Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-07-26
SALEM, ONO, July 20, 1851.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE meets August 3rd
The Bargain and It's Ratification.

There has been great deal said about bar
gain and sale by politicians. It has been custo-
mary for them to charge each other with mcr-
| ccnary traiHc-in the interest of the people. No
doubt there is truth in their mutual crimina-
tons. For in our national capacity We have
been ever engaged in selling out to slavery. We
have not sold this birth right manfully at whole
sale as Easau did. But from love of truck and
dickcr, have poddlcd it out at retail, and now
have nothing to show but our bare poverty, and
the bankruptcy of character that has brought us
to it. Every bargain has been to our loss in
money power, character and liberty. The first
great bargain of all, tho partnership agreement
between the North and South, pregnant from
its existence, has been yielding an inccssant
spawn of now bargains and compromises.
There have been all the bargains for officers,
from President to slavc-catching Commission
ers. Tho tariff and frcc.tradc bargains, that
have succeeded and supplantcd each other. Tho
old fugitive slave law bargain. Tho Missouri
compromise bargain. The bargain for Louisia-
ma and Florida. The bargain for blood hounds,
quadruped and biped, to hunt the wives and
children of the Scminolcs in Florida. The
great Texas bargain. The Mexican war bargain.
But time and paper would fail us for emu
meration of ALL The last contract was in 1850,
when the agents of the North pledged them
selves, not that we should hire blood-hounds as
in the Florida hunt, but our farms, our houses,
our churches, our school houses, aud our very
bed-chambers being open for the hunt, that we
ourselves should suffer metamorphose-an do
the running, worrying and catching-fced our
selves and the game into the bargain, while our
masters had only to cry, seize him!
The South now demands that We ratify the
act of these agents. That wo write ourselves,
in the bold, unmistakeabe hand of submission
and obedience, the ours and hionas they have
named US. Traitors all around us from the
press, the stump and the pulpit, urge the mca-
sure, rc,--pleading the sacredness of contracts, the
divinity of law-and the blessings of the I'm
ion. And our Anti-Slavery politicians, while
condomning and denouncing the subsequent
and minor bargains-laud and honor the ORR
ginal partnership arrangement which authori-
zes all.
Under these influences the mass of the pco.
pie arc saying, We will acknowledge our obli-
cations under this new contract. We will moi
repeal-wo will execute. Some months ago
they venturcd to whisper, wo should like {
modification; but now they say, it is lao and
must be obeycd. And this too in the face o
unmistakeablc declarations both in word ant
deed, that the South are pcrfccting still othel
plans fol- our humiliation, still farther bankrupt
cy in power and character for us.
Their robber hands are already outstrctchet
to seize and appropriate still more of Mexican
territory And their lustful hearts have alrea
dy gloatcd over the spoils of the multitude o
Isles that dot the Caribbean sea. Such are tn,
acts of stupondous national injustice which the,
calculate to perperrate for the sake of extending
the area of human slavery The Union is tn
only instrumentality by which it can be effected
The past and especially the present mean servi
lity OF the North gives them good reason Il
calculate upon success. The Union continuing
they piH succeed Their threats of dissolution
are but an incident in the game. Their stalk
is greater now-and of course their demonstra
tions which shall make them seem in earnest
must be greater. With the mass Of them, thei
threats are only seeming. But their hypocri
cy is honor, compared with the meanness o
Webster, Fillmore, and others who vouch 70
the sincerity of their threats, by protesting u
save the Union from its danger.
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A Meeting will be held at CooL SPRISos oil