Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-09-04

"S.hlnateu man, VINO IS not ready
70 go TO Washington and swear that If slave
holders will keep their slaves at home, we will
never in Congress mention them. 40 no, well
mover mention them" And so far as the Lib
erty Party is concerned it is now struck with
paralysis for the third time think, and as be-
heve the third shock is always fatal, suppose
there is nothing further to do with that party
but to provide for its burial.
have ever found that in proportion as mon
learn to rely uron political linstrumcntalitesju just
in that proportion they lose faith in that higher
and stronger instrumentality, (thc right arm of
God,) moral agitation. Now l wonder if our
good Free Soil friends wish to see the position
and action of this Society changed. Would
you see tho A. S. Buglc with the namc of Hale
and Julian blazing at its head, and its editor
blowing blast in favor of their election -
Would you sec this Society establish itself on
the Pittsburgh platform, and become part of
that party which is maio up ofmcn of all kinds
OF principles, and IN sn of no principles, for l
undertake to say tnat a man who retains his
connection with the proslavory church of this
country (as many of the Free Soil party do)
has no principle whatever. Talk not to INC OF
the principle Of that man who votes profcssedly
against slavery, but who yesterday was eating
the sacramento Il bread and drinking tho consc.
Grated wine at the altar of proslavory church.
Spurnins them ot the polls and welcoming
them at the table Of the Lord. And it is not
too much to say that this very hour, the breath
in tho nostrils of the Free Soil party is depcn.
dant upon the will of such a church. And as l
said, just in proportion as men depend upon
political action they lose faith in moral instru-
mentalitics.
Docs this congregation ask, why 10 you not
votei Isupposc i; is with us as with all other
associations of men. We have men who can
always appreciate our principles and whose
strength is equal to their day. though some fall
away. But if there are those who have grace
and virtue to stand by those principles, and re.
frain from voting, the reason is this Mr.. Gid.
dings gave the reason in his speech to which
have referred, as well as can. We do not vote
because we cannot go to Washington and give
the right hand of political fellowship to the
slaycdrivers and slavebreedcrs of the SOUTH
We cannot say as he said, If you will only keep
your slaves at home, if you will only coniine
your slave auctions to the states where slavery
exists, aud not let the sound Of tho anctionoors
hammer nam UPON ears, Il you will listen
only yourselves to the wall Of mothers robbed
Of their babes, and not compel Us into your
damning work, only separate the Federal Gov
ernment from deeds so foul, so much blacker
than hell, and so help me God, will be silent
on the Governmental platform. l will hail YOU
as a band Of Jreenen, and together are uM legis-
late for the good Of mankind and the elevation of
the human race"
In the name of the holy God, would you ask
me to do that, Would you hear the editor Of
the Bugle blowing so horrible blast as that
Hell itself would cease its howlings, to listen to
music so much more horrible. Mr.. HeatOn
inquired if the Federal Government should be
separated from slavery, it would then exist in
the States :; That is not the question. It isa
taet that IL noe exists in them, and whilc it ex.
lists, hope We shall not be called upon to do
such deed as I have described, aud as Mr..
Giddings says he would do. do not know
but such thing would sometime happen, as
friend Heaton refers to, but one thing do
know, and that is, that if slave territory be all
that is wanted to perpetuate the institution, they
have laid in pretty good stock. And judging
the future by the past, as many years would 20
by before such result would occur as friend
II. supposcs, as have gone by since the cstab-
lishment OF the Constitution. Mr.. Giddings
knows that the Constitution allows slavchold.
crs to sit in the National councils, and tho sim.
pie question is this, would the FREQ Soil party
have US occupy similar ground.
How does the STAKEHOLDER regard him. When
Mr.. G!ddings stands there and uttars those ter
rible words of inveotive when he says so lust.
ly, abe would rather every STAKEHOLDER were
hanged than that the North pay for fugitive
slaves how docs the stakeholder regard him.
Ho only points him to the words Of the Consti- |
tuition which he himself recognizes, and to the
force OF his denuneiations, it is as the hand
writing upon the wall of tho Assyrian Monarch,
Thou too art ghcd in the balance and found
wanting'-an as he bows his head in rccorni.
ton Of those terrible Constitutional obligations,
methinks can hear the South cxclaim in the
words OF the Judean poet, 30 Lucifer sun of the
morning, how art thou fallen, how art thou
cast down from heaven and become like ono of
us" lie welcomes the stakeholder with all his
crimes to the Governmental platform. This is
the price he pays for union. ! would not pay
it for union with all the angels of heaven
much less with such base society as the South.
No, if my souls salvation were suspended on
this, would spurn the condition and create
and countenanee rebellion against the Gods.
Now whose moral agitation is likely to be
most effectual against the stakeholder, that of