Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-07-26

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The declaration is Indefinite. 1t is only to the
territories that the principles of freedom contained
in the platform are to be npplied-not to the States
> where the slaves are to be found. a man may be
a Stakeholder und yet be a good Republican. lie
may even be a Republican for the purpose of qui.
citing agitation and perpctuating slavery. And
fer aught We can ser itmay prove an effective means
to secure this end.
This platform is therefore by fair inference OF
its own statements in favor Of continuing slavery
IN the States. That we arc not wrong in this, is
. manifest. q.
Est. By its lack of anything in favor Of aboli-
ii onism in the States.
End. By its silence in regard to the interstate
u slave trade.
Sd. Its silence in regard to the abolition Of sla.
very in the District of Columbia.
4th. Its silence in regard to the fugitive slave
law,
This silence is not accidental, but promcditated
for the purpose of securing the cooperation Of
Shareholders and the friends of slaveholding.
But we shall better understand the platform
and the relation of the party to the purpose of abo.
litioiists, by looking at the position of the men it
has chosen to represent it, Fremont and Dayton.
Are they abolitionists? Have they in the past or do
they now show the least desire to mitigate in the
slightest manner, by the government, one burden
of the millions who groan in slavery in the States.
Are they not on the other hand sworn if elected
according to their own declared UNDERSTANDING of
the oath OF Office, to protect the masters in laying
their heaviest burdens on the shoulders of these
slaves whom the abolitionists are seeking to re-
lieve.
These candidates, were not selected because they
had done anything for the freedom of the slaves.
but rather because they had not done an ythInr.
They were selected because they were not aboli.
tionists-indeed because they were not even Free
Sellers, or Free Democrats. Chase and Hale and
Seward were cast aside because they had a reputa-
ton ms friends of freedom, though not as aboli.
tionists.
Passing over remont's antecedents, permitting
him to retain all the credit for anti-slaverv sym.
patty which his friends claim for him in his brier
senatorial course, where he votedItor the abolition
of the slave trade in the District of Columbia. and
against the abolition of Slavery. To say moth
ing of his active participancy in the Mexican war
W C will forget his past as the Republicans desire
us to do and look only at his present position in
regard to the slave. Though before old abolition
iot o'C " uih, We recommend tnen 10 take up
Jays Review Of the Mexican War and read from
page IA to ISL inclusive.
+ Fremont has written his letter of acceptance, we
published it last week, and ask our readers to re-
$ Ter to it. 1t ageees with the Philadelphia Conven-
ton in the Importance Of bringing back tie Gov
ernment to the principles of jefferson and Wash
ington. 1t repudiates the Ostend system of fill
clustering, is opposed to the policy of the slave
power for the extension OF slavery. One passage
we quote:
A practical remedy is the admission of Kansas
into the Union as a free State. The South should,
in my judgment, earnestly desire such consuma-
ton. 1t would vindicate the good faith-i5 would
correct the mistake of the repeal; and the North
having practically the benefit Of the agreement be.
tween the two sections, ,oouH be satisfied. aud good
Jedtng be restored. The measure is perfectly con
sistent with the honor Of the South, and rital to its
interests. That fatal act which give birth to this
purely sectional strife originating in the scheme
to take from free labor the country secured to it
by II solemn covenant, cannot be too soon disarmed
of its perniciOus force. The only genial region of
the middle ATTITUDES left to the e~migrants of the
Northern States for homes, cannot be conquered
from the free laborers, who have long considered
it as set apart for them in our inheritance with.
out provoking a desperate struggle. .
All this means but one thing, that the restora
ton of the old compromises would satisfy the North
and thus render the South secure, and produce
peace on all haads. Thus his administration is
to redeem the pledge of the Platform that "He con.
%sttution, tie rights Of the states, and the uaioa Of tie
states shall be Preserved" Certainly there is nothing
in the restoration Of the c~ompromises-in the queit.
ing of agitation, and the restored satisfaction of
the North with this state of things, which can
give the abolitionists any encouragement. If the
Republican party shall do this which Fremont
promises, it will utterly nuliify the labors of
abolitionists from the first to the present hour, and
all the moral agitation has been in vain. IF such
is to be the fruitof Republican success, what slave
can give his prayer, what abolitionist standing in
the slaves stead, can give his vote for the success
of the party?
But Fremont wrote a previous letter, which was
used in the Philadelphia Convention to induce the
more anti-slavery portion of that body to forego
their preferences. Although we have previously
published it, we insert it here. 1t is addressed to
a public meeting in New York:
E New York, April %, 1856.
GENTLEMEN: | heartily concur ia all movements
which have for their object 'to repair the mischief
arising ftom the violation of good faith in the re
peal OF the Missouri com promise" | am opposed
to slavery In the abstract and upon principle, sus-
tanned and made habitual by long settled convic-
tons. While | feel infiexible in the belief that it
ought not to be intcrIered with, where it exists
under the shield of State sovereignty, | am as in-
fexibly opposed to its extension on this Continent
beyond its pres ent limits.
With assurance of regard for yourselves,
| am very respectfully yours,
JIG. FREMONT.
From this letter We learn four specific facts rela-
tive to the Republican candidate for the Presi-
dcncy.
LIST. lie would "repar the mischiefs arising from
the violation of good faith in tho repeal of the Mis-