Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-12-02

iberty-lovng politicians cry out let us cling to the
Union. If we will smother all our holiest expecta
tions stay quietly in our places and submit to
slavehoiding dictatnn, we may be in fellowship
with this fraternity, and call it Union ! do not
I know OF any such Union. 1t is like the legal bon
4 dnge Of man and wife, who hate each other and
! tear each others eyes out. Southern members Of
Congress, with the flag of the Government waving
over thor heads, tauut Northern men with heinz
their plant tools. What is such Union MS tlaf?
An abOlltionists is not tolerated at the South II
is true went into the State Of Kentucky. and
was not molcStcd, but it simply because of the
gallantry and chivalry of the State towards Il wo-
man. They threaten i'll their newspapers that if
Abolition schoolmasters or pcdlars come into the
region whence the Declaration of Indcncndcncc
emauated, they will enrich the soil with their
blood. ihd South are glad to have us pay their
post-oflcC bills, and ,n"ln them keep the slaves
down, and, finding us ever ready to do their bid.
ding, they threaten to bring their slaves under the
very shadow Of Bunker Hill monument When
Burns was seized in Boston, and the streets were
crowded with earnest men, who were utterly pow
erleSs to save him, it was not the liberty of An
thony Burns alone but the people of Massachu-
setts, that was concerned. That is the kind of
Union the South seeks
But know the hope that lives in the breasts Of
political Abotionsts, that they will he able to do
something by political action. The greatest
part Of them believe it is doing little evil that
] my '''hc' iHeN 40 not cons der that the
adoption ut such 4 principle dcbaucLes nj; lie
confidence until there can lie 40 confidence no.
tween man and man. If YOU can do little evil
tell little bit Of lie and sWclr to q littln wronc
to accomplish great good, and others can do the
same, where - there any faith in the integrity of
man Why cannot you trust God? | cannot
comprehend this utter want Of flith in God. We
all kno" that when God established the crcotl
pnnclpIcs OF truth and right he consulted tho
human veal anN that the highest happiness must
be found in conformity to truth and righteousness.
we ought to feel the same confidence in trusting
in God as tlo little child feels on the bosom of IL;
mother. Sod, who sees me end from the begln-
ming, has certainly miGde it safe for us to trust
Him. We see dimly in the future and are slow of
faith, We little Lnow "how weak an army may
turn the iron h sim Of fate"
Our frieri Meyer reioces in the fact that so
large riajority has been cast in Ohio, Penns,l-
vania, and other States against the Nebraska in
'Q'.ity. could not help thinking, when heard of
the $4,000 majority in Ohio, that in that issue the
\oters of Ohio ignored the Fugitive Slave law
they did not dare to say word against that law
when they brought the issue before the pconle And
with all their opposition to slavery in Kansas they
have not word to say about slavery in Carolina.
The tendency Of political action is to white a
principle down to the smallest point, and then
to whitte the point itself away. | must get
certain number OF votes to accomplish particular
purpose and 50 it leaves of every other issue that
is just as vital to freedom 1t takes the one that
is nearest to the popular level. There is now II
popular outcry against the Nebraska iniquitv and
the politician takes it as an issue and sweeps the
whole board with it. Men who, in congress, have
not the courage to demand freedom for all have
no manhood that is worth being worn; they are
down too deep in the mud to get out upon ic17u
flBla.
Itscems to me that the pecuuiary loss, if no
thing else which the North is suffering by union
|, II. .
is by no means the greatest lost it is tue blind
ing OF our moral sense. y man who steals is
ordinarily rated as Il vile man, but not the man
thief: ON the contrary, the patronage Of the Coy
ernmcnt is oitcncr given to him than to Others.
do not think that if there ever was Il time when
we should demand northern republic, it is now
1t seems to that under such Il republic the
strength, wealth and growth Of the North would
spring forth beyond all precedent. Slavery has
been consuming our wealth to support its poverty
and aggrandlzc its prctcntOns. 1t seems very
sad that the energy and resources of the North
should be spent, in great part, in keeping to-
gethcr Union which in the everlasting disgrace.
when might have Il northern republic that
would be model republic indeed, and not the
subject of ridicule and to Europeans.
see no glory nor beauty IN this Union. | see
what might be glorious and beautiful but for its
being covered BY these plague-spots, which are
just certain to cover the whole body, and ami
hilate the little liberty that is left you and me- as
they arc not removed. The power is in the hands
of the South, and it rules with Il rod of iron.
1t sets at naught the precepts of Jesus and all the
requirements of religion.
! do not know but this Onion will 20 to atoms
and despotsr itself go down with it. | do not
know but the American churches Gwill 90 to ruin
with it. | hone they all will for with ruin OF
of the and of the other, truth, W hch is imper
ishable, will remain. The idea that if the Church
is destroyed, goodness will die with it, is Il mistake.
Goodness never can die for it is part of God.
And when tho crash shall come which shall rend
this Union in twain, upon the basis of that ruin
we shall rear government which shall recognise
the equal rights of humanity irrespective Of race
or condition.
There are different opinions about the true in
tcrprctation of the Constitution, some very excel
lent people interpreting it in favor Of freedom
and others in favor Of slavery. An instrument
that can by any possibility be construed in favor
of slavery is not safe thing to trust liberty to-
1t should be so perfectly clear that the ingenuity
of lawyers cannot give it the least bias in favor
of slavery. The American Constitution has al
ways been construed in favor Of oppression, and
that if there were no other reason, Is enough to
condemn it. We need revolution that shall
shake it in pieces and reproduce another unm:s-
takably in favor Of right--one that knows no
sex, color condition. Let then, repudiate
the present Constitution, and, early and late in
season and out Of season, work for its overthrow
When WAS in Kentucky, some lawyers said to
to me, "we don't care much about voting Aboli-
tonists because believe they are Just like other
politicians, to be bought and sold but the move
ment that Garrison has begun is one that has got
hold of the conscience of the people" They ac-
knowledge that slavery was an evil, that it was
a curse upon the State, but how going to
get rid of it, they asked? ! told them that men
who tied up their own hands ought to be able to
find out way to unite them-that the same power
that made the laws could unmake them They
asked what our method was / said we were de-
manding the dissolution of the Union "if it
makes you poor" said l, "anI if you will keep
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