Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-10-11

accordance with that understanding. Every great
political party so understood it. The Democratic,
American, and Republican parties, each and all,
now so understand it. In the very face and eyes
Of all these facts, q few individuals assert that the
clause has no reference at all to slaves because,
say they, the word SiaCc is not in it. True, the
Constitution, like the Fugitive Slave Law, has not
the uord slave in it; but it contains what is far
worse-thc Thing itself. Tho little party, whose
leader is Gerrit Smith, holds the Constitution to be
Anti-Slavery. No other party does. TO be con-
sistent, one who believes the Constitution to be
Anti-Slayery should belong to Smiths party. II
he acts with the Republican party, practically
he supports a pro.sldrery Constitution-the Con-
%stitution of the Republican party. There is no
consistency between his belief and his practice.
"IIe is in the wrong pew" That the Constitution
is Pro-SlavGry, as ii IS, and altcayS acds, admin
jstered, not even Gerrit Smith will deny. Margaret
Garner, held to service or labor in the State Of
Kentucky, under tie laws thereof, escaping into
Ohio, was not, in consequence of any law or reg
ulation therein, discharged from service or labor
but was delivered up to Archibald X. Gaines, and
is now a slave in Arkansas. Her little daughter
escaped with her to Ohio, but she too was seized
w udl u SlBnl lUT lilc heavenly IdJliCG W NtilOlui
This entire nation, speaking through their Consti.
tuition, saying, that little girl should be doomed to
a fate far more cruel than any other that cen befalI
a human being. Her mother resolved she should
not be delivered up" to rufian avarice, cruelty
and shame. But the child was already the prey
of this free and Christian () nation, held as fierce
ly and firmly as the wolf holds the lamb! In
direct violation of the Constitution Margaret
Garner vowed her child should be "discharged'
from the monsters grasp. There was but one way
to do it. Quick as thought she cut the cord that
bound her child to earth. Glorious woman! Her
child is beyond the reach of the Constitution and
the Laws Of Congress! 1t is no fault Of the Con
s%titution that she is free. That said she "shall not
be discharged but shall be delivered up" o infer
nal Constitution. o We hard hearts that support
it. Men (shamo on them y support it for the sake
Of Office, but women, you owe no allegiance to a
Constitution which Jou had no share in forming
which does not recognize you as sovercigns in the
Government, and which makes such sod havoc Of
your sisters.
The Constitution expressly forbade Congress to
proliJa the african Stare Trade prior to tie yea,
one thousand eight hundred and eight, Jut prooidcd
tNut ttC OOtCIf tNttftt HtynC tCttt u UHfD NoOHitY
Of ten dollars a head for persons "imported.' -
(Art. !, Sec. o. Other clauses pledge the military
power of the nation for the suppression of slave
instruction. Words fail to express my abhor-
renee Of the utter inhumanity of those who con-
tend it is right that the Constitution should support
Slavery. They are united to a man in favor of
the pro.slavery clauses, but trample on those that
are really good. Let all enemies of Slavery unite
to discard whatever is bad in that instrument by
refusing to support it. II nerer can be done in the
manner prorided By the instrument itself.
Some men have Il wonderful generation for 'the
Fathers" For one l recognize no obligation to do
an immoral act, or to abide by a wicked contract,
which obligation was sought to be imposed on me
by my father, my grandfather, my uncle, or by any
other being in the universe. "The Fathers never
claimed infallibility. Why should we claim it for
them? American Slavery never can be abolished
until its theoretical, sentimental opposers cease tc
support it practically by supporting the Constitu
ton and Onion. We're Democrats, and Repub
Leans, Presbyterians and Methodists made slaves
themselves; and were the provisions of the Con
ssitution and the power Of this Union brought to
bear as crushingly on them as they now are on the
slaves of the South, thus they might learn from
experience that the L. S. Constitution is u covenant
with death and an agreement with hell.-That the
whese murderous wheels the bondman bleeds and
groans. GEORGE ROBERTS.
BRIGnroN, October l, 1856.