Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-05-26

It's absolute will With Il wutihiulhuss that new
sleeps, and activity that never tires---with as
| nany eyes aS Argus, and us many arms as Bria-
eus--thc SLAVE OLlGARCliY asserts its per-
| eual aud nsatiate mt>terdonI; now seizing II
road territory unce covered lv u tlme-hunuured
! s'iinancc of Freedoms; now threatening pwicsi
| uha from Spain by viuent war, or hardly les
: iuent purchases; now hankcring for another slice
OF Mexico, merely to find new scope for Slavery;
new proposing once more to open the hideuus,
heaven-letying Slave trade, and thus to reIlenish
| it's shamb.es with human flesh; aud nUw 10y the
! lips OF an eminent SENATOR asserting audaciOus
cldm to the whole group of the West Indies
| whether held by Holland Suuip France or Eur-
land, as "our Southern Islands," while it assails
the Independence Of liayti and stretches it's treach
crots ambition even to the distant valley Of the
| Amazon.
In maintaining its power, the Slave OligArchy
has applied II new test for Office very different
from That ot jefferson: is he honest? is he capa
bic? is lie faithful TO the constitutional These
things are all forgotten now in the controlling qucs-
ii n. "Is he faithful 20 Savcry?" With arrogant
ustracsm it excludes from every natl jna Office all
| who canlOt respond to this test. So complete and
irrational has this tyranny become, That at this
moment while ] now speak, could Washington,
Jefferson, or franklin, once niure descend from
their spheres above, To minglc in affairs aud
bless Us with their wisdom, not one OF them, with
! his recorded HUeir0cted opinions on Slavery,
could receive nomination for the Presidency from
NatlOlia CONVENTION OI either Oi inc Hhte STcht
political parties; stranger still; could either o
these sahted patriots, whose names alone open a
perpetual fountain Of gratitude in all your hearts,
be confirmed 10y the Senate of the United States
or any political function whatever under the Ma
tonal Government-nUt even for the office OF post
master What now say, amidst your natural
astonshment have more than uttered from
my seat in the Sen Ie. and no man there has made
answ er, for man, who has SAT in its secret ses-
sion and there learned the test which is practically
l applied, could make answer; and ask yOu to hc-
cept this statement as my testimony dcriN ed from
the experience which has been my lot. Yes, fel-
lnw-ctizens had this test prevailed in the carrier
days WdSIngtcn-frst in war, first III peace. first
IN the hearts of his countrymcn-cuuld not have
oeen created Genemlissimn of the American for
ceS-Jrilrrson could not have taken his place on
the Committee to draft the Declaration of Indie
pendencc-and franklin could not have gone forth
to France, with the commissi III of the infant Re
public, to secure the invaluable alliance Of that
ancient Kingdom.
And this giant strength is used with giant
heaTtlcssness. By cruel enactment which !as no
sourseirtl 'a1tt itlbl Which dlsrcgar IS Just CO
r which trampleS On hLmanitS tS-and which rcels
against God, the Free States are made the limiting
Sruuud for slaN es, and you, and |, and all good
9 citizens, are sun mOned To Join in the loahsnme
and abhorrcd work. Your hearts and Judgments
swift to feel and to condemn, will not require me
to expose here the abomuatnn of the Fugitive
G Slave Bill ur its utter unGonstltutiunaity. Else
y where have done this, and never been answered
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