Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-09-24
ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE
7HR PR0sPRCT-THE LIBERTY PARTY
THE PEOPLE.


FRIEND EprroR 1t is in vain that VIC would SUI
perinduce the principle that men are not by nature
conservative. It was not until a mammoth petition
of three million names, of the fathers, mother, and
sisters Of England was borne to the Halls Of Par.
lament, asking for the enactment Of West India
emancipation, that that conservative body could be
prevailed upon to consumate the righteous work
The great motivc-power which gave birth to this
long-tobe-remembered measure, evidently is not to
be attributed to that body but to the unmistakable
evidence which stood forth in that great dome Of
paper when unfoded, reaching miles in length, Of
public sentiment, to triAc with rhich, tras no
longer safe. They saw the conscience of the people
thoroughly aroused to the atrocities of the system
Of slavery.
As then, it is now, create public sentiment and
the work is done. All this is to be done by the
Anti-Slavery host of America, and the great work
of the abolition of Slavery in this country is ac-
complishcd. Yesl let the abolitonists of America
present to the Congress of this nation mammoth
petition of three million names, united IN sentiment
and determination, asking for the abolition of Sla-
very, and or Slareyy is at an end In England,
by the untiring vigilance of an humble layman,
lGranville Shorpc) backed up by the people, with
out an alteration in the British code of laws, Sla-
very was abolished was declared illegal and
contrary to the spirit Of law in that country. May
not then, without the alteration of Constitutional
law, the same be the case here. Taking the broad
principles of liberty declared in 70 to be the basis
of civil institutions-I say under the auspices
of our Constitution, strikingly cmbodyment Of
the principles Of Eq,alhy-so cminently and inn
perativoly setting forth, and maintaining them to
the world that unborn generations could not from
its perusal gain the idca-drcam that the iron heel
of the opprcssor had ever pressed free soil.-
While these are admitted as unmistakabrc truths,
how comparatively easy accomplished is the work
for the people Of this country. Yet how bitter il
the thought, whom stern necessity forces il upon
the patriotic lover Of his country and it's ensaved
people, that three millions of our citizens are sdres
that the spirit of the Constitution has been dc
parted from; and, through, contemptablc duplicity
of northern demagogucs-a wilfully subservient,
land may / not say ignorant) constituency, have
suffered these things to be, nay worse have suffered
its ample provisions for liberty to be perverted and
made subversively to answer the bloody deed. How
long oh how long shall these things be? How
long yet how long will the growingly intelligent
and libcrty-loying population of the North suffer
those principles disregardcd which lie nearest and
dearest to their hearts and offer willing obedi-
ence to Southern will and rule. The press pro-
claims in thunder tones the time is here!
Did say we were "by nature conservative" p
But it by this principle, together with the growing
indignation to Slavery in the minds of the people
in this country, and through tho increasing inteli
Scncc of the mass, that the abolition of Slavery is
M ha 70 tod Oh our bocl
but few years, to the Liberty Party, VIC find it
almost unheeded by the mass, who were too busily
engaged serving allies to southern despots. Its
great and righteous appeal to the people, were
unhoard or unhecdcd. Smith, Goodcll, Spooncr
nnd others were denounced as fanatics and as
madmen. The little band of abolitionists and Free
Soilers were held contemptible-fit only for the
sneer and ridicule of men. Butthc day has arrived
when the truths of aboitionist are being heard and
appreciated and are becoming potent for good, and
the destruction of pro-slayery churches and parties
The Liberty party, which had only for its depen-
dence the immutible principles of truth and justice
true to those principles, in those days which tried
mems souls, is yet to be the party. 1t is the
banner under which the oppressed portion Of the
land shall have given to them their God-given and
Constitutional rights.
Mr.. Edition must here say, land it is to be Ia
mcnted that in this section in particular, and in
many other sections where men arc anxious to plant
themselves the most consistent and efectual
ground for the abolition Of Slavcry,) the proper
Inducements could not be offered-that speakers
holding these views cannot be obtained, or the
works of Smith, Goodell, Spooner and others, could
not be placed within the reach of us here in the
West, generally. say this, because upon turning
my attention to this subject, more especially the
pncoL stitntionaity of Slavery, was astonished in
finding that instrument clearly, forcibly, and
enthusiastically in words las could not possibly see
it otherwisel an aRti-slayery document and this,
TOO, without ever seeing but tho above named work
Of Gcrrit Smith. And more, at the time set my
eelf at the task with the expectation, from what
had been told of its provisions for Slavery to come
out, cut and dried to order, disunonist; il
being pro-slarery, could no longer harmonize the
net of "Siredri,g TO support Me supposed agreement
lcih Hell" " And was at the time kindly fur
nished with the compilation from "Madison's Pa
pcrs" to aid me in the Search and to take my stand
ON the right side. This document, the Madison
papers, was COTTON up by the disuniOnist to prove
by external history picked up, that the intention
of the trainers of the Constitution was to put Sla
very into it;--that, although the word Slavery OF
any other word which amounts to a legal definition
of Slavery, is not TO be found in the Constitution
vet it was "intcndcd" to have been inserted by tho
trainers and adopters, that they intended that i