Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-03-23
Letter from Henry c. Wright.
CrxciSNArr, March Z, 1856


The nation is now reaping the bitter fruits Of the
violation of natural justice pcrpetrated by those
who formed this Union. They sought to unite,
in loving fellowship, the most glaring and re-
voting contradictions. They undertook the
fearfully wicked and absurd work Of forming q
Union between Liberty and Slavery, Truth and
Falsehood Justice and Injustice, Love and
Wrath, Purity and Pollution, Christ and Belial.
The result has been just what any sane mind J
might have forcseen, From the first moment Of
its existence the war began and never. for one !
hour, has It been intermitted and mover will
be, till Slavery OF Liberty has annihilatcd its /
antagonist. A union with Shareholders to Sc
cure the blessings Of justice and liberty, and do
mcstic tranquility The world never witnessed
more stupcndous crime. At once the whole !,
Northern section Of the Nation was thrown in |
to position in which all must begin a stern and
determined warfare against those with whom
they lad formed an alliances or begin to exert
their ingenuity to reconcile with all that s just
and good all that they feel to be unjust and
evil. The Religion, the Literature, and Gov
eminent of the country, entered the lists to re-
concile the most revolving crimes with the most
exalted virtues. The Church and Clergy, the
College and Seminary, the priest and pOliti.
clan, the poet and orator, have done little else,
in this land, than seek to throw the sanctions Of
the Biblo and God around deeds perpctfatcd by
their Southern allies in plunder & murder, which,
when done in Ohio, they say ought to consign
a man to the dungeon or the gallows. What
fearful state Is that people in, when they are
driven to justify their conduct by seeking to
make the most atrocious deeds and principles
seem in harmony with God of justice and
love
OF the abolition Of Slavery there is no hope
while this Confederacy exists. The glorious
consummation is impossible while the Federal
Government is pledged to return fugitive slaves,
and to put down scrvilc instructions. Therefore
my prayer, by word and deed, shall be-down
with this bloody Union, bcgottcn in sin, born
in sin, nurtured in sin, and now, like boa con-
strictor, gorging itself with tho very vitals Of
humanity.
Glad was to read the doings in Salem, as re-
corded in the two or three last Buglcs. This is
tangible ground. Raise the moral sense of the
people of Ohio and all the North above tho
Constitution. in regard to protecting the fugi-
tive slave; get up public sentiment that will
stamp every man and woman rs the mcanest
and vilest Of the mean and vile. who will refuse
to hide the hunted slave and to protect him, by
right means, against the kidnappcrs; and then
let men as voters and ofice-holdcrs 60, If they
can. and swear to support the Constitution that
, forbids them to hide the fugitive.
This subject Is talked Of down here among all
classes No ono subject causes more talk on
, Slavery, or is doing moro, practically, to dis
solve this Union with shareholders, than the
proposition of Clay to make penal laws to pun
ish us as fclons for feeding the hungry, clothing
the naked, shcltering the outcast and aiding the
{ slave to his liberty. The truth is, the Consti-
passed by Congress could ever be executed now
in this city and vicinity. / have read the cx-
, pressions of opinion in the public press Of the
city. They seem determined to hold to the Un-
a ion, yet say, no law by Congress could ever
prevent the people of Ohio from extending
kindness and protection to the fugitive" and
"scorn and contempt to the kidnapper." Not
ono in ten Of the people of this city and State
I would heod such law; or refuse to aid the fu-
! gitiye. So the Federal Government is a dead
\ letter in Ohio touching runaway slaves. So il
s should be. Thanks TO the Disunionists; fol
i they have done the work. AS to the conscien.
COS of those who swear to shareholders to roturr
$ their fugitivcs, when they have no intention o.
y keeping their oath--as does Judge Mclean
d Chase, and most all politicians must an.
swer to their own nature for these outrages.
s Disunion is becoming tho theme of the daily
and weekly press. The people will ere long gel
o used to it. Enclosed is a slip from strong
a Use it or burn it. Deeply should all Disunion.
lists feel the greatness of this hour. VIII thor
n not rally to the support of the Buglc, in thu
: hands Of its present Editors Sure am tina
It those whose war-cry against Slavery is, "No In
P ION ,cah Siareholders," are the conservativ,
. power of Liberty, Truth, Justice and Right il
}, this nation. Let them grid on the armor o
= God, and rally around their paper, the Buglc
- and prepare for vigorous campaign of aggres
" sivo warfare upon the citadel of oppression du
y ring the coming season.
= Where are Samuel Brooke, J. W. Walkei
', and all and every other laborers VIII not Par
ker Pillsbury come West this summeri Tn
= position of Ohio, in reference to Slavery cannc
N be overrated She is the advance guard, by pO
Il siOn, especially in reference to fugitive slave
% But must stop. l hope to be in Salem in tw
of weeks. Sound the loud trumpet over Egypt
% dark-dark, and deep sea.
~ HENRY c. WRIGHT.
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