignation and hostility as a cloud
charged with blazing thunder, i'll the North
ern sky. But Slavery did but touch that
cloud with its magic wand, and all its bolts
were conducted harmless at her feet, the
door of the Union was opened, and Texas,
with shrieking slaves in thousands, was adj
mitted to the sisterhood of States; while the
power at whose fiat she came, uttered the
baptismdl blessing, for me, many daughters
hare done t%iituouSiy, but thou etceHest them all.
ever fear? What e~xaction may not now be
made? Our Southern boundary then took
wing, who shall say where 1t will he staid?
Slavery is now supreme. Like a mighty gi-
amt. it lies with its head pillowed on the
SHOWS of the North, and its feet bathcd in the
perpetual flowers of the sunny South Its
left hand grasps the rising, its right the set
ting sun. Ask not where it is ask rather
where it is not If you ascend up into the
North, it is there. If you make your bed in
Mexico, behold it is there. If you take the
wings of the morning and dwell in the utter
most part of Oregon, even there, too, you
l shall behold it-for there is, in all our do
| main, no darkness nor shadow of death
:, where we can hide ourselves from its accur-
? sed omnipresence. 1t is high us heaven
l what can we do ?-dcepcr than hell, what
. can we know il has demolished the shrines
! which Catholicism had reared to Freedom
stead its own affairs already rcck with the
| blood o fluman victims, and the slave auc-
! %tionecr's stand shall soon rise at their side.
And by the terms of the Constitution, ev-
cry bayonet must be FURNISHED, and every
{ sword sIarpencd, TO defend them. Even the
. feeble muttering of the Free Soil party con
templates no resistance to the will of the ma
iority, when once It's bchest is KNOWN
5 sour Union, however bounded" is its cry
. " Our glorious Constitution" no matter tho
it be written in the blood of untold million,
= of slaves, and covers a ~yawning gulf of slave
e territory, bounded south by the straits of Ma
gellans
By the terms of the Federal Compact, til
people are all bound in chains in its behalf
and our rulers in letters of iron. Constitu
tons, laws, army, naty, religion, learning
wealth, manufactures, commerce, all are TN
/; armament of this dire institution. 1t con
trolls all-our laws sanction, our religion
- sanctilies, and our swords defend it. In pun
u suit of its f%ugitiVes, it screams over Our raj
roads, and leaps in lightning along the tel'
- graphic wires. In our State of Ohio,
- hunts a Van Zandt to his grave, and plm
!, ders others of their money by thousands ft
the crime of taking the flying stranger ii
- in express obedience to the command of Coz
II snatches its victims from our very heartl
stones, and we are bound to yield them VI
- though they are the wives of our bosoms G
the sisters of Our love: SO reads the blood
bond, which all our rulers are sworn solemn
>, " TO observe and execute.
From such a covenant, before High Heavel
ii ue deciare ourselves 10 be GbSo,ued and fro
- henccforth we are the friends and advocat,
ola new Northern Republic. The age, alrea'
s- white with ripening Revolutions, demands
10 of us. The shrieks of three million slave
~. their toll unpaid, their flesh wasted wi
whips and branding-irons, their minds d
graded, their chastity shivering in the arr
of most damned lust, all demand it. L