Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-01-21
From the Forest City Democrat.
THE QUESTION.

For months past, and while certain ill;iudging
friends were grumbng least we should fall, we
have been warning them. and others, Of the designs
of the Slave Power. These designs are now de-
veloped Away then, with suspicious Of each other.
Down with the narrow men, whoever they may be,
who would plant them among us, as we pull to-
gchcr and strike out together, and boldly for the
right
Look at home and look abroad, and we see how
the Slave Power is moving ard concentrating.
There is no accident about il, or its action nor
will there ever be for it forms but small portion
of the South, and does not express the will or wish
Of the majority Of the People thereof Look at the
past and the present, and mark how step by step
it has advanced, becoming bolder as the North
yielded, until now it grnsps all Of free-soil owned
by the Government, and whatever it may seize
besides from Mexico. There is in all this fixed
purpose, and iron will to execute it, and unless
the Free States aroused, MiSpo,rer cW succeed.
1t is a matter Of amazcment to us that Douglass
bill does not startlc the whole North as would the
shock of an earthquake. 1t processes TO affirm,
yet directly repeals the Missouri compromise Is
there no faith in past covenants? Arc solemn
guarantees to be violated with impunity? Why,
the world will mock and scOrn us, if we so act.
Just recall the Missouri compromise. In subsist-
ancc, as is well stated by another, it was this:-
"That if the representatives of the free states
would agree to admit Missouri into the Union with
slavery no other state should, within the territory
then possessed by the United States, north of the
parallel of thiry-six degrees and thirty minutes, be
admitted without prohibition of slavery. We
will waive our objections to the admission of
Missouri with the institution of slavery, said those
who represented the north, if you Of the South,
will guarantee that no other slave state shall be
received into the Union north Of that parallel.
The guaranty was given; the pledge that slavery
should never be allowed to exist north of that line,
was incorporated into the act by which Missouri
was made state of the Union. Having obtained
the Admission of Missouri by giving that pledge,
they take the opportunity as soon as the territory
which lies in the same latitude with Missouri Is
ready for government, deliberately to violate it.
Nor is the fraud of Douglass bill yeiled it
stands out as Il juggle and cheat, as bareiacedly
as if ylliany were practical good. True, 1t pre-
tends that Nebraska is to be organized as Utah
and New Mexico were organized. The cases are
not parallel The territory Of Nebraska is part of
the country purchased from France and its destiny,
its free character was settled by covenant solemn
as men ever framed, and sacred as Governments
can make. For thirty-three years it has stood, no
LAWYER or statesman, questioning its yalidity-the
whole land acquiescing in il. Yet now it is to be
set aside, oyer-riddon, that the Slave Power may
grasp Nebraska
But embrace in one view the action of this Pow
er, and realize its spirit and know its purpose.
Put down as naked propositions what it has done
and why il proposes to do, If you wish TO see the
peril of the hour, or fathom the plot against Free
dom. All men who have eyes, or ears, or memo
ry may do it, and as they do so, may behold what
is in the future, by noting simply cause and effect,
Here is the outline, a daguerreotype, bold and
bare hut true TO the originals
First the compromises OF 1850
Second, opening by them Utah and New Mexi-
co to Slavery,
Third, the Baltimore Platform
Fourth, tho action of the Ohio Democracy, and
the Indiana and Illinois Democracy repudiating all
professions of Free Soil
Fifth, the invasion Of Lower California, with
the certainty of Sonora being invaded.