Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-01-06
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Mr.. LOWS Campbell of Ohio after a successful
winding up of MIR. Stephens of Georgia, in the
House of Representatives, throws the blowing
paragraph into a. close of his speech 10y way Of
setting himself right upon the record. 1t has too
n little the look of an apology, for having so sue
~ccssfully trounccd the Georgian.
We beg leave to assure Mr., Campbell, that he is
entirely mistaken in attributing disunion opinions
of ultra aboliti ,nists to "forgc,fulncss of NORTH
crn avarice" and Of the Intervening of slavery
with the 6bcrs of society. 1t is the unidentified
remembrance of these facts, which moulds their
opinions and shapes their movements in a disunion
direction. Were they not so continually remind
ing the avaricious of their sin, they might be more
popular at the North than they are. And North
ern politicians would not so often have occasion
to disclaim all affinity with them. We hope MIR.
Campbell is right in his opinion of th%c'frmness,
and bravery of the free States. But we are moi
quite equally s%anguine.
After speaking of the State of feeling South,
Mr.. c. says:
On the other hand, in the North. men driver
intO.a phrenzied condition by those acts, forgetting
that northern avarice had much to do with the origi
nal Introduction of slavery, and that it has become
almost inseparably interviewer with the very fher'
of society in some of the States, lock to dlsuniOi
as the only means Of abolition. They meet OF
the 4th Of July, and .~celebate it by burning thu
Constitution
Sir, | am against disunion, and would stake i
down. But, if union is to carry with 1t the prop
osition to extend slavery, to commit the Genera
Government to the principle of increasing wrong
, its moral power and its value cease. The FREE
5 States have taken n stand. Neither Il renewal o
! the cry Of "DtStnon," nor the taunt of "1boti
I If3OH,' will drive them from it.
Let it bring to me, If it must, the taunts OF Eel
. Ilow-members here, and jeers of the millions else
where | shall remain firmly upon the ground tina
+ | have always occupied That slavery is local, mo-
national that the States where it cxiets have
cons titutiOnal right to enjoy it, accompanied by
the right to reclaim fugitives, and may themselves
dispose of it in their own way, yet must supper
G it without further aid, direct or Indirect, from tn,
balance of the Union. These, | believe, were the
e sentiments of Washington, of jefferson, and q
{ Madison. Where such men lead, | follow, will
G confidence, condcmning equally "fllibustering'
in the South and notwithstanding" III tn
$ North.
As to the remedy. 1t is not nov in our hands
y Let some patriotic southern man, who voted 10
i the repeats of the eighth section of the Missouri
i act, on the ground tina! the North rendered it,
e come up with bold, manly patriotic voice, and pro
h pose to restore it, as II response to northern popu
= lar.demand. Until it is restored, you will have II
o promise of harmony in this Hall.
So far as we have ever seen, neither Washington
). Jefferson, Madison or Lewis Campbell, have ye
made it appear, that "Me Constitutional right t
eHJOy il, Starery1, accompanied Jy the right to re
! ctaim JUgHires, is in harmony with the inalienabl
$ rights of man and indeed that it is not in open re
bellion against every principle of righteousness
and liberty. Until it appears that these men d
this, we cannot share Mr.. Campbell's confidence
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PEELED to declare to our cOuntrymen, that thel
Constitution, in SC far as it authorizes slaveholt
ing 'in the States where it exists" and Slave
l. catching in these States and all others, is only f
to be burned. And any man seeing this concei
sion to Slavery is morally dishonored if he swear
n to sustain it. Mr.. Cambells brave words and HI
roic purposes, will avail nothing against SLAYER
while he puts the constitutional right to 'enjoy'
,r Slavery and to catch slaves above Gods impartii
law.