Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-12-31
COLUMBIANA COUNTY ONO SATURDAY, DECEMBER

rule you with heavier rod than they lay on their
pwn slaves, last winter they attempted to add the
! Jorerer' TO this negro-rondition Compromise, 10
jnss it in such q manner that it could never be re-
| vokcd-that it should become permanent statute
which should end only when the last slave In the
Jnion was dead. They failed to obtain it. Thank
! 'od, he set n bound to northern iniatuatiot and
yenaliiy, and they failed to obtain it
Do not misunderstood me. ! would sec the con
stitution of my country honorel and upheld. al
though 1t contains the rendition of fugitiycs But
nbomnotc sycophancy, which, with oagcrncss
offers itselt as tool to accomplish such unhaowod
work. Let those who are accustomed to bind and
drive, and consider as property their felow-mcn,
let them come and get, and take away what they
can icgaiiy prove their own. There is something
in pa5sjctg in this thing thousand times prefer
able to activity. And while l thus passivciy sub
nit to the demands Of the Constitution and would
have all my fcllow-citi1ens do the same, would
myself and would have item, with intense actiy-
ity labor to have that Constitution so modified, as
TO relieve me OF even my passive submission TO so
sad an ordinance. No; if it be two years or FIVE
fifty, that this clause shall stand in our Consli-
utlon let us honor it, let us sustain it but with
each year, lot us double our efforts to make the
Constitution of our country what our fathers de-
signed it---a bulwark Of human happinoss and
freedom.-not bulwark of degradation and slay-
cry.
Ny soul burns like as with fire. whea look upon
these two Compromises, their characters and their
tulhment The peridy Of tho south, their violation
OF their solemn promises, their present hostility,
aud their mpious demands that the Missouri Com
promise shall be taken OF the Nebraska Territory.
or shall not come IL; and then their abuse of the
north when poor serf she is she has tried TO be
perfect in their service, and has fallen but little
SHORT Of it,
ana tnat rccrcant north, that, for party, power
ana spoils, mas sold out the interests Of humanity
and freedom, and has permitted that fair trionplc
20 Dccomc accursed' who Is even now slumbering
WIN TINS question impending, where slavery is
nghn attempting to carry the bulwarks of freedom,
VINO IS so faithful III fulfilling her bad promises to
so Ialse partner
But the whole system OF Compromises, between
tho north, rests upon untenable grounds Demands
are made ~ the south, and acknowledged by the
norlh, without a particle of evidence justice.
me constitution Is so construed Ly the south, to
acIcat al legislation which could benefit the north,
ana YET 10 pass crciH enactment which can help the
south Now this Is not national policy and it
IS lar irnn the course intended ly our fathers and
inc north Is as deeply. yes, even more deeply TO
blame than the south, for the north has had the
power II she had possessed the cd, to control thi,
""oic thing' ana Keep II right
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! Tho Nfisscuri Cor,r,o,,i.o i,.,lr - . IL. ::
the very face of free6op which has n,,d, Lnrni
TO the nrcscnt bour yLco Tho rortt sLo,,ld -
stood firm, and demanded that Tho nrinc;nlcs rb;cS
Tho Fe,,rol Gnvorn,nc,t md tlo C,,t;,,t: 80
intcn,cd ~ Ssrr o,t sLo,i L S W ~
giioI Sio yu' s'tou'u po IJsPecIcd ana lul-
Sbo o.,Lt ~ , 'i'. no plricy WIN slavery
cmonc,,,on car N;i'nnri ond SyS,gm ;, oi gtioua
tho ilco ., Inu gl.c ii Ier clll]ehs
rcp ,n b;o tO S 70 or II tey snoosc
thc ror,b ,,ovc ,o, ,o , ", mci ,,"si pu' no
Tho norti, ,orn,;,toJ} bo sos :. U"i.S
and il is fdr ,bat rcoso, ,Lot ,o s,
b",o ,,at ro,,oI ~. S, iI ~ so' 10 Io' anu
Cnnnrorsc T. nort o,';i oE E,I,oI
sontb learned thc ~ ~ '''S
nroGtod b, IL 81 Ios oIrony y. We no.'n' M'u %
ps"t ,y,I success o, a ;I ';,'u % T,,stt u.eI
ami If e o,,b , iu o w. y -; ,'o i''u, @
hi, ,ro. sio I'm w" n'r nc"u
Lo;,cI ", ,i,o w. I"oI DS HrSseI onward
WLo rooi,J miiyI.s r W Wv sou.n
'rv S i'us from eAco, over which
G,oo 'n no, VI st,i1 r,'u Dyen oiIS IN .u m
priine e'Flcs G' our hcbuoic demanded them to re-,
nam zee forever bnt no; the south demanded