Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-08-25
Che Anti glaperp Buale.
SALEM, ONO AUGUST 25, 1855.
NOT AN ABOLITION PARTY.

NOT AN ABOLITION PARTY.
as Mr., Chase an Abolitionist9"-Is a question
which greatly disturbs some politicians Just now.
So far as we have seen abolitionism is the only of.
fence Mr.. Chase is charged with ever having COM
mitted. lie is certainly a most fortunate candi-
date, not to have other sins brought up in remem-
brance against him. Our only regret is that he is
not likely to be proved guilty of this one in the
most radical and obnoxious sense. The Democrats
affirm that he is so much of an abolitionist that he
seeks the abolition of slav cry in the States bv
Congress-and failing in this, that he desires the
dissolution of the Union. But his friends are able
triumphantly to repcl these charges as slanderous
and to prove that Mr.. Chase is a lover of the Union
with Shareholders, and that he comedies the politi-
cal and constitutional right of republican slave.
holders to hold, whip and work their slaves within
the present slave State limits. 'No slavery out
side of the slave States" is his ~rallying cry. A
principle, if we understand it, which will enable
and permit slavery to swallow up all the existing
free States, and establish the institution at the
very capitol of Ohio, and spread it to its circum-
ference.
The Republicans say the States are sovereign in
this particular. They create and destroy their in.
situations at their will, slavery among them. The
Federal constitution, Mr.. Chase thinks, guaran-
tees to Shareholders the political light of slave
holding, and prohibits Congress and other States,
from interfering fer its abolition. The sum of it
is, that Virginia has the power-the political right
to have slavery or freedom undisturbed within
her borders, according to her own good pleasure.
las Ohio equal sovereignty? If so, she may
establish slavery according to her political pleas
ure' and Massachusetts, must silently acquiesce in
Congress and in her State government. True
there will be then one less free State and one more
slave State, but the Republican motto is as good
as ever, "No slavery outside the slave States."-
There is only less territory for freedom and
more for slavery; that is all. And the motto will
be just as good when New York and Pennsylva-
MIA have gone over to slavery. No matter how
they go, if it is by the usurpat:ons of the Federal
courts, and the acquiescence of the State. Re-
publicanism will oppose it, according to its creed,
but the change once made, and the institution is
safe in its new location from all danger from Con-
gress-from the States, and from the Republican
party. The new Republican motto means nothing
therefore, for thorough abolitionism; more, it is
quincy o"'SiJ
against its extension in the strongest holds of free
dom, the free States, with all their boosted sovereign
ty. This concession of sovereignty to slavery may
be the means Of overthrowing freedom in the States.
The truth is, there can be no freedom conceded to
any State, to hold slaves which will not concede to
all others the right to commit the samc ~enormity.
we repeat our regret at being thus compelled to
coincide with the Republicans in their issue with
the Democrats on the question which stands at the
head OF this article, and to declare that neither
MIR. Chase, nor any members Of the Republican
party, so far as the party is concerned, are aboli
tionists. They are only what they claim to be,
mon extensionists." And as we have seen, the
priEciplc-"no slavery outside of the slave States"
will not secure them even that, but will permit
impudently to invade and conquer the lib
erty of the free States. Let none be deceived. 1t
is not the mission, or even the pretense of the Re-
party to overthrow slavery. 1t is only
impotently and with miserable policy, acting up
ON the defensive, against the Kansas outskirt of
the army of slavery, while its main body, intrench-
cd, and unassailed in the National citadel, is
out its hosts, unresisted, in every other d.
rection. We need something more than Repub-
licanism to be successful. We want a party which
will not sink the abolitionism of the men in the
pro-slavery concession of the party, but the alpha
and omega of whose every stump speech shall be-
am an ABoLITloNIST, and glory in the name.
Who shall resolve and declare, Let Justice be done
to the slave though the Union fall.
That we do no injustice to the Republican party,
the following extracts will suffice to prove.
The Republican association of Washington CITY,
designed to be the central organization of the par
ty for national influence, gives the Shareholders the
following assurance of the security of their prop
erty from the assaults of tho Republican party.
Its Constitution say: 1--WE adopt the following
as our political platform, to wit:
First, That Congress possesses no power over
in the several States; but that outsid G of
.he State jurisdiction, The constitutional power of
he Federal Government, should be exerted to Sc
life, liberty and happiness to all men; and
Second, There should be neither slavery nor
Involuntary seryitude. except for the punishment
If crime, in any Of the Territories of the United
States
Mr.. Chase in his speech accepting the nomina-
ton for Governor, says:
we should insist oaiy that outside of slave
States, we shall not be responsible for the mainte.
nance OF slavery, and that the just AMI constitu-
tiOnal influence Of the General Government shall
be exsrted on the side of liberty"
Again he says:
I'VE would done igjusticeto the slave States.