Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-11-24
From tho London i. S Ai7oca.e
WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR SLAVERY
IN THE UNITED STATES.


IN THE UNITED STATES.
To tic Editor et tie A. S. -4droraie.
I Last month | spoke of slavery, what 1t t., ant
what 1t does The inquiry may now he, uh0ae i
/ IS! 1t is often said, with much assurance, tha
slavery Is the creature Of law aud so disappoin
TED or bankrupt politicians often get elected to OF
lice under the pretence that they can change the
! laws, and abolish it.
But slavery is not the creature of civil law. /
1T were, politicians who worm themselves into of
nee are the very last men to be entrusted with the
work OF Uverhrowing it. Scarcely one Of them
ever goes to Congress in the name Of anti-slavcry
until he has sold his principles and his party Ia
one or other Of the old prc-lavery parties for tue
sake Of yoto compoundng in such II way as to
place two bad men in Office from the old and wors!
party, Tor the sake Of one prcicssed or pretended
autl-s!avery man from the other. This is nccessa-
ry on account of the continual minority of the 50
called anti slavery party. 1t has never been able
to send men of its own.
Or, were slavery the creature Of law, it would
Still be pertinent to ask, of what or whom is law
the creature But the system is older than any
laws respecting it, Indeed, in the United States.
laws are its creatures, its own begoten. Its roots
strike through ali tutes all constitutions, Aut do
not originate there.
Slavery is the spontaneous growth Of q corrupt
tation Is the necessary product of the stngnant
ami putrld quagmire, and the shelter Of all man
oi +" iI"'"eoilc "',u NchuIlous repli'es' ~ u.teS
~ uic uay NhGn l"u'ans were rooDeo Oh their
AUS nun Gereu anu uurheu III 'helr WiSWams' IN
J o,,r I,.,ic " isiSL, whel women were tortured
a,u % n'nS ior Wit'hcrot wheh baptiSts were pun
iShed and baniShed for the glory Of God; whei.
Quakers were publicly whipped, aud their tongues
bored through with red hot irons, or more cruelty,
imprisoned, and sometimes hanged,-al these hor-
~ ~ Socinhi'leS HhI'hS peeh gshera'Iy ATTENDED
WIN prayers ana otner acts OF worship.
- Out " sucn SOL! grew slavery ana the new
'ePuDllc "uYp'eu Il IN the name OF DemocfacV' as
IL WAS ai'Gauy 'e clu oi Tue Ie''y'o' OF t6e coun-
uy' ana from that hoGr II mas ezpounIed the
@ II"''oA'eo tue lesiS'"Ioh' ahc inter-
PtT'oN 'le Dlp'e'
me government Dound lt'eit 10 protect ana
cherISh the tofeign 9iaye lf"de Tor twenty years
V''' the l''thG's inlSht De Wo. suPpi@eu @ Win the
sbe riota;" o ro VI a.anod d m"i
IA I, -, 1, INV ~" i
,,ore c. SI,,ea ., ra ",f;e' rs'
h;h;.od and snaIlt daoinrod .a p vas p-V
Thns the svstem ;s nIJor han the Cynst;t,t;on
-, ih odnrtod i nr o, Iors o,,oo.o5 En, ;ts ,,o
tect,nn. nn1 so roore ro6ico1 rnrovn,;o 10 rof,n
red TO unroot it than is contcmnlotcd in the hirh
est schonls of Amaricon nnlitirs Conrross ni3bt
swcen the last vestge of II from the national tat
ute hooks and still Il ,yonld exist in olI ito tor
rors
The svstero shopld ho rororded mt nc nm ;neti
tutin Lnt os n crime n crime comm;ttod Nv snmo
bodv, And the criminals are tho neonIe Who do
rho daod G;rectIv and oid thar IN GoinC, Il Tbo
American Tninn so mnch cIor;GoI woso InId
md DARN, cnnsr,;ro.,, a(,o;nS33 Ihartr Tha siaro
hoIders sa7d .,Vc ca1rTt bnlS nnr sIoros ,r;tbort
rnrn;rn ,rotoct;on and yariNre snoc;aI nrv;Ianos
Grant ns these md we will form n Tnion Wn
must boyc tho A fr;con slave Trode nrolongoa and
nrotected n, Ieost t,rortv reors W. n,rsf Lo ai.
loved to he renresentsd in CONGRESS- bv the lnraer
numLer or n,ombarg in nronorfion ne we inrra9s 80
tho nnmLar nf onr sIoyns Wa must ba rarnitted
IN hunt and sni2e our escon;ng slaves in wbotov-
or nort Of tho country we mae fnd them. ond wo
must horc controI of Tho entire military fnrce Of
the nation r. snnnrcss onv insnrrection which
NAV hreol. ont om6pg them Grant ns these thinge
ali Of than oec,e t5e,n IN arc nm ,Le soIsn,n C,3L
of lie nation y ooid the sorohoIdors .,ond We viii
enter into a n1on with vnu y
-.
anu 1t was oorc, m oucp was @ sueu ~ the AMER
lca1 MISSION Ire slaVe tTaue 1T from hirlca was
maue iawiui commerce; Inc siavehoiaers we're
ano%eu 10 auu !nrec-ni.hs oi al the saves 10 'ns
n nunoers oi tne'r poPuI"'oh 10 pe Tepresehteu IN
tne government "a law ior Tue re capture OF iu-
gitiyes was Immediately enacted, signed by George
as ~ oe 'uu ho,