Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-10-08
SLAVERY SECTIONAL.

The Libcrator closes an article, reviewing the
proceedings of the late Free Soil Convention in
Massachusetts,, as follows:
"a letter was read from the Hon. Charles Sum
ncr, in which he saws the first object of the Free
Democracy is that truly NATIONAL policy original
y declared at Buffalo which seeks to make Freedom
National and Slavery Scciionai as they were at
the first organization Of the Government We do
not clearly understand how national freedom is
compatible or possible with sectional slavery, and
both equally protected by the Constitution. Mr..
Sumner says that now Slavery is National, and
Freedom Sectional: yet he would 60 back to the
starting point If the Government, to obtain n re-
versal Of this shameful state Of things-as though
cause and effect had not been indssolubly connect
ed throughout that reriod--gs though the tree had
not produced legitimate fruit-as though half a
million of slaves retained in bondage at the time
of the formation of the government, and made the
subject Of constitutional bargain and compromise
should not i'll seventy years, bc increased to three
and half millions--and MS though six slave States
4 should net lie multiplied TO fifteen, during tina
period, in the general growth of the nation! T,
talk Of trying that experiment over again, as the
method of restraining or abolshing slavery, is a,
was the effort Of the frog to get out of the well by
jumping up two feet and falling back three. Tc
think of driving the Slave Power into the position
it occupied in l7S7, is simply mfruation. The
establishment of this principle, says Mr.. Sumner.
tional usurpaton of slavery in the national terrific
ries, in the national District of Columbia, in the
national sanction of the coaswise slave trade, and
in that browning national cnormity, the Fugitive
Slave Bill, will finally remove the whole subject of
slavery from the sphere Of politics. Now we
should like to the experiment made in all these
particulars. We beg Mr. Sumner and Mr. Chase,
in their place in the 4. S. Scnatc-we implore our
Free Democratic brethren gcncrally-to goforward,
ut the next session of Congress, and boldly take
the bull by the horns-call for the suppression of
the coastwse sayetradc for the abolition of slave
ry in the District of Columbia and in the territories
and for the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law; and
and we will not only guarantee them the livcliest
excitement, but be among the foremost to applaud
them for their courage and consistency. Still in
all these specifications, it will be seen that vital
blow is struck ut the slave system. While that
system is permitted to exist, all attempts to break
up the slave traffic whether cOastwisc or internal
will assuredly prove abortivc. With slavery in the
Statos-with the slave representation in Congress
the Free democracy do not propose to mcddle.
Well, one thing at time! Begin with any one of
the points Of attack suggested by Mr. sumner, and
make vigorous assault upon it, and-friends of
the Free Democracy we will cndcavor to possess
our souls in patience, until it shall be made mani
fest, even to your short-sighted vision, that the
dissolution of the Union is essential to the over
throw of slavery, and therefore the only vital issue
ut the present time
Having thus criticised in no unfriendly spirit,
the proceedings of the Fitchburgh Convention, we
conclude by saying that, against the old corrupt
parties, we desire the triumph Of the Free Demo-
cratic party as an encouraging sign of the times.
But there is higher and truer position, around
which the entire North must rally--to wit No
Union lcih SidrehOiderSP"