Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-09-08

policy being carried out, il it should be adopt-
ed as a SOP TO the Northern Cerberus! Just
as great as that the People OF Massachusetts
wlll carry out the I'D c~opiandum resolutions
OF lhelr Legislature passed any time for the
last ten years. The Free Soil Party now
stands we aPprehend, about where the Lib
erty Party stood before it's euihanasia. That
is, il processes to attack Slavery wherever il
can be reached, conStiutionaHV. There is as
much virtue in that long word as Tooohstope
says there is In that 1.-THE monysyllable uif'!
IL makes all the difference between doino
something and doing nothing. The chief diff
ference between the Free Soil and the Liner.
ty Parties, and it is a great one, is, that in the |
former the respectable and honorable mem-
bers OF II give it a tone and character. And
yet, such is their insensate folly, that they
permit their leading organ 10 be branded in
the back with the name Of Emancipator, and
have gone out of their way TO make the Rev.
Joshua Leavitt one Of the Committee TO call
Their State Convention in Massachusetts, al
though that gentleman is now an inhabitant
of New York We have a hiph respect for
the gentlemen who compose the leadership
of the Free Soil Party, but we fear from these
specimens Of their philosophy, as well as
from their bungling of Mr.. Palfrey's election,
that they lack the wisdom that is profitable
TO direct a political movement. Their char
acter Is their main stock in trade, and they
seem foollshly, not TO say cTiminally, care
less IN their investment of il. We think they
would do well TO admit some shrewd busf-
ness bred Democrats into the partnership who
could teach them how to manage their a!Tairs,
II they do not know enough, as the proverb
hath 1t, " to GO in when it rains" we think
1t would be advisable for them, considering
how hard a shower is like to set in, to have
Al -.
Mr.. Halleti or Mr.. Somebodyelse 10 hold an
umbrella over their heads. But, seriously,
we must forever think, it they do not make
use oil thelr present opportunity 10 trip up the
heels OF the wings that they are past praying
for. Their damhation is sure. We know,
to be sure, that they can do nothing effectual
should they get the control of the government
by taking at the food The present tide in their
affairs, as long as they persist in wearing u
milestone around their necks as a life-preser-
yer, but they will never believe this until
they nave Tried 1t, and the sooner they 90
through the experiment The better the chance
oftheir %profting by their experience.
There are but two consistent political
movements now on foot in this country. On,
! is that OF Mr.. Gerrit Smith and his followers
: who hold the Constitution to be an Anti. Sla
very instruments, and are trying to get int
power for the purpose of inconiinently atol
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. mount power Of Congress. These gentlemen
are perfectly consistent; and if they can bul
succeed in opening the eyes of this s,iir-neck.
ed and perverse generation by their verbaI
logic and dialectic hair.splIttings, and con-
vince them that nobody has understood the
fundamental law, not even the trainers of il,
: until they were providentially raised up 10 ex-
pound it, and then if they can but prevail on
a majority of the Nation TO Join with them
in their philanthTopic purpose, we shall no
doubt witness a great deIiverance,- provided
always, the Slaveholding States are obliginu
enough 10 remain and be operated upon. The
other consistent party is the Gauisonian Dis
r unionists, who accepting the adjudged mean
ing OF the Constitution 10 be the Law of the
. Land, refuse to be bound by il or 10 swear
TO support it, and, standing outside of it, try
10 destroy II, or TO persuade the North 10
. Withdraw its allegiance to it. These parties
= are neither Of them numerically powerful
but there is a wide difference between theil
: moral force. A small political party, how.
ever honest, which proposes TO effect lis
ends by political machinery, is essentially
absurd, because extreme disproportion O
means 10 ends is a natural element of the RI
4 diculous. To see a handful of honest gentle,
= men struggling to raise one another to office
. for the sake Of doing what no other sane mar
believes they have the right or the power o
doing must he allowed TO be a rather CONT
spectacle. But there is no jisproportion be
tween moral means and ends however dis
tant or however vast.
, An honest Protestant, who stands in a 90
sition Enthusiastically disinterested, possesse
a power which is the greater because it ha
no elements by which TO calculate its extern,
= Ii is a natural law, and not a miracle, tha
~ Ona shall chail rhaca N t,@,zo. II -
- put ten thousand to flight. For instance
" Garrison and the obscure handful he gather
ed around him at the commencement Of IN
- Anti-Slavery movement created a greater pa
mic al the South and a stronger disturbance
at The North than the whole Free Soil Part
last year, with an ES-president at its head
! and eX. governor, and eX-senators by the do
y zen at its tail. Our Belshazzars tremble,
~ and their knees smote together, in the pres
ence of the Daniel who eXpounded The hand
writing upon their walls, rather than at III
:, laundering of the Modes and Persiaus at III
gates of their Babylon. The sagacious Slave
holders toresaw the Free Soil Party an
whatever other shapes The A~nii-Slavery spiri
thus evoked would tike, though darkly an,
as in a glass, and they therefore insisted o.
- the determination of the Wizard and his crew
The same power is still exerted by them on
~ in a vastly greater degree and over a vasI
y wider field. Whether the Free Soiler
10 throw away their chance Of incorporate
with the Democrats or improve it, we shaI
still try and make them and the rest of IN
nation as uncomfortable as we can. The Az
=, i%tation shall be kept up as long as we hav
breath and strength, until the political bait,
,s ~ is brought into the right position. Ther
a. is another plan of political action as yet NJ
a, tried, and which, though not the right on
,v would be more effeclual than any of them,
which we will speak at-eno,her time.-E. =
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