Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-09-22

stitution, which is unjust in Itself, and oppressive
in the use made Of ii. They admit, too, the whole
physical power Of the nation, their own with all
the rest, is pledged to perpetuate slavery us long
as the government continues, and the slave own
ers require their assistance. They agree further,
that for the same length of time, no portion of the
territory of the nation shall afford q refuge to the
fugitive slave. But they nlledge by the employ
ment of their political power they con restrict the
spread Of slavery and by thus localising it, do
something which may at some time in an incalcu-
liable future. assist towards its overthrow. To the
Abolitionists it is q puzzle which e.,eeeds all their
power to unriddlc, how men of good common sense
and honest purposes, can suppose they are really
doing any thing for the overthrow of slavery,
whilst confcssedly yielding it a support which, so
long as persisted in, necessarily involves its con-
tinusnce and perpetuation. Suicidal as such poll
cy is, and destructive of the alledged wish and
purpose of those who maintain it, we do sec men
Of excellent sense in other matters, and with the
very best of motives, in part, at least, who seem
to believe they are achieving something for the
deliverance of the slave, whilst they not only
swear to employ the whole physical power of the
nation to prevent his selfcmancipation, and to de-
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but they actually fulfill their oaths!
Let us imagine the statesmen and the people of
America had pursued q policy similar to that of
our modern Republicans. in l776. Let us suppose
that instead of the Declaration Of Independence
and the action based thereon, they had proclaimed
to the world that taxation without representation
was a great wrong, which must be remedied, and
therefore, although they should continue to pay q
tax upon stamps and tea, as they had done, such
wicked legislation should never be imposed upon
the unsettled territory west of the Alleghenies !
Would not q plan..of such mastery and bold re-
sistance to tyranny as this, have astonished the
world, and frightened George the Third, and Lord
North, and the Parliament into the abandonment
of their tyrannical purposesf Or rather would
not they and the whole CIVILIZED world with them
have been convulsed with one universal laugh OF
derision, and deemed no yoke too heavy for these
patient asses to bear, whose intelligence and cour-
age lifted them to no higher level of resistance to
oppression? Imagine La Fayette and Kosciusko
and Stuben unsheathing their swords and hasten
ing into a conflict for such a principle And the
Parliament of Great Britain surrendering its cher
ished desire Of American taxation in haste to he
J friends again with such heightened defenders Of
= Liberty!
The case supposed, is q perfect parallel to the
position of our Republican brethren. The colo
nists might still have used all the moral infuen-
ces which could be brought to bear for the abroga-
ton of the tax whilst paying it punctually, just as
our Republicans profess they can use such means
to operate against slavery whilst they give the sys
tenn all the actual support the slave owner evcr
) bareained for, or desired of them.
o To a spectator entirely disinterested; if such a
position were possible, and to the slave, who has
the deepest interest in solving the question as to
: who is the mistaken n this matter of anti-slavery
policy, it would seem very plain who are the most
liable to be so.
The government denies to the slave the exercise
of any political rights or power. Tho Abolition
list takes his position beside him, voluntarily re
linquishing all political preferment or privileges
,e of any sort. From this point of observation hi
r. looks at the question and anxiously seeks to deter
,t mine how he may laborsmost successfully, not onl,
to liberate the slave, but to elevate himself, witt
him, into n condition where he may innocent,
and ~proitably employ political privileges, ant
A power. That he is disinterested, all must acknowl
i edge. If he be the mistaken party in respect t
:, the non.use of Governmental privileges and powe
it is manifestly a blunder not only without, Blu
against temptation. lie can have no motive of
RS selfish character, to beguile his judgment, and in
Aucnce his conduct. Not so with the Republican
Grant that he is sincerely DESTROYS to promote uni
vcrsal emancipation. Grant that he loves Libert.
and hates Slavery with a burning zeal, he has ye
IN the of Office for himself, or his friend
MS or the success of his party to influence his judg
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unperceived by himself. Other things being equu
then, the Abolitionist occupies q position by ia
the most favorable for arriving at q correct conclu
n sion. lie feels and knows that to uphold SLAYER
actively, or even seemingly to consent to it, to hin
is is sin, and hence he not only refuses all allegiance
to the government which he finds pledged to it
support, but he does all within his power to efec
4. its overthrow and to create just institutions in it
ID place. Republicans sneer at him as a do-nothing
because they have no conception of tn, fact tina
the individual outside of the government and re
fusing the use of its franchise, may yet WELD
political power greatly beyond the casting of on
or two thousand votes. They think and call him
to man of one idea, no matter how far-reaching ma
r. be the thought with which he penetrates the fl
IN ture and foresees and fashions the new politica
combinations which are to arise out of his presen
e- vegetativs position, and this because they then
ra selves are incapable of an idea of political powe
at exerted by any mode save the one they have witne'
MS sed it assume, in the institutions contriyed for ther
m by their predecessors.
in Brother Republican, ask yourself who is mos
ng likely the mistaken one-he who unites wit
IN Wings, Democrats and Republicans to hold tn
w. slave certainly and securely in the States, Will
es he joins only with the Republicans in endeavorin
to prevent slavery from being extended to the TeI
ia ritories, or he who refuses to do any thing whic
be continues the slave in bondage, but labors oil h
m may for his emancipation every where.
Dr. Sept llth. b..
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