Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-04-06

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did not earlier cmoncipate the Catholics
when Peel taunis Cobden, TINT the Corn
laws were not sooner repealcd--when Benc-
dict Arnold taunts Washington, that the Col
onies did not sooner triumph; then, at their
side, let Webster taunt the North for want Of
strength, energy and unanmity in its oppo-
sition to slavery; he, whose boast has been,
who has claimed it as merit with his South
ern friends, that he never introduced the ques-
ton in any shape into Congress.
"The North Star is at last discovered
Who told him so I? For only by report could
he know il, having had no hand in the grand
discovery. Let him modestly betake himself
TO the company of Harry Fiiths,
Gentlemen in England, now a-bcd,
Who hold their manhood cheap when any speaks
Who fought with us upon
that glorious forlorn hope, the North against
the South, in the slaves cause.
His total surrender of what he so vain-glo-
riously called, at Springfield, his thunder
and the Whig ground is fiat apostacy,
nothing else. Somewhere, in this speech
he finds fault with us rs inpatient too inn
| patient to wait for the slow progress of NOR
al causes in the improvement of mankind'-
If from lS47 to 1850 be fair specimen of
his snail-lko progress backward, impatienco
is no great crime in any spectator. in the
| streets, they link his name with Arnold and
such humble traitors but his crime is great
er. Nothing as has been well said by Chas.
Sumner, resembles il but the deliberate and
calculating apostacy of Strafford. IL is not,
as in Arnold, the surrender of tort, or the
desertiou of a single man. Here the proper,
and by some youngings the expected, leader
of the North, not only leaves the camp, but
sets himself like Srafford, to corrupt with
his glozing sophistry the consciences and
hoodwink the eyes of his countrymen, yields
up the safety of one race, aud uses the inhu-
ence too generously given him to mould the
other into supple and unconscious tools of a
Despotsm which he is oil the while affecting
TO abhor. II Slavery sets her foot on the
strand of the Pacific, Let her thank our Strai-
ford. Mirabeau was bought with gold, but
Deatl; took it before lie could earn il Straf
ford with peerage, but Puritanism winnow-
ed him and his plots on its inexorabe thrcsh-
ng-foor, the scaffold. There is spirit
awake ut the North as inexorable as Puritan
ism or Death; and now, as formerly, God
gives to Liberty nothing but victories.
,ast Reformation Of figitiues. :.
We como next to MIR. Webster's admission
of there being just grounds ofSouthern COM
plant against the North.
The free States have never passed law |
which their best lawyers did not deem con-
sistent with the Constitution; and the mo- |
ment the Federal Court, most unexpectedly, |
IN the Prigg case, announced new view of |
the relations of the States TO this question,
they coniormed their Legislation exactly to its
decision. Northern courts have, with cruel
fidelity, we think, carried out the edicts of
the central Judiciary. Individuals, it is true,
to their honor be it said, have with here and
there few exceptions, to which we now add
the name of Daniel Webster,) refused to be
wray him that VANDERBILT Yet against
Courts and Legislatures, as well as private
citizens, MIR. Webster endorses this wholesale
SANDER, which lacks only truth to be a COM
plinent.
The only point in this part of the speech
that interests us, is the unutterable baseness
of the slaye-hunt pledge. 1t is indeed true,
as we have always argued, that oil who swear
TO support the Constitution are bound not
only TO submit to the return of fugitive slaves,
but TO aid in il, if necessary. All honor TO
MIR. Webster's consistency ON this point; and
rs he exhibits none on any other, and very
little here, we nre the more scrupulous to pay
him his due credit, TO the utternost farthing.
The difference of conduct of different men
OH this point of surrendering fugitive slaves
has been quite remarkable. Some, with Ad-
ans and Charming, cut the Gordian knot. by
ffankly declaring thnt, though sworn 10 the
Constitution, his they will not do /; a course
deiepsible neither i'm n court of law nor one
of morals. Others. with Giddings and his
friends. eyade the question. and willie nd
mitting the general constitutional obligation,
are very shy of telling us what they them
MIR Webster for his nla;n. ,nvorn;sl,ed villa
nv. Villain. gen,le reoder ;s none roo harsh
n name ,or = sna,, Who nro,assoS liz ro"J;'
ness 70 return f;,n;,;ye sIayes Onr aood Sar-
ON tonr,e WINS made far us,, NOT te be laid
up in dictionaries. IL is rich indeed in its