Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-05-27
THE CONSERVATION.


Slavery has again trumphcd-as when, for the
last half century has Il mott The NEBRASKA Bill
has PASSED. Itpasscd on Tuesday at IL o'clock.
So far as Congress has the power thas extended
slavery over the whole of that vast territory. Cit
liens Of the North who would seek for homes in
the West, must 60 elsewhere or find them among
slaves The whole territory is to be cursed with
gnorance'dnd blighted Ivy Incidence, which oppros-
sion always fosters. The poor man is to be robbed
Of the soil for culturetho aborers to be derauded
Of his hre-thc stripes Of the brutal ovtrsecr are
to lacerate the backs Of innocent mon--of helpless
women, and Of tender infancy-on every foot of
its soil. The auction block is to be set up in every
corner where mcrcenary men-thieves and pirates see
fit to establish ithuman beings are to be troficked
for like brute beasts and the holiest affections
dercd for gain A ban is to be placed upon
liberty, knowledge and "pure religion" to practice
which, is to be punished as a hcinous crime. And
all this by act Of Congress. An act not hastily
done, bat coolly aud deliberately in the face Of an
unoxampled remonstrancc from the people Of the
North, and manly exposure and resistance from
the minority in Congress. The act has been passed
for the benefit of one hundred thousand slavehold-
crs. To them has been sacrificed the most vital
and sacred interests of three millions of slaves and
twenty millions Of nominal frcemcn And the
whole twenty-thrcc millions together slaves
held in common bonds by the same dospotic oil
garchy for their own wealth and nggrandizcmcnt
Three times did the Senate deliberately vote to per
petuate this yillainy, and HJce times did the ma
jority of the House Of Representatives resolve to
do the same And more, this act has passed with
the confident expectation that it will be "acqui-
esced in" by the people of the country, North and
South. They say the Missouri Compromisc-thc
Florida slave hunt-thc Texas conspiracy-the
Mexican warrobbcry--thc fugitive slave law and
thousand other outragcs have been submitted to-
acquiesced in and defended by those who threatened
and demonstrated against them, and why should
not this? We fear they right in their calcula-
tons. We judge from the past, and from the tone
of present resistance. 1t ia not with too many)
radical in its character, and uncalcuating in its
consequences Of trade and sect and party as it
should be, to inspire us with hope Will the peo-
pie submit like cravcns to their dcspotic masters?
That is the question. The three millions Of chat
teled human beings will, for they are ignorant,
without resources, and without means of combina-
tion, under the impression, Correctly tool that
the whole country is against them. VIII YOU the
falsely called freemen-yOu, the gagged insulted,
robbed men of the North-submt to your own
bonds, and to be the enslavers of those yet more
cruelty bound? We fear, nay, VIC expect you will
for though for three months there has been
moral certainty that this bill would pass you have
never yet shown a resistance at all to lie compared
with the cxigeney of the times or the determina
tiop Of those who were forcing the measure upon
you.
N M ilorn I,f &,
emergency. Let us dissolve all connection with
these covenant breakers. They arc thieves and
pirates, without political honor or common honesty
They arc without principle, and not to be trusted
for any good-corrupting the whole naton-the
implacablc foes of human virtue human liberty,
and human happiness. They have bought our
President and Congress, and bribcd our Judiciary.
They have thus placed us in the hands of traitors
who have betrayed our country and our liberties,
and blasted our national reputation and by so doing
blghted the hopes Of the worlds oppressed millions
Why should VIC seek to continue our partnership
with such disastrous, dishonorcble results? What,
compared with these, arc the gains of commerce or
the aggrandzement Of our nation, even supposing
these dependent upon union with these piratcs2
But they are not
Let our Senators and Representatives in Congress
come home. Let them tell tho people of the insult
to which the uttcrancc of any free thought subjects
them. Let them make manifest the deceit, false
hood and corruption by which the slave power has
obtained and maintained its ascendancy, with all
its consequences to the country its liberties and its
prospcry-and in view of all these facts, faithfully
presented let the people decide for or against the
Union, and we believe they will decide to have no
fellowship with the bloody system of slavery.
They will make the one effective proposition to the
South, ABOLITION OR DISSOLUTION. Let the
people make this proposition, and slavery ends and
our national prosperity begins anew.
THE CHANGE.