Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-10-06

DNb lherO ~ one IDnh1kNblC ul1efcncc DCtWecn
those who cry disunion In the North,an those who
utter the same cry in the South. The disuionists OF
tie Worth take no part in political conflicts, and
exert no political influence. The disuniOnists of
tne ouuth engage actively in the political strife,
and at the present moment control the action of
tuHt party ia the Slave States which dictates to the
present administration its policy Of slave propa-
gaui!iam.
| have n sample Of the sentimentsot the Slave
State disuuionists, taken from the Charleston Mey-
crry. a paper which sustains Franklin Pierce. 1t
is an account of meeting OF n party OF these null
lifers at Whippy Swamp-suggestiye nnme-in
South Carolona. it will be held On the 4th of July,
aud this was ono Of the applaudcd sentiments:
" THE DAY zoe ccIcJrOte-It was consecrated TO
Freedom by the Disunionists Of l7I6. We do
well u keep the day we should do better to initiate
the deed"
These gentlcmcn of Whippy Swamp, you see,
not only brand our Fathers who made the Union,
a. disuIionists, but broadly intimate that cur Re
publican Government is MS obnoxious to them as
tho British Monarchy, aud propose to get rid Of it
Ny disunion
Have our political opponents-the supporters Of
the existing State and National administrations
anything to say against the Whippy Swamp dis
unionistS? Do you not know that when they say any
thing at all Of these men they always speak under
the wholesome apDrebonsiGns which the name OF
Nhippy Swamp inevitably suggests Do you not
know that when the WhippySwamp disunionists 50
10 Washington, they are invited to the highest seats
at the DcmoCratic-l beg pardon--the Adminlstra-
ton feast? Do you not know that from the Whip
ny Swamp disuniouists are selected Chiefs OF
Committees in the Senate and in the House of Rep
resentatives, Foreign Ministers, and heads OF De-
partments? Why, the disunionists of Whippy
Swamp are the rulers of our National Rulers
Not in the North-not in the free Ohio, where the
Ncbraska-ka nsas outrage was greeted with thun'
der tones Of indignatiJn-does the National Ad-
ministration find its chief strength and main sup
port, but in the Whippy Swamps OF the Carolinas
and the slave States.
This disunionism is very tolerable to our politi-
cal opponents for these disuni0nists supply their
leaders.
Bat neither this disunionism nor any disunion-
ism is acceptable to me.
In Whippy Swamp, and elsewhere in South
Carolina, there are expert calculators of the value
of the Union. The. political economists and po-
litical mathematicians have %cyphered it all out.
They can tell you how much the Union is worth to
n very vulgar fraction.
have no skill in such computations, and | want
none. Standing in the Senate, and addressing It's
presiding officer MS your Representatives, fellow
citizens, | said: "Mr. President. | have never cal
culatcl the value of the Union. ! know Of no
arithmetic by which the computation can be made.
We of the West are in the habit of looking upon
the Union as we look upon the arch of Heaven,
without Il thought that it can decay or fall."-
Sacred to Ohio" | exclaimed on another occasion,
'is the Union of the States" Did | misrepresent
you, my fellow citizens, when ] thus declared my
own sentiments and yours? (Cries Of no, no.
If then hereafter any propagator Of SANDER shall
charge me with disunion, | feel that | may safely
rely on your justice as well as well as your gen
crosby to rcbuko the calumniator and vindicate
the truth.
And now let mt say a few words about Adolf
tionism-that word Of terror, by repeating which
in every variety of intonation, our opponents hope
to scare full grown men.
| shall not undertake to define aboiitionism, Of
TO describe an abolitionist. But | will tell yor
frankly what my position is now, and ever has
been, in relation to slavery.
1t is that of Washington, Jefferson and Franklin
it is that Of the founders of the Republic.
The great men who framed our Constitution, con
ferred ON Congress no power to institute or main
tain slavery by national legislation nor did they
confer on Congress any power TO interfere b,
national legislation with slavery in the States.
At the time of the PRONUNCIATION of the COnsti
tuition, slavery was allowed in most of the State
by State Constitutions, and regulated by STATE
Laws-but there was not foot of National terrific
ry in which n slave could be held, unless in viola
ton of positive law. AT that time there was NJ
national territory except that northwest of til
Ohio, and in that territory, by the Jefferson provl
so, incorporated into the ordinance Of l747, ant
by the unanimous consent of all the States Il
the Congress of the confederation, slavery hat
been forever prohibited. Our National Govern
ment, therefore, sent into operation upon the prin
ciplc of No SLAVERY OUTSIDE OF SLAVE STATES
upon the principle that SLAVERY is LOCAL, MOI
NATIONAL. AT that time, also, there were sever
free States in the UniOn-not,i it is true, OF State
in which slavery had been absolutely abolished
but of States in which the ultimate extinction o
slavery was certain, and the State policy was OF
the side of Freedom. The number of slave State
was only six, and in some Of them it was conf
IDENTIFY expected that provision would soon be mad
by law for the eradication of slavery. Then there
was a majority Of free States in the Union at thu
outset Of the national career. And the Ordinanc
of 1877 made provision for the permanence of the
majority by declaring that not less than three no
more than five States would be created out OF tn
territory in which by its own action Slavery wa
forever prohibited.
Thus rellow-citizens. our National Governmer
may be fairly said to be based on three great prir
ciples in respect to Observation-Disclosures b
the National Government with Slavery with
slave States-nOn-extension of Slavery beyond tn
limits of the slave States-a perpetual majority G
free States in the Union.
Our actual history demonstrates the fact, th'
Only one of these three principles has been pract
eally applied. The national government has nevt
in~teIierod with Slavery in the slave States, hl'
Slavery has been extended far beyond State limit
aud the Shareholders have insisted, and durin
much the greater part Of our historical perio,
have actually boon allowed to have ms many STAY
States MS there have been free States in Il
Union.
The original policy Of tie fathers of the Repu
lie has been subverted. We simply demand i
restoration. We want indemnity for the past al
security for the future" (Cheers.) Neither
nor any other Republican, so far as | know, pr
poses any interference with slavery in any Stat
What we demand is, that slavery shall not be c
tended or permitted in any territory outside
slave States. None among us would change al
constitutional right o. privilege now belonging
q State allowing slavery within its limits but '
Insist that no such right or privilege shall
abused to the subversion of liberty in free State
OHIO Freedom wU not interfere wdh Kentuc
Sidray-Kcatacky ISopvy must not ntteGJe
tsiH Ohio Freedom. Earnest applause.
If this be abolitionism, then Washington, JeffC
son, Henry, Madison, Adams, Franklin, and
great hostof patriots of names only less c%onspicuo
than these, were abolitionists. All these ilust