Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-07-15

terbalance Notification for Slavery. If this be
done openly and above board, acknowledging Tor
not, MS the individual opinion may be) that the Con-
~stitution requires tle restoration Of slaves; but
stating, definitely and unequivbcully, that so much
Of the Constitution, If it exist, is to he annulled
and made of no effect. As soon rs any State is
ready to present itself in an attitude of resistance
to the Governments, there will be no attempt mt
coercion: Uncle Sam is a great bully but like
other DULLES, he is n great coward and easily put
down by q little resolution.
Anti Slavery Politics, to be made effectual, must
ann at the yindication of State Rights. The OBJ
Jects OF IN Anti-Slavery Party should lie confined
chiefly to to the publication of the States from all
participation in Slavery. And we believe the
people are much more in a state of preparation for.
.uch-a movement than the politicians imagine.
We cannot imagine that any man who is now viii.
ling to take an oath to support the Y. S. Constitu.
ton, when determined never to do any thing towards.
the execution of these detestable clauses, could have
any seruplc about taking an oath to support, with
the fixed purpose of making it nugatery by law.
And, of course, they who believe that there is no
Slavery at all wrapped up in the Constitution can
have no difficulty about it. Let distinct platform
of principles and schedule of purposes be promul-
gated, stating that men who arc voted for arc to
make certain laws, as above suggested, whether the
Constitution allows them or. not, and who are. to
execute them in the face of the whole U. S. Gov
eminent, if necessary, and it is our belief that
such a party would soon grow up to power. As
soon as it was ripe for power, there would be no
lack of Governors to execute, nor of Judges to rule
the CUnstitutionallty of such laws. Such q state
of things would efcctually prevent any attempt to
execute the Fugitive Law in any State where it ex-
istod-lust as no attempts are now made to protect
our colourcd seamcn in Charleston and New Or
leans. II the Slave States choose to separate from
us on this quarrel, they will he free to do so. Only
they won't. There is.no hope of it. Z Not that it
is true, rs Senator Rockwell said, at the sncaking
end of n Speech that promised better things, that
Disunion is impossible. 1t is only impossible that
the Slave States should ever dissolve, for the same
reason that the Pope cannot dissolve his Glorious
Union with Louis Napoleon's troops, or the Town
Paupers theirs with the Overscers of the Poor. But
a Northern Senator should blush to tell the Slave
holders that there is no extent to which they can
push their Annexations and Aggressions that can
rouse the North to the point of Revolution. 1t may
be so but II Northern man should be ashamed to
tell of it.
We have thus pointed out a mode of political
action which is at once practical and the nearest
the absolute Right that is likely to be pursued.
vi course, we wish that the Northern States, or
any one OF them, would pronounce the Union dis
solved and set about framing q more perfect form
OF Government. That is the. highest idca--the
most direct and imperative duty. Then we could
have an Yhonourable government, growing directly
out of the American and natural doctrine of the
Right of Revolution, with no necessity for going
round OF going over oaths and obligations. Then
we could have tho sail sfactiOn of demanding oui
citizens of their Southern kidnappers, at the mouth
Of Northern cannon, instead of submitting 10 il
like whipped blood-hounds. But We will accept
the lower policy, if the higher is beyond the react
u our people. And VIC hope to see Mr.. Sumner
engaged in The agitation for such an assertion OF
the Rights of the Separate States. We think he
will find it easier work than arguing the seal off
the National Bond for the pound Of Slaves Flesh,
at Washington. The ncep,c will he much sooner
persuaded to PIT their heel On the Slave Clauses
shareholders will always have the best of the ar
gument about the Constitutional Guarantees OF
Slavery because, as VIC and nearly the entire ma
ton believe, they have the right OF it,; but it rests
with tho people in every Northern State to say
which shall have the best of the struggle to carry
them out into action. E., O..