Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-03-23
Compromise.

IL there were saint compromise, HWoulu
be his image that ought TO he stamped upon
the coins of our Republic. Our very existence
as a Nation at all is due, we are told, TO
Compromises, and one of somewhat igno-
bic sort, not between God and Satan, but be-
tween Trade and Slavery. SO that Satan
and Mammon were represented at the for
nation OF the compact, but not God. Since
the sticking together of the Union, this pa-
tron Saint Compromise has interviewed Oh
several occasions to preserve the work OF his
clients Slavery, being an acknow-
ledged evil, the very permission to exist was
at first concession aud II surrender. THIS
was called Compromise. Then Slavery
desired to extend itself, aud treuchcry allow
cd it, This was called n Compromise. A.
gain the monster felt the paius of hunger,
and Texas was thrown TO il. This was call
ed Compromise. Now, affairs have thriv-
en- SO well, that Freedom sits, an oiltcust and
beggur, at the gnics of her own ancestral
dwelling. And this is also called a ComprO-
mise. Better strungle at once that bird of
our Country" OF which our orators are 50
fond of talking, than let her go Matching the
eggs of all manner Of uucleun birds.
II is hardly n year since the Northern
Wing presses were vieing with each other in
their zeal for the Wilmot Proviso. The Uni
versal Wing Dough of the Country, icrmcnt-
ing with the yeast of an expected victory
forgot for n moment that it was dough-
| Nolhing was too bad for that sour and heavy
Democratic batch which would not RISE
Now that aspiring dough is fiat and li!clcss.
Even General Taylor ;ras in favor of the
Wilmot Proviso, and Northern Whlgs were
seduced TO vote for him upon that pretence.
Let n man cheat his neighbor out of few
hundred dollars and lac goes to the State
Prison. But TO what Penitentiary of public
contempt shall Party be consigned, which
obtains Il President under false pretenccs
When the eye of the People becomes clair.
voyant, it will behold, we fancy, certain un-
conscious gentlemen working in Congress.
sionu Committees, clad in symbolic suits Of
blue aud red perpendicularly halvcd, such us
are the uniform in some other public insttu-
tions.
The Wilmot Proviso was truly Compro-
mise. Ii allowed the South TO keep all il
had hitherto unjustly gained, but declared
that il should steal no more. Our States
manship, which has brought itself more and
more into accordance with that of Europe,
was desirous OF reproducing an American
type of that greatest of Old World humbugs,
the Balance of Power. Accordingly we are
now told that thc. beam must be kept exact
| ly even between the Free and the Slave
| States, in other words, that when we make
n great hole for our great cat TO go through,
we must also make still greater for the lit.
tie cat not yet Uttered.
All history is tho record of a struggle,
gradually beightcning in fierceness, between
reason and InIreason, between right and
wrong. OF what good is it TINT we can put
off the evil time a century, which is but
day in the history of the human race? Our
statutes are subject to revision in that higher
Congress where the laws of Nature are ell
acted. "Trent shall not wind him with so
deep indent," eXcaim our Glendowers. ale
must, he will, you see he doih," answers the
progress of events. This very neutral ground
| of Compromise is that which is tramped NJ
last by the cOn;cndiug forces OF the good and
evil principle. Our Legislators might as well
try to stay Niagara with dip net, or pass
acts against the laws of gravitatioD, as en-
deavor TO stunt the growth of avengng Con-
science. Do they think tlIa. the Union can
be stuck together with mouth-glue, when the
eternal forces are rending il asunder? There
is something better than EXpedency, and
| that is Wisdom something stronger than
Compromise, aud that is Justice. n. L.
Nat. a. S. Standard.