Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-07-20


laws We're acknowledged here. And ma,
be allowed here to refer those who hay,
been fcandalzed by the allusion TO sucI
laws, 2 single passage by an author who's
opiulons did not err on the side of supersli
ton ofiyranny;
III lt be said that every nation ought II
this % follow their own Constitutions, we ar,
nt an end of all our controversies, for the,
ought not TO be followed unless they arr
rightly made: they canuot be rightly mads
II they are contrary 10 the universal law O.
God end Nature" Discourses on Govern
menf, ty .dgei7on Sidney, ch. /, p. az.
And wherever these emigrants go, whetb.
er fhef go from necessity or of choice, they
form continuous, unbroken, streaming pro.
cessions OF colonsts, founders of States
builders Of Nations and where Colonies
are planted, States are formed or Nations
built, Labor is there the first and indspen-
sable Element, and it begins and prosecutes
to the end its strife for freedom and power.
While the sovereignty of the Territories re-
mains here, the strife will come up here to
be composed. You may slay the Wilmot
Proviso IN the Senate Chamber and bury il
beneath the Capitol to-day, the corse in COM
plete steel will haunt your Legislative halls
tomorrow.
When the strife is ended ia the Terrific
ries you now possess, il will be renewed on
new helds, 10 fortiiy advantages gained, or
TO retrieve losses incurred; for both of the
parties know there is "yet that word Here
AFTER"
Senators have referred us 70 the promise
Of peace, heralded in the Mexican Compro-
mise. Sir, that prophecy is but hulf its jour
ney yet The annexation Of Texas the in
yasion of Mexico, this prolonged struggle
over Caliiornia, this desperate contest for the
SHOWS and sands of New-Mexico and Deser-
ct are oil within the scope and limits of the
prediction, and so are the striies vet to come
over ice bound regions beyond the st. Law
renee and sunburnt plains beneath the trop-
les.
But while this Compromise will fail of all
ITS purposes, it will work ont serious and
lasting evils. All such Compromises are
changes OF the Constitution, made in dero-
CATION OF the Constitution. They render it
uncerain in its meaning, and impair its vigor
as woi as its sanctions. This Compromise
finds the Senate in wide divergence from the
House OF Representatives, by reason of the
undue multiplication of feeble consumptive
States effected by former Compromises of
the s1me sort. You will incur that evil UNI
ill Al. Congress Of the United States will be
unaDe 10 conduct the Business OF tiie cotin-
try by-reason of chronic disagreement be-
tween'this aud the popular branch, and the
result will be the abolition of one branch or
of the other. Either of such would proba-
bly, be fatal to Liberty.
This compromise is rendered doubly dan
gerous by tire circumstance that il is n con-
cession to alarms of dsorgOnization and fac
ton. Such concessions once begun, follow
each other with fearful rapidity and always
increasing magnitude. Ii is time, high time,
that panics about the Union should cease;
that il should be known and felt that the
Constitution and the Union within the limits
of human security, are safe, firm and perpe-
tual. Settle what you can settle, confide in
that old arbiter Time for his favor and aid in
settling for the future what belongs to tho
future, and you will hereafter be relieved of
two classes of patriots whose labors can well
be spared-those who clamor for dsunion,
either to abolish Slavery or to prevent eman-
cipation, and those who surrender principles
or sound policy to clamors so idle.
Sir, the agitations which alarm us are not
signs of evils to come, but mild efforts of the
Commonwealth for reliefirom mischiefs past.
There is way, and one way only, to put
them at rest. Let us go back to the ground
where our forefathers stood. While we leave
Slavery TO the care of the States where it
exists, let us inflexibly direct the policy of
the Federal Government to circumscribe its
limits, and favor its ultimate extinguishment.
Let those who have this misfortune cntaled
upon them, instead of contiiving how 10
maintain an equilibrium that never existed,
consider carefully how, at some limc-it may
be ten, or twenty, or even fifty years hence
by some means, by means of their own,
md with our aid, without sudden change or
violent action, they may bring about the
of Labor, and its restoration
o its just dignity and power in the State.-
I.et them tnke Hope to themselves, give Hope
o the Free Suites, awaken Hope throughout
he world. They will thus anticipate only
what must happen at some time, and what
hey themselves must desire, if it can come
'afely, and as soon as it can come without
langer. Let them do only this, and every
,ause of disagreement will cease, immediate
v and forever. We shall then not merely
endure each other, but we shall be reconcil-
ID together, and shall realize once more the
'oncord which results from mutual league,
lnited counsels, and equal hopes aud haz-
rds in the most sublime and beneiicent en-
erprize the earth has witnessed. The fing-
RS of the Power above would tune the har-
nony of such Peace.