Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-09-24


written spirit and letter Of the instrument We
bound in duty to carry out this helish "intenton"
or disbandon the Government, yet this "intent"
only cnjons the duty far holding Office is CON
ccrned, or as voter under its provisions The
The dsunionsts may enjoy all the privileges of its
post-of6ces, &C., &c. "All things whatsoever, We
may freely eat except the fruit of the one tree
which is forbidden" "And the moment thou shalt
eat of the fruit of this tree, thou shalt surely die %
no LIVE dismiOnisti
But to the subject more Immediately before us
| was speaking Of the claims Of the Liberty party
doctrine, on tho people. And here, let me say as
the sequel will show, the claims Of the people are
fast merging to their adoption. The first great
advantage of the Liberty over the other parties for
the abolition of Slavery is, hot is placed Jeyond
The fedeh Of all compromise with any thing below /,
IL has nothing 10 give up to undo -cohsgddeht-
ly, any but thos6 who are fully prepared for its
high standard Of principles will embark with them
II has long since proclaimed its principles to the
world fully aware Of the slowness Of its growth,
as well as, and at the same time, fully estimating
the grand ultmatum of its object, viz: the consen
tration of tho antslavery sentiment into one har-
monious whole as IL shall rpen into its uncompro-
consumaton of n "righteous cira Government"
wlren slavery, arstocracy, monopoly of wealth and
of the soil, cannot receive the sanction Of law, in
the form Of cnactments, it holds they cannot in
id,o Some of the principles of the Liberty party
are; II holds that crime cannot be sanctioned by
law or enactmens,--it holds that Slavery is inca
lpable of legalization-that law is only for the
protection of rights, and should be dsregarded,
trampled under foot, when it fails to protect, much
less snatch them from its subjects. While II smost
truly alawloving party it would 'render unto Caesar
The things that are Ctesdy's, and unto God the things
hdtore Gods" 1t would render unto Government
the things which belong to Government. 1t would
utterly dsown the well nigh universally received
opinion, which is alacious and superstitiousi MS
perhaps it is pcrnicious, namcly that We may dis
obey wicked rcquirementif if coming from single
individual, Jm must obey IL, if it comes from the
: Government--that we may for instance harbor
and protect whom private individual would have
us cnsave; but must shut him out of sympathy and
ensavc him, if Government so commands. The
Liberty party holds that the Constitution of the
United States is an dnti-slarcry document, and if
any one may consider that there are portions of it
that appear to militate they are of justice and by
well known principles of law, null and void of
cfFcct,-that the U. S. Constitution was made to
secure the blessings of liberty to the People, with
out distinction. 1t denies the power of Congress,
the Supreme Court; any other body of men, the
power to prohibit The humblest black servant within
the limits of the Republic, the right of private
Judgment in matters of conscience.
The Liberty party would give to the black as we'll as
white-to the female as well as the male portion of
community, equal privileges and citizenship; and
us the Constitution secures in the broadcast and
plaincst terms, in its opinion, these guarantees it
would restore to that instrument the rich blessings
of liberty to provide which it embodics in the name
of the Revolutionary Fathers Are these measures
which should endear the party to the support Of
the American people? We think so. And its
rapid numerical strength in the last year is proof
that the People endorsing them with good
will and carnestnoss. One year ago, when it was
announced that Frederick Douglass was to be at
the Anniversary, in Salem, and that he held that
the Constitution was an Anti-Slavcry document,
how eager were all to hear what that champion
would have to say on this subject, so new and no
less strange to them. Yet who of us at that time,
in the midst of the campaign for the Presidency,
that then ensued with its conservative policy could
for moment have harborcd the idea that Horace
Greeley, and ID. n. White, of the Gazette would
have endorsed the AntiSlavery Interpretation of the
Constitution; and with such penetration and scar
ching arguments have defined its language
For have hardly ever heard more searching
argument to upset its proslavcry character as com
ccved by the mass, than that of Mr.. Greeley. Mr..
White of the Pittsburgh Gazette, is no loss clear
I =. \. r tI,ok,
This is encouragement to the reformcr, for when
such men are found ON the side of the oppressed
when such men are found endorsing the Anti-Sla-
very Interpretation of the Constitution by the side
of Goodoll, Spooncr and Smth-when such are
the signs of the times coming, that the main pillars
of the parties fleeing from its decayng elements
to take shelter under the substantial roof Of the
. Liberty party, our work is accomplished for the
speedy overthrow of slavery, under the auspicious
roof of the Constitution.
During the struggle for liberty in England, one
of the Royal Dukes, in the House of Lords, de-
nounced Wilberforce as a disorganzer, as severely
as did ever hotspurs of the South denounce Garri-
son, Smith, or Giddings. But the Royal Duke
lived to succeed to the throne, and as William w.
signed the act of abolition when it passed the
British Parliament.
When men can have public opinion on the one
hand, answering to justice on the other, it is no
difficult matter to obtain their aid service, in the
enactment of righteous measures.
But it occurs to my mind, how frequently am
assailed with the only alternative left in the plan
of an arguments "But the doctrine held by Gcrrit
Smith and the Liberty party is as completely dis
union doctrine in its character and effect as that
of Garrisonianism." can only say at this timc
be it so. do not care to dispute it. But if So
if the Union is divided, the STAKEHOLDER must make
the brake, not we. The stakeholder must leave as,
not zoe them. Which of these preccpts most nearly
correspond to the preccpts of Christianity consis-