Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-02-23
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The Union.
From the Cleveland True pemocra,.

From the Cleveland True Democrat.
Is the Union of the States, a mere LEAGUE
for the extension and perpetuation of hu.
man slavery? II seems so. The giant strength
of the Free States IS leagued with the cor
rupt influences of the slave power, for the
PARTITION of this continent with slavehold-
ers. Unborn generations by this corrupt
and Infamous league, are doomed to redemp-
tionless bondage. Who is for such Union
II this be our GLORIOUS UNioS-then, for
one, say, in the name of the Living God,
let it perish! Thus perverted from the OBJ
ject designed by its framers-thus made the
instrument Of endless oppression to living
and unborn myriads of our fellow beings, II
becomes us, us the true descendants OF the
MEN OF sEvENTY-sIx, to demolish that COM
pact OF iniquity and dishonor--as true sons
OF those who devoted " life, fortune and sa-
cred honor" to the cause of Universal Free
dom, we arc bound, as we hold their memo
ry and example sacred, to put an end to this
degrading partnership in crime.
Can such Union endure? Who believes
il, when he remembers that God is Just,
and that his justice will not sleep forever"
None but the atheist or fool can believe that
such compact of guilt and blood is des-
tined TO endure and prosper. No! let the
cold iniquity of the stakeholder, and the
treachcrous cowardce of the doughface,
combine TO extend the curse of hman bond
age over the Free Soil of New Mexico, and
the poor slave will be more than avenged by
its effect in weaving millions in the Free
States from their blind attachment TO q
Union which has no uses but to crush the
slave and degrade the free, so far as crime
and cowardice can combine TO do it. The
iniquity t0iH be perpetrated. The treachery
is even now consunmated. Freemen are
betrayed by their representatives. The vii
Jainy is already accomplished, BUT-the end
Is not yet Long years Of corruption, deg
radiation and crouchng servility on the part
OF the Free North, aud of overbearng inso-
lenco aud oppression on the part Of the slave
holding South, are before us. We bequcath
the struggle 10 our children but God reigns,
nnd the day of retribution to tyrants and
their servile minions advances-slowly but
surely ;-and when the corruption and de-
pravaIon caused by this rank crime are ma
tured, and the cup Of our national iniquities |
is full--tlIen will come, in one day, the de- |
struction of that bloody IDOL, the UNION,
which we have blindly, madly, worshipped,
together with national degradation and ruin,
Then will he our turn to drink the dregs of
that cup we have so long and so cruelty
pressed 10 the lips Of the poor slave, The
slave will be avenged. Who is so wilfully
blind as not to see this? who so hardened in
bis hatred Of freedom, rs to disregard it?
Better, infinitely better, accept the bitter al
ierDaiiye Of repentance now, than tempt the
Omnipotent by continuing in crime, Where
ore our great men, "our wise counsellors "
DO they believe that the secret of the per-
petual Union of these States lies in an eter-
nal yielding Of the principles and practice of
justice and liberty, to the clamor and yio- |
lence of two hundred thousand shareholders
of the South? Are our so-called wise men
deaf alike to the voice of revelation, reason
ond history? Do they not BELIEvE-do
they not KSow-that God, the Omnipotent,
has wisdom 10 devise means TO shatter this
idolized UsIoS TO fragments, when he sees
that IL has become but n LEAGUE for the op-
preston of the poor?
What spectacle is presented by our men
held in "reputation for wisdom and honor"
Our Webster and Calhoun, our Clay and
Benton and Cass! Behold them, taxing
their mighty powers TO compound a cement
for this GLORIOUS UNoN, that, when applied,
shall make il perennial and what is the fruit
of their combined wisdom2 Alas they
propose 10 patch up and daub the crumblng
fabric with mortar tempered with the tears
and blood Of the crushed slave, and the
pride, ignorance and rapacity OF the free
1Iuiy, iiiOSt uuly, OOu " thkctu INC Wise III
their own craftiness,"
And where, In the midst of this imminent
peril of our country, are the ministers of
Gods REVEALED wILL7 Oh, they are most
ly receiving fat salaries, as compensation
for crying "Peace, peace, when there is 10
peace" They too, like their political breth-
Jen, are blinking fhe principles of Eternal
Truth and Justice, that they may build up
national sects, composed of Shareholders and
tl.nse who loathe aud abhor slayeliolding-
Thu1 are the political and religious leaders
of the people conspiring against their most
sacred interests, by intoxicating the ipidel,
the atheistical lie, that God WILL NOT syisit
for these things" All the future, for our
country, is indeed dark and gloomy; but one
ahing is clear and certain, whether priest or
politician believe il or not, that our country,
no more thnn any other of the nations,
which tho Almighty, in his righteous indig-
nation, has swept with the bosom of de-
struction, can successfully tempt His justice
by curse of determined violence aud op-
preston. "He will break the oppressor in
pieces not the less certainly, because the
cant of Liberty is OH his false tongue and
though hand Join in hand, the wicked shall
not go unpunished," eEen though il be the
hand of the cowardly, rapacious, nnprinci-
pled Free State priest and politician, with
Iie cold, insolent and bloody hand of the
Southern STAKEHOLDER. LIBERTY.
HENRY CLAY.-If he had, through his
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