Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-07-13

~ '"O '5iaNe ROVER, winch is OmnlpOtcnt 10
fa'se to oil places of honor and preferment,
% strike down those who occupy those pla-
ces, and to shnpe the destiny Of the republic
a. now organized. Now, this is our declara-
.lon God never yet made il possible for
lreemen and tyrnnts TO coalesce, or for libor-
ana slavery to flourish together. BE not
cheated by nome. The American Union,
so called, is not a union in reality. II is a
oespousm, after all and, for one, / declare
my uncompromising hostility to despotism in
every form, call II what you may, and how
soever i may disguise itself [Cheers and
groans.l
Well, there appears to be n dissent from
TINS. Laughter and hisscs.1 Let us have
tue freest expression, and yet preserve our
self-respect | repeat il: we are living un-
der despotism, which we have christoncd
by the name of' Union,' and so are deluded
by the notion that VIC ale frcemcn.
One word further in regard to the free ex-
preston of opinion. Doubtless, there are
some IN this assembly who neither sympa-
uhizo with the slave, nor desire to utter
word Tor his deliyerance; and, therefore, they
mry see no evil in preventing by violence
Others from pleading his cause. But, remem-
Der, we are creatures of change. Remember,
we do not want the right to talk tonight on
ly, but Tomorrow also, in accordance with
our convictions. 1t may be that, tomorrow,
better thoughts-at least, other thoughts
may take possession of our minds, and we
may sec in that poor manaclod slave the i'm
age OF Jesus, and a brother man, and may
wish TO cry aloud for his emancipation
Some OF you are DcmocrGts-othors arc
wings. AS such, your particular party en-
lists your feelings and secures your ule-
Sionce. You may not dream Of changing
yotr sentiments, and perhaps may not do so;
that Is not the question. But what il, to-
morrow, you should see good reason for Ill
iering your position: ought you not TO have
the right TO do so? Beware, then, how you
tompe upon principle, the sacrifice of
which intcrieres with your freedom as men,
os much as it does with ours, who happen TO
espouse an unpopular cause.
Let me appeal to the democrat portion of
this audience. Democracy is based upon
the Declaration of Independence, is it not?
1t goes for the freedom and equality of the
entire human race-in theory, at least. Well,
what is your freedom in this GLORIOUS Uu-
ion undor your glorious Constitution P
Test this latter practically. You travel
south of Mason and Dixon's line, and there
Ifliold the slave coiile, driven in chains 10 a
- s,r,fs--s -sset ---the ul,upen, tiesh aueiiop--,
the Scared and croucIling slaves on the
plantation. Indignant at such spectacle,
you loudly cxclaim against il; you pronounce
il inhuman and anti-democratic, to the last
degree; you nvow your sympathy with the
slave as a man and brother What then?
None will rally more promptly to your tar
ring and feathering than your Southern de-
mocratic brethren! And this is your 'glo-
rious' Union Applause and Kisses. Is
it not so? draw 10 fancy sketch-I exng-
gerate nothing Yes, you may cry out
am an American citizen, from the old Bay
State, and member of the great democratic
party !'-it will avail you nothing. If you
persist in denouncing slavery, by democratic
hands you shall be outraged, and perndyen-
ture choked to death You can live in safe
y there, only by not daring to be a man, and
BY making slaveholding aud slave-breeding
compatible with genuine democracy? What
| glorious Union!
How is it with you wings? You profess
o be quite rs democratic as the democrats
themselves. You also hold to the Declara-
ion OF Independence. You believe in pre-
erving the Union. And what is your liber-
y under it? Let one of you venture TO the
south, and proclaim uncompromising oppo-
ltion TO the slave system-let him demand
he immediate liberation of the enslaved, and
raign the Shareholders for their grievous
'ppression-and, though il should be Daniel
Webster himself his Southern whig breth-
en- would instantly make the soil too hot for
lin to tread upon To save his life, an ig-
lominious flight would be necessary. Is
uch Union glorious? Is it to be perpet-
lated at all hazards?
Wings and democrats of the North, do You
lot know that when blow is aimed at the
Xistence of slavery, the wings and demo-
rats of the South act by one impulse?
Like kindred drops, they mingle into one
Their whiggery is nothing, their democracy
5 nothing, party triumph nothing, the Con-
titution nothing, the Union nothing, in COM
'arison with the safety and perpetuity of that
lideous system. Do you not see, therefore,
hat the condition of your alliance with them
) this-be treacherous TO freedom, and sue
umb TO their despotic sway? How is il that
ou are SO blind?
The times are troublous; the wheels of
government move heavily; anxiety and dis
nay are every where visible; 'men's hearts
re falling them for fear, and for looking al,
or those things which are coming upon the
and But who or what is justly responsible
Or this state of things? Not the abolition
the anti-slavery movement No
I is sidUery-sLAyERY-N BUT
SLAVERY. Let the blame rest heavily on
hose who advocate or apologize for slavery,
Or the dread responsibility is theirs. Take
hat disturbing element out of the republic,
nd we are one; our institutions are one (;
ur interests are one our aims and aspira-
ions are. one; our hearts are one and the
iod we worship is one. Are we of the free
states in fierce collision with each other P
> Ohio arrayed against Massachusetts, or
laine against Ohio? Move are all one,
'ecause we are the free tillers of the soil,
md ours are the interests of ifeemen. Abol-
sh slavery, and God will give us peace, pros
'erity, safety, in largest measure-not till
hen. Then shall we have glorious I'm
on in fact, as well as in form, such as the
world has never seen. am here TO advo-
'ate such Union, that justice may triumph