Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-07-26
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.
The Tribune,

Last week VIC recorded the fact that Ex. Gov.
FISH the newly elected Senator from New York
had given in his adhesion TO the compromise and
his determination to maintain it, Senator Fish
was opposed by what was called the Hunkor
Whigs-was the pet candidate of the Tribune
as the man who was to mako stand against
the encroachments Of slavery. The Tribune
his advocate and friend, has speedily followed
suit. 1t declares that the 'agitaton is over.
The law in opcrativc-and the people destitute
effective agitation. This il assigns as its reason
for ccasing to agtatc. We wonder whether
the argument will be good against the Tribuno's
iavorite doctrine of protection. The people
cannot be 'agitatcg about that, with all the
Tribuno's zeai and industry and every body feels
that mo change can be effected On that sub
iect it thinks and thinks rightly that difference
of opinion and difficulty of success constitute
the very reason for agitation and yet it assigns
this as the reason for discontinuancc of agita.
ton on Question of immcasurably greater i'm
por'ance. Senator Fish like moral coward
abanGons positions he had advocated and the
tribune takes position beside him. These de-
vclopcmcnts made every where through the
land-wo will not say arc discouragng, for all
the stcadfast friends of freedom expected them.
But that with tho far-sightcdness and humane
impulses that characterse the conductors of the
Tribune and kindred prints they should so
prostitute themselves to party at the expense of
common sense, conscience and freedom, is hu-
initiating.
The statement that the scheme of slave state
annexation is checked, docs indeed surprise us.
The columns of that paper have been recently
filled with exposures of the plots of anncxa-
ton. 1t has made exposure after exposure of
the Cuban, st. Domingo, Lower California and
Sonora plots. 1t has recorded the declarations
of Southcrncrs, Unionists and Scccssionsts,
that they were bent upon annexation as the
hope of their security. And yet it thinks this
scheme of annexation virtually checked.
We can look upon the statements in the
following extract in no other light, than that of
a cool effort to falsify its own facts 1t finds it
necessary to quiet the fears and sooth the con-
sciences Of those it would enlist in support of
the Wing party in the coming Presidential con-
test. By this course the Tribune will corrupt
tho public mind and cfIcctually neutralizc with
many its past efforts in opposition to the slave
power.
And now that this agitation is substantially
over for the present Mt least, VIC may express
our conviction that it has been a most useful
thing. 1t has virtually put check on future
schemes of annexing Slave States, it has
tho Union as q storm puriiics tho
and shown the full absurdity of
South Carolina separatism. 1t has rooted deep
or the natural dislike of frccmen to slavery, and
when that institution shall at last cease TO exist
on this continent, We doubt not that those who |
witness its extinction will look back with grate-
Iul remembrance to the crisis VIC have just |
gone through.
Such is the prospect as regards this law
There is no chance for its immediate repeal or
But while we shall not attempt
any new agitation for an end whose attainment
we cannot anticipate, we shall not withhold any
part of our convictions on the subject whcne-
vcr they arc called for by an antagonist or by
the attempt to carry man into slavery by vir-
tue of its authority
Neither Daniel Webster, Bcnnetts Herald or
any other organ of hunkcrism has of late mado
any demonstration better calculated to aid slave
catching and slave extension than this. The
position of the Tribune gives it crownng in
flucnco for evil whenit speaks after this style.