Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-15

owe to Slavery, neither respect nor toleration, only
hate and determination TO politics the people
run to avoid the obligations of justice. Entrcnched
therein ihOy are well nigh inyulneraGlc to any Of
the claims of humanity. All rcformers know what
an amount of labor is needed 20 ~dislodge chem.
The measure of loyalty 50 their political party, is
the measure of their heartless Indifference, or ma
lignant hostility to every good work.
When at length, by great and long continued
labor on the part of the preachers Of righteous.
ness, the moral sensi6ilities Of the people are so
far quickened that old political Enclosures can no
longer retain them, new ones are promptly provid'
ed to arrest the good work. When old parties
from the same cause get broken up, what Of the
material that escapes destruction is carefully gath
cred by political founders, cast into their, furnace,
fused" recast and new-named. Only what went
in can come out, politics only, a new party rs tper
order, adapted to the altered state of the market.
Forthwith it pretends to the fraternity and patron
age Of tho very anti-slavcry-the degree of it
that was the death of it under its former state OF
Observation-Disclosures the anti-slavery that has he,
come Observation-Disclosures in the moral
constitution of the community, that it may play
the adversary to the anti-slavery that is elementary
or in embryo, anu alone needs care, nourishmcnt
and help.
Fo- this reason the newest party is tic enemy
with which Abolitionists have to do. The new Re
publican party is not worse disposed than the
Democratic, or the Wing, or than the extinct tory
ism Of &c, but it is young, active and proximate'
The Wings are old pensioners, the Democrats are
still in service, but lie expiration of their term
is approaching, the Republicans are the young re.
cruits. Wings and Democrats hate freedom, but
their hatred is less to he feared because of their
distance. Republicanism isthe enemy near'for vigi.
lcnce and valor to dispose Of. This dealt with nc
cording to its desserts there is no danger from the
others.
This cry for a Northern Republic is another po.
litical cry, equally absurd in the mouths of any
claiming to be abolitionists. 1t is nothing but a
pro slavery cry, raised to accommodate the base
pro-slavcryism of the North. The question Of
Slavery is not Il question between the North and
the South, but between the stupidity, meanness
and injustice of the whole country on the. one
hand, and what Of intelligence and justice there
is in it on the other. A northern Republic would
just represent the folly and the wickcdness of the
North. What have abolitionists to do with organ,
izing that? 1t will not be brought to too speedy
an end if they leave it to its fate. The demented
dupes Of demagogueism, who cannot 6e weaned
from their glorious Union" without the promise
and prospect of such a substitute, had best be left
to stick to their'Union'a and 20 to p%erdition with it.
The cause of justice and liberty would loose no.
thing.
A Northern Republic with such men as Lysan-
der Spooner, Gerrit Smith and Theodore Parker
for its executive, would be as pro,slavery to the
extent that it was a government, as is the govern
ment represented by Franklin Pierce or Henry A.
Wise. Freemen can be subject to neither the one
class of men nCr the other. AbOlitionism is to
make slaves free, is it not? If that is not it's OBJ.
ject it is a sham. They are the b~etrayers of the
slaves cause, who concede to the slave power of the
North, that it is allowable to limit the liberty of
those who already have attained to so much, both
in the science and the practice of self-government.
Need l repeat that it is only politicians as such
that class with shareholders, and subject to a COM
mon and unqualified condemnation. Much harm
continually arises from not adverting to the dis
tinction between what men are as men, free to
follow their own convictions of RICH t, and what
they arc as partisans. Many Shareholders. apart
from their slaveholding may be just and kind,
but their slaveholding is not the less Justly classed
with the slaveholding of the Legrees. 1t was,
Washington's allegiance to conscience that made
him a rebel, and it was only as rebels that the revo-
lutionists manifested their virtues. 1t was by
ignoring conscience that they made themselves rul-
ers. The fitting qualification, for laying the fitting
foundation Of that aggregation of wickedness, the
United States Government. What boots it that
Giddings, Sumner and the like are good and noble
men, when as politicians they are obliged to ignore
their nobility, and dwarf themselves to the stand
ard Of the meanest individua of the meanest class
Of those whom they would make available for their
support. Is it the cause of freedom, or the cause
of anything good that can be served by this moral
? If Gods highest gift of conscience, and
spiritual life and development, are for any use,
surely it must be in this life and death fight for
liberty. Yours truly,
GEORGE SUMTER, Jr.