Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-06-02
Mr.. Goodells objections to disunion are distinct

ly stated.
LIST. ut is not abolition"
True. 1t is dissolution. In our view, q disso-
luton Of an unholy compact one which, from the
intent and language of the bond, from the relations
and purposes of one of the parties, makes it ncces-
sarlly in the present and future, as it has been in
the past, a positive and main support Of slavery.
q wicked union worthy to DO over
thrown.
Cd. at cannot do the work Of abolition"
We do not ask it. We only expect it to do tie
o,on work-a work necessarily prerarative to abo-
lition. Without which abolition cannot do it's
work.
Sd. ats ultimate bearing on abolition Mt all, Is
at best remote and doubtful, in its effects"
So it seems not to us. But on the contrary, its
influence for emancipation would be positive and
immediate. To withdraw from the direct aid Of
the master the northern power in Congress-the
northern power of our national army and navy
The corrupting patronage of the president upon
the north-and the sectarian and political symps-
thy from the same quarter, with the necessary con-
centrat:on of moral influence upon the evil which
would follow, seems to us "a bearing" neither ire
mote nor doubtful"
4th. at is of necessity an enterprise of gradu-
alism or p~ostponement."
To us on the contrary it is the v.ry work of i'm
mcdiateism, itself. What is immediateismf II
is the instant adandonmentby every individual and
association of his or their individual! support Of
the wrong, whatever that support may be. For
example: 1t is the duty of the slave claimant 'w-
mediately, to rolinquish his claim. To repent OF
slaveholding and abandon 1t. 1t is the duty Of
the State governments which authorize and regu-
late slaveholding, to repeal those laws without
postponement. 1t is the duty of every individual
non-slavcholder to cease, without delay, render
ing any support to the system. This is his first
work of immediateism. So the first practical work
of immediateism for the non-slave claiming States
to set about, is, to abolish that Union which COM
pels the slave to serve his master by its pledge to
suppress instruction and to return the fugitive,
and to recognise an arrangement which commits
oil political power to the master for the oppression
of his slave, This is practical immediateism in
its first works, without which no preaching to
Shareholders, however persuasive, will prove avail
ing. When we have thus given up northern slave-
holding, we may, without meriting the charge Of
hypocricy, preach the gospel of repentance to
Southern Shareholders.
Ignorance is one of the great pillars Of slavery.
While Mr.. Goodell and others are laboring to en-
tighten the community on the subject of slavery,
they are not abandoning immediateism nor neces.
! sarily adopting ''an e~xpedient of gradualism."-
They are laboring for immediate emancipation, le-
ultimately, positively and nationally. So too are
we when we seek to take away that main prop of
the system, the Union. This we may and should
= do; while we leave no other righteous means ua-
! employed to bring about the desired nsumatio
5th. at would lie an abandonment of the slave
to his fate, with no direct political aid for him
, from the free States, leaving him in bondage till
Q he should liberate himself as he best could"
t Granting the fact to be as here stated, we arc
{ unable to see how that initiates at all against
e our disunion posi-, ON. The Union is q dishonorable
and wicked union. A pro-slavery Union. Are 10
D to sin that grace may abound ?-to support the pro-
slavery union that the slaves may have the bene6s
, Of our political power? To do that would indeed
$ be to adopt a system of gradualism and postpone
ment. That is precisely what our fathers did when
e they formed the union. What have been its un-
S fortunate results, we all know; 1t not only post
: poned emancipation, but has sustained and extern
ded slavery till it is what We see it to-day. And
n how can we expect that like means shall not pro-
4 duce like results in tho future.
In these brief answers to objections we have 6ut
I defended our own D ,siti IN from our own stand point.
e Viewing the constitution and union us we do. and
seeing the South persistent in its slave-holding, we.
d can see no alternative but a dissolution Of the
Union. There are two methods of e~fecting this
g First, a quiet withdrawal from the union, which 10
IS the one we advocate. Second by a coup-d c-tat-a
revolution-a seizure Of the government, abolish.
a ing slavery and compelling the masters to submit
to emancipation. Should we ev err Join the "Liber-
is ty party" it would he with this revolutionary pur-
pose, only another method of overthrowing the
present pro-slavery Union with slavery itself, and
h establishing n union for justice and freedom. For
e with all his disclaimers Mr.Goodell is as truly seek.
ing the dissolution of the existing union as the
most Jealous member of the American Ant. slavery
= Society.
Mr.. Goodell would have a union with a persis.
II tent horse thief to abolish horse stealing. A pre-
y %sistcnt horse thief is one who intends to steal hor.
r SEES. For an honest man to seek a union with such
IF a thief to break up horse stealing. is to US SO utter
an absurdity, as to surpass our ability to make it
q more manifest. So that we are compelled to leave
lie it where we did before. 1t can only be effected by
II the non-thieting character pretending that his
b. union is for some other purpose and thus deceive
st the rogue, or the rogue himself must submit ia
S. the union hypocritically. So that the supposed
il union is an impossibility.
We are striving to dissolve a union-"not Of all
C classes of people for q just government" Such a
government we have not. And Mr.. Goodell's il.
n l~ustration of the New York Government composed
" Of Maine Law men and rumsellers, is not to the
IT, point with us. The New York constitution makes
We no exception in favor of rumselling, as does the
sh American constitution in favor of slave holding
to 1t is true that many classes of criminals do agree
RS to the constitution and expect punishment if they
H. commit certain crimes. But one class of criminals