Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-06-24


| nc whole immense patronage of the Federal Gov
| 'rnment is made to minister.
| DeiOre this detormed and hateful monster every
'icer OF the executive and judicial departments is
nalc to bow and swear allegiance, from the Presi-
lent down, through all that countless swarm, num-
bered by hundreds of thousands, all trained to the
lowest and meekest serviliy Of passive obedience
ere distributed over and through the whole land,
numerous ms the frogSin the plaques of Egypt
each and AL of these civil, military and naval,
dependent on this omni nipresent power Of evil. The
independent man who seeks employment under the
fe0efal Administration, matter what his quail
hcaiiohs or itne ess-no matter if he were Washing
ton or Franklin, Jay or Adams, Lafayette or
hoselusc0-li lie were to re-appear with his old
fashioned devotion to human liberty, and ask for
petty clerkship under some braying ass, whom the
shareholders and their funkes had wrappsd around
with the lions skin Of authority, he would be rude
~ thrust aside to give place to any worthless puppy
mean enough to kiss the footstool of power for
crumbs Of patronage Sir, the children of those
whose blood soaked the battlefelds ofthe revolution
unless degraded enough to play the sycophant to
TINS atrocious slave power so far protection or
patronage under the Government purchased with
the.F iathcrs' blood is concerned, are as much ali
ems as IT they had hren born and reared cOnnibals
OF New leland or the Fejec Islands. In their own
country, IN the home Of their fathers, and their
fathers fathers, thew are aliens and outlaws-male
such by this guilty combination of shareholders
ana renegade politicians Of the free States. No.
sir, the Government has ceased to be the Govern
mert Of the people Of the United States or for the
people OF the United States. 1t is the savehold
ers' Governtnent-a Jase and yilnnous oigarchy,
the only intent aud purpose Of which is to multiply
Offices to be filed with the Government hangers-on,
and paupers generated by the slave system, to col
lect the taxes necdiu to fill the mouths and pockets
OF this tamished brood Of cOrmorants, and to ex-
tend, strengthen and perpetuate the accursed sys-
tenn, so runous to the moral political and social
interests OF the free aborcr 1t is the slavehold-
er Government, and for one | am for reform or
separations; am for justice and for liborty-with-
out which there can be no justice and, sir, if this
Government will not secure to of the free States
the territory which is now free, and has been made
ana Kept Tree by net Of Congress, now for more
than an entire generation, then, sir it is not the
government in which the non-slavcholGcrs Of the
United States have an interest to the value of the
Presidents salary. For such government, so
administered. have neither respect nor affection
it IS Gt only for reform or revolution On this
snDicet 1t ls best for us of the North and South
that we understand each other. Either the Federal
Constitution docs Or docs rot recognize slaves rs
property and guarantee the title to the master to
property in his slaves. If the Constitution does
this. then IT is hypocrisy, delusion, cheat
but il it does not, then the administration of the
Government, under the joint misrule of the slave
and dough-tace power has been md is usurpaton
and fraud, which will not only justify, but abso-
lately demands, either an administration based on
The free spirit of the Constitution, or dissolution
o. the ohion' Sir speak very plainly, and
dsdain to resort to the usual cant about devotion
~ the Union, and all that. | think I know my
constituents well, and am we'll known bv them
know that they are willing to abide in the Union
ander the Constitution cur fathers framed and in
tliis Union and under that Constitution they have
horne much and for the preservation of them in
their purity, will do, endure and dare as much as
men may do, endure or dare, in any FORM in which
patriotism may demand the exercise of these high
qualities: and yet sir feel warranted in saying
to You in their names and in their behalf, that
whenever the Shareholders and dough faces shall |
have satisfied them the Federal Constitution is re-
ally the bu!wark aud guaranty Of chnttel slavery |
and they are called upon to choose between slavery
and Union on the one hand, and liberty and disso- |
lunn on the other, without an instant's delay or (
hesitation they will choose liberty for themselves |
and their children, at any cost and every hazard |
But, sir, neither my constituents nor myself enter
tain any such view Of the Federal Constitution
We believe its peryison to the base use Of extending
and perpetuating slavery has been a violation Of |
its letter and spirit; and for dethroning the
usurpers and placing in their stead those who will
so exercise the powers of the Government as there
by to Form more perfect Union, establish justice,
lnsnre domestic tranquility, provide for the common
defense, promote the general welfare, and secure
the blessings Of liberty to ourselves and our Dos
terlty." To these beneticent ends We believe the !
exercise of these powers FOR the extension or per-
petuation of human slavery is usurpation of which,
if persisted in, will make dissolution of the Union
not only right lut dntg. TO bring the Federal
Government actively and perpelually ON the side
OF liberty, and to deuatiOnalize slavery, and con-
fine it strictly to the States where it now exists.
are the ends we contemplate, and for them We shall
labor, through sunshine and Storm through good
report and evil repOrt-beatcn, we shall renew the
fght---suecessful, VIC shall push on the victory
replying to all testy gentlemen who oppose to this
resolution OF ours, las was successfully done in
lS3O,) threats to secede from the Union, what the
bencvolent Uncle Toby said to the ny, "the world
is wide enough for thee and Inc, simply reminding
the gentlemen that
The fight of freedom once begun,
Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son;
Though batfled oft, is ever won''--
And that, it has been heretofore, SO will it he
again Liberty must triumph, and slavery must
perish.