Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-08-09
PrO.SlaVery.


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come, and armed resistance might bc preina-
ture, brcause just now it might be unsuccess-
ull! The tuitorous intention. the trnitorous
resolution is manifest, is ayowcd, is even
glorird in, and nothing is wanting to the
overt attempt TO carry it into execution but
a fair prospect of success. And what is of
more serious consequence, the party of which
this fierce dcclaimar is an accredited organ
is now in power in this State, aud has the
governor and the majority Of the representa-
tivCs in both houses OF Congress. ltrlilCs or
msrulCs tie great State of Ohio il is numc-
rous in Ptuusy yiyania, almost the majority in
New York, triumphant in Vermont, and, we
can but just not say, also in New Hampshire.
It's principles are entertained by men who
do not profess allegiance to the party. Near
" every member of Congress from this State,
with the exception of Mr.. Appleton, of this
city, is in reality as much n Free -soiler ns
Horace Mann or RohcrLItantoul. MIR. Win
thorp, the W hig candidate for the Senate, was
not n whit sounder than Mr.. Sumner his sue
cesslul lrce-soil competitor, aud would have
made far more dangerous senator. The
party has absorbed in ito bosom all the sen
0rnte ilnaticisms of the free State and all
who, like ourselves, have watches its growth
from 1881, IRE well aware that it has been
steady advancing, that it has never lost an
iuch of ground once gained; and that il had
never for a moment met with serious check.
1t is as certain MS anything human can be
that if is not speadily resisted as il never yet
has been, il will in a short time possess the
power in nearly all the free States, and conse-
quenly in the Union itself. To what then
are we coming.
"This statement will, no doubt, crafty
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already become too strong TO be pushed
aside ms contemplate, and we must not
deceive ourselves as to the magnitude of the
danger that threatens us. Both parties
Wings and Democrats. Wing more especial
ly till lately, have criminally tumpercd with
it, and aided it to acquire lis present iormid-
able powcr,-a power which, perhaps, is no
! longer conlrolible. The measures hitherto
| taken against it have thus far ouly cXasperat-
| cd and strengthened it. The compromise
measures" Of the late Congress, which it was
hoped would ullay the excitement, and eX-
! tnguish the party by dcpriving il of all
| pretcnce for further agitation, have had only
Il contrary effect. We do not agree with the
socalled disunionists of the South, for we are
unionists, but it must be comics ssed that they
have been the only considerable party in the
country that has any tolerable appreciation
of the Free-soil movement. They were cor
rect in their predictions that the compromise
measures would be Intellectual, and they have
not oyerstatod the danger. We say not dan
ger to the institution OF slavery, for the ques-
ton of slavery loses itself in much higher
! question, even higher aud more important
than the simple maintenance of the Union,
in the question of the maintenance of
society itself. Tho Frce-soIers are To Ameri-
can society what red republicans and social
lists arc to Europe an society, aud their
triumph is the triumph of anarchy an d
despotism.
Good, quiet, easy men, looking over their
ledgers, or sippiug their wine, may fatter
themselves that there is no serious danger,
and tell us that we are unnecessarily alarm
ed; but in all human probability, if the fugi-
tive slave Sims had not been given up on the
claim Of his owner, the American Union had
now already ceased To exist. 1t is all very
well 10 talk of Southern bluslern aud the
" "llotspu" Of the South, but there is some
thing more than blustcr just now. The
Southern people nrc as yirluous and as pat
rotlc MS We, and their statesmen are us en-
lightened and sagacIous as ours. They see
what, with individual exceptions, we do not
permit ourselves TO sec, That the free States
are fast losing all their respect for law, and
becoming uniaithlul to their solemn engage
ments, and blind 10 all the claims of religion
and morality. TLcy see that tho abolition
of slavery at the bidding of our fanatics
would be the dissolution Of American society
itself They see the dsorgaGiZers steadily
advancing, and that we are tuIing no efficient
means to repress them, aud they very natur-
ally consult secession from the Union as the
only means OF sell-preservation that remain
to them. They may be wrong but we of
the North have 10 right TO blame them for do
ing what we are forcing them TO do, II they
wish TO retain any semblnnce of freedom.
"Letno man deceive himself with the vain
hope that this radicalism now represented
by the Free-soil party would stop with the
mere abolition of negro slavery. II is the
persuasion of so many Of our citizens that
it would, which renders it so dangerous.
The abolition of slavery by violence, against
the will of the master, and wilhc-lt com
pensutng them to surrender, would he great
evil but it is one of the lighest evils to be cx-
pccted from the progress OF Free-soil fan
atcsm. We assure the public, and il is the
point we wish particularly 10 impress upon
our readers, that the abolition of negro slave
ry is only an incident in Free-soism. !
Neither the Free-soilcrs nor we can ioresee
where they would stop. Combining MS they |
do in one all the several classes of fanatics !
in the country, and being the party opposed |
TO law, to constitutions and governments |
certain il is they would not stop so long as
there remained single safeguard for indi-
vidual freedom, or single institution cnpa- |
BILE of imposing the least restraint upon law
less and despotic will. No doubt there are
honest but deceived individuals in the party, |
who will not go all lengths with it; but they
will be impotent to restrain it, and the party
ITSELF must augment its licentious and des-
potic principles unless speedily and eilectua-