Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-10-29

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We are all aware, that we do not command re-
spect for you by calling you party: on thc con-
trary, to dignity with that name tue htte hahdtul
TO which you are reduced Is rather 10 give an oc-
casion for mcrrlment. NcyerthelcsS u the Ialue
of party is 70 De esumatcu less V! i's HuHlpv'.'
and more by its principles, then are you entitled
not only to the name oil party, Out 70 great con-
sideration ms party
)ou are the only party that openly ana distinct,
ly aims TO commit ltselt To all the duties ul NNH
Government. We do not claim for you that you
know all these duties. But we do claim Tor YOU
that, as tast as they are made known to you, they
are honestly, uncOmpromislngly, uncNlculdtlnglN
adopted BY you.
We will, very briefly, illustrate vonr position
and principles.
1st You believe. that Government is bound to.
protect the personal liberty of all its guilcSs sub
jccts and you believe, too, that II is bound 60 feel
no hndernncc in this direction from any words OF
wickedness and folly, which may have found their
way into Constitutions or Statutes. You believe
that Constitutions and Statutes, 50 lar as they are
intended to carry out Government are obligatory
aud that, SO far rs they are intended to defeat ITS
Office aud end, are void. Hence, whatever Con-
stitutions and Statutes may stand IN the way oi
Government you still require It, in the name oi the
paramount law of its being, to be true oitsclf and
therefore, true TO all who are entitled to It's pro
lection. You insist that no concessions which
government may make, and that no restrictions oi
its powers and no limitationso It's Office, which II
may acknowledge, can avail to cancel its ohga-
tions to afford such protection And hence you
insist that II Government, be II the government
OF this state or this Nation, or "f any other state
or Nation, has come into an agreement to deprive
any OF its subjects oil the protection due to them
from government, such agreement Is Noiu by al
just rules OF Interpretation, the Federal tonstliu-
tion is an ant-sla,cry paper But we're 1t the re-
verse, the obligation ON our various Governments
TO protect their subjects from slavery would, new
erthc'ess, remain unimpalreu: Cohs'llu'lohs Gun
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,I;as ,h G. ,o ,'.t,, ~ All ,"t e,'
,ho ,Io.,r,,,;a' r ,i,t o P,ta. ia, ,,aJn g.
man. and NOT man for law and hence thnt an en-.
actmcnt which like the Fugitive Slave Act .ocs to
annihilatc human rights is no law
ID You believe. that woman has equal rights
with man 10 pnrti,.irote in the choice Of the civil
ruler; and that Cnyernmcnt is. therefore bound t.
protect her il. the exercise of that right
Sd, You claim that Government shall supprcss
drnmsAops because they are only manulac ,rcs q,
paupcrs and madmcn and bccatsc the urpyince ol
t;oycrnp,ent is Ia prule,t life and n,,ucriy
4h Innsmuch ns van LcIinvc MAJ the soil like
the lipht and the air bclunys cuunllv 10 nli human
benys Won hold. that C,yernnicut is bound tupr,-
feet It's Subjects from the great c,sc Of laud-monor
OlV,
5th You forbid NIL Tariff. however plausible
the arguments in their Lehalf. because YOU hold
that il is the absolute right of all persons to buy
and sell freely, when and where they please.
9TH You believe, that no Government which is
wise ahd just, will find an occasion for inyOly-
ing its subjects in war.
Ith You believe that Government goes out OF
its province, when it builds Railroads and Canals,
and when it concerns itself with Churches and
Schools.
9Th. In n word Won believe that Civil Govern
mcnt has no other office than to protect life and
property; and that the spirit in which this Office
should ever be fulfilled is determined by the fact.
that Civil Government is one of the departments of
the Divine Government. and no less than any 9th
or of them is to be characterized by truth and ius-
tico and bol;ncss
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peneNe nun 70 DC an hohest man. anu 10 70 en'erlal
III the MAN, just apprehenslohs OF ClNil uoNeTh-
% men. h nua no dsIeeineh', IN o1her respects, DC
tween the candidate ana yourselves could induce
you to vote tor him, If you found him so very
wrong-neaded ana wrong-hearted' as To deny tho
unconditional Obligation OF Government to sup
press slavery ana the dram-shops.
1t is not strange, that even good people are Sc
slow TO enter upon the work Of reforming Civi
Government. They have been educated to regarC