Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-13
WORDS AFTER ELECTION"

WORDS AFTER ELECTION"
The Radical Abolitionist has an article under
this head a part of which we copy:
The Presidential contest is now overland, so
far as the candidates concerned, thesso question
is settled. Buchanan is to be the next President.
But the slavery question is not settled. MOI
Neither is the Kansas question. Whatever its
fate, for the present, may be, the Kansas
question is not settled Very probably it will not
be, till the whole slavery question itself is settled
And this will not be, till the entire system of
American slavery shall be demolished.
Suppose the subjlgation of Kansas, now in pro-
cess should be consummated; and "order" in the
dcspotic sense of the term--estabished. What
then? What will the shareholders have gained +?
Why, Just this. They will have inaugurated the
first specimen of slave State ajorty of whose
bona fde resident citizens,-the chief proprietors
of its wealth, the embodiment of its intelligence,
moral strength, and enterprise, will be most in
tense baters of slavery And right alongside of
Missouri, too, wedging it in, between Kentucky,
Illinois, and Iowa. in all of which abotiousts are
plenty, and increasing Better were it for the
Slave Power, to let Kansas come in. quietly, as n
free State, on good, cozy, neighborly terms with
Slavery, and in the habit Of making "compro-
mises" with her, than compel it to throw off
slavery, and become free State afterwards, in
spite of them thus establishing precedent, and
setting'ian example to the friends of liberty in
other slave States.
1t is said that Border Rufianism, aided or
winked at, by the Federal power, would prevent
an independent State of the Union from abolishing
slavery? If so, at the end of four years, if the
North does its duty we shall have National Ad-
ministratioh of an opposite character. And by
that time the example and precedent of Federal
"consolidation" for the establishment and support
of slavery in Kansas will have quickened our con-
ceptions In the light of such examples and pre-
cedents of Federal power, we shall have learned
| how the Federal Government may assist the
friends of liberty and law in slave State, to put
down slavery and lawless violence The problem
which now perplexes so many well meaning per-
sons, will have been worked out, not paper
merely but upon the soil Of slave State, re-
deemed from vassalage
| The problem, once worked out, in Kansas, en-
sures its repetition elsewhere. So if the fire.
caters relish the experiment-;an0 if they can
coax, whe edle, ntimidate,o or coerce Mr.. Buchanan
and his Northern supporters into lt-let them go
ahead The Nebraska bill well nigh proved their
ruin The ensavement of Kansas would COM
plee it. If they think Otherwise, let them try it.
One or two more turns of the screw would make
the North an unit, on the platform Of Radical
lAbolitonism. Thus much we say to the "unter-
rifed (?) Democracy as they call themselves.
We do not often proffer them advice, but thus
much, glatis, is at their service.
! word, now, to Republicans" You told us
that, as Gerrt Smith could not be elected, we
should lose votes, unless we gave them to
! Fremont. The principle then is, that votes are
lost unless the candidate is elected Well, Col.
Fremont is not elected. And so by your own rule,
you too have 'thrown away your votes" You
certainly have, if the rule you laid down for us
was ever worth sixpence.-But do you really
think you have thrown away your votes because
you did not vote with the majority? And that
! bor cd Lyy for cho m
an? No. You believe no such thing. Your own
New York Tribune tels you better. Il has now
discovered that Failure is by no means always II
defeat" 1t has discovered that "Policy may be
mortal--must be mOrtal-except it be an embodi'
ment of principle but truth is eternal God him
self" 1t tells you that whether the election (uf
Frcmont) be secured or not, makes no difference
with duty"-that Responsibilities are for men
results rest with God" Now just remember this,
four wears hence and don't tell abolitionists again
that they will throw away their votes" when
they vote according to their conscientious convic
tions Leave this policy to those who vote only
for the spos of office, and who consequently, have
no rule for voting but their antcipatlons Of maj
| tiles.
And just apply the Tribune's corrected ethics
70 your own future voting. To help you here Just
take another testimony from another of your prom
inent Journals, the New York Times. The Times,
after alluding to the mo6s against ab0ltionsts in
TINS CITY, IN 1000, mentions lne names Ol some OF
the prominent obi ects Of that violence, many of
whom "are still living" and the progress of public
sentiment, since that time. The editor then pro-
ceeds-
"What cheering illustration does this brief re-
view afford of the steady and certain advancement
in the popular mind of the great principles OF
equality, justice and humanity, which undere the
Republican movement. And similar evidences OF
this progress may be found in hundred different
| vhn hoo fau
years, and contrast his own and his neighbors'
sentiments then and now. The progress of the
cause has kept pace exactly with the advancement
of popular education and the increased intelli-
Hce of the masses with respect 20 political ques-
q. and to-day "the stone which the builders
r,J. ! is become the head of the corner" Oppo-
site slavery, whensoever and wheresoever we
have the constitutional power and right to give it
expression, is the sentiment of vast majority
of the people of the Northern States"
Thus sepsibly discourses the New York Times.
Now, Just ask yourselves whether it wise for
your "platform makers" Gncluding the editor of
the mes)-whether it was wise for your candi-
dates, your orators and your editors, during the
late canvas, to be at pains to disclaim afinities
with ab6litionists, and the principles and ante
cedents (which underlie the Republican move.
ment?" You gained nothing by but lost much.
Your opponents were not concilated by It, They
could give you no credit for earnestness without
discredting your disclaimers. Your best friends
were cooled. Those of them who hesitatngly
voted with you, were obliged to do SO "under pro,
test" and could not exert for you their accustomed
strength You couldn't throw Oft the odum Of
abolitionism (those Of you who cared anything for
human liberty, any more than Peter, in the High
Priests palace, could get rid of his Gallilean
dialect. Everybody knew you would hare TO be
abolitionists, if you meant anything but CANNON,
by your advocacy of freedom in Kansas, Aboll-
tinrists rave you a divided and hegitapt gupDOrt
because you repudiated them and their principles,