Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-05-13

mauiacturers of the North 70 call themselves "the
North, or the rumselers q The North to call
themselves "the North" 1t is true that their in
terests are alien well from the interests Of the
South, as from the interests of the North and that
slavery is the deadly foe, well of the white pop
/, uaton of the South, as of its black population.
Nevertheless, in the present corrupt state Of the
public sentimenb the slave owners are able to con-
! troll the nation. They are mighty by their one
ness. Divided they may be in everything else
but they undivided in their support Of slavery.
The state and the Church are both in their hands.
A bastard democracy, accommodated to tho de-
mads of slavery, and toleratng the tarlHc in hu
man ilesh, is our national democracy. aud bas-
tard christianity, which jndorses this bastard de-
mocracy, is the current christianity OF our nation
The fathcrhoOd Of God and the brotherhood of man
ideas, 50 prominent in true democracy and u
; true christianty--are quite foreign to sham
: democracy and our sham christianity. American
religion is n huge hypocrncy. Whilst tJ the inn
, measurable sininlness of that system, which for
bids marriage, and the reading Of the Bible, and
which markets man and beasts il is blind as n
bat it, nevertheless, draws down its stupid face,
and pronounccs the shuffing of the feet to music
to be great sin. The different States Of Chrsten-
dom, rs they advance in civilization and the
knowledge of human rights, are one aftGr another,
putting away slavery. Even the Boy OF Tunis
puts away this most foul and guilty thing; ard
says, that he does "fOr the gcTy Of mankind.
and tO distinguish them from the brute creation"
cursed America, retrogrados. Whilst other ma
tiOns grow in regard for human rights, she grows
in contempt for them. Whilst other nations rise
in the sunlight of civilization, she sinks in the
night OF bnrbarism Her Congress sets up slavery
in her very capital. Her Congress regulates and
protects the coast-wise trade in slaves. Her Con-
gress wages unprovoked aud punderng wars for
the extension of slavery. Her Congress dccrees,
that shareholders shall have the range of all Amer
lea, IN which to reduce men, women, and children,
n Aa1 d. a. IL.
an 'adlnittod right" was shameless enough to say,
m his Inaugural, that the fugitive slave act, which
his predecessor was shameless enough TO sign,
should he "chcerfully" enforced. In short, the
Federal Government is now, and long has BEEN al
work, more to uphold slavery than to do anything
else, or even at all things else. The great slave
catcher. the great Watchdog Of slavery these
are ITS most fitting names, in its present employ !
ment and degradation. And yet notwithstanding
All this devotion Of the Federal Government to |
slavery, and the iron determination Of the slave.
owners that the power Of the whole nation shall
be exerted to uphold IL there, nevertheless, eau
be no remonstrancc from the North against slavery,
which is not immediately followed by the truthess
and impudent reply that the North has nothing to
do with slavery! That the American people and
American Government have fallen to what they |
arc is not to he wondered at II is but the natural
aud necessary result of their having fostered and
icd Tor more than half century. the monster sla-
very. Time was when we might have crushed this
monster. But now, it has crushed us. ii has cor
rupted us to such an extent that there is scarcely
sound spot left in us, at which to begin to rally
opposition to it. On no cheaper condition than
this can slavery be clung to. Ii we will be slave
holders-and such are the Northern MS well as the
Southern peOple-for il the Stare oleRcrs are at the
South, the people Of the North are nevertheless
more emphatcally, because more efficiently, the
shareholders, than are the people Of the South-f
say, we will be Shareholders, we must take the
EVIL consequences upon our own understandings
and hearts, and not be surprised at them. Men
cannot bind the degrading chain of slavery around
their brothers without at the same time binding
and DEGRADING themselves with it.
How melancholy upon our country aud, through
her, upon the world, has been the influence of
American Slavery! In the beginning of our ma
tonal existence, we were the moral and political
lighthouse of the world. The nations, (which
sat in darkness, saw the light" and rcoiced. Sad
to say. we were ourselves the first to dim that light
Inc principles, which we then enunCiatcd, oectri-
fled the nations. Sad to say, we were ourselves
the first to dishonor those principles! Nothing So
much as American Slavery, has brought disgrace
upon those principles. Ali other causes combined
have not stood so eectually in the way Of the pro-
gress of repubcanisin, as the glarng inconsistency
OF our deeds with our professions. In the house
OF her friends, Liberty has received her deepest
stabs. All our boasts and falsehoods to the con-
trary notwithstanding there is no Government on
the face OF the earth so quick own, to dread
ana to oppose, popular movements in behalf Of
liberty and republicansm. On our Government
more than on all other causes put together, rests
the responsibility of the stopping of the Revou-
ton in the Spanish American States. We are wont
to say, that the people Of those States were ncom-
lpetent to perfect that Revolution. This is n piece
of our hypocrisy. The instructions Of our Govern
ment and the discussions in our National Legsla-
ture, in regard to the Congress of Panama; our
threat of war against Columbia and Mexico, if
those States persevered in carrying forward the
Revolution; and, above all, our base suppication
to Russia and Spain to join us in stopping the
wheels OF that Revolutions provo cOnclusively, that
though our lying lips were for liberty, hearts,
all the time, were concerned but for the protection
of slavery. And in the case of Hayti--how dead-
ly, from first to last has been the enmity of our
Government to the cause Of liberty and republican,
{ ism To learn the extent of that enmty we must
not conhnc our eye TO the naughty and perseverng
: refusal Of our Government to recognize the indie.
pendence of Uayti. We must look at other things
also-and especially at the seryile compliance OF
o our Government with the mpudent and arrogant
demand OF Napoleon to carry out his plan Of star
5 wing the llaytens into submission.
Our Government made display Of sympathy
+ with the European Revolutions Of 1913. But who
is so stupid as to accord sincerity to that display
i when he recoects that the very first fruit OF the
very first of these Revolutions was the unqualified
b abolition of all French savery-nnd part of that
: slavery in the neighborhoodof of our own? So eager
, was our government TO appear to be on the side Of
i Hungary, that II sent QUIT ship for KOssuth But
y long ore hehad reached our shores and, especially
= whilst he was making his speeches in England il
behalf of the equal rights Of all men; our Govern
J ment found out that it had got more than it con
tracted for. Kossuth's principles were too radical
Their scope was quite too sweeping. They no more
9 spare slavery than any other form of oppression
! Yet, Government could not stop Kossuh on hi,
way. Having started for America, he must be suE
: fered TO come to America. But how great hi,
= disappointment, on his arrival. "IIe came unit,
$ his own, and his own received him not" The
! poor man was willing to compromise matters
I thousand pities that he was lie was willing tC
ignore slavery, and to 60 through the whole length
4 and breadth Of the land, seeing in every man hC
: met, nothing else than glorious freeman. Alas
! what mstake The policy of the Government
I "to give him the cold shoulder" was iixed and Mt
concessions on humiliations on his part could suf
4 fee to repeal il. Kossuth left America-and hC
left IL no less ahundnntlv than nnnflly conrincnd