Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-03-09
From the Philadelphia Republic.
The State Of the Case.

sion OF slave territory, and the increased
severity of the slave laws Of the South.
ern States, since the abolition agitation
commenced. These are simple and OBJ
vious facts, and their occurrence may be
ascribed in part TO the indirect operation
of the a%ntagonistic sentiment whose grow
ing force and threatening aspect, has put
Slavery upon its defence more promptly
and decidedly than il Otherwise would
have been. Tyler's administration found
ed the necessity for the immediate annex
alton ofTexas, upon the movement made
in England to purchase out the slave pro-
perry of that liule republic, and Danish
domestic Slavery from its territory
And our war with Mexico was, doubtless,
designed to give a broader and safer
margin 10 the slave region than the right
full limits Of Texas would afford it. 1t is
likely enough that the apprehension thai
freedom must at an early day press its
way southwark and reclaim the middle
and eastern States, which slave labor can
no longer cultivate with profit, prompted
The slave interest TO open u timely re-
treat into a new theatre.
Ii this is all that is true of the Anti
Slavery influence in stimulating the OPP
posite interest, it resolves itself merely
into a question of time; for il is notori-
Gus that the six original slave States had
grown 10 thirteen, and six hundred thou
sand slaves had increased TO TWO millions,
while the North were yet passively nom
resistant. And the same causes would
as certainly, though perhaps more slow
ly, have gone on, till the very same re-
suits which are now blamed upon the
provocaiion of the North would have
happened. The argument, therefore.
is nothing but the wrong jus,ifying its
precipitancy and violence by the agrees
sion Of the right which it resists. In
this way the law causes the outrage Of
the d~elinquenl's resistance and the ex-
istence of legitimate authority occasions
The turbulence Of armed rebellion. So
far. we stand acquitted Of all c~ulpability
in an accident of our agency.
But it is also charged that the spirit
and manner of the assault upon the posi-
ton of the South has been inconsider'
aie and indiscreet. In this also there
may be some truth but al the SAM
time, it may afford the South no justif'
cation for it was almost unavoidable in
the circumstances of an enterprise sc
difficult in itself, and resisted as this ha:
been.
1t is also charged with injustice to the
vnst pecuniary interests invested, On the
guaranty Of the public law, in the per-
sons and labor of The slaves. 1t is no
pretended that the slave has in any way.
either by his own or his ancestors acts,
contracted a debt or duty 10 his master,
which forfeits his liberty and labor but
The claimant says he has a virtual con-
tract with us for the profits Of this third
pariy's labor, and it becomes not us to
demand the RECESSION of the contract as
void in moral law, or contrary 10 morals
This objection might be made periinen
and respectable, if not valid in fact, if i
came as one Of the conditions Of a pro
position to do justice TO the injured party
offered in good faith, and 10 be adjuste'
equiIably. If we have in any way in
duced them TO accept q bad title, and
they proposed 10 begin by surrenderini
what they ought not TO hold against thu
injured party, there would be sense, jus
tice and good conscience in demandin
from US such reparation Of actual damag
as we have o%ccasioned, and we ought t
make i, good to the last shilling. Com
pensation would o be %insuperable
conscience offered the bargain. w
could better afford to pay a few hundre
millions for the welfare Of the Who'll
community, than for the wars Of Slave
ny, and its other wretched incidents.
is no yet lime TO object to immediat
emancipation, that we are not offerin
five hundred dollars a head for two c
three millions of people. The fir
point is, will you emancipate and sett|
with US? The next what will you take
1t is mere evasion Il anticipate a diticu
~ in a place where it canno arise.
We say they have no right 10 II
slaves ; they answer that we helped ther
TO steal them, and had our share of tn
first profits. We say that we have re
pented, and if they will do the same, W
will settle the whole account fairly. BIZ
settle or not settle, the slave is entitled
his freedom. And if we do W yo
anything for helping to steal him, ar
are liable upon our warranty of lille, SIT
both parties are more deeply in debt
the stolen man for all the wrongs inhic
ed upon him, and that account shouI
not be made to wait the adjustment
ours.
The pre,ence that emancipation upo
the soil is impracticable, is sufficient
answered by The fac, that the system
Slavery is inlolerable-out of the harm
ny of things, and fitted only to destro
and be itself destroyed. A priori,
God made the slave a man, society ca
not reverse his purpose. The omnip
tent cause is in constant effort 10 nchie
the design, and the whole economy