Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-20

ka, up to January 1868 might To forever Slaves.
Thus stultifying Themselves Ivy voting Slavery
into Kansas and Nebraska for the present, in
order to keep it out Of Kansas in the future
Thus foolishly and wickediy do men traffic with
moral principle, "deceiving and being deceived"
when once they consent to be partners on equal
terms with pirates and men .stealers in the conduct
Of a government, pretending to he for liberty.
But of Duun's bill. and who voted for il. every
body has heard. Republicans have heard of it.,
to their infinite vexatiun and to their ccst too for
in Ohio, we have every reason to believe :hat at
least one Republican Congressman lost his election
for his vote given in favor Of that hill, and that in
despite of the cool justification of the net 10y the
Republican papers. But though everybody has
heard of "Dunn's Bill, " very few of the llepub.
Leans themselves or Of their Dempcratic opponents
know that the Republican Senators in Congress
voted for the same thing, so far as the Fugitive
Slave Law is concerned. They do not know that
Hale and Seward and Wilson and Wade, voted ex.
pressly to extend the Fugitive Slave Law over
Kansas. We expect that Republicans will deny
this as they at first denied the vote Of their Repre-
s~entatives on Dunu's Bill. But untappilv il is so,
and We have the record. We gave the fact to our
printers to put beside Dunn's Bill, before the
election, but out of pity to the poor Compromising
Republicans we had the weakness to withdraw it,
and as nobody else printed it,and it was not there
fore generally known. they escaped this difficulty,
and the modification Of having it pressed upon
their attention by would.be Congressman Woods,
and other Democratic stumpers. But as we see
no very marked evidences Of reform in our Repub-
lican friends we shall keep their secret no longer
but tell the truth as it is, though it be to their
shame and dishonor.
We learn from the record Of proceedings in the
Senate, July 2nd, 1856, that when a pro.slavery
Territorial bill for Kansas was under consider
alton, Mr.. Collamer Of Vermont, the only Repnb.
lican member of the Committee on Territories in
the Senate, offered an amendment in the following
words, as an additional, section to the bill:
"And be it further enacted, That, until the
people of said Territory shall form q Constitution
and State government, and be admitted into the
Union under the provisions of this act, there shall
be neither Slavery nor involuntary servitudc in
said Territory, otherwise than in punishment of
crimes whereof the party shall he fully convicted
P'ocided, ARRAYS, Th,.t any person escaping into
tie same from Whom dJo" or serrice is tawfuly
claimed IN any .Tatc, Such .G'gitire may be luw,
fully reclaimed and conreyed to the pe,son claim.
ing his or Ter sc. rice or tabor as atoresaid.'
The yeas and nays were ordered on this amend
ment: and being taken resulted
YEAS, Messrs Bell, Of New Hampshire, Cola.
mer, Fessenden, Fo.te, Foster, Hale, Seward,
Trumhull, Wade, and Wilson.-lO.
NAYS, Messrs Blyard,. Bell of Tennessee,
Benjamin. Biggs, Bigler, Bright, Broadhead
Douglass, Evans. Fitzpatrick. Geyer, Hunter,
lverson, johnson, Jones, of Iowa, Mallory Mason.
Pratt, Pugh, Reid, Sebastian, Slidell, Stewart,
Thompson, Of Kentucky. Tpombs, Toucy, Weller,
Wright and YuIer.-35.
Thus it will be seen that a Republican from
Vermont, moved to exteud the Fugitive Slave Law
over Kansas, while under territorial government,
and all the Republican members of the Senate
then present voted for it.
AT the time of the rassage Ct the Fugitive Slave
Law in 1850, Senator Chase, contended that the
Constitutional obligation of returning fugitive
Slaves was not binding on the Territories, and
moved ar amendment limiting the application Of
the law to the States. VIM. l.. Dayton, the late
Republican candidate for Vice President, contend
ed against Mr., Chase tor the extension Of the law
in the Territories. Thus it stood apparently an
open question till the Pad Of July 1856, when
these ten Republican members OF the Senate gave
in their adhesion to Mr.. Dayton's views and those
of Shareholders generally, thus by this volunteer
vote throwing the weight of their moral and polit-
zeal influence on the -ido OF Slave-hunting under
the Fugitive Slave Law Of 1850.
Who would have believed it-that Wade. who
cursed the Fugitive Save Law SO lustilv in 1851.
and received the Scholarship in part for the heart
mess of those very curses would have waited in
1856 to extend it over Kansas, as Il Compromise
to secure freedom for that Territory! Who would
have believed it Of Wiison-who IT Seward ar
Hale who so faithfully expoundcd its nnconstitu,
tionality and its internal Injustice? VIVA, can
we hope from IL party whose purest and best men
can do no better than this. What can we expect
for freedom under u government and n Uniou
which compells the wirest. the noblest, the most
unsullied politicians in the nation, to the degra,
dd,ion of such sort Of conlIcmisirg ard bar.
gaining with the piratical rufians who are march,
ing right on to the conquest of Kansas and the
suhjugation of tine nation. 81 shut up were they
by the result of nntional compromise, that thi,
vote to extend the Fugitive Slave Law was thu
only Offering that these popular Congressman and
venerable Senators could bring to the altar OF
Freedom. The Godess sIurns such an Offering
from her misguided votnries and the Demon o
, Sla very exul.s over the humiliation which theii
necessity c~omrells.
To such straits must inevitably be reduced al
t Comp ~romisers Of Liberty with Slavery. Tnt
Constitution compromised Liberty by surrendering
the Fugitive Slave. Subsequent supporters of the
Constitution com promised further by eliminating
iniquities Of two Fugitive Slave Laws. Thu,
t step by step the nation became more and more
corrupted until the party for freelum'-the party
that is to regenera;e the nation it.
existence by silently ignoring the existence Of
such laws, and then in harmony with this guilty
silence, its most distinguished friends in both
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