Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-07-24
THE ANTI-SLAVFRY BUGLE.


his wares-his two legged cottle--he found
them worth the prce--he paid the price and
claimed-wbo will dare dispute the title Pa
human being NJ his, aud sought, neither in
the rights OF love nor pnrcnluge, n foundation
for the claim.
Thus have We reached the prosaic ground
Of North American State Rights" Southern
Rights" aud Northern Democracy" The
ancestors OF the Democrats purchased Their
property in human beings honestly and
honorably purchased purchased it as gen
iiemcn aud citizens, with no protest from
owner or advocate--with ready mnney in.
deed, cash down, in silver and IN golb-for
at that time lalse bank notes were not and
ufierward this property, thus honestly ne
quircd, bore youug-l,ke the swine---aiId in
creased and multiplied in accordance with
laws of Nature nnd the command of Scrip
ture--inr this human property has this excel
lgncu, that it--wthout effort on the part OF
the owner-does not remain a dead capital,
but interest 10y It's own action; so, that pro-
perry bore young property, aud the young
property again younger, down TO the present
hour.
Gentlemen, you are no Communists, nhd
know thnt property is sacred. Aud II pro-
perry in things is sacred, how much more so
must be that IN man This is the basis Oi
North American Democracy, and the Con
siiturion stands upon the same side. For
there is not n word in the Constitution which
declares that stealing men and trading in
mru are crimes; aud that which is not for
hidden by the Constitution, nccOrtling TO the
platform of the Democratic Convention at
Bnllifnorel is left To the several Sutes so
a. 4
make satisages of negro children, would IN
10 respect act unconsliiulionully. ] chnl-
leuge YOU, gentlemen, To show me single
paragraph in the Constitution which inrbids
any good Democrat the privilege OF slaught-
ering, runsling aud picklng the negroes.
No doub, some will say that North Amer
lea emanciwted herself few dozen years
too soon from England, or otherwise she
would have been included in that act of Par
lament whirlI put an eud To slavery in the
British Colonies, nt an expense of 800 Geo.
COO; hu, in TINT case what wonld have he
come of the North American Democracy p
IN that rasc it would have been impossible
for l,0C0C00 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. aud chill
drcn iucudrd-io have lorded il over "a re-
public of % 000O00 of men; we should lave
seen 40 Shareholder IN the Presidential chair /;
have been invented we should never have
heard of the slnve-cairling Law, aud the
bloodhouhds would have been shut up ia the
stall instead of the editorial room we should
have had 10 Baltimore Platform, aud the
Democracy would have wanted the real soul
aud actual bond of its unity. Universal his.
tory is, nitcr all, hut tho history of human
blindness. Greeks aud Persans, Romans
n,
Professionals aud Catholics, Russians and
Turks, Germans aud French, lIungnrians and
AustrialIs-they have fought to the death he.
cause the true means of unity escaped their
blindness. Had they known the secret of
NurIlI-Amerirau Democracy" they might
have made compromise, u slayr-caichin.
law, &c, aud established it rs liualiiy; aud
then would union have forever been placed
upon II firm foundation, aud "ciernul peace"
would have blessed Humanity!
The history of the North Arnrrirnn Union,
five penetrate downward To the puncfum sa-
liens, is II history of the progress oi slave
holding. Alter every revolution, the rcac.
tionary element of the snte finds some new
point of crystniZntiOn, from which it makes
lis preparalious for future rule aud draws to
itself all kindred reuctionary forces. The
reHc,ionnry crysrulizniion point ia North a.
merica has always been the holding ol slaves,
aud this has gradually seized upon aud made
lis own all other reactionary elements. Its
progress has been nonsIrous, und like all
other reaction. il will never fnd II stopping
place, until il has overcome all oppositi0n,or
is itself completely Overthrown. THIS is as
certain as the succession of day aud night
The means of its progress lie mainly in the
y,.rt, .i...,,
ARE the lluuSer Democrats. Its lnghnesi,
aud in its. consequences, most important, re-
cent victory is the slave catching law aud
in ease Mr.. Pierre should become President,
the sluvel0ldrrs would seek not merely TO
rule, but To snIjugatc the Union. Much has
been snid oi the dangers 10 which the Union
is exposed; am ofopiniun that il never was
IN greater danger than just now, for the great
danger TO the Union lies not in attacks uuou
her Slavery, hut in those upon her Freedom.
Let lis look little closer ut the signs of the
tunes ns they exhibit themselves iuthe doings
of the Baltimore Convention.
la the first place, of what spirit was this
Convention born? In the metropolis of a
Slave State, after loug-continued intrirues
mud vaccinations, assemble a number OF So
called delegates, who assume the title of del
ogutes of tho prople-but the nninrily nre
nothing hut political hunbuggers by protts-
sion. The delegates OF the people have the
strange duty to perform Of making known 10
the sovereign people their own will, that they
(lhe peOple) nny bear il we'll in mind until
the Presidential election. True, the sover-
eign people are moi bound by this instrument.
but let them read any "renl Democratic"
sheet and they will find that whoever adonts
not the declarations of the Convention hum.
bnggers as sacred, is n bad Democrat at hot
tom-a "trator TO the party" Aud this is
true not only with regard to the candidates
nominated by them but also in regard TO tlie
platform nnd the party principles, which they
proclaim aud lay before the sovereign peo.
pie. Thoroughly to humbug the people and
TO bind the future voters for President per-
teclly beforehand, the party managers, after
the Convention, appoint so-caled ratification
meetings, that they may in future declare