Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-08-04
Chr Antt- Gloperp Buelr.
SlLEN, ono AUGUSr i, ls55.
THE REPUBLICANS AND. THE ABoLI-
TI0NISTs,

TlUNlSlE,
From present appearances, the Republican move
mont in Ohio seems to have a fair prospect of
success in the election Of its candidates. This
movcmen looks like the inauguration Of that state
of affairs which all hearty anti.slavery men have
so long desired and so earnestly labored to intro
duce; when the lines between slavery and freedom
shall be distinctly drawn. When all minor cues
tons in politics and theology shall be merged in
tho conflict between these great antagonisms.
True, it is only the beginning of this marshall
ing of the friends of freedom. They are timid
unframed and some of them half-hearted. They
have not seized the vital issues Of the question,
and are not striking at the root of the evil. Hence
in all probab ility they will fail to secure their OBJ
iect, the limitation of slavory-as all such partial
efforts have heretofore failed. and their party, like
its predecessors is destined to perish in the midst
of the conflict and give place to something better
and more thorough. 1t cannot be otherwise SO
long as their opponents, ever active, vigilant and
powerful, strike not at tie Incidents and ~insopara-
ble o~utgrowths Of liberty but at its existence.
But yet it is something-aye it is much that
these political hosts are 6eginHiag to muster on the
side of freedom.
That the anti-slavery sentiment has crushed the
old parties out of existence, and driven their in
significant issues into lorgotfulness. AboEtionists
must continue to strengthen this sentiment by all
the energy of truth, and with martyr zeal, firm
ness and fidelity. This, with the continued insults
and outrages of slavery upon freemen of the
North and slaves of the South, will, We will hope,
soon lead Republicans to leave their concession to
slavery behind them, and forgetful of all else, but
justice and liberty, strike decidedly, and with their
whole might at the existence of slavery.
That they make these fatal concessions, will pre-
vent many abolitionists from fully cooperating
with them, because, they will not be partakers Of
other mems sins, and will not, even for the sake
of the Constitution and the Union, make conces
sion to slavery in Arkansas and Missouri, any
more than in Kansas and Nebraska. Nevertheless,
they will rejoice in what is good in the Republican
party, and cooperate where they can for the sue
cess of their rightful objects.
1t will be u fact for sincere congratulation fol
all antislavery men, if Salmon I. Chase is elec
ted Governor of Ohio. Not because he has plac
ed himself upon the narrow liberty plank whici
the Columbus Convention laid down for him TO oc
cupy. But because Notwithstanding the trammcli
which the constitution and the Union and plat
forms have thrown around him, he is yet a tU
man. With Il conscience recognising the obliga
tons Of justice and a great heart, ever beating
for humanity and freedom. Because he has proyeC
this to be his character, by his general course sine,
the time-twenty years ago-whcn a young lawye
/ in Cincinnati, he dared alone from among his pro
fession in that city, to vindicate free speech and
free press by defending and sustaining Jameg G
$ Birney, and the little handful of his associate
{ fanatics" in expressing their opinions Of slav
owners and slave holders. We rejoice to see
G man lone Enthusiastically such elected, though h
be a man in chains, for we have faith in manhood
1t can snap chains. and break letters. But W
: cant drive a single rivet in those chains, howe
blindly and closely he may hug them. Hence
while Mr.. Chase consents to be bound by u pr
IL slavery constitution and union, we cannot Civ
i him any support which implies approval Of thos
v wrongs. For these are as well the letters of I'll
Republican party and its manly candidate for Go
ernor, as of the plantation slaves. Else, why lin
J it the application of a just pri~nciple-emancip
tonic tho territories. Why that guilty silenC
in regard that practical, national and state emo
e nifty, against which all individual conscien,
cries out in horror-the return offugitiye slave
f., Why the adoption of that partial motto "No 81
h very outside the slave Statcs"-why, but becau
the constitution and the Union are supposed
X give this diabolical monster, slavery, free
= censc to run riot within these bounds? No. v
cent consent to that not even 20 elect Mr.. Chase.
We seek the emancipation Of all. Free spec
for the Republicans, and free locomotion for t
slave-Emancipation outside and inside of sla
States. We cannot consent to sacrifice frcedo
and right in one locality for their success in anot
a err. Our predecessors in the government did thi
~ The present generation have approved and INIT
m ted them, and we reap the results in the contin
c. ance and extension Of slavery. The practice h
IN been proved unayailing for freedom, let us aba
u don it.