Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-06-24
ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.
From tho Cleveland Morning Leader.
CONCLUSION OF THE SPEECH OF
HON. EDWARD WADE.
OF OHIO,
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,,
May ~, 1854.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, AT SALEM, OHIO.

But, seriously. I would say to gentlemen from
the free States. that those who make compromises
with Others to enable those others to enslave their
fellow-men anywhere, or for any purpose but in
punishment of crime, have no reason to expect
such compromises will be observed, when the in
terests of the ensavers come in contact with such
compacts. Such compacts are Of themselves a
breach of faith with mankind aud when the in
tercsts of such compact is designed protect will
be promoted by its violation. what right have those
who have broken faith with human nature to
grumble when their accomplices Nreak faith with
them3 Iscariot did not bargain for the crucifSon,
but merely to the extent Of showing the chief
priests where their victim might be found still,
tho verdict of mankind has condemned the traitor
the guilter Of the parties to that world-abhorrcd
compact of the thirty pieces of silver"
Sir, when the people of the free States sell the
black mans freedom to the STAKEHOLDER, it is no,
strange that the latter insist on guaranty of title
and when this guarantee is most easily effected by
breach of the contract of guaranty, this nfracion
becomes the natural and characteristic remedy;
and herein gentlemen Of the free Sta'es have a
practical illustration oe the proverb what is got
over the Devils back goes under his belly"
This "truck and dicker" on the part Of northern
men with tho black mans inalienable rights, is
of kin, in humble way, to that renowned
compact" impudently profiered by the arch op
pressor of mankind to the Great EmGncpator, by
which "all the kingdoms of the earth, and the
glory thereof" were to be transferred to their
rghtfni owner in exchange for the alteration which
the prince of cheats and knayes owed but mpiously
withheld
Sir. will northern statesmen never learn. even hv
experience, that slavery is nm incurablc ulcer on
the boly ypolitic, wearing out the very life of free
dom ?-that it is aceaseless aggression upon justice
mud from its very nature eenay opposed to
law and order ?that it and freedom never, never
be so fraternize1 rs to dwell together in unity
that in its nature, it is The population of justice,
which is the foundation Of law? Way not lock
this surface truth in the face, and these
vain attempts nj tinkering up alliances and com
pacts between interests in their deepest eteg
nal and irrcconcilably hostile? Why taih of com
pacts, when know that slavery lives and has its
being in breach Of faith; that It's fell and hateful
spirit, the very soul of it, is aggression, violence.
and the qualification Of it's owr unbridlcd will
Hence, the seizure Of Texas the dismemberment
of Mexico, the eager coyctng Of Cuba, and now,
lastly, this attempt to thrust its exccrable sell
upon Kansas and nebraska. Sir, the spirit of sl0-
very is the deadly enemy of human rights, the
enemy of the human race. Compromises with it
are as impious they foolish and vain.
The spread of this spirit, like the march Of the
pestilence that wakcth in darkness" is the terror
Of mankind. The spirit of liberty and the spirit
Of slavery cannot co-cxist in harmsny. Attempts
TO unite angels of light with ''goblins damned
would be no more audaciously mpious Sew rs
many pillons under the armholes of oppression
and injustice, Gaub them with the untcmpered
rs you will, your atteMp to join together what God
Almighty has put asunder, ought, and must, and
will, fall to pieces miserable botch Of pseudo
craftsmanship, fit only for the scorn and dcrsion Of
mankind.
Why, sir, is there man on this floor 81 unre.
fecting as not TO feel assured that in political
machinery of slavery and freedom, the friction Of
its working, as each increases in strength and
extent of surface will increase also in severity,
and become more and still more mercicss, until
.ln k,r1a md str will how n,lf n
weaker to powder? "Compacts and adjustments"
have been weighed in the balance and found
wanting" and the issue between liberty and sla-
very so long 'stavcd off by sclf-glorifyng states
men, aspiring politicians, and lower law divines,
must now be joined thanks to the restless little
and would-be great men, who commenced clubbing
tho apple of the Presidency so long before it was
rpe, and while themselves, also, were equally
green.
The political crimes and follies of every strug
gle for the Presidency, the distribution of the
spoiis when that struggle is to incompetent
and worthless political fortune hunters, a reward
for the frauds and iasehoods, the tricks and cheats
successfully practiced on the masses of the people
of the free States, to decoy them into the support
of some impoent tool of the slavery prcpagandists,
are just beginning to open their eyes TO the
fact that our partisan politicians neither patri-
OTIS nor statesmen, but rather gang of political
privateers and freebooters who have navigated the
ship of State to the outer circuits of the great
whirlpool of universal slavery; and that unless
this piratical crew are cast overheard, and the
ships helm put HARD OVER with n stern and defiant
hand, her cargo of freedom is lest forever.
Liberty for the slave, or slavery for the free
laborer," is now the dilemma into which the Union
is forced by the cupdty of the Shareholders and
the corruptons of free States political adventurers;
aud, as NoN-sLAvEHoLDERs there is no choice left
20 us but to submit to the iron dcsnotism of the
slavery propagandists, or suffer the North and the
South, like Abraham and Lot of old, to part as
friends rather than to live together as rival enc
mics. in hopeless and enibittered struggle to
harmonic systems utterly, fatally irreconcilabc,
LIBERTY and SLAVERY
The gentleman from Georgia, Mr.. STEPHENS, the
other day, seemed to imagine himself fighting over
again the great compromise battle of 1850; and
inasmuch as northern gentlemen at that time either
WERE or affected to be alarmed for the safety of
the Union, the gentleman is under the deusion that
the like bluster now will produce the like effect
upon the present Congress. That gentleman land
Re is nv no mems the only one in the same dark
ness) evidently did not then understand the causes
which led to that ruin6us aud disgracefl surrender
Of northern principles and northern honor and he
must have been dreaming fyopr that time 10 his