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

country w ever opposes such cousummation
we are ut wal with If the Constitution Of the
United States sustans slavery, let us Pile upon
the Constitution. The great strength of slavery
is in the present union between the North and
South. While the Union continues, the system is
strong So much So that Free Sellers do not hope
or propose to abolish slavery in the places where
it exists by law, confning their efforts to its re.
sriction within its present limits. "No union
with Shareholders" was, he believed, the only true
and effective position on which the friends Of free,
dom can stand to-day
AFTERNOON SESSION.
| After the reading of the Annual Report of the
Executive Committee the discussion was resumed
upon the resolutions before the meeting, at the
former session.
5. 5. Foster said he did not like the apparent
sanction Of the Missouri Compromise contained in
the third resolutlpn Our great mistake as q na.
ton has been that have made compromises
with Slavery. lie would not reinstate the Mis-.
rouri Compromise if he could, but would with his
whole influence oppose its reenactment With that
exception he liked the resolution
lie wished to speak Of the work now before
Abolitionsts In one sense our future labos is
the same as we have been called to accomplish in
the past In another sense it is a very different
work. The end--the abolition of Slayery-is al.
ways the same. But there are some changes as to
the application of the means to the end Wa are
not required to do exactly the same work tina.
has been done in past times. Five years ago there
was work to be done, that class of men then en
gagged in the Anti-Slavery movemen. could do
Men could do this work whether in the church or
not, whether in the political parties or outside Of
them. Some might do it better than others, but
all could aid in it. In building rail roadg men
can shovel dirt who cannot lay down q track. So
OF our eau e. The preparatory work is in great
measure done. Now want to lay down the
track. We have directed the attention of the reo-
pie to the character of Slavery and their connec.
ton with it. The work now is to awaken them to
the guilt ofthat connection. We havcshown the peo-
pie who hold the slaves. 1t was MASSACHUSETTS
that aided Suttle to carry Anthony Burns into
Slavery. 1t is Ohio. not Kentucky that keeps the
slave in his chains. Now the question is shall the
North continue the watch-dogs of the South If
so Slavery is perpetual. Shall the issue be In the
future as in the past? This question is to be set.
tied in part by the amount of conscience in this
meeting to day; we are to decide whether Ohio will
stand ready to give back the fugitive and shoot
down his friends as Massachusetts has DONE If
we can succeed in awakening the consconcas of tho
people they will stand bodyguard for tho master
no longer, and the slave will go free.
This is the work to be done. 1t it is not to diff
fuse light so much as to create conscience to pro-
duce love of God and his children. TO do ,his
we must stand outside the three political parties
How he that is himself thief say to his neigh
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say that Slavery is crime? To say this is to de,
clare himself criminal When the Free Soilor
says Slavery Is piracy he proclams himself a pi,
rate. Joshua R. Giddings stands before the world
to-day selfconvicted pirate. lie sayu ha has en-,
tered into compact with the master not to protect
his escaping slave but to allow him to be dragged
back to bondage lie might protect the flying slave
but he does not. If then, the master is a pirate,
what is Joshua r. Giddngs on his own showings
come by your residence at IL o'clock to night and
see setting fire to your dwelling. pass ty
and do not give the alarm; am not an incendiaryi
who will say no?
Take the best of your Free Solers. If o slave
comes along, will they protect him They will
not, according to their own confessions. Yet Sal
mon p. Chase is just much bound to prote ct the
slave against his maataF Ps though he were his own
nearest friend.
! "a Voice.) lie would do it, too.
Mr.. Foster. lie has sporn he will give the SLAVE
no protection when pursued by his master. Read
his last reported speech. lie says, as he has al,
ways said, that the Constitution ties our h9nds-
that it forbds us to lift finger for the slaye'G pro-
lection Such is the position of Mr.. Chase, and
Mr. Gddings says the same, and in several respects
these mon are pledged to slavery through thel,
support Of the Consttnt:op.
The slave only be freed by making the peo,
pie better, and we can only make the people beter
} by being better than the people. Yon must first
come up upon the highest principle, and reach
doun, if you would draw others up and place
them upon the rock Of truth. When paticians
preach to their ncghbors setting forth the evils Of
our pro-slavery Government, the answer is, "If
the Government is so infamous, why do YOU spppCrt
itr What could you gain by preaching honesty.
while yourselves were in a band Of robbers Men
in such position are powerless to reform the peo.
pie. Politicians are at best but the cars. Tho
Garrisonlans are the engine that drags them along,
Let the Garisonian movement cease in Ohio and
soon yop would not have particle of Anti Slavery
in your State
J The speaker thought the position OF Mr. WILSON
/ of Massachusetts, higher than that of Mr.. Chase,
Mr. Chase says to the South keep your Slavery te
yourselves don't trouble us with itthat 10 oil VA
t require" Wilson would not have said.so, though
he too is in the "gall of bitterness ana the bonds
f of iniquity." Our complaint against Ar. Wilson
is that he will by his oath Of Office promise to ali
the STAKEHOLDER, though he does not mean ta dol
He pledges himself TO the Union, apd get eu-
, courages the AntSlavery movement, This 10 bet,
ter than to fulfil his wicked oathbsItaF the action
Of him who said Il 90 not" and pen. than him
who said ~ 60" and wen. mot.