Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-06-23
BELOW THE MARK.

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The Cincinnati Gazette. is perhaps as much
anti-slavery as most of the other old wing papers
and whig men on whom SO much reliance is placed
for resisting the oggressicns Slavery upon the
north. They have no sympathy and put forth ne
efforts for the overthrow of the system or the re-
lief of the slave. They admit the Constitution
and the Union support of Slavery and yet they
declare that "the Constitution and Union is second
airy in Importance to nothing on earth" Liberty
and a nations independence are to Se sacrificed
to this. They discard oil principle and trample
upon justice for the sake Of temporary political
and commercial success. Such papers and such
men can never be relied on to oppose Slavery.
By their own acknowledgement before hand, they
will sustain it for the sake of Union with the
slave holders. As witness the following from the
Cincinnati Gazette:
We believe the evil days will have come upon
our country, when parties are based Upon a mere
sectional issue-when Northern men refuse to vote
for Southern Presidents, and Southern men for
Northern Presidents, or when slavery or anti
slavery is placed above the Constitution. The
Georgia plantation puts slavery shove the Consti-
tuition, and denies to Congress the exercise of GER
tain clear and undoubted constitutional rights. 1t
makes the extention of slavery "a higher law"
doctrine, and of more importance than Congress-,
the Courts, and the Union itself.
We have ever opposed the formation of parties
upon mere sectional grounds. We have never
refused to support for the Presidency any man be-
cause he lived in the South, and we never mean to
base our opposition to any candidate upon such a
narrow bigoted pretext. The South have rights
equal with the North. We have a written const;-
tuition, in which the dutiep of each department of
Government are clearly defined. If Congress pass
an unconstitutional law, the Courts cun and will
declare it null and void. In the Courts the minor
ity have a city of refuge against the injustice or
tyranny of the majority. With this security
against oppression, the people both North and South
should be content.
We have lived so happily, under our mild and
benign system of government-have advanced 30
rapidly on the road to greatness and prosperity.
that the worlds history presents no parallel. We
should never forget that these things have been &C.
complished by the Union, and an adherence to the
Constitution of the Union. In our days OF weak
ness they made us strong. They have never failed
to operate for the good of the whole people. The
wisdom of the fathers who framed the one and
cemented the other, has been amply vindicated by
the action of both, and therefore we cannot "hold
the American Union secondary in importance" to
anything on earth.
If tho purpose of the Georgia men is merely to
brighten the North, they will fail of their purpose.
The Majority of the Northern men know their
rights and intend to maintain them. They ask
no chart TO guide them but the Constitution, and
will submit the revision of their acts but to the
courts which the Constitution has made perma-
nent.