Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-04-17
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stituiion, and believe it to be the intention OF
the people generally, as we hereby declare |
il to be ours Individually, to abide such com
promises and to sustain such laws necessary !
to carry them out; the provision for the
delivery of fugitive slaves end the act OF The
last Congress for that purpose, included
and that we deprecnte all further agitation OF
the questions growing out of that provision,
of the questions embraced III the acts OF the
last Congress known rs the compromise, aud
Of questions generally connected with the III
stituiion of slavery, ns unnecessary, useless
aud dangerous.
g Resolved, That the series of acts pass
ed during the first session of the thiriy-first
Congress known as the compromise, urc re-
garded us Il final adjustment aud II pcrfna-
ncnt settlement of the questions therein cln-
braced, and should be maintained aud exc
cuted as such.
Such were the resolutions passed by the
House of Representatives at Washington last
week. They affirm tho finality of the compro-
misc. In other words they pretend to intcrdict,
hcnccforth. all discussion concerning outragcs
which slavery may chance to pcrpctratc. An
humble imitation at respectful distance, of the
Prince President, who intcrdicts political con-
vcrsation, in the saloons and coffee houscs--and
places soldiers beside tic compositors of the
printing office. Our congressman lack the SOL
dicrs and the muskcts Of the Frcnchman, and
lacking these, VIC don't exactly sec how the
resolutions alone, arc to bring about the result.
And they,wse ones as they chavc not told us.
Onc thing though VIC can see, very distinctly
in common with them, /. c., that all agitation
is dangerous" Dangerous 10 their rcputa.
ton, dangerous to slavery, and dangerous to
its main pillar, the Union. There arc multi
tudes who, 80 believing will continue to agi-
tate with good will and efficiency, despite this
resolved hualty. Congrossmcn will find that
resolutions, will fail to settle great question
of principle and of interest like this. They
will lind that their resolutions will calm tho
agitatcd nation as did tho cdict and the icttcrs
of the royal fool, vino went down to the beach
to bind tho ocean waves. Their resolutions
will place them beside him, as rivals in imbc-
cility
They have resolved that discussion shall
cease, but abolitionists have always been found,
a set of impracticablcs. They pass their own
resolutions and they will continue to preach,
and slave holders will continue to threaten and
rage. They have resolved, that fugitivcs shall
be returned. But fustivcs still flee, are fed
and clothed, transported and protected. With
III tic last hour We have heard of two cases in
our state. One in far off community, where
littlc is heard or known Of abolitons:s, or their
,,r;, k,or1 aft tho
whereabouts Of lis chattcl, ard sent to an agent
for information. But he gave it first TO the Stare,
who ciicct ualy passed resolution Of iinality,
by passing into Canada. Let Congressman pass
resolutions. The public sentiment of Ohio will
pass along the fugtivcs; and except in some
northern places with southern institutions, con-
grcssmer, judges and marshals will find it diff
Quito pass them back again. They may
solyo the law iinali;y, aud that the people
mean to execute it-but Boston and all New
Enslond am New York, will give Shadrsch
aud Jerry rcscucs, or foilcd in that, will hold
"Syns Anniversaries" as annotations and
commentaries upon their resolutions.
That we arc not mistaken in this estimate of
the fcclisgs Of the people. The vote itself upon
these resolutions most conclusircly shows
/ Otherwise there is no use in weather cocks. \
majority Of congrcssmcn, are omulous OF skill
as indicators of public opinion. When the
vote wns taken on this question, nearly one
| third OF the members were absent. And only
seven nothcn wings were found to vote yea
and sorvilc Us is the whig party in Ohio, not one
] 10 f.r IL I,,t
thirty five of the Northern Democrats, though
their organ at Washington, is loud in its claims
of the compromise as party measure. This
result we confess is little wonderful, straining
as both parties now arc every point, to concili-
ate the South fer the Presidential clection.-
We cdn attribute i; to nothing, but their full
conviction of homo public sentiment, which
revolts at the injustice of this compromise.
The Southern Press, says this vote indicates
the fnality of the fnnlity." 1t adds, "we
know of nothing more hnmiliating or more
futile than for the South to engage in Quixotic
attcmp: to make n compromise final, which is
the anality of her equality and in which the
only rcsiduary interest she possesses, is fugi-
tive slave law on parchment that is rot prac-
tically worth the parchment on which it is
written"
OF course we do not agree with the Press, in
regard to the compromise, being tho "fnality Of
Southern Equality" 1t is part of the South
EN- game to represent itself as injured and out
ragged But it is certainly right in representing
this attempt to make the compromise hnality
as ridiculous in itself and q failure in its exc
cution.
Female Protective UHion Of Clereidnd.-We
arc glad to learn from the True Democrat that
this association is increasingly prosperous. Tho