Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-02-25
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THE AMERICAN UNION.

What is III y guli, n sham, by which the crafty
cheat tho simple minded and the honest hearted.
a pretended alliance for freedom but in reality
union for the support pcrpetuatiUn and extension
Of slavery. 1t is All instrument b., which the gov
crnmcnt of the nation has been seized and controlled
for the suppression Of personal liberty-for the
degradation Of free labor and free aborcrs-for the
suppression Of knowledge, virtue and free prn-
ciplcs II was this Uniou Of Shareholders and
nonslaveholders, whose interests we're and are
antagonisms, that in the outset corrupted Con-
stituton, disgraciug it by legalzng the slave trade
by conccding slave representation in Congress,
and by requiring that fugitiycs in search Of liberty
should "Je giren np' to the robbers of their rights
It this Union that passed the fugitive acts of
9G and 1850. 1t was by means of the Union, that
the earlier and the later slave hunting tragedies of
Florida were enacted. 1t was by the Union that
Spanish and French slaveholding territory was
bought and added to the States to ovcrwhclm a. ii
crush the cause Of liberty in the y. L. corner of
the nation, where it had hoped tc nnd refuge and
an abiding place twas ;,ine Union that gave sue
cess to tue Iexa' narauders, and afterwards re-
ccived thcr and their booty into its loving embrace,
trH=lpling under foot the very Constitution it has
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the Union that wagcd the dastardly war upon poor
crippled Mexico-robbed her of her free territory,
and cursed it with slavery. By the power of the
Union alone were Baltimore platforms built, aud
thousands Of men who would liked to have lived
honest lives by it compelled to practice trea-
son against their own natures, and stand upon
these platforms, selbraudcd as traitors to liberty
spectacles of dishoror for the world to gaze upon
And now at last by the force of this unholy Union
and mems false veneraton for it, long plighted
faith is to be again dsregarded slavery is to be
extended over an immense territory, freedom is to
be insutod and outraged enterprise palsed, fertile
lands rendered comparatively valuelcss, the public
treasury robbed of those millions Of dollars with
which enterprising freemen would have invested
the territory. The power of the free States is to
be hopeessly crushed. and the talsmanic word
that is to reconcile New England and the North
west to this robbery, this infamy and this bondage
to slavery, is this same cherished, abused wonder
working word UNION. Douglas and Atchson and
Pierce that its inccssant, scnseloss ding-dong
during 1851 reconciled the indignant North to the
reputation Of slave catchers, and to all tho other
cnormtics of the compromise, and they imagine
that in the future it will continue to work the mir
acles Of the past.
At every turn the North has been outraged
robbed and spit upon and ever when this witching
word has been pronounced, she has forgotten her
wrongs and insults and obsequiously kissed the
hand that has inflicted all, and begged for union
with her opprcssOr on any terms he should pre-
scribe
But Notwithstanding all this, we are not without
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even northern scrvty and slavish submission can
not reach. We do not despair of the success of
Mr. Douglas and those who shall succeed him, in
convincing Yankee traders that it is of no use to
make bargain with the scamp who will always
repudiato his bond. They will see that it is car
dinal principle with the slaveholding Jesuits who
rule this nation that faith is to be kept with the
horetics Of freedom, and that no lying, religious
Jesuit was ever more firm and practical in This
opinion than are these same Shareholders.
union for liberty and justice is the most sacred
of bonds. But union which under hypocrtical
pretense of these, is always the friend and minister
of slavery, is the most Infamous of all relations
and its bonds should be at once and forever repu-
dated and independence declared.
The Shareholders deem the Union, iatrimsically
as nothing. They so treat it-so speak Of it. Bot
I the Union is everything when it can be made a
means to support their despotism over their black
slaves or their white confederates Let us learn
| from them a lesson. Let us, in any confederation
we form or continue, use it as an instrumentalty
to advance freedom, and defend justice and right.
Any other union let us denounce, repudiate and
forsake. If this be right, then are We bound to
repudiate and renounce the American confederacy.
1t is confederacy the part Of its controlling
members for maNsteGiihg-the worst of piracy
A confederacy which its whole history proves to
have been piratical in purpose and act. And the
Nebraska bill is its last proof that it is as perfdi-
Gus as pirate ever was or ever can be. Shall we
be longer coafederates with these pirates and par
takers of their guilt and dishonor? If we so con-
sent our ruin is sealed and inevitable. This nation
may talk as it pleases, but no othor remedy will
save it. The slave power will never believe us in
earnest with them, till with calm and solemn de-
termination, we propose to them the alternative of
emancipation or dissolution. When this propo-
siton shall come from the North, with ernestness
which shall secure a conviction that we mean what
we say, slavery will indeed speak great swelling
words--will rage, then quake and disappear
How determined shareholders look at this question
Of the Union, and how all should look at it, let our
readers learn from the following extract from the
speech of Mr. Kerr, of North Carolina made last
week in the House Of Representatives, on this
Nebraska question;
! | am, as my colleagues well know, at home
considered one Of the most ardent Of Union men,