Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-09-08
THErAB0LITIONISM OF THE REPUBLI
CAN PARTY,

Those who profess to labor for the removal of
slavery from this land MUST BE ABo11rIoNIsrs, or
their professions will be practically worthless and
their labor vain. This is true of individuals and
parties. Especially must not the protested friends
of freedom disclaim abolitionism. The Repabli-
can party does this, and therefore it is we can
give it no support. 1t ignores the higher law of
immediate emancipation the law of freedom and
justice-and sets up an AUTOMATICALLY prosla-
very constitution instead.
That constitution, according to the opinions Of
the Republican party, permits the existence of sla-
very in fifteen States OF the Union. And the Re-
publican, like the old Wing and the present Dem
ocratic party, proclaims its willingness flor the
sake of the Union, that slavery shall so continue
in the nation. Only demanding that it shall be
restricted to its present limits. The Republican
party is therefore not an abolition party. More
II is the enemy Of aJolaionism. For this national
and constitutional consent to slavery is positive
support. 1t is taking sides with shareholders
and whatever its o,her professions and actions may
be, and what ever may be tho sympathies or ulti
mate purposes of members of the party. For these
reasons we can give the party no support. w,
have formed these conclusions from the declara
tions ofthe prominent leaders and candidates of th,
party, some of which we have subjoined, and asl
of all who call themselves abolitionists, candidly
to decide whether such principles will not rather
uphold slavery than advance abolitionism.
DECLARATIONS OF THE CANDIDATES FOR OFFICE.
CAPTAIN FORD, the candidate 70 Lieutenant Gov
%ernor, made a speech in Cincinnati on the 2lst o
August, reported in the Cincinnati Commercial il
which he says:
Let us as men be resolved to act as men, to d.
right, to labor for freedom, and those who do no
do so let them be brought to the gate post. lie
US proclaim TO the South that ace pH let slaver5
alone ,ohere IL IS, and that ii shah not come ,che,
IL is not.
Mr.. CHASE. On the same occasion Mr.. Chas,
also made a speech, which is reported by the sam,
paper and copied approvingly by the Ohio Colum
bian, the especial representative of the Free-Soi
wing of the Republican party. Mr.. Chase's opin
ions are the opinions of the party not only in Ohio
but also in the whole North. The Boston Telegraph
the central organ of Republicanism nMassachuset
~prefaces a report of Mr.. Chase's Circleville speecl
with the following endorsement; perhaps the bes
exponent of the principles Of the Republican part,
of the whole country is fion. S. p. Chase of Ohio
We copy the following speech which he recent,
made at Circleville, from the Cincinnati Gazette
and we ask if there is any thing in it which Nor
thern men cannot or ought not to assent to-"
We give an extract or two, from which iustic
demands a most decisive dissent. Mr.. Chas
said
M
The Convention by which he was nominated
had declared its opposition to the extension of sla
very. 1t desired to prevent the admission of NOR,
slave States, and thus arrest the increase of tn,
slave power. On this question this was all he hat
to ask. The territory outside the limits of th,
present slave States was all ne proposed to inter
fere with.
Within State limits every State has the ordering
of its domestic institutions as it might see fit. W.
had no control over the people of Kentucky in this
respect. If they chose to have slavery and we
thought it wrong, we had q right TO think SO and
to say 80, but no more right to interfere with II
than with their laws for the establishment Of State
Banks or any other State laws.
OF the Constitution, Mr.. Chase said
In regard to the Constitution of the United
States in no respect, either by word or act or deed
would he trench upon eny Of rs provisions.