Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-12-14
The Youngstown Republican.

Q paragraph from the Rspubiiedr, in which the
Rditor declared that " il the fugitive law was
ssors humane and devoid of its tyranical appear
snsss, and merely granted The right to The siare-
holder 10 the gitire, but little fault could
be found with it !" and that as good citizens
We are bound to recognize the privilege given by
the Constitution" Sc. We accompanied the
quotation with a few words Of comment, in
which we took the ground that the law, il odi-
Gus at all, is so rc-emincntly because ofits main
object, not merely on account of the method it
provides for the accomplishment of that object !;
and we venturcd to ask our cotcmporary If he
was willing to play tho kdnapper in Consti
tutional way. and if slave-catching was any
less internal because it happened to be in ac-
sordancc with the Constitution To this plain
question the Republican thus replies;
We seldom notice the "nonscnse" of dis
union papers. The Bugle's gas about us cam
not change the facts. We desire the repeal of
the law, as we have shown-6m that print does
not-it is too fond Of agitation. What cares it
for the slave whose cause it processes to sup
porti Nothing 1t is but "pal,ry Affection"
when IL protends TO sympathize with the slaves
of the South. Nothing but n dissolution of
doubtful whether il would be fully gratifcd
should such an event occur. If that object was
attained, BLOOD would be the next demand !
The Bugle glorics in the passage Of the fugitive
bill Dare il deny the charger
We arc for our country first, right or wrong
tho Bugle is against it under all circumstan-
ees and at all times. We arc willing to sup
port the Constitution Of our Country - and
when we cannot do 80, we will leave our coun-
try for our country's good The Buglc is not
willing to support the Constitution, or any thing
else but intdelity and disunionism although il
Is willing to enjoy the benefits and protection
Of government which it processes to dcspise
If the Bugle loves treason, we cannot prevent
IL, nor do we care, but VIC hope for the privilege
of expressing our opinions without being sub
jocted to its misrepresentation and fallacious
and false reasoning.
When an antagonist, forsaking argument and
evAding the question under discussion, dcscends
10 personal vitupefation and appeals to popular
prejudice and passion, the candid observer is
prone to infer that he has bad cause, and is
trying to smother the consciousness of tho fact
by abusing his opponent and raising dust on
Irrelevant issues.
We made distinct issue with the Republican
On this point, viz That the Fugitive law, if
Of its object, the recapturc Of slaves and that
kidnapping was none the less internal because
II hhappened to be in accordance with the U. s.
Constitution. And we frankly declared our
conviction, based on what seemed to us logic
al necessity, that the hostility to the law which
did not originate in deep-rootcd adherence of
its object, was no better than paltry aifectation.
u . hat h. T.. H. A.
licsn has seen fit to indulge is not pertinent to
the question before us. Suppose it were even
true that VIC care nothing FOR the slave-that we
love agitation for its own sake, and seek the
dissolution Of our glorious Union to crafty
thirst for blood-what thens Is it thereby
Sendered clear that slave-catching, when sane
toned by tho Constitution, is an honorable
business, in which Democrat may engage
without an utter abandonment of all his pro-
fsssionss We shall offer no defence of our an
S-slavery character; if it is not mpervious to
che feeble shafts of the Republican, it certainly
IN not worth the keeping
The Republican dayeS us to deny that we
glory in the passage of the Fugitive bill.'-
Well, We are afraid VIC shall have to own up on
that We certainly lament that our country is
20 dcbased that the enactment of such q law
was possible but such being the fact, we do
think it fortunate that the leprosy which had SO
long tainted the national heart was driven out
90 the surface. The people can see it now,
where's before they doubted its existence. Per-
hsps the Republican has heard of tho doctor
who, finding himself baffled by the form of the
patients disease, gave him dose to throw him
into fits, declaring that he was death on them.
Now the pro-slavcry politicians. through mis-
take, have done to the country exactly what
that doctor did to his patient They admin
istered what they thought an opiatc, but it has
thrown the country into its, and they will find
that the Abolitionists arc death on that form
Of national disease. In this view of the case,
wo believe on the whole we do glory in the pas
sage of the Fugitive bill and if that is treason
let the RepublicaH make the most of it.
1--WE arc for tho country first, right oi
wrong" says our ncighbor, and in that we diff.
fer from him. We are for Con and the RIon1
hrst, and for the country only so far as it is in
harmony with these. Whatever may be said
Of our position, his is that of the Atheist
without God and without hope God has
endowed all men with an inalienable right to
liberty, but the Republican, while it processes
TO receive this as the cornerstone of its poiti-
cal faith, and calls itself Democrat is willing
10 transform itself into the likeness of blood
hound at the command of the Constitution, to
howl on the track of the flying fugitive and
drag him back to bondage, one hour of which,
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