Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-04-03
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.

tracts them both Their Northern sections are
opposed to the evil, desire its limitation ard ul-
innate extinction, know that they have under
taken criminal responsibilities in its behalf, are
at times disgusted with its demands, are aware
Of its desperate purpose to occupy new territory,
and secure itself perpetual ascendancy-and yet
they are laboring to stiAe their convictions, to
put down all agitation, all excitement, all dis
cussion, to unto their rank and fi!e in sbject
submission to whatever its supporters may re-
quire to plant themselves upon the miserable
imposture of the fnalty Of the Compromise
"Thc Finality of the COMPROMISED Arc we
losing our reason as we'll as our honestly We
fnalty Of our work. Is Error immortali Is
Truth, crushed to earth," never to rise againi
The shorn Samson to-day, meek and unresisting
will ere long bury under the ruins Of the Tenn
pie the rabblc gibbering in idiotic merriment
over tho fnaity of his captivity. Who talks
Of the iinality of the French usurpation, or of
the pacifcation of Europei Men who have
said in their hearts there is no God. Who talks
of the fnality of Compromise, which under
takes to make wrong eternal, and stihe free
thought and free spcech' The disbelievcr in
God and Humanity.
While we arc imposing upon ouselves the
contemplate delusion that the Compromise
must be regarded as final adjustment of the
Slavery Question, the men who are helping us
in this work Of sclf-deception are laboring by
] hat 1ot,,i,ah tnoooutfr
gcst to overtum the free Constitution of Cali
fornia, and raise the black flag of slavery on
the shores of the Pacific. Here they preach
peace there, wage war. And their supple
agents, the politicians and Presidential oandi-
dates, in obedience to their dictation, cry, calls
out disguise, stupcndous scheme for robbing
Freedom of the noble heritage it was hoped the
Compromise had secured to her! Who docs not
know that the only consideration that made
that system Of measures tolcrablc at the North,
was the conservation Of tho new world Of the
Pacific to Freedom and Free Laborl Oregon,
with its unsurpassed forests and inexhaustiblc
soil, had free Constitution. California, with
its golden treasures, had free Constitution
The refugee from oppressed Europe, the laborer
from oyer-populotcd Asia, the cmigrant from
the older States of the Union, could there find
home, with freedom and rcspcctability, free
from the taint and blight of oppression.
Had Slavery obtained foothoid on tho Pacific
VIC know that there would have been no peace
for the new States to spring up along its shores
Divided by incompatible institutions, the Dis
cords which have disturbed the peace, impcdct
the march, and demoralixcd the Atlantic States
would have been propagatcd in them. Slavery
betting tho continent, would at once have op
: posed barrier 10 the froo ,institatiaps- -es ~
North. and opened an illin
growth of Slave instituti5ns 1lcaiciy =
The Compromise, it was fondly hoped, had pre-
vented all this, and imposed perpetual limita-
tions upon the extension of Slave Empire.
But, what do VIC scei While men slept, the
Devil came and sowcd tarcs. The Compro.
mise narcotized the People. Hack politicians
shallow, short sighted, selfish, without single
, conception Of tho true welfare of nations the
true foundation of national greatness, wrapt ur
4 in their own petty schemes for winning little
i notoriety, securing comfortable Offices, strain
u cd every nerve TO convince them that the dan.
J gerous sectional controversy had been finally
= adjusted, and as good citizens their sole duty
: now was, acquiescence! And so VIC submitted
I, submitted TO an imposture, submitted to in,
. suit and prescription, heard without resentment
the Wilmot Proviso ridiculcd as a humbug, saw
without remonStrance adherence to the policy
Of the Ordinance of 1887 made disqualified
ton for political prcfermcnt, consented that tn,
old party leaders at the North should falsif,
h their own professions on the subject Of Frc
g Soil, make FREQ. Soilism q standing subject o
IT denunciation, and put under the ban ever,
/ movement or expression of opinion against Sla
l. very in their respective Parties.
is Is it any wonder, that where the advocate
: of Right grow timid and apathetic, the supper
y tcrs of Wrong become audacious and aggres
70 sive: Our submissiveness has cmboldcneI Sla
)" very 10 march on, conquering and to conquer
u That man is fool, or worse, who inculcatcs III
u idea that there is limit to the demands of Sa
= very. Give! give! is its eternal clamor. b
. the law OF its being, Injustice is aggressive
The man who steals, must lie to conceal il
- Things bad begun, make strong themselves b
- ILL.," Despotism, from the fact that il is agains
" the current of Civilization, against tho develop
ment os Gods Providence, is of necessity sleep
~ less, untiring encroaching The moment
70 ceases to advance, it must rccede it cannc
u stand still; inactive, it must be swept away b
~ the tide ever running against il.
ng
- a Southern argument for Rail Roads.-Th
nd Tribune says, without giving its authority Il
lat the information, that a rich cotton planter O