Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-04-01
ToNAwANpA. March hi. 1854.

addressed to the AntNebraska meeting recently
held in Philadelphia:
ToSAwANDA, March H. 1854.
GENTLEMEN Your favor Of the 9TH instant was
received last evening on my return home from Sus-
quehanna, where had been for the purpose Of at
tending general county meeting, called to protest
against the repeal of that part Of the Missouri
Compromise which forerer prohibits slavery north
Of 90 degrees 30 minutes in the territory Of the
Louisiana purchase.
| rejoice that the metropolis OF our State is
about to speak in condemnation of this wicked and
profligate measure. From the time Of its introduc-
ton into the Senate, | have looked With deep
anxiety for some adequate expression of indigna-
ton from the city Of Penn and the home Of Frank
lin. Oh that Pennsylvania would again. in this
evil day when the ianaticsm of slavery knows no
law, proclaim her revolutionary principles, and
that our public men would initiate that exalted
virtue which so eminenty distinguished those
whose names honor and and adorn our history
Has Pennsylvania no hon0red son, eminent by his
services and position, who, in this hour of most
imminent peril 10 liberty, will speak boldly and
manfully for his country, for freedom, for human
ity?
VIII this great and free Commonwealth lend
her powerful influence for the extension Of Afri-
can slavery over the American continent? Or
will she stand firm in support Of her carly faith
and true to the mighty interests Of the future ?
Pennsy ylyania, by her political voice, can give Sc
curty to freedom, or she can crush 1t out for
turies, il not forever. Our Representatives in
Congress hold in their hands the fate of this Ne
broska bill. Let them ponder well the votes they
give upon it, The issues involved in il are vital
reaching to the very foundations of institutions
of government.
Airicanizc the heart of the Republic; open
Nebraska to slavery, and surrender its vast and
fertile territory to the servilo labor of the black
race, thereby elIccually excluding from its borders
the free white laborer and the work of revolution
izing this democratic government into slave oil
garchy is accomplished the blood and treasure
and sacrifices Of the revolution will have been
expended in vain. We will have exchanged the
tyranny Of foreign dcspotsm, for the CALLING
rule of an aristocracy at home; an aristocracy
founded on property in slaycs-thc most cxacting
and relentless, as it is the meanest and most timid
Of any on the face Of the globe. The present eff
fort to repeal n solemn compact, held MS sacred for
more than thirty years by the whole American
reople illustrates the insoenco and iaithlessness
Of this aristocracy. There is not tyrant in Eu-
rope who would so boldly and unblushingly forfeit
his honor and plishted ;aith
This bold attempt to subyert the free institu-
tions of our country must be resisted to the last
extremity, at every hazard and at whatever cost.
lie who aids in the consumation of this stupendous
wrong, counsels submission TO it, is a traitor to
the principles of democracy, and to the highest in
terests Of his country and mankind. To submit
would he to encourage further aggressions, while
il would deprive us Of the power to resist in the
future. IT, with the four additional slave States to
be carved out of Texas, we will allow ten fifteen
more to be formed out Of Nebraska, land it is
large enough for six Of the size of New York, ]
where, ask, would be left to the free States, the
power to resist successfully any demand that our
rulers and masters might see ft to make upon US!
| We would be powerless-chained, hand and foot
in the bonds Of degrading vassaage.
! What mockery was the pretended settlement
Of the slavery question by the peace measures (so
called) Of lS50i How impotent our party plat
forms and the pledges Of Presidents, to hold in
check the nsolent and aggressive spirit Of slavery
The truce Of 1850 was declared final and perpetu-
al The Baltimore Convention resolved against
any further agitation Of questions connected with
slavery. The President, in his inaugural, gave
high assurance that this peace should not be dis
turbed yet, under all these guarantees, and when
the free States were resting in confident security
that no further concessions to slavery would be re-
quired Of them, suddenly the ground swells OF
agitation shake tho country. Slavery is not salts
fed the vast territory of Nebraska, solemnly sci
apart to free labor by the compromise Of 1920 mus
be wrestcd from the iaboring man and his poster
ity, and given up to arstocracy Of 100000 slave
holders, in order to make room for the labor O
| their slaves, and to preserve the value Of theil
property in the blood and snews Of men.
Very respectfully, your ob't scrv't,
| d. WuuoT