Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-04-15
WHOLE NO. 445.


Just look at the past ard probable workings Of
mere ''non-cxtcnsion," as the grand measure for
Ioycrturnn slavery.
! When and where was slavery ever overthroSu
by that process When and vhere did slavery
ever die ont, or work its own, cure under that
policy2 Not in New England, New York, Penn;
sylyania, or any Of the American States. Moth.
ing short Of direct action against slavery produced
abolition.
What did "non-extcnsion" ever do for abplitish
in the West India Islands, whore nature herself
had pcnt u slavery by walls Of water as il nercr
could have lccn pcnt up by paper cnac,ments(
Direct action and nothing else, abolished Slavery
in the British Islands, and wherever IN has been
abolished. Where no direct action is going on,
there are no symptoms of the death Of slavery
1t was never stronger in Jamaica and Bermuda
than it was the year before it was terminated bydi-
rect action.
And how could lnerc "non.c1tentionp iwers Il
duly enaoted) do away slavery ~ the SOUTH
] II ,oou}d make dUlpreftaJle."
1t is improbable now. has always been un-
profitable. Rumselling is nprohtablc. Lcea-
tiousness, larceny, are Improbable. VIII you
dispense with legislation against these, and leave
them TO die out" under their own "intOlorablS
Jurdens~ Vice and dishonesty have been un.
profitable, lol these ffty-eight centuries, Lut with
out dying away.
! "BAafAcn Is maintained forf'
! For many things--ehiefy for these. ~ For
the luxury of living in idlcness. (2.) From the
inherited contempt of honest labor. (3.l From the
habitual love Of uncontrolled domestic dominetionj
including a. The privilege of wollowihg in th9
coarsest debauchery. Said q sister of James
Madison. "We Southern ladies, dign6ed with
the ttlo Of wives We only mstrcsscs ot
soraglios." t5l The love Of practical powegI5ths
qualification Of political ambition. The Slave pow;
er is an oligarchy Of hundred Mousdna s'a~i
holders over hoenty,fee millions Of slares and 50
called f.ee,nen-oVer the widest empire in pros
poet, that the sun ever shone upon This oiigar-
chy will reign until siarey ajet IS abolished, or og
me ,,oint Of Being abolished. Aud this will hsvef
, be while the friends Of lbcrty can amuse Them
! selves with dreams of "non-crtt aSion J"
"Bat Ly iocalzjpg slarery, acc can tot only make
sldrcyy mprgftaLle, JVt so unErcftes mafth tnrv
], holders must GIedk dorm andern. They only hve
i now by throwing their pecuniary burdens upon
c the free States. BY conGning them to their own
/ territory tley will have to bear their burdens
themselves, which would soon crush them"
5 So heard a very eloquent lecturer say before
) an applaudng audience Il few weeks since
did not marte that clerical lecturer could think
So But is 1t not martcl tlat dti audience Of
city merchants should swallow it, as IL they be-
licved IL?
Iolc would the "non- n-oxtensicn" of slavery shut
up tho planters, merchants, and bankers OF the
slave States TO their own territory, and compel
them TO bear the pecunary burdens OF their own
thriftless SYSTEM Would 1t prevent them frotn
buying goods on credit, or from contracting loans,
cities us they now doY Would i help or compel
them to meet their paymentsY Would IT, prevent
the decline of southern State stocksi Would u
arm the Northern creditor with magical lamp o.
Aladdin. with which to go TO the South, fearless
of Lynch law and collect all his dues?
! Unless "non-extension" could do oil this, 1t
could do nothing in the way pointed out by our
sanchine lecturer toward the abolition OF slavery.
Non-cxtcnsion could do nothing OF the kind!
dissolution of the Union could not do it, unless
followed by a Chinese wall on Mason and Dixon's
line too high for Mammon TO scale and an embargo
by sea, more potent than that of MIR. Jefferson in
! 1908. a
No "Non.cxtcntion" at the West and North
can never kill slavery at the South, any more than
u pure atmosphere in Ncrmtht.wll enre the yellow
/ fever in Ncw-OrlGGns. t,I
But who has told us that slavery can be localized
while permitted 10 erist? Experience tells us tho
very opposite 50 far as it tells any thing about
it, viii you localize grangrene or n coniiagra;
ton--a pestenco--a falsehoOd-a heresyT Wlli
You localize drunkenness, theft, adultery murder
SIN Will you set civil government a. W9rk;
of leyeling assaults at Yiekodness dlrectiy,
shall we content ourselves with assigning 10 1t the
limits within which it may revel! ,.,
Henry Clay indicated the impracteabih'y OF
"noneNtension" when lie said, in his great speech,
of 1889;
"The moment the incoutestiblc fact is admitted
that negro slaves are property, the law of movable
property irresistbly attaches TO them, and secures
The right of carrying them from one to another
State, where they are recognized ds property with
Mr. Clay said this, IN opposing petitions for abo;
lshinr the Interstate slave trade, and his appiica-
tion Of his principle was accordingly limited 70 the
slave States. But we know by his subsequent
course in opposing the Wilmot proylso, that no
applied the same principle to new territories.
i And so long as the principle Of property IN man
, is recognized by the nation us being valid in any
Il pdn of the nation, thee can be nosseeurity against
Its being extended to any other part OF tne naSh'
> The only way Of avoiding the conclusion Gi MT
l,,t II. ..FC Flng al
The Nebraska BILL is by denying The premises IN
N national declaration that man cannot hold property
to in man, and making that declaration ehcctuni
y Then and not until then, can the nation secure
" itself against the extension oil slavery IN WY
10 country like ours, where there is plenty OF WIG
&c land to be occupied. The enterprise OF cutting on
Il supplies Of Mississippi wafer ut New-Oflenns, ~
n throwing q dam that river few hundiee
miles above it, would be practeaDle ana PM
u osophcal one, in comparison with the scheme OF
d killing slavery by egislating againstits extension!
"a Slavery was once abolished in Texas, but its
nroxim to slave States led to its reestaDllsiheht'
Slavery was prohibited IN California py ,s
Is tuition but il is steadily becoming a slave state
u Neither Jefersonan ordinances, nor missouri com,
o promises nor State constitutions, nor any form OF
;; pape,' prohibitions can secure any portion OF the
country from slavery while 1t exists IN any part oi
= the country.
= Non-ezicnsion, as o substitute for immediate and
y unconditional emancipation, Is one OF the mosl
y Objectionable forms of grlduasm-it is indefinite
postponement without the slightest prospect OF ter
" miuation, unless by internal violence. 4. D.
,e By the Northern advocacy Of mere ioh-extension
n the conscience Of the South has been quieted with
the perception that the North has less of conscience
h. in the matter than had been supposed. The una
n voidabe impression has been made that 1t man
nc Ily as q matter of local. selfish policy, that th'
OF North opposes the extension Of slavery, and no
III because il is accounted sin, because there e
IN deep religious sympathy for tho slave. Until tn
~ Northern demand rises higher than for mere non
e- extension, it will be impossible TOR ths Not.n
o. get any strong hold upon the conscience ~ 'a
lsodth, stsn,et.