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


sustained by the labors of such Societies, and
i glded with their appreciation, the last ten
heroic years of Adamss life, as a mere Rep
resentative, not only eclpsed all the glory OF
hls Diplomatic and Executive services, but
Oloting from popular recollection an odium
such as no other public man ever encounter
ca, changing gall into sweetness, sent him to
ms grave covered with love, laments, and
blessings, which any public man but WASH
iDgton might envy.
The Union--Secession.
In relation to Mr.. Webstcr's melancholy
picture of the terrible effects of secession.
we take the liberty oftellng him that there are
sadder sights than that of spheres and hcav-
enly bodies josiling against each other in the
realms of space 'of great Constitution melt
ing away under the influence of a vernal
SUM-, or even of "a two-fold war; Such
sights are twenty millions of people, profess
sedly Christian aud republican, of whom
their oldest and ablest statesman leaves il as
his last word, that 'siareholding, slare-breed-
ing and stdpe-oGtcling form he irhoie founda-
! hon Of the policy Of their government: a war
like that against Mexico to extend the accur-
sed system: a speech like his own, volun-
teering to head the forty thousand underlings
OF such government in their hunting of fII-
gtiye slaves: three million of unhappy men
and women compelled TO be vile, to live in
promiscuous concubinagc, reduced TO the
J level of brutes. i looked, and there was
none TO help for those mighty intellects
which God had given as leaders of their age,
were either cajoled by the promises or awed
by the threats of wicked men, prostituting
their gifts to make the worse appear the bet
Ter reason grinding voluntarily and gladly
IN the mills of the Philistnes. Compared
with such scenes, mere common wars are
brave and noble games. What can be sad
der sight, or greater evil, than beings whom
Tod intended to he great, becoming panders
20 tue lowest vices of others? Nothing, ex-
cept nation contented to be led by such.-
Welcome any storm that is necessary to de-
suoy the seeds of such pestience!
lie says no word of the Constitutionality
of secession. We introduce the point mere
~ TO assure him that Yankee enterprise
means to keep abreast of this stirring world,
now that precedents of Constitutional law are
manufacturing. We intend to try our hands
II the article. The Louisiana treaty, acqui-
fsced in by the people, settled that we may
4egnire territory. The Florida treaty settled
fhat we may reIinquish ns wen rs acquire
territory. The Texas treaty, acquiesced in
70 some extent, proves that we may acquire
States. When the Massachusetts treaty is
made, il will show that the Union can reiin-
4uiSh Stdtes also. Aud surely it will be q
poor return for all our courtesy and acquies-
cence since 1903, il the lordly Caroinas will
not acquiesce in this pet project of ours
which indeed has this advantage, that her
great men, unlike our Websters and Win
throps, will not be forced to eat their own
words, and lick the dust, when they support
il in their Congress.
While on this point, Mr.. Webster asks
What is to remain Americana In our
opinion, that portion of the Coniederacy
which cliugs TO the great American idea of
taking the pains to re-enact,' ay, and prac-
tice, so plain law of God as that ALL MEN
ARE CREATED EQUAL
what am [Daniel Websterl to be7'-
That will depend upon where you stand !
whether on Plymouth rock, rebuking, at no |
great cost of moral courage, the slave trade ; |
- beneath the October sun of the Old Do |
minion,' pandering to her vices in order to |
elect Mr.. Harrison to the Presidency; or on |
the Senate floor, liberally, kindly, or very !
weakly out-generalled ON the slave ques- |
ton in oil its shapes.
'llow is each of the thirty States to defend |
itself?' Massachusetts has none of that pop
ulation which Mr.. Arnold of Tennessee de- |
scribes as ready to rise and strike for free |
dom at the first tap of the drum none of
that class, of whom Madison said, that every
TO its number only tends to weaken |
a State, and render il less capable of self-de-
fence, and which is a means rather of invi-
ting attack than repelling invasion. As for
foreign foes, she points to Lexington aud
Bunker Hill, where she fought alone, and to
all the other battle-fieds of the Revolution,
on each of which stood more Massachusetts
men than could be found there from all the
then six Southern States together.
Shall we dismember this great country,
and astonish Europe with an act Of folly such
ns Europe for two centuries has never beheld
in any government? Is it not pertinent to
reply, why not as well do SO as TO disgust
Europe, and outrage the moral sense OF the
world, and retard the hopes of the race, by
the sight of republic, of which, as Adams
said, the preservation, propagation and per-
petuation of slavery is the vital aud anina-
ling spirit? by the sight of slave voyage,
like our own TO Mexico, to extend and re-es-
Iablish slavery, a crime, such as Europe for
two centuries has never beheld in any gov
what is to become of the army and navyT |
We shall at least need neither to put down |
slave instructions, or conquer new fields for |
Shareholders.
what is to become of the public lands /?
They viii be free, beyond the possibility Of
even Websters aud Winthrops 10 trick them
into being slave States.
Where is the line TO be drawnP Just
here, where men are SO much ashamed OF
heir sims ms to he unwilling to stand before
he world Responsible for setting up repnb-
lie on the basis of slavery ;--just there, where
men, unlike MIR. Webster, love Slavery less,
md Union with Massachusetts,, Ohio and Lib
srty more. t
SWhere is the flag Of the republic 10 re-
main p Where is the eagle still 10 tower?
Wbat flstian is all this Liberty first, and
Union afterwards, said Patrick Henry. 'Ubi