Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-06-14
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.
In A Difficulty.

ooWe Vi our good friends of the ElZur
Wright and Sumner stamp, who really don't
like Slavery, but still wish to "repose" in the
Union, are somewhat in tribulatiop. The
word Union, has become as it should be, but
synonym for slavery, and they find it
impossible TO laud the one, without having
il construed into appreciation of the other.-
Hence MIR. Sumner, who had the reputation
of an abolitionist, when he pronounced his
'two-fold blessing on the Union-was a,
once understood as designing at least one of
these blessings for the institution And the
congratulations at the South, almost equaled
those that had proceeded from the NORTH
And 1t has taken considerable amount of
quotations and explanation to set the matter
right These brethren are in diema.-
They hate slavery, but venerate the Union,
the grand pillar Of its support The Union
has ever occupied this relation to Slavery
1t has always been thoroughly so understood
at the South, and is now so understood by
Wing and Democratic politicians at the
North. Hence the desperate efforts to save
the Union at the North. 1t has identified
itself inseperahly with slavery. Slavery is
accursed of the world and doomed to sink
in inihmy. The Union, in its foul and re-
ciprocated embrace, one and indiyisble, is
doomed TO perish with it. When both shall
have perished and rotted ogether-when
slavery shall no longer exist in conflict with
reedom-sectionality will be unknown and
then can we have Union-based upon COM
mon wants, common rights and common
interests. Our brethren need not wonder,
aud must not complain if supporting the
present Union, they arc counted ON the
wrong side. The South know too well what
they are about, rot to congratulate them.
selves upon their assistance.
The Portland Mirror an ably conducted
paper of this sort with all its sympathies de-
cidedly in favor of freedom canddly affirms
the unpeasanness OF its predicalnent as
follows.
"At the present time for man to say he
is a Union man, is generally understood to
mean that he is in favor of the existence
and perpetuity of slavery, and when a po-
litical man pledges himself to the Union it
is understood at the South and at the North,
that he will devote his energies to the best
interests of the slave party in the United
Suites. So of the press; those who make
the cry of Union their watchword, are noted
for their clustering defiance of every phase
of American Slavery and their equally bois-
irous opposition to everything Northern, or
-. IT,. al.
freedom instead of slavery"
Against this the editor enters his protest.
lie is the enemy of slavery but would be the
friend of the Union. For ourselves though
we are sorry for the difficulty of our friends,
we are certainly glad that the truth is out
and that all parties see it. We hope it will
inducethcm to take such. grounds us will
place them quite above any suspicious of
fraternity, with slavery or any possibility of
misapprehending their true position. Until
they do, the jubilee shouts that ascend for
the election of Sumner, Allen, Rantoul and
Giddings-(good men an true, we admit as
men can be in the false position they occu-
py) are but mockery to themselves-for
while they shout for their victories, slavery
triumphs in the vary persons of their cham
pions, by compelling them to pay the accus-
toned homage to the Constitution and the
Union, which arc ut once the emblems and
the source of its power. And she will con-
tnue to triumph--she will mock at all their
efforts at legislation, if indeed as Congress-
men they shall attempt TO make any, and
standing in security upon their concessions
she will jeer at the truths they may eloquent
y utter so long as the Union stands pledged
to her support.