Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-09-08

which he would mot trench in word, or act, or
|deed.p
After abiding SO the failure Of Jcfferson's eff.
fort to exclude slavery from all the Territories Of
the Confederacy, he says:
Three Years after, when q convention met 10
frame q Constitution, the slave States demanded
some security, that The question Of slavery within
their own limits, should be left TO themselves.-
They demanded this guarantee because they felt
that without it Congress would pass a general act
for the abolition Of slavery and that Virginia might
not be ready for emancipation as soon as Mary
land, and South Carolina not as soon as Virginia,
therefore it was left ibf each State to provide for
emancipation, when the ft period might come, and
under this arrangement the slave property of the
South became entitled to twenty-one representa-
tivos in Congress-precisely The humber to which
Ohio was entitled.
Under the compacts they obtained another thing.
These provided not only for the recognition OF the
records of other States, and for the arrest of fugi-
tives from justice, but also that Of ~fugitives from
labor.
lie did not believe the Fugitive Slave Law o.
proper execution Of that act. He believed, with
Mr.. Webster, that it conferred certain rights and
devolved certain duties ON the States, out gave no
authority to Congress to legislate on that subject.
Mr.. W. had yielded against his own convictions to-
the decision of the Supreme Court, but he believed
he (Webster) was right.
ller6 uCCOTulnR W WI OudSet bOno OIL IueS6 pro-
visions were made expressly to precent abolition in
tho States; and more, it provided for the arrest of
~fugitiyes from labor or slaves. Mr.. Chase then
would not trench upon the constitutional duty"
Of slaverendition by the States. Can an aboliticn;st
vote for a Governor of Ohio who believes it the du.
ty of the State to return fugitives from southern
labor in any form ? 4f
In Mr.. Chase's acceptance, he says:
We should insist only that outside of slave
states, we shall not be responsible for the main
tenance of slavery, and thst the just and ~constitu.
tional influence of the general government shall
be exerted on the side of liberty"
\ x y Y X X y
We would do no injustice to the slave States
All rights guaranteed to them by the constitution
should be cheerfully conceded"
In his Cincinnati speech, Mr.. Chase says:
Where then do we, the Republicans of Ohio.
stand in this canvass? / have differed from some
OF you widely hitherto-not upon cardinal princi-
pies, but upon time for their application. NV con-
victions have been that the question of the nation.
alization OF human slavery was paramount and
lmminent; my action has been shaped by that con-
yiction. My Wing friends have told me we must
take up other questions first, my Democratic friends
that the thing first in Importance was to whip the
Why's, and that the natural workings Of the DEM
ocratic principle would abolish slavery. But the
precipitation OF the Kansas Nebraska bill startled
the country, and resolved the North to treat the
propagandism OF slavery as the issue-the only
issue in politics. This has brought us all topeth-
er. We mover differed, except as to the time for
meeting the issue, and now already the issue is
made 1t is not possible to avoid it. We are then,
al brought together on the common principle that
SLAVERY is SECTIONAL, not NATIONAL. We occupy
the same ground with Patrick Henry, with Jeaer-
son, with Washington. We will not interfere with
slavery In Kentucky. Let not the placc-holding
enemies of the Republican movement for one mo-
ment falsify our position, We will not interfere
with slavery in Kentucky, and slarery in Kentucky
must not interfere ,riM us here. Earnest an
! plause.) thave said that ! only stand where stood
the Fathers of the Republic. It was the object Of
Thomas Jefferson to exclude slavery from all new
territory, and he only failed because Of a rule re-
curing, in the passage of such an ordinance, a
majority of all the States; but nine States being
represented when the first ordinance came up for
adoption, six out of the nine supported the gener-
al prohibition. Jefferson rdS n Democratic Saint,
but the late leaders of the Democracy have set nm
Saint Frank and Saint Stephen Arnold. laugh
ter.)
When the Constitution was framed, the slave
States prevailed in the adoption of a clause pro-
E yiding that Congress should have no power to leg
islate slavery out of the States, also in the clauses
giving the right to representation in Congress for
~two-fiths of all their slaves, and for the right of
recaptnring persons owing service or labor es-
Gaping from one State into another. Nevertheless
the Fathers OF the Nation were not willing slavery
should become dominant, and following close up
on the adoption of the Constitution came from
their hands the ordinance of 1887, forever prohib-
ittng slavery from territory northwest of tho Ohio.
1 POSITION OF THE REPUBLICAN PRESS.
e The Ohio State Journal, a Republican paper
published at Columbus, says:
"No man can Je an Abolaionist ,vho is a Repub.
lican."
e The Portage County Democrat Of August 22d,
G says:
M Chase has been much Misunderstood and
e that, too, by gross misrepresentation. His late
k great speech at Circleville was received with most
y nnbounded applause, even by old conservative
: Whigs, not because he there took any new positions,
bat because he there had an opportunity of ex.
pressing, for himself, his news before men who
were prejudicei against him, through m:srepro-
sentation. He indeed conquered prejudice. We
Southern Ohio, understand by 'Abolitionism' what
n we have understood by 'Garrisonism,' and hence
they have attached odium to Mr.. Chase, rs an sAb.
o!itionist.' But when they learn from him that he
o holds to State rights. that he would respec. all
the Free as the Slave States that while he would
leave slavery to the municipal regulation of the
Y States where it exists, that he would in6exibly and
e to the bitter end, oppose its extension outside of
Slave States, they find that his position and their
lonhi &c iuOhtiO"i, IL HtnCc, 10 preluulc6 Is wiped
9 away by a correct understanding Of his positions,
Q the volume of his popularity increases with I'M
mense momentum" a.urtf aHf ..- -
From the Cincinnati Commercial
at is proper for us to say that we ara no Abo-
litionists. We hold slavery to be purely a matter
of local concern, and that to make or unmake it
Is belongs alone to the states or their people. So
! far as any of its rights are guaranteed by the con-
u ~stitution of the United States, let them be protec-
ted by the national Legislature; but no further
y Neither are any large number of the people of
Ohio Abolitionists. AS a Y whole, the constitution
al rights of the sou!h would be as safe in their
y hands as in its own.
Aroused by an act of bad faith ap The part of
the south, they fad themselves acting, to a limit