Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-07-14
REORGANIZATION FOR FREEDOM.

The grea! mistake ard sin Of the ahti-slayery
enterprise, has been coalition and COMPROMISED
The allinnccs thus formed have often been most
unnatural and disasterous Defeat after defeat
seems only to have increased n disposition to low
er the standards when victory is to be gained only
by raising it still higher; Msdirectcd numbers
are never the strength, but always the most immi-
ncnt danger of young party. Where principles
are the great issue in movement, integrity is the
only road to success however long and sef-sacri-
ficing may be the struggle to reach the goal Ey
cry widening Of the anti-slavcry platform for the
purpose of cntching votes on accommodating grounds
has opened the flood gates to corruption From
lS4S, until now, men greedy of place and spoils,
have, because they saw the success Of their seduc
lions at that time, cursed the abolition movement
for their influence They have courted liberty as
IT she were a prostitute and her defenders have
encouraged their advances. These facts have aid
ed the South in making the impression that the
movement was the mere prctense of demagogues,
and agltators and thus its moral power has been
weakened, both Mt home and abroad.
There is another and a better class Of coalition
lists made up of better men who are honest in pur-
pose but mistaken in policy. These think that the
gain OF numbers on u low issue is a real rain to
the cause. They do not sec that u lowering of
principle in such cause is a far greater loss in
the long run, than any temporary advantage of
numbers can make up. Concession to mn enemy
in order to gain allies to fight on an issue far below
the demands OF our cause, is itself defeat. If
the South should quietly yield the point and
limit and localize Slavery" and "rcsore the Mis-
souri, line on condition that the North should
make no farther inroads upon the dark domain of
despotism such settlement Of this great question,
would be most fatal to the hopes of the Slave.-
The old States where this horrd Moloch has rioted
on human souls for ages, would be left to his un.
disputed sway. Walled in by this compromise,
Slavery could enact its enormties undisturbed,
n of tl,p r1l
trato this wall Of concession. Slavery, queted
and localized, is Slavery rendered permanent.
The campaign of freedom, then, must DC put
upon higher ground than heretofore. The posi-
tion must be assumed, that for the horrd chattel
principle there can be no immunity on earth
Every humane impulse-cvery call of justice and
consideration of morality which moves US to OPP
| pose Savery,in Kansas, require quite as impcra
lively that we should kill Slavery in South Carroll
ma. Humanity is as dear to God, and as valuable
| in the eye Of just government, along the Rec
| River, and on the borders of the Gulf of Mexico
as it is in Kansas Nebraska. For Slavery there
cIti be law but that of force, and no sanctuary
but the robbers den and pirates retreat. Wher
constitution or court legislature executive, seei
to shield by legal forms such crime, it is time
that the people began to interpret constitutions
and laws for themselves. Analizc Slavery and
you shall find it made up of lust, cruelty, robbery
and murder: can these ever become binding? Can
virtuous people rest under enactments which
sanction such crimes, and make our rulers their
instruments?
The honest people are ready for campaign on
higher ground, than that Of compromise. Tie
leaders alone arc timd. Politicians, as such
men who mako politics their profession, are never
rcformers. 1t is not to be expected Of them.-
They are, by position, in the mcshcs of conserya-
tism. Tho leading clergy never reform church.
Lawyers in full practice are always averse to
change. The same is true Of politicians.
In great poll ical reform, therefore, the first
work is to break the power Of conservative lead
crs. For this purpose, the masses must come to-
gother, and act in great conventions; The caucus
system must be rcpudiated. Straight out common
sense, and genuine integrity must take the place
Of lip service. Our principles, and not the wind
and waves of the sea of politics, must become our
guiding star The honest purpose to destroy sla-
very, must be recognized in charity where we diff
fer about. plans, and under the glow of such n
sublime purpose, our hearts will become fused,
and our theories soon harmonizc.- RcJ6rmcr.