Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-02-04
NOTHING BUT SLAVERY.

Pilatc and Herod, implacablo enemies, became
friends that they might effect the cruciaxion Of
Jesus. Wings and Democrats form fraternal
Union, andlovingly join to cruelty liberty and curse
Nebraska with slavery. The language of these
men is, There is no God but slavery and Whiggcry
Democracy, Presbytcrianism, Methodism and what
not, are but its servants, who go at its bidding and
come obsequiously at its call.
When, in the United States Senate last week,
they were fixing the time for the discussion Of
Douglass Nebraska bill, Mr.. Dixon, a Wing Sena'
tor from Kentucky, explained his position as fol-
lows:
Sir, merely wish to remark that upon the ques.
ton of slavery know no Whiggery and know
no Democracy. | am pro-slayory man. i am
from a savcholding State; l represent slave
holding constituency and am here to maintain
the rights of that people whenever they present
cd before the Senate.
1t is only because slavery knows no interest but
its own that it rules-that it has extended ITSELF
and that it will continue to extend. When will the
professed friends Of freedom learn as muchY When.
ever they do and shall unite upon the most radical
and thorough measures to defend and sustain lib
erty they can do what they desire.
Mr.. Dixon expresses his view Of the Missouri
Compromise as follows 1t will give the reader a
clue to the course of argument he and others in
tend to adopt to carry their measure.
! do not wish il to be understood that upon q
question like this have, could have, any motive
except that which should influence man an nxioui
to secure what he believes to be great principle
that is, congressional non-interference in all the
Territories so far as this great question Of Slavery
is concerned.
] d;I IoI,orn -, ~. af, Ia
the Missouri Compromise. thought it was thu
result Of necessity. ] never thought that the grea
Senator from Kentucky Mr. Clay, when he advo
Gated that measure, did so because his judgmcn
approved it, but because it was the result of q com
binatiOn of circumstances which drove him to th
position he assumed and have never thought tha
that measure received the sanction Of his heart o
his head.
Tho amendment, then, which gave notice tina
| would propose, and which intended to have pro
posed, if it had not been rendered wholly unncces
sary by the amendment reported by the Senate
from Illinois, from the Committee ON Territories, o
which he is the honored chairman, i intended L
offer, under firm conviction that was carrying ou
the principles settled in the compromise acts 0
1850; and which leave the whole question of slay
cry with the people, and without any congressionu
interference. For over the subject of slavery
either in the States or Territories OF the Unite
States, never have believed, and have always con
tended, that Congress had no power whatever; an
that consequently, the act Of 1920, common
known as the Missouri Compromise act, is uncon
stitutiona; and at the proper time shall cndcavo
to satisfy the Senate and the country of the trut
of these propositions.
now discovery. After the Missouri prohibition
has been pronounced constitutional by the vctera
politicians who adopted it, their opinion has re
mained unqucstiOned for third of a century-hO
indeed been repeatedly confirmed by Congress
itself Now Mcssrs. Dixon and Douglass find
unconstitutional. Ayel everything is uncOnsttr
tional but slavery.