Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-09-25

they were caught in their own craftiness and
themselves and their posterity transformed al
most hopclessly to slave holders and slave
catchers.
Let us be understood, we do not decline the
support Of tho constitution with this interpreta-
ton because we do not prefer it to that of the
slave holders and president Fillmore. We do
not decline voting under tho constitution with
this Interpretation, because we are Indifferent to
the election Of such men as Mr.. Giddings to
Congress- rather than the timc-scrvers and
trimrners who will SCI mob upon on abolition
meeting, or deliver an abolition lecture, as shall
best serve their political prospects. II is not
that we are Indifferent to the number Of votes
that may be given for Hale. We wish, II mon
will vote to put man in pro-slavery position,
they would elect him-for he is q man who will
do what he can for freedom, notwithstanding
the green withs, with which he consents to be
bound. But il is because we will not give our
consent to have it questioned whether man
shall be held as a brute-whether the human
soul shall be deemed a chattcl, and the choisest
heart sympathies, transmitted to merchandise.
We believe that the more firmly we maintain
this stand, the sooner and the nearer shall We
bring all men to it.
Since writing the above we have received the
Liborator which contains the following on the
same topic;
SPEECH OF MR.. SUMNER.
We lay before our readers the first half of
the very elaborate and carefully prepared
speech of Mr.. Sumner, on his proposed
amendment for the immediate repeal of the
Fugitive Slave Law. II is eiciiing high
Communications in all quarters, and the press
is throwing of edition after edition will
great rapidlty. 1t will be read by the coun-
try--by men of oil parties wherever
read, will enlarge and consolidate the al
ready wide reputation of its author for learn
ing, ability and philanthropy. But il is not
without Us vulnerable points. We think it
clearly demonstrates the unconstitutionnlity
of the Slave Law, inasmuch as by il the right
of trial by jury, all the recognized processes
of legal claln, and all the safeguards of
personal liberty in the Free States, are de-
stroyed. But, beyond this, it does not travel
an inch and this is a very subordinate qtles-
ton, and not the primary and all-essential
one of the entire and immediate abolition of
slavery, wherever it exists on the American
soil. Again,--we regard the distinction
which Mr.. Sumner attempts TO make be-
tween the General Government aud the
States as such, as one without any essential
difference in fact, il does nothing TO relieve
the former from the guilt Of upholding the
slave system; for Mr.. Sumner admits all the
features of the Consituton,and
among these, the right of the stakeholder TO
recover his fugitive slave, by due process of
law in any State in the Union. Finally
lie proposes TO put things, in regard to slave
ry, MS they were at the adoption Of the Con-
slitlItion- to stand precisely where stood
the Fathers But this would he merely to
go over tue same ground again, and to ulli
mate in the universal supremacy of, the
Slave Power us al the present time. Tl,is is
not statesinansliip, but infatuation. Our cry
still is, No Union with Shareholders