Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-09-27
Aistellaneons
TO The Editor Of he Bugle:

RACES in Kansas or Congress-. Enough OF tongues
AID presses a,e employed in that work; %epithets
are exhausted and yet tho enormities are family
exposed. Like the poet, 1--WE need some other
words" new words, before we can adequately ex.
press adherence of the depravity of the actors in
these exciting scenes. The palliators and con.
MYERS, when justice ia done, will have more than
an equal dividend of the due apprehension.
Once when the editor of the New York Evening
Post was commenting on the Christiana tragedy,
speaking Of the law abiding character Of our citi.
zens, he said there was one thing which politicians
seemed determined to keep out of view. namely
that the mass of those who refr aimed FRI m disor-
derby, or pain producing acts, were Influenced by
a law icithin and not 'pithoHt themselves law
written by Creative power on our suseeptibilities
and not oae written in looks, by man.
When we have sufficiently observed earth's evils
and wrongs, n careful investigation Of their cause,
or causes will coHvince us thatBryant struck ut the
root of the matter. A liquid will rise to the level
Of its suurce, but not abUve it. Laws and conven-
tionalisms are precisely analogues. The incum-
bents of every scEool-house, legislative hall and
pulpit, are just as learned, wise and pious as the
dema nd in the several localities and professions.
That Missourians control the ballot box in Kansas;
that u representative can strike down a Senator IN
this place, startling as the announcement may be-
is, az the people of che United States would have
it. Many of them fec; outraged and horrifeI with
the specialities referred to, bat they are a legiti'
mate result Of the national policy ever since the
Revolution. In framing the Consultation they
dared not to call things by their right names. In
stead of saying piraies should be protected for TWEEN.
ty years, they said that the States respectively,
should import ssch persons as they chose; and in
stead Of slares shall be returned their claimants they
said those uho olce service or labor shall be deiiUer-
ed up TO phom The service is due. 1t has often
been urged that there was a high policy in this:
granted; but it was lon morality, and it has yield
ed precisely such d~warfsh, acid. hitter fruit as
wisdom antiri pated, ever since. Uposa the princi-
pie that If an inch be given. an ell will be TAKEN
the insidipus encroachmeuts of the slave power are
perfectly natural.
The same law pervades the entire domain OF
error: it is tn is every step in wrong is less alarming
and revolving than the preceding step; and thus It
may continue until the discriminating faculties he
sotne so obtnse that they perceive but little differ
eucA between Right and Wrong. With such, roli.
CIV, is the watchword-the test. Is it too much to
w tistbt Alc 10 W ChN''i ~" "
we can fare up on the repeal Of a COM pro mise, OF
the passage Of an odious law which requires as &c
sustain it, at th cost of a personal sacrifice; but
when the transient fervor has subsidized we are
abundantly accessible to the arguments which
prove it necessary to the success of our party. OF
for the accomplishment Of some desired end. Tit
fault is. land a fearful fault roo, we do not taxi
high grnund aud maintain it unhinshingly anC
infexibly. Whoever has been observant of the
facts in our history. knows that this is true of the
past; whoever can see passing events without pre-
iudice, or prepossession. will know that it is sc
now. Take as an example the recent letter of j
w Webb, who has teen deemed fanatical in tht
cause of general liberty. After attributing to sla
very. brawls, violence and homicide, he particular
ICES four cases which have occurred at the capita
in five months, the actors in those cases all beiny
representatives of the people, selected to preserv
good order and perpetuate the Union. There wer
violent assaults, and one murderer. These. an,
the overbearing, threatening, defiant. bullying
avarice of the South, have overawed and cowed tn
North Regarding the opposition to an enquir.
into the conduct Of Brooks, he says it was owiny
solely TO the "demoralizing tendencies of Slavery
which not only com pels its representatives to vot
as JUS NllHC ueulhtlu, TcShTulenS VI tue COHstllu
ton and laws, but which equally requires Of tn,
members from the free States, who have loanet
themselves to this administration. in doing the be
hests of the Slave power, to disgrace and 'tultify
themselves in the eyes of the American peonle.
Right in the face of all this denunciatory flourish
ne appends, Il would be the first to punish thos
who wish to withhold from our Southern brethren
one t or title of the protection to which the in
stitution of slavery is constitutionally entitled i
localities where it exists"
How few will perceive that in all this there
no mora. tone; but that it is sheer political TRAD
which "dazsles only to blind?' If the prope
questions were properly propounded, j. W.. woul
have to maintain that il is less degrading-a les
wrong to hold a slave in Carolina than in Kansas
or that the existence of a wrong makes it right; @
he must resort to evasion. whic b last he woul
nodcutt do by compromising morality and exped
ency taking especial care however to make tn
claims of the latter paramount Pity it is ths
this mode of procedure is not peculiar to the editc
Of the Courier and Enquirer, and still more to !
deplored tina. the qualification is not confined
his readers. 1t world not seem unreasonable
scppose, that in the afternoon Of the ~nineteenl
century, in this Republican Christian country,
mo wise different in speaking of it's virtue and i
telligence. that Galibility woald be an sbsole
word. but the luvers of Truth and advocates
Right are compelled, in sadness. to acknowled,
that il is Tot SO. When will il be o;herwiseY Ar
how shall the change be wrought are momento,
questions with earnest pbilanthropists and hone
patriots.
Tho comprehensive answer r. the first is. whel
ever We come u prefer the right for it's intrinS
excellence; and to the second. when we learn
appreciate the importance of individuality. so a
IN act out our highest convictions. independent
popular opinion, party, or sect. The highes, soar
tngs OF intellect. or the lowest. hrewdes device
1ei sophistry cannot make il other wise. A. G..
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