Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-10-13
THE UNION--.KANSAS.

Mr.. Wade said, in his recent speech at Portland,
that the Union Of these States had in fact ceased
to exist. As a government it was powerless. 1t
had not, he said, the ability to protect q citizen
from one State to another. However its power
might be or was used for the oppression of indi-
v.luals, by p~erperSion of its power, it cannot ex-
tend one moments protection to the plainest con-
stitutional rights Of a citizen, Strong as this ex-
preston is, it is literally true, and the last % years
of our liberty proves If. A sense OF respect for
compaets, the constitution and the laws has led the
people Of the North to ever yield up State rights
to the abuses Of the General Government, acting
under the slave power Of the South, and which has
set thcFcderal power utterly at defiance. The plain
est guarantees Of the Constitution, arc of no more
effect, so far as the power of the Union is concern
ad, than if they never had been made. For a
quarter Of a century, not a man has dared to ex-
ercise the right to speak on any point upon the sub
ject Of Slavery, in the slave States, nor has lie ever
been allowed to prosecute a legal right, where the
question was involved. Witness tho case Of Sam
uel lioar, at Charleston.
But worse than this, the very power designed
to protect in the Cunlederacy, is become an instru-
inent of shameful oppression. Look at the entire
suojugati0n Of the post Office, in the Southern
States, to not mere episonage, but open search. A
seal or lock is only rnockery, in the u. S. Mails
south Of the line of freedom and so Of any form
of protection Il citizen of the North may demand
Of his national government, against the most I'M
founded prejudices or suspicious, in the South,
while the General Government are used by Slave
~ to follow, with chains and Imprisonment, the
free citizen Of a Northern State at home, for the
exercise OF the very rights guaranteed by the con.
stitution. Then beyond even this, Us if seeking
the annihilation of the last yestige Of the power
Of the Union, the right of suffrage has been not
only trampled under foot, as in Kansas; but ha,
been made the instrument Of legaIi2ing the mos
abomnable tyrannies.
The ballo. hos seized by Missourian slavehold.
ers the legislature controlled by them the Gov
ernor removed at their d~ctation, because he woul(
protect his fellow citizens and laws passed
n~bridging the freedom Of speech and the press t
narrower limits than are known to the d~espotism o
Russia these mDnstrous outrages are perpetrated
not against the freedom Of the citizens eft q State
bat of \ territory under the immediate govern
ment of the Federal power, who of all othere have
the first claim upon it for protection. Yet this de
mind upon that Federal Power for the defense o
their rights would be as futile as q demand h
return to his camp, from spy of the allies tn
ken in Seyastopol The President is the slave o
the slave propagondists in Kansas, and what the,
bid he does. The U. S troops will never be order
ol by Pierce to protect even the Squatter Sever
eighty contemplated by Cass and Douglas, Will
they very probably will be ordered there to en-
force tho monstrous acts Of that more monstrou
Legislature.
To-day under the administration Of Pierce tn
Dnion teiW not, and can not, il it would, protect
single personal right againt Slavery. 1t has bee
80. for twenty-five years.-4shta6ula Sentinel.
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The Pope has conferred upon Mr.. Wilson, VIII
was Mayor Of Montreal at the time Of the Gaya2,
riot, the title of Knight Of the Order of 5
Gregory"
EnFNcg "wELeoME."-This has been 4 dificu
word for our neighbors to spell rightly. howevel
they managed to do it with due significance in n
bon accord they gave to Lord Mayor Moon to-
",er De hotel blazed in oil lamps, the letters
"Eecf cpeF' .Pyheh,