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

ing pouHy, IL would not be q hard matter to
get at. II the Church could not get rid of IL,
honest men would Of the Church. But O, its
only stealing poor helpless men, and women,
and childrcn-thats all, and "it's difficult
matter" to dispose off 1t seems to me if VIC
may take this excuse at the hands of profcssed
Abolitionists in the pro-slavery Churches North,
and extend the hand of fellowship, we must do
so of the STAKEHOLDER himself. Docs he not ad-
nit the evil, and plead the embarrassing nature
of his circumstances None more so.
No, my friend, Slavery, wherever found, ei-
ther itself or in any of its multiplied props and
supports, must be disfellowshipped and decricd
as not only anti Christian, but anti-hHman.--
Then, and not till then, will il fall.
Many things farther might be adducod in
proof Of our duty to disfellowship Slavery in all
its forms, and that we do 80 only as we seccdc
from pro-slavcry Church. Responsibility at
taches to the body, If a sin be allowed, no matter
how few are the actual participants in the crime.
The charge against the Church of Pcrgamos
was general, though it was not intimated that
but few had sinned in actually holding to the
doctrine of Balaam, &c.
You could not allow the plea set up by some,
that we of the North have nothing to do with
Slavery; on the contrary we were responsible to
the slave, and failed entirely to meet that re-
sponsibility, if We voted for pro-slavery men,
This grant, and little more with it. We fail
to meet that responsibility If zee rote for any one
under he present american Constitution. Is II
wrong for Henry Clay to hold those GO persons
in abject slavery there in Kentuckyi You an
swer Eyes" emphatically. Then it is their
right to run off, IL possible, is it mott "Ycs."
Well, if the courageous fight of that slave
proves that he is worthy of freedom" and you
refuse to "harbor or conceal" him, but deliver
him up to his mcrcilcss pursuer, arc you not
equally guilty with Henry Clayi "Ccrtainly."
Well. the Constitution is the great fundamental
law of the land. When you vote you take an
oath to support it through your agent, the one
whom, by your vote you elect to Office. 1t is
important to know what that instrument en-
joins. 1t says: " No person held to service or
labor in ono State, under the laws thereof, esca-
ping into another shall, by virtue of any law or
regulation therein, be discharged from such ser
vice or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim
of the party to whom such service or labor may
be due" Arc you prepared to live up to the
| spirit and intent of that provision Can an ABB
oltionist do iii Do you answer "No," and
that you intend to act precisely the reverse.-
Then do you solemnly promise to do one thing,
and do the other. This course honesty forbids.
will refer to but ono clause of the Constitu-
ton farther, in aid of Slavery, and that is the
one which pledges the entire strength of the
nation to. I" suppress instructions " among the
slaves, Auts keep them in their chains. Now,
sir, how is it that $4,000 Shareholders are hold
ing 100000 of men and women in chains to-
dayi Is it not in consequence of the relation
that we of the North sustain to Slavery through
the Federal Constitution Palpably it is. Arc
you prepared to shoulder your musket and
march to the South for purpose so vile; Do
you say "No"i L respond, if you are sup
porter of this govcrnmcnt-a voter-you are
there nop on that erecra5le e,vandi
You make the President, be he who he may,
Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy"
and you have said that, on application of the
Governor of State, he shall command your
army to put down such insurrcction Do you
say, "an insurrection may not occur"i an
swer, the strongest reason why it will not is
found in the fact of the sworn cnmity of the
North to the slave in that event. He knows
that while your arms are open to the oppressed
of Europe, you arc sworn to "deliver him up "
if he should gain the nominally FREQ States
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Hence he is passive in his chains If were to
demand of you that you labor for me one year
without fee or reward, you would disregard
the demand. But if / say to you that the
entire community have sworn to me to en-
force that demand. and you are satisfied of
tho fact, you will go on and labor for me
for the year. Do you not see that the commu-
nifty who have thus conspired with me in
this case are equally guilty with me; Nay
more, for the hope OF gain they had not to blind
the mind. Such is the relation of the North 10
Slavery. Will you sustain this rclationi Will
you solemnly agree to deliver up fugitivcs, and
then boldly declare your purpose to feed and
hasten on to freedom, every slave you cani-
VIII you justify the 100000, who, in 70,
unshcathed the sword in redress of the griev-
anco of small tax on tea, and then swear, so
help me God, will assist to keep in chains
3,OOO,O 900 of our equal brothers. "one hour OF
whose suffering" says Thomas Jefferson, "is
fraught with more misery than ages OF that
which the fathers rose in rebellion to resist -
And yet if you vote you do this Can you be
other then than disunionists And why not
say, "dissolvo the Union," aside from these
insuperable barriers to supporting iti If we un-
dertake to unto sin and holiness there is only
evil of the alliance. 1t was attempted in for
ming the Constitution and Slavery has had its
way ever since. 1t is soon again to triumph
In few years it will demand the balance Of
Mexico. The North will still yield, and be-
smear anew her guilty soul in the blood of Mex
leo. l tell you, while there is So little con-