Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-10-09

Gle for motion, and the law of equilibrium
for fluids, with other ahsurdiies, kept the
pbilosOphic and inventive genius of the world
i irons for two thousand years: but then
they passed into everlasting contempt
False naxims in government, aud false prac-
tees in political economy, have worked out
the terrible problem of lrennd's ruin, send
ing almost two millions of her people through
disease aud starvation into the grave, or into
exile, within the last ten years, aud compile
ting by processes which make " destruction
sickcn," the dreadful demonstration of a
crime which was begun six centuries ago,
and has now passed into the Gehenna of
eternal oxecration wherever history shall be
read.
Now MS slavery is error and wickcdncss
combined, it must incur the penalties ordnin-
ed of God against both. As il corrupis do
mcsiic virtue, cOnlrayenes the natural laws
of nations prosperity and growth, excludes
| aud drives away those who ure instinct with
the love Of freedom, from settling within its
borders, makes general education impossible,
aud eviscerOtes from the Gospel of Jesus
Christ the highest and purest OF its princi-
piles and precepts, II follows 10y a law Ofada-
mantine necess,yihat the body polite, which
suffers it., is vulnerable ~ every part, aud that
! physical and moral death bcSieges every gate
OF its citadel. Slavery assals all the laws of
God roadside aud il must therefore, receive
Ills rctribuiious broadside.
Those are the specimens of the weakness
which is always inflicted by error, mud of the
ihtuiiy that ensucs from moral wrong. They
are specimens OF those "lligher Laws" Of
God, which fulfil their destiny whether men
heed them or defy. They crush The resist
ant while resisting, and silence the blasphC-
lner in mud volley.
If the northern States of this Union, there.
fore, will cherish liberty while the southern
foster slavery, the prcdOminancc of the for
Iner in political power, ms we'll us in all other
things desirable, will suon be overwhelming.
Foreign anneXnions by the latter cannot re-
dress the balance. Thoy hut palliatc the
symptoms of dis,empcr which is organic,
as the newly y-erected wing of lnZar-housc,
for time dilutes the infection, which it soou
sends back to uggravate the general virulence.
| nppenlto the friends of liberty, then, where
ever they may he found, to stand fast in their
! integrity; for, to adopt the sentiment of Mr..
Jefferson in such n contest, there is not nn
attrihnte Of the Almighty but must tuke part
with us.
Sir, have cndcnvored now to speak upon
the real and true state of the Union. have
desired TO ascertain towards what point o
the moral compass this great vehicle, which
we call Government, iieighted as il is with
so much of human welfare, aud with the
! fondest hopes of the oppressed, is now NOV
! ing. have sought to determine that dircc-
ton, not by the mcteorc lights which are
eXhnled from human passion aud selfshncss,
but hy taking observation of the unchangoa-
blc lumlnarcs of truth and duty which shine
down upon us forever from their fixed places
in tho skies. have spoken no word ia the
spirit of n partisan or n politician; hut have
sought to embrace within my vision the
horizon of the future as well as of the pres
| cnt.
The mere politician judges of events by
their immediate cOnsequcnccs-hy their re-
lalion TO himself aud his party. Under our
Constitution, the next four years is the poll
| Iicinl's eternity. The next election is his
judgment day. The bIesscdncss of his fi-
ture consists in M anticipated share of the
| sj200,O00,000 to he distributed from the Ma
| tionnl Treasury during the next presidential
term, aud in being one Of the hundred tllons-
and men who for tile same period ARE Ia he
elevated into conspicuousIcSs, or TO nbide in
their obscurity. But the eternity that bo
! lievO in will not end on the 4th of March
! 1876. Consequences are TO flow from events
now passing, which are uncndng in their
nature aud their influence. Interests are at
stake infinitely more important than the tenl-
| pOrnry official prominence or ohscurity of u
hundred thousand mcn-ifnitely more pre-
cious than S200,000,C00, or two hundred
millions of Cnliiornius, with golden Austria.
lias to boot lie only is worthy the name o
statesman, he only is fit To preside over the
affairs of a great nation, whose visiun takes
IN the vnst relations of cause and effect
whose judgment is determined 10y what must
he, in the future rs well as by what exists
in the present, aud who never erects n SUI
persiruciure of Constitution or law for the
protection or the enjoyment of any human
interest, without laying its foundations on
the law of God.-Horace .Hdnn's Speech.