Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-11-29

cession to "fanaticaW aboitioniss or foolish phi
lanthropsts.
In the account of "Mr. Banks at New York"
Up. 4l0). taken from the Anti-Slavery Standard,
will be how hopeless it is that the election of
Colonel Fremont will result in anything effectuSl
for The limitation, much less The abolition Of sla-
very Mr.. Banks is tho most prominent man Of
the Frec-sol party, who has yet come before the
public with any quayi-ofiicial declaration Of sonti-
nents, and they are Of kind eminently cacula-
ted to soothe the e,aveholders. Provided the Free
soil people get fair play in Kansas, Mr.. Banks has
no constitutional objection to the extension of sla-
very, and he wishes to raise issue on the sub
iect. lie says not syllable against the Fugitive
Slave Law, nor does he hint even at restoration
of the Missouri Compromise. In his speech ut
Watham Mass, which we also print he avows an
adhesion to the Union in every possible contingent
cy to the liberties Of the American people, as abso-
lutte as the most fanatical Union-saver could re-
quire. The public declaration of sentiments so
falthless to freedom, so destitute of any noble
principle, would, we hone and believe da nm the
political character of any Englishman in England.
1t is clear that such opinions must be deliberately
calculated to attract popular favor, or they would
not have been uttered by the Freo-soil Speaker on
the of Presidential election in hich his own
political fortunes are involved. This being the
case we may form some notion of tho power with
which the idolatry of the Union, regardless of all
other considerations, has taken hold Of the Ameri
can people, and it shows us how long is the labour
that lies before the ubolitonists For assuredly,
until they succeed in convincing their benighted
countrymen that the Shareholders will be their ru-
lers until they their guilty guarantee to
maintain and defend them, SO long must slavery
grow, and flourish, and shape the destinies of the
United State At no former time have we been so
thoroughly convinced of the wisdom of the aboi
tionists. Now that the journals of the Slave
States openly declaring their contempt for free
labor, their opinion that the maintenance and en-
couragement of chatte slavery are essential to the
highest forms of social and republican develop
ment, and that any opposition to slavery is trea-
son 50 liberty and the Union, it is clear that the
time for mincing matters has gone by. Since the
Union is the great bulwark Of slavery, the Union
must be dissolved or the Free States must make
up their minds to be governed, and ell other civil
lied nations must continue to be tormented, and
Christendom disgraced by sanguinary unscru-
pulous, and aggressive oligarchy of Shareholders
Our attention has been particularly directed to
this subject by letter we have just had from our
friend, the Rev. Samuel May, general agent of the
American Anti-Slavery Society, in which, whilst
noticing the doubts Of his Irish coadj Tutor he states
in powerful language the facts up9n which they
are agreed, without attempting to solve the diff
culties which have occurred to this weaker broth
er.
REV. S. MAY ON THE DISSOLUTION OF THE
AMERICAN UNION