Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-20
RADICAL AB0L1TIONIs1S OF KEN.
lucky.

bear with Il Few words from one on behalf of Il few
but earnest co.workers, with most If them, in the
gigantic work of trying to save our falling nation.
When IT is remembered that the cma tor which
we are aspiring. rests not upon the election or de.
feat of either Fremont or Buchanan, but upon the
overthrow and total extirpation of slavery
throughout all the land, | say, when this is renem.
bered by those wh0 are labUring for that end, and
when they see the number so small who will dars
to venture all in such an undertaking, they feel
rejOjced to hear of one here and another there,
who are Of like minds with themselves, and who
are %whetting their swords, not in view of sla-
very non-extension but Of the grand enthrune-
ment of universal liberty over all.
1t is in behalf of o few such ones, that | address
our brethren of the highly favored free States,
who by their action Mt the ballot box in the coming
election, design showing their sympathy for us Of
the South, as well as for the people of Kansas
and the North.
There are times and circumstances during
which if men do not speak, their manhood or pc.
sition will not be truly known. So with us in
Kentucky, having had no delegation Mt the SYRIA
caso Convention, and having taken no desired
steps to form Il permanent acting organization
here at home it has been and is generally sup
posed that there are no hig' er aims in Kentucky,
than the Philadelphia Platform and Republican
Anti-Slavery, and o! course all will go for Mr..
Fremont, who are prompted in the least toward
Anti-Slavery. Mo-. quite SO friends. There are Il
few of us who are not ready by several steps, to
Respond Amen when Mr.. Fremont SAYS, / am in.
terjbty opposed 10 interfering ,rih Hdrery ,chere IL
exists under TIE shield Of State Sovereignty. And
lfeel that most of us can give to every man who
asks n reason for our position. We have had our
fingers ON the pulse of the great and vital question
We have examined it in various lights, We have
considered the merits of the Syracuse address
of the nominating Convention. and then tho
Pittsburgh proceedings. the Philadelphia Plat
form, but our chief enquiry has been what can be
done by the power Of the constitution through
Congress, or by the supreme Court, to aid US in
removing this monster iniquity. We have not
bee.i trying to find out what Congress cannot do,
or what the geneneral Government cannut dn in
the case. A point much in vogue through the
North among the Republicans, and copied YER
hntum by the Republicans Of Kentucky and
Virginia.
Now Of all men in this nation. who net Mt the
ballot box, the anti-slaycry men If the South
should he the last to say that Congress should not
secure Justice in the Slave Stntes, should not se-
cure life liberty and happiness there They must
suppose that the Consultation j. net TO secure these
or II so that Congress should not'ca1ry il out r, far
as tie Slave States are concerned. IL should lie
tho paramount question with the anti slavery men
OF the South, what powers OF the general Govern
ment can be brought to hear on this nation de
~stroying evil whore it does exist (unt where it does
not exlst.) But to return TO ms subject.
We are glad to present before us ~ standard
bearer, that tried and noble mnn of God Jno. 6.
Fee, who holds the princi pies OF tie |, Idical poll
cy not because the party who advoca es tina policy
is a weak minority though he has had but lit
tie experience in being with maiorities. aud I
suppose never homes to have, unless he shall he 30
happy as to see the dawnings OF the millennium
1t is not because he thinks 1t will be popular in
years to come. But because he feels that Gods
glory demands it, that humanity demands il. that
the requirement to love his ~neI.hhor rs himself
demands it, that a nation beginning To take the
road to downfall as did ancient Rome aud Greece
demands it he takes that position because it is
right because it has principles sale TO be trusted
for q foundation. He takes it because he desires
to act the part not of the Priest ana Levite. bnt of
the Samaritan, to millions Of poor, robbed, bruised
and tortured fellow creatures.
Many doubtless suppose him to he acting with
the Republican party, seeing that his name was
appended to their call for the Philadelphia Con.
vention, which was dune without his previous
knowledge or cInsent, and to which he VIZ ,te his
disclaimer and sent it to DR.. b uIv OF the Nation
al Era. for publication, but il never came To light.
II fact at which | was not surprised. Fra man
VIII" can sit composedly ia his snnrtum and frame
rhetoric, to justify leqing rla'ery die IF itself.
seeming Ia forget that the great NAV of slavery
instead of chips and stones, contains fe.h and
blood. bones and sinews with mortal souls, every
one of which must appear before The judgment
seat Of Christi say the man WIN can set quietly
aud advocate the scheme of Irttiug such II heap
of horrors die Of itself, can very e,si'y let facts
Hie, that justice t. those concerned wunld demand
TO he made public.
We may organize and nominate a State ticket
perhaps not, just as the indications seem to d.
rect. II we could have taken 'imCiy stnps in the
beginning Of the Summer. and could have had n
good lecturer To have laid the claims OF the Radical
policy hefure the people, We could have polled "A
respectable vote for Gerrt Smith in this State
The truth is, that the Radical policy commends
itself to the heart of every Southern Anti-Slayery
man, and most at once when it is laid before
them, SEQ the consistency and become advocates
of it.
But few have any light on the subject and none
previous to the publication of the Radical Adolf
. litionist by VIM. Goodell. What the mass want is
, light. The mass of Anti Slavery men in the South
are Radicals at heart, and yet the mass of them
have never heard that such a party, as the Radi-
cal party, exists and has claims on their service
4 for its support. And it doubtless seems strange
Y to many of the Anti Slavery men in the South
p who are going to support Fremont. Why all the
powers Of general Government are pledged TO pro-
J tect the man and his family who go to Kansas
from the blight of Slavery, if Fremont is elected.
| and yet he of the South'is duly warned that 10 far
, as the powers of the general Government are con-
cerned, he will. be left to tak9 care Of himself as
best he can.
But we are told we must abolish Slavery here
by our State laws. That we must confess is a very
beautiful theory, but for q task looks rather Her
culean when We remembet who are to begin and
carry it through. So if Buchanan is elected, poor
Kansas according to the Republican policy. will
D have to bar us company and have to rid herself
y of Slavery by her State laws. We arc told for
{ our encouragement that it the shield Of the gener-
al Government is removed from Slavery it will die
= of itself. Doubtless some Of the Roman Empe-
rors when they saw Rome lettering to her fall.
caused by the blight Of Slavery, hoped that i.
would de of itself. Perhaps Cicero, and other
learned Statesman of Greece. when they saw
y Greece trembling to her overthrow from the same
0 cause, hoped that Slavery would die of itself. Do.
y the mass of this nation wish to see such an end
to slavery. If indeed they see that event and
witness the last deaIh thrOes of that curEe To
= mankind, long before that event like Pauls fgrre
e Of the living body chained to the dead one, when.
tho living cries out who shall deliver me from this
body Of death--so the failing hopes of II once fair.
prospect for ii glorious nation will cry out, whe.
shall deliver us from this body of death. We feel