Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-02-16

mony so emphatic and startling, as by say
ing othese criminals" stand by yourselves
come not near to us, we'll have nothing to do
with you"
a. Because the people of Ohio cannot re-
main in the Union even for a single hour,
only as, in compliance with the agreement
which they have themselves made TO aid the
Shareholders, and which they solemnly and
by oath renew TO him every year, they pay
him power in the general government as a
premium for every slave he shall kidnap,
breed, or hold-only as they make their soil
his hunting ground, and thrust back into tho
hell OF slavery whence they have escaped,
his runaway victims-and, only as they
pledge themselves to pour the leaden death
into the vitals Of those poor victims, when,
in the agony Of their despair, they resist the
monsters authority and rise to assert their
liberty.
5. Because this Union was formed for the
express purpose Of Keeping as slaves, all who
then were slaves: that they should be thus
kept, and that the northern states should helm
Keep them, were made the very conditions Of
the Union they are its conditions now
The Union consequently rests upon slavery
as its corner stone the 10000 0 of slaves
constitute the bond which binds it together
it is cemented with their blood its mighty
fabric of government rests upon their mang-
led limbs and broken bodies: and therefore
the people of Ohio cannot be partners in thi,
Union, without being chargable, before the
world and before Heaven, with being Stare
holders for Stare oiOnerS.
6. Because had it not been for the Union,
slavery would long since have been dead /;
the Union has been the sole means of keep
ing it in existence till now it has been that,
which has raised it from the abject condition,
in which it lay as a humble suppliant at the
formation Of the Union, 10 its present growth
of kingIy power and naughty pride; it has
been that which has increased the number Of
its victims from 700, 900 10 over 5000, 900:
and therefore Ohio, as a part of the Union,
has done part Of the deed, and consented 10 all
the rest.
7. Because slavery is the sum of crimes,
and american slavery is "ihe vilest that ever
saw the sum-" and the Union was formed
for the mutual protection Of the parties uni
ted and therefore, since the people of Ohio
cannot remain in the Union withou, protect
ing the South-without protecting slavehol-
ders-without protecting slavery, they cannot
remain in it without protecting The most hei-
nous system Of wickedness that ever exist
3D..
8. Because, (for the above reasons,) Ohio
never had a right to join the Union /; the rcry
act Of coming into il was a Mistake and a
Crime and each hour of continuing in IL,
from that day to this, has been bnt a repeii-
lion of that crime, only growing continually
greater, with the lapse of time and growing
light: and therefore her continuance in it
no,c, after SO many long years Of experien-
ces, and under the blazing light of the Noon
of the Nineteenth Century, is that original
crime heightened into a very Colossus of evil,
and increased to that magnitude of enormity
that words cannot express the great reali-
ty.
0. Because the Senators and Representa-
tives from this state cannot take their seats
in Congress by the side of the Shareholders
from the South, without recognizing those
tyrants, as fit 10 make laws for Ohio free
men; and therefore the people Of Ohio, who
send those Senators and Representatives, can
not remain in the Union, with those slavehol-
ders, without also recognizing them as fit to
make their laws.
10. Because The Union-having rationale
zed slavery, and made i; .qmerican-has in
volved the people of Ohio as well as of The
other Northern States, not only in the guilt,
but also in the disgrace Of that execrable sys-
TEN has exposed them to the charge of in
consistency and hypocrisy has subjected
them to the t4unts and sneers of the despo-
tisms Of Europe has caused their very name
to become a byworG and ahissing, and them
selves TO be made the laughing stock even of
barbarians and in no way can they relieve
themselves from This load of deep and meri.
ted disgrace so long as they continue in the
Union which has brought 1t upon them.
IL. Because the people Of Ohio cannot
possibly be in a governmental Union with
the South, without being subjected to a hea-
Wy Pecuniary tax every year in support Of
slavery-slavery being essentially a bank
rupt system.
10. Because, finally, the people Of Ohio
have clearly the right to secede from the
Union. The Union is only a means, and if
the people of Ohio think the ends that ought
TO be attained by it, not attained, or if they
think The ends that are attained by it, bad
ends, they have the right to come out from it.,
and set up a new government. This right is
distinctly asserted in the Declaration of In
dependence, and is founded in the very ma
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