Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-08-30
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sx Presi ent Adams the ground assigned being
the tyranaovs snrte ssacy Of the SoNth. which in.
volved the whole Union in the disgrace d IS
chief of slave institutions. This was u town
in Massachusetts. In 1914, the legislature Of
Massachusetts sent to Congress resolutions in
favor of an amendment of the Constitution. by
which the element of slave representation should
he removed end the electoral basis of the Southern
States made the same with that of the Northern.
These moves excited the Southern legislatures TO
extreme insOlence. such MS that Of returning the
copy of the resolutions sent. The aunexation Of
Texas was next carried with high hand, after a
delay of two years, caused by the noble resistance
and exposure made by DIR. Claiming in his ccle-
bratcd letter to Mr.. Clay. During the time the
abotionists suffering to extremity; now the
destruction Of their commerce, or the professional
prospects Of their children; and now public whip
pings or tarring and fcathering; and in more than
one case death by assassination The original
group, however steadily declined political action
not only from II deep and long observation of
the uncertainties of political issues in their coun-
try, but because they could nct qualify for Con-
gress bv taking AN oath of complete fidelity to the
Constitution which it tboir clisst TO esinu, in
preparation for better. Thoec sbuli sionsts who
did not feel themselves restricted became the
Freeso party; and some of their leaders, with
Mr.. Sumner ut their bead, entered Congress. IL
will be seen at that their object is not the
abolition of slavery, rs Incompatible with demo-
cratic renubhcauism, but its limitation within it's
is only sectional. They contended for the Wilmot
proviso which prohibited slavery in all territories
acquired from Mexico; and they have found plenty
Of occupation during the more recent struggles to-
plan down slavery in all new States but they
never have been and never can be q powerful panty
for want Of sounder and broader basis than they
possess. They have been defeated in Congress in
every instance except that of California; and their
success in that case was merely nominal MI.
Brooks has now tried knocking the party on the
head in the person of its representative Mr.. Sum-
ner: but it scarcely worth his while, now tbat
there is in the other House a maoity of represen-
tatives who 20 for than the preservation Of
things as they are. Uut we have not space for any
description discussion of political parties. II
will be as much do to conclude the story
of the Missouri Compromise.
THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW OF 1850 AND ITS RESULTS,
Before 1850, the signs of pressure on proslavery
champanions became visible. Mr.. Clay proposed
Il scheme (impracticable of course) for graduat
emancipation in Ken.ucky-which, but for him.
would have been MS free as Ohio for thirty years
past Mr. Benton of Misso lri, opposed the intro
duction of slavery into territories California
was allowed to legislnte for herself on the great
question, and decided against slavery. Lastly, the
slave market removed from the District of
Columbia. Sarguine people at distance believed
that all was now going on well but in fact the
crash of ruin actually visiting statesmen anS
their parties. We need but name the Fugitive
Slave Law to STOW that the South we'ala Syirl(k-
nothing without large consideration. In fact, 10
was the North which yielded everything. South
citizens have carried their slaves into Califor-
MIA without hindrance and us for the slave trade
in the District, 1t is simply removed beyond the
frontier (which cannot be more than eight miles in
any direction and it is rather evil than good
ha, the scandal is removed from under the eyes Of
Northern men, In the other scale there the
Fugitive Slave Bill, which was carried the
l.. e tl,aE ho,a
wholly irreconcilable with this law. Its uncon-
stitutional character from its encroaehne ents
state rights, is, we believe, utcontested. Its re-
suits are seen in the affrays produced wherever
slave-catchers have appeared; in the imprisonment
Of Quakers, clergymen, and magistrates in Boston
being in Of siege for the first time since the
revolutionary war, in the assertion Of habeas
corpus against the law; In the sending Of
thirty pieces of silver to the commissioner who de-
livered up Burns ahd finally, in the passage and
reafrmation of the Personal Liberty Bill of Mas
sachusetts first. and then Ohio by which the two
States are placed virtually outside the pale of the
Union. Meantime, the escape of slaves to Canada,
prodigious before has been the increase ever
since and this loss has reacted on the mind Of
the South stimulating the desire for fresh and
more remote territory, were the peculiar insttu7
ton" may have aDother chance.
DEATH OF THE GREAT PRo-sLAvERY CHAMPIONS CLAY,
CALHOUN, AND WEBSTER.
The group of measures here indicated was cali
ed Cay's Compromise 1t the last Of his COM
promises. The times had become too hard for men
of compromise, and they went Gown, one after
another, in e way which appalled, not oaly their
followers but all who looked on. Calhoun, who
never compromised, the first to sink lie died
broken -hearted-in full view, as he deca ed almost
with his last breath, of the overthrow of slavery,
and with it of the glory of his State (South Caro-
lina) and of the whole Southern region. His life
went out when the spirit Of violence rising
high in Congress. The Southern members threat
cned to carry their policy by coup a. drmes, and
the Senator from Mississippi, Mr.. Fooe, presented
n pistol to Mr.. Benton, from Missouri. The COM
promise measure carried, in fact by Mr.. Web
ster who shrank from the collision, which he ought
to have seen could be honestly avoided and who
persuaded himself that this service to the South
would afford him one more chance of the presi-
dentship. The outcry from the North, when his
treachery became known, coweo him at ppca and
when lie found himself in so hopeless a minority
in the convention as showed that he had never had
any chance, the blow was too much for him. lie
sank under it at once, and died in October 1862.
Mr.. Clay had died in the preceding June, bafiied
and disappointed man-sacrihcing all for the pres
ervation of slavery and the attainment of the pres
identia chair and seeing the one doomed. and the
other reserved for man whom nobody knew
Almost every well-known statesman was now gone.
From Mr.. Everett nothing had been hoped in
any time OF crisis the time of crisis came-the
vote on the Nebraska Bll--he absented himself
His retirement was natural consequence Of the
comments he thus provoked While these we'll,
known men were dropping out of sight, Mr. Sum-
ner and very few companions were making an
unavailinS stand against the encroephpents OF
the slave power. At the beginning of his second
session. Mr.. Sumner and two comrades were ex-
cluded from all congressional committees, on tho
assigned ground that they ''Outside OF any
healthy organization in the country.V When the
Kansas and Nebraska measures came on their in
fuence was found to be increased rather than di-
mnished by this prescription by the slave power,
PASSAGE OF the KANSAS AND NEBRASKA BILL AND ITS
CONSEQUENCES.
A bill was brought in that session (lS53) for tsa
establishment Of territorial government in Ne-
braska--the region which extends west and north
of the State of Missouri. There seemed to be no
obi action to this and there no mention of the