Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-07-19
From the True Democrat.
The Peril OF the Day.


There are disclosures being made, with
regard to the aims and ends of Slavery,
which should rouse the country with instant
alarm.
These disclosures proclaim these aims and
ends to bet
1.-The conversion Of New Mexico and Utah
into Slaveholding Territories.
9. The division oiCaliioruia into two States,
the lower State to bc made Slavehodlng, and
to I've admitted MS such.
| 3. The occupation of Lower California.
A. The annexation of Cuba.
5. The colonization and settlement Of the
eastern portion OF the Island of ST. Domingo,
! with an ultimate view TO its sublugaton aud
annexation.
Nor let us, monstrous as these schemes
are, hurl our denunciation upon the South
and ilIe Shareholder. The shaft sped from
our bow should pierce unto the bosom Of the
/ North. For is not the power with us?-
Have we not the ability 10 arrest or carry
them forward, to blast them in the bud, or
let them bloom unto full blossom?
The Shareholder is no tIIeorst lie is n
practical man. The Slave Power is no
dreamer. 1t has one idea, and adopts right
means to perfect the ends it seeks. Docs
the old Saxon spirit, iust Of conquest, flare up
among our people? The Slave Propaganda
fan ii into stendy flame, and when, ut red
heat, it so blinds the people that they are
ready to grasp all they can get, they use
them TO ncquise only Stare territory. Where
have our conquests been? Whrre are then 10
be? Nor is this all. Every watchword of
the Northern allies of the Slave Power, eve
~ motto, sacred in ITSELF aud right, too,
when justly applied, is tortured into the
support of these widest ends. "The Union
as il is" "The Constitution MS it is ~
What are these phrases, if every ten years
the Union is TO become a stronger shield for
| Slavery, and the Constitution a means TO
protect and perpetuate II? Think for a mo-
ment, reader The South moves ON. and
adds, next year, a Slave State in Texns TO
the Union, and the year after converts New
Mexico into another. The Free Stntes OIL
pose, threaten serious opposition. The cry
comes up-"The Union as it is"-"The
Constitution as it s"-and the Southern
schemes are perfected. Another ten years
pass, aud Slavery is extended to the Pacific
aud carried to the isles of the sea. Again
tho Free States rouse themselves. But again
the old cry is raised, with success, and Slave
ry is made thereby a national insttuton-the
pet and peculiar care of our government.
Jeremy BENTHAM, one of the purest and
ablest of British writers, noticing this kind
of action, as applied to monarchicnl govern
ments, snys, TO those who cry Matchless
Constitution, Preserve the Constitution
"The Constitution has some good points;
it has some bad ones il gives facility, and
until reform-radical reiorm-shall have
been accomplished, security and continual in
crease TO waste, depreciation, oppression and
corruption in every department, and in every
variety of shape.
snow in their own name respectively,
waste, depreciation, oppression, corruption,
cannot be toasted; gentlemen would not cry
Waste for ever! Depreciation for ever ! OPP
preston for ever Corruption for ever But
the Constitution for ever this man may
cry ard dose cry and makes merit it.
"Of this instrument of rhetoric, the use is
ut least rs old as Aristotle. As old as Aris-
totle is even the receipt for making il; for
Aristotle has himself given it; and of how
much longer standing the Use Of it may hnve
been, nrny battle the sagacity of Milford to
determine. How sweet are gall and honey
how white are SCOT and snow
MhlcHleSs CONSTITUTION! tncfes your
sheet-anchor there's your true standard
tally round the Constitution THAT, is rail-
" round waste, rally round depreciation, rail-
ly round oppression, rally round corruption,
rally round election, terrorism, rally round
imposture--imposure on the hustings, mpos-
ture in honorable house, imposture in every
judicaIory."
And may not this be so here; Is il not so
now? Let us look wisely TO the end lest we
endanger the Union, and destroy the Consii-
tuition, by our own wicked folly and misera-
bic faulty.