Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-10-11
WHOLE NO. 574-


their Creator with certain inaenable rights; that
among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness; that, tn secure these rights. Govern
ments are instituted among men, deriving their
just powers from the consent Of the governed"
&c.
the Capitol in the last Congress, pronounced this
sacred charter of human rights a selfevident le;"
and that Democrat, so far as l know, is still in
full communion in the Dem 1cratc church, and is
probably honcred the more for throwing the lie in
the faces of those whose blood purchased that
i freedom which enabled him, the floor of tho
American Senate, to dishonor their memories md
insult those of their poserty who their vir-
tues and cherish their principles. But why mar.
vel at such audacity of language2 Alas, sir 1t
but too well accords with the acts and records of
the apostate party of which lac was prominent
member.
Mr.. Chairman if any human records Of the pas.
can be relied on as proof of any event Of the past
then the proof, that the Goad of our American
I Union prior to, and during the revolutionary war;
was an irrepressihle love of personal freedom. as
one Of the inherent indesructible rights of all
human beings unconvicted of crime is clear And
Sir, declare it here, the truth of history that
! so long as this great truth cherished, and
practically recognized By the Federal Government
in all matters within the legitimate cognizance of
IFS several departments, there was manifest
ed any dangerous indication of dsloyalty to the
Union No, Sir, dsunion is the whep of the spir.
IL of slavery propagandism and since that evil
spirit has possessed southern politicians and their
alliance has been perfected with our Northern
slave Democracy, there has been no peace for tho
Union and, in the providence of God, there never
can, and never ought to be, any "peace to the
wicked" either in union, or out of it.
But, Mr.. Chairman, having proven she allied
forces of the Slavery Propagandst Of the South
and the slave Democracy OF the free States to be
hostile to the only enduring element of union, lib
erty received and understood by our fathers
in the times thai tried mems SOULS" l proceed
now to show, that the same allies equally hos.
tile to the same essential element of union under
the Constitution of the United States. Mr.. Chair
man, first call the attention of the Committee to-
the preamble TO the Constitution. Hear it:
"We, the people of the United States, in order
to form more perfect union establish Justice in.
sure domestic tranquility provide for the common
defence, promote the general welfare, and secure
the blessings of liberty to ourselves and posterity
do ordain and establish this Constitution for the
! United States Of America"
Then, Mr.. Chairman, whoever, after reading
that declaration of the objects and purposes for
which the Constitution of the United States was
framed and adopted by the people of the United
States shall assert that the extension and perpetu
alton Of slavery. or the exaltation of slavery into
domestic institution" to be placed side By side
with the institution of husband and wife, and of
parent and child, etc., is attempted by the
Sham Democracy IN and by the Nebraska BILL and
as is asserted in every alternate breath by each
stakeholder and slave Democrat in Congress aad
out of it--I say, Sir, every such person charges
the men who framed and the people who adopted,
the Constitution, with deliberate and ircked LYING
or else with n stupidity nearly absolute to re-
leve them Of moral responsibility for what they
did assert
Our fathers set this preamble at the threshold Of
the Constitution lamp, as well as to dispel the
darkness from the minds of those who should at
tempt to enter this great ed6ce of free Government
as to cast Its cheering light through all the com.
partments of that edifce. They did it, that wko-
ever might hope to find in the Constitution a guar
antee OF slavery, or any form Of injustice, might
at the commencement of his search, meet only
liberty and justice" 1t done to take all ex-
cuse from that preverse ingenuity which, from the
lntTmities Of human language. might attempt to-
use the Constitution MS the slave Democracy IN
Congress, and out of it, using it, viz: as
an instrument for the extension Of slavery into
Tree territory, and justification of their pre-
tense, that the Constitution pIOIrio vtqore carries
slavery into all the Territories of the United States;
Or that slavery and liberty are twin brethren, and
must be brought, rs such, simultaneously into the
nion OF not be born at all tina. 9ther piece Of
stupidity perverseness that the Territories are
the common property of the people OF all the
States and therefore the Stakeholder has the right
to enter all or any Of the Federal Territories With
his slaves or that other, and last for the present,
assertion, that there exists certain equality
among all the States, which authorizes the people
of the slave States to take their slaves property
into the Territories, but does authorize the pao-
pie Of the free States to enter the.terrtores and ex
clude slavery thereirom--a sort Of equality of
states, which warrants the establishment of nui-
sances and social curses in the Territoriaa but
takes from the people the power 10 abate such nu-
sances.
Another design of the nreamble to the C,usei,u.
tion was To enane the non.a to detact that class r
who, under the cloak Of devotion to
the Union are trying to force or cheat the people
OF the tree states into carrying the flag and keep
ing step to the music of the cofe gang" as it pur-
sues its dead march from the old and savecursed
States to make its halt in the now free territories
here to leave forever the mildew OF its blghtng
nature.
Joh?uuuch inns must speak WIN lis own voice,
DuI II must heVer!heiess speak ID mo spirit It's
pic' o1nerwise pom preamble ana Oonsntu'
t;o rH arc Hy poor'1y anu a reluslom, Inc upns'