Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-11-01

q""'o 10 uescrlbe the tr0nsCendent wickCdness OF
inc democratic party, in its present position and
under its present guidance. Its mask is of, aud
lNfEhNALlSM is stamped upon its countenance.
Very many of its adbercnts are to be pitied, for
they are duPed through their excessive credulity
and ignorance; but the intelligent in its ranks,
and at its head, are utterly without excuse. They
are manitestly destitute Of all honesty. traitors to
the cause of liberty, and bent on the overthrow of
all our free Institutions, to subserve their own ends.
ana forever to establish the bloody supremacy of
the slave power over the whole landry, over this
whole continent. Under the administration of this
party, the government has been overthrow. by a
coup detdt Of the slave oligarchy in the person of
franklin Pierce, assisted by such couspirators MS
Caleb Cushing, Jefferson Davis, Stephen Arnold
Douglas. Lewis Cnss, and the whole body of Kan.
sas rufians- Atchison, Sringfollow. Lecumptc.
Shannon, Geary, aud their associates-ond promp.
ted by such lords of the lash and the bludgeon as
Butler aud Brooks Of Carolina, Wise of Virginia,
and Toombs Of Georgia. 1t is mockery now to
talk OF constitutional guarantees on the side of
liberty. We are living under n usurpation as alb
soluto as it is detesiable; aud the fact that the trail
torous occupant of tho Presidential chair goes un.
impeaehcd and UNPUBLISHED is demonstrative cyi.
dence of the general degradation of the people.
All that this party has done, all that /, proposes
to do, in the way Of dllibus,ering and slavery ex-
tension, by armed invasion end through FIRE and
blood, its candidate for the presidency. james Blu
chonan, most cordially sanctions; and yet while |
am writing, it is thought to he more than potable
that he will obtain tn, vote of Pennsylvania, and
thus secure his election flow much better, then,
is Pennsylvania than Georgia or Carolina?
Mono friend of the slave, no enemy of slavery
extension, can give his support TO the Democratic
party or its nominee.
As Tor the American party, it is based upon pro-
%scription, and thoroughly pro-slavery. Its candi-
date, Willard Fillmore, tho infamous signer of the
execrable Fugitive Slave Law, openly incites to re-
belliOn, on the part Of the South, if tho North
shall achieve n constitutional triumph in the cleo
ton of Fremont at tho pending election! He is
playing a most lactious part, animated by that
spirit which wonld rather reign in hell than
serve in heaven" and reveals himself to lie more
and more the supple tool of the slave oligarcby.
Where stands the Republican party, and to VIVA,
extent is it deserving of commentator or censure!
/. PROFESSIONALLY, it embodies the whole politi.
cal anti-slavery strength of the Countrywide logit.
innate product of the moral agitation of the subject
Of slavery for the last quarter of a century; for il
is not conceivable that any voter DESTROYS Of frus
trating the aim Of the slave power at universal
dominion will bestow his suffrage upon either Blu
chanan or Fillmore. II general intelligence, vir
tuOus character, humane sentiment, and patriotic
~feeling-as well as in the object it is recking tt
accomplish-it Is incomparably better than Tx
other rival parties; and its success, as against Mos,
parties, will be a cheering sign of the times.
2. 1t is sincerely strenuously, ard against thu
combined forces of the slave oligarchy, welded
with diabolical malignity, erdeavoring to proven,
the vast territories of the West from becoming q
slaveholding empire, divided into manifold slave
States; and to this extent it is favorable to the
cause Of freedom.
3. It is allowed no foothold at the South, but il
, everywhere furiously ostracised. so that no meet
ing can lie safely held to advocate its claims, nc
electoral ticket favorable to the election Of its can.
dida,es can be formed, no STAKEHOLDER, even can
declare his adhesion to it without imperiling his
life, and every vial of slavehu!ding wrath is poured
. out upon it, ana upon all who are identified with
: it; Notwithstanding its constant disavOwal Of all
wish or intention to interfere with slavery where it
now exists.
4. 1t divides the nation b. a geographical line,
but without any sectional feeling on it's own part;
this division being caused solely by its just Go.
fence Of the rights Of the North against the daring
invasions Of the slave power. which is determined
to crush out" every sentiment Of freedom in til,
land, and to punish opposition to its monstrons de
, signs as summarily in Massachusetts as in Virgin
ia or Alahama.
! 5. 1t helps to disseminate no small amount @
! light and knowledge in regard to the nature anC
r workings OF the slave system, being necossitated t
S do this to maintain its yosiuon; and thus, for tn,
t time being, it is moulding public sentiment il
q the right direction, though with no purpose t.
J aid us in the specific work we are striving Il
cc)mplish-namely, the dissolution Of the Union
and tie Abolition Of Slavery throughout th'
: land.
c All tits may be fairly set down to the credit o
) The Republican party; and it is a wise apostolic
4, Injunction to give ''credit to whom credit is due.
t Let US he clear in our discrimination. and Just il
9 our award, without yielding one jot or title of prin
ciple, or moving a hair's-brea&th from the path 0
duty.
II Because of this marked difference between thcs'
Y parties. ought we therefore to vote for Fremont an,
Dayton? Can we vote at all?
: As matter of moral consistency, certainly no
2 for the following among other considerations:
:; l, For more than twelve years, in our organized
5 capacity as well MS individually accepting the col
lectiye and uniform Judgment Of the nation re
: speeding the character and design Of the instru
mont we have solemnly proclaimed the Constitu
! tim Of the United States to he "a COVENANT WITT
u DEATH, AND AN AGREEMENT WITH HE'LL" in conse
quence of its pro-slavery guarantees, aud, there
fore. that no oath should be taken to uphold i
d either by ourselves or by our representatives W,
), have porsistently called for its Reputation on tn
J ground Of its inherent wickedness, and its ute
j overthrow as the Sulwark of the slave system. W
C have traced to it the amazing growth and omn
nresont power Of the slave system, and found In