Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-06-15

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of mind and of matter, in opposition TO which
il is i'm vain to set up the devices of men.-
Constitutions and Institutions are permanent
Just 10 proportion that they are in accord
ance with the everlasting laws OF God and
| Nature. II is as vain for men to endeavor to
rive Immortality to lie by tying II to truth
| as to seek to restore dead body to life by
binding il TO living one. The Union of the
States cannot endure because there is no nat
urnl, but only mechanical, cohesion be-
tween its parts. Their tendency is not CEN
tripetal but centrifugal II is not merely
want of moral scnsibilijy, but of intelligent
appreciation oi selfintrrrst. that Keeps the
North in the Union. 20 iris urr cy exist,
except 10y the consent % the SUBJECT multi
Jude. As the many become enlightened tie
| power OF the oligarchy is broken. This dis
semnation of intelligence cannot be hinder
ed, even in the most absolute dcspollsins or
most compact missionaries OF the old world.
In this country, the Northern States that Is,
there is no possibility Oi stopping the dillli-
sion of knowledge or this subject. MIR. Web
ster's Boston backers may return HIM their
humble thanks for having recalled them to
their duties under the Constitution" TO wit:
of eating all their words against the Annex
alton ofTexns and the Extension of Slavery,
and of suffering the Minority in Congress TO
bully the Majority into obedience; but they
constitute but n tenth part of the voters Of
Boston, and only hundred and siXty-ninth
Tor thcrcaboutsl of those of the State. But
these gentlemen cannot keep the knowledge
from the rest that n handful of some seventy
five thousand voting Shareholders, by virtue
of their slaveholding, do what they like with
the other twenty millions of inhnbitanis-
Aud it is not likely thai they will forever sub
nit to such a state of things.
There is something the more comic in the
assentation of these courtiers of our God-like
Canute, iorasnuch as il goes beyond that OF
the naltercrs OF the stout old Dane of yore.-
When he issued his commands to the Ocean
and bid his proud waves be still, his attend
ants nudged each other behind his back and
tipped one another the wink, marvellmg that
he should be such a fool as to believe them.
But these worthy followers oftllo Marshiield
Canute really seem TO think that he can do
what he proposes, and that the tide of agita-
ton will cease TO flow in obedience TO his
potential voice But we would advise him
and them to stand out OF the way, il they re-
" upon his words of power. A Lnpland
witch has us much power over the polar seas
as this bankrupt political stnck,iobber has
over the Ocean Stream OF thought aud pns-
> s....,s .g.ss N0.sierl
world, as was the handi-work OF Vulcan
nrouud the Shield of Achilles. Do they not
see that instead of calming the surface, he
has broken up the depths and made the
whole world of waters to boil like u pot?-
Even Mr. Clay (the strongest proof we have
seen vet that " Age has clawed him in his
clutcll,"l thinks that the passage of such "A
Compromise as will be hatchcd out of the
cockatrices eggs which have been put under
the Scnntc's Committee OF Incubation, will
he followed by such calm us succeeded his
Missouri Compromise! lie overooks the
new element which has been introduced in
TO the political and religious relations of the
country since then, and to the operation OF
which he himself has rightly attributed the
state of things which he dcplorcs. we mean
the Anti-Slavery Movement proper. the due
and natural influences of which have arous-
ed the tempest of Agitation which makes
such dreadful pother over the heads OF
| Washington politicians. MIR. Clay is strange
" infatuated if he suppose that the sweep OF
such a surge is to be bound or checked by
the Chains and whips OF such NerXes as he
or ms MIR. Webster, whatever attendant Flat
terry may say.
"New praise is tried, till madness fires his mind
The waves he lashcs and cnchains the wind.
Herein consists the hope of our deliver
ance. The Anti-Slavery Agitation never car
die out. Ii has been going on increasing
from its day of small things in spite of The
steady opposition of the State and the
Church, aud OF all the usually controlling in
fuences OF Society. 1t has taken possession
OF Congress aud turned il Iuto great Anti
Slavery Debating Society, with tie whole
country for an audience. Increasing allen
ton to the subject must he followed by grow
ing intelligence aud more earnest sense o
responsibility and duty. But they will new
er cease to haunt it and make il uncomiorta
BILE in its wickedness. Fortunately it does
not take many TO ring the Alurm-bell (tlia
bell which Burke tells us we should rejoice
TO hear when the City is ON iireb aud as !
has been kept clushing for twenty years Will
few hands at the rope and with neighbor
hood hating the disturbance more than the
conflagration, we think il is more than Mr.
Clay or MIR. Webster can do 10 silence it,
That the American Union must come to al
end, if the element of Slavery be not eliml
mated, is as certain as TINT the Union between
the Thirteen Colonies and England mus
have ceased, at some time, even II II had DeeI
postponed from l776, or as il is that grea
changes must take place in the political ar
rangements OF Continental Europe. IL II
merely a question OF time. And all the pro
! fessions OF loyalty and allegiance with whlcl
! our great great men aud little great mel
think il necessary TO garnish their speech
: wiihal are symptoms not OF health but o
} weakness. The true friends of the countr
Y are they who are proving that the Union is
deIusion aud snare, as now constituted
Q strong only for evil and impotent for good
: Increasing multmdes are growing up TO III
: knowledge of this truth, and the day OF II
I reduction to practice will be that from who
8 History will date the birth Of the Republic
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