Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-03-23
TIE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.


outragcs against the laws of hospitality and the
Constitutional rights Of Northern citizens. In
point of humanity, he is even behind Mr.. Clay,
in that he offers not word againtS the traffic in
human flesh in the District of Columbia -
His heart--if he may he supposed to have one
is steeled against the cries and and agonics of
the oppressed. No sentiment of moral indig-
nation against the oppressor escapes his lips
The Constitution is to him the end of the law
for righteousness. He can see no broad line Of
distinction between Right and Wrong and in
his estimation il is no more unnatural that some
men should hold slaves than that others should
regard the practice with adherence No
wonder that man whose moral perceptions are
thus confused should be found willing to barter
the hopes of millions and tramplc his own pro-
fessions and the honor Of his country in the
dust for the sake OF political prcferment
We have neither time nor room to review
the speech. Lot every one look at the exs
tracts VIC have given, and Judge of it for him
self. Note his impudent pretence that the
Wilmot Proviso is unnecessary to exclude Sla-
very from New Mexico, As IL the whole
country did not know that the Ordinance of
1887 was applied to region lying wholly North
of SO 80. Behold, too, his readiness to
punish the citizens OF the North for feeding the
hungry and clothing the naked. The business
of catching and returning the fugitive bondman
to his tyrant master is one in which, in his
Judgment, conscientious men at the North
should engage with 'Gidrrity-ycs, that is the
word ALACRITY'I
We rejoice that this infamous speech is con.
dcmned by many leading presses at tho North.
Even the Boston Atlas declares 1--WE can
mot agree with Mr.. Webster; his sentiments
are not our sentiments. They are not, VIC
venture to say, the sentiments of New Eng.
land"
The Washington correspondent of the Bos.
ton Courier, another Whig paper of high au.
thority, says "Wc are unable to find that an,
Northern Whig member of Congress concur,
with Mr.. Webster in the propricty of estab
fishing territorial governments for New Mexi
co, &C., tcithom the Wilmot.' And it is free
ly said, that his argument, that tits not worth
while to 're-cnact what God has ordained,
would have been as good an argument ngains
tho original passage of the ordinance of 1887
as it is against the application of the Wilmot
to territorial government for Now Mexico"
: The Boston Journal takes ground against Mr.
Wcbstcr's views and shows that the Resolves
of Annexation do not require the erection o
new slave States in Texas, the language being
may erect slave States, not shall
The Pittsburgh Gazette condemns Mr.. Web.
stcr's remarks on the reclamation of slaves. i
says at is not in the power Of Congress tc
pass a law to compel q great community Il
violate their conscicnccs. They may make a
many laws they please on tho subject, ans
the moral sense of tho people of the fire.
States will render them imperative. The law
'of God and the dictates Of humanity com
'pcl US to sympathizc with the distressed, pant
ing hungry fugitive from oppression
and no act of Congress can convert commu
nifty which abhors slavery into society O
slave catchers.'
On the other hand, Mr.. Webster has earnc
the praises of John c. Calhoun, the Bostnl
Post, the Washington Union, the New Yor
Herald, and the Hunkcr Democracy generally
In view of this the New York Tribune hit
him thus:
"Mr. Webster has strong head, and W
/ trust no such batteries, anticipatory or compen
f satory, will suffice to turn it. He will yet fin
that they arc but Judas kisses, given to mislea
and betray. They were dearly earned, an
3 will vanish like the dews of summer. Nj
: Webster cannot outbd Mr.. Buchanan i
the Propagandists favor, and If he could hi
good intentions would be futile. We dout
whether he can carry single Northern Viii
r vote beside his own even to the extent indica
r ted in his Speech. In short, the speculation
y bad one for all parties engaged in il. The
= have only deceived each other and compromise
themselves"