Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-03-25
THE GERMANS.

! The excitement now prevailing among the Ger
mans fthe United States is deep and all pervading
II have never witnessed the like Of it in the coun
try" says one who knows them well.
The reader may suppose, that the excitement is
confined TO the Free States. Not at all ! Ifit were
possible the Germans of Missouri, Virginia and
Kentucky take bOder ground, in regard to social
and civil rights, than their countrymen Of Ohio
and New York. Certainly, they are fully 'up to
thcm--as decided and direct"
1t is kown for instance, that several societies |
exist among them, such the Frecmen, Turn
vorien, Nocalists, &c. all agreeing in ceran essen
tials yet having distinct organizations. Yet the
Germans Of Richmond, Va are the first to urge m
union, and the Germans Of Louisville, Ky, have
put forth their platform which it should be made
and that platform is most urgently seconded by the
Germans Of Missouri. And what think you, read
err is the basis ofitG Life, liberty, and the unds-
turbed pursuit Of happiness or LIBERTY; WELFARE
and the Education Of all.
! Nor let it be supposed, that this is frothy de-
caration or unmeaning clap-trap, designed to
make exceptions The Louisville Kentucky plat
1 form specifies what is meant 1t says:
Instead of ensuring Liberty TO all, more than three
| millions of human beings have been condemned to
t slavery, and they try to increase their numbers
: daily.
/, Instead Of making Liberty, Welfare and Educa-
! ton general, they rather made privilege of
races and classes who contro the legisations and
administrations.
We see speculation in the place of conformity
to duty corruption in the place of virtue and
reaction holding the sway of power.
/ We see the people supplanted by parties; the
parties ruled Wy cliques, who substitute men for
principles, and exchange rights for names.
| We see the Republic degraded in foreign coun-
3 tries by unredressed ill treatment of American
citizens, and renounccd in the Interior by treacher-
Gus oGng with the Head and agents Of European
fl Despotism.
I We see the Representatives Of Republican
people in open league with the power of all, the
deadly enemy of all liberty, the power of the Pope
and Jesuitism.
We see every measure in favor Of the privilege
advanced in Congress, and every measure in favor
of the people frustrated.
We sec the the property Of the nation made
o booty by ayarcions delrauders, instead of being
a applied for the common good
|, We see erudeness and crime on the increase
because the legislative and executive authorities
concern themselves more about their own sefsl
projects than with the actual interests Of fhe peo
70 pie, and are contented With religious varnish
N We see the Republican sentiments OF the peopl,
e. demorali2ed and stunted by Compromise laws
ID which equally moekery Of humanity, righ'
and the Constitution; and again other treaties ar.
l. audacioasly attacked, which should constitute al
81 eternal bnlwark for Liberty.
. In short we sac the main principles set fortl
s above which we're framed by the great founders o
. this Repablic guide for its fntnre develop
! mrnt, aud which We fully concur in, renounee,
u and snppianted in all decisive cases by an anti
- popular policy
I, And therefore the Germans Of these Stare State
lens and further extension Of Slavery ntO terri
n. tory noW fpee, and its gradual emancipation OI
soil where IN exists, declaring that the priac
pie Of LREREE ia alone KAGIoSAL, that all religion
should be free, 0.at all Offices, State or naio0eL
IA illed directly by the People that penal laws shou
be passed Tor the prapose ad improving, and neYe
for the abslnd purpose ofexpiation, &c
Ono SlHnse i'eads thus=
lei Two men Oi an eqaal odlor ID the ska do nc
lc exist neiisr do fRo exist a unequal rights
nj Ths fInth ia, ihe SrTmana, as a class ara nor
es rc1lsci1ss rasn the Amsrcnne and Ma1eR onoe fall
nCrraes as 70 the tine con Si0n Of parties an Gu
ouEsxy, ~s1a he fsSthful 10 the laH Of progress
al the end.---E a.. DenocnGL
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