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

) be renounced safely, nowhere. Certninl'
, New-Mexico is not the region, nor is hers tn
, soil nor hers the cline where it should b
renounced. New-Mexico is the very fieIs
Of the contest.
II we surrender here where we have al
! the vantage ground, where else shall we fine
ground on which TO make resistance?
There is a sound maxim which teaches
that every Government is perpetually de.
generating toward corruption, from which Il
must he rescued at successive periods by
the resusctation of its first principles and
the re-establishment of its original Consti-
tuition. The blood is not more native TO the
heart than the principle of the equality oI
men contained in the Ordinance of 'S7 to
the Constitution of the United States. The
Constitution of the United States confers no
right upon Congress TO deprive men Of their
natural rights and inalienable liberty.
shall, therefore, insist upon applying the Pro-
viso not only when it is necessary 10 save a
Territory from Slavery, but even when It's
application might be waived, as mems OF
preserving and renewing the Constitution
ITSELF 1t cannot be bad political husbandry
TO stir the earth and apply the fresh mold to
the roots of the vine our forefathers planted,
when its branches are spreading themselves
abroad and clustering upon the States which
surround us.
Chcrisiing these opinions, have strug-
gled TO extend the ordinance of ~ over
New-Mexico. If I fail in that, | shall not
then surrender il by entering into the rid
dliug covenant contained in this bill, but
shall fall back, as did in the case of Califor-
mia, upon the people of the Territory, and
leave New-Alcxico in tue mean time under
the protection of her ancient laws, deeming
her more safe in resting free, though with
out guard, in open danger, than inclosed in
n suspected safety. This, sir, is snon-ntcrvcn-
tion--such non-interyention as you and i
can practice and can justify. Not volunta-
ry, self-imposed non-intcryeution, TO betray
or expose Freedom, but compulsory non-in-
tervention, when all intervention to save it
had failed.
The District of Columbia, the offspring Of
the Republic, is cherished equally by all the
States and if the destinies of the nation
are correctly apprebended, the Capital must
one day stand in dignity, and for the liberal
oris, without parallel. But it yet lacks one
element of prosperity, the freedom of labor,
and one element of greatness, the dignity of
labor. Its atmosphere snppresses, although
il cannot smother, the love of liberty, which
is public, universal and undying affection
Why should the great Interests of thclcef,i-I
tai be cast into the balance TO bring up the
already buoyant scale of California? The
only reason is that you have de cided TO over
load that scale with the weight of your gra-
tuity to Texns, and of the suppression of
Freedom in Utah and New-Mexico?
Such, Sir, is the manner in which Cali
fornia Texas, New-Mexico, Utah and Column
bia are wronged by casting their interests in
TO the misshapen chaos of iair-secming
forms and mischiels manifold, which con-
stitutes this extraordinary scheme of COM
promise and adjustment
The scheme has engrossed the Senate six
months TO the exclusion of nearly every 9TH
er measure. II it ever shall reach the House
of Representatives, its most anspicious
promise there is rejection, TO be followed
by final disagreement between the two
Houses And this will be the sum of the |
History of the First Session of the Thirty
first Congress-the history of an attempt to
break in one compact and twisted bundle of
ihgots so strong and gnarled that they could |
hardly he snapped singly-an attempt TO |
overcome reason, passion and prejudice alto
gether, instead of engaging reason alone.
There are only thousand slaves here all |
told. The People of the free States remon.
strate against their being held in hopeless
bondage; but they wait patiently until the
mind of the Nation can he moved TO abol-
ish it. What answer does this bill give to
these remonstrances? 1t proposes TO re-
move the slave shambles across the Poto-
mac, and in return for that concession, ex-
acts guarantee of the continuance of Sla-
very, until Maryland shall consent to It's abo-
lition. Sir, this is healing the wound by
plunging deeper into it the knife that made
II. Shall we then authorize the newly re-
turned Minister from Russia TO give 10 his
Imperial master the gratifying intelligence
that this Republic, the equipoise of Despot-
ism, hastens to a fall by cause so made
qunte and so inglorious as the bare posi-
bility that 1000 slaves may, some five, teu or
twenty years hence, be redeemed from bon
lage!
Still it is replied that the Slavery question
must be settled. That question cannot be
settled by this bill. Slavery and Freedom
ire conflicting systems brought together by
he union of the States, not neutralized nor
even harmonized. Their antagonism is radi-
,al, and therefore perpetual. Compromise
,ngenders conflict and the conflict involves,
all questions of n national in
erest,-questions of Revenue, of Internal
improvements, oil Industry, of Commerce,
If Political rivalry, and even all questions of
Peace and of War. In entering the career
)f conquest, you have kindled TO fierce
leat the fires you seek to eXtinguisli, because
you have thrown into them tho fuel of Pro-
pagandism. We have the Propagandism of
Slavery 10 enlarge the slave market and to
increase slave representation in Congress
md in the Electoral Coleges,--ior the
bramble ever seeks power, though the olive,
Ihe fig and the vine should refuse it-and
The Propagandism Of Freedom to counter
act these purposes. Nor can this Propa-
gandisn be arrested on either side. The
sea is covered with exiles, and they swarm
over the land. Emigration from Europe,
md from Asia, and from Polynesia, and from
he Free States and from the Slave States,
goes on and must go ON, win 60 on, in obe-
Hence to laws which / should say were