Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-03-15

that the free millions OF the North INSIST peOIc
everything else aud all hazards, Slavery shall not
extend another step. "Why?" Because there is
but step more for it to take, and after that
thcre can be no more free labor at the North, but
,nly free laziness as at the South-more miserable,
f that can be, than slavery itself.
sympathy with the abused Africans is no crime
quite the reverse. 1t is cause worthy OF ten
times the spirit and enthusiasm yet manifested in
this controversy, but it is not what has thrown
the Republican Yarty across the seryile track oil
the false Democracy."
And so, according to the Tribune, the struggle
of the Free Republican" party against the pro
slavery Pierce Democracy is not struggle OF be-
nevolence, of human sympathy" Of "human
rights" of right against wrong. 1t is only strug
gle of sclfinterest local, sectional a selfish
strrggle-just what its pro.slayery opponents have
always represented it to be Will Free RepuD
cans" accept this as truthful exponent of the
party2 If that party goes only for ''non-exten-
sion," if it does not raise the question whether
Slavery shal! exist not" it will be difficult, we
fear, to defend it against the statements OF the
Tribune.
But is the struggle described by the Tribune, q
struggle which can enlist the boliest sympathes,
and draw out the most unseish energies our no.
blest aud best men? Is it a struggle upon which
the Christian invoke the blessings of the Great
Refuge OF the oppressed, who requires us to love
our neghbOrs ourselves, to plead the cause OF
the oppressed to remember them that are in bonds
as bound with them? Is this the struggle, or is
this the spirit of the antislavery movement in its
beginning, when it had power with God and man.
and made progress?*
Far otherwise. And q struggle that may be
thus described is, quite defective in its philoso-
ply it is in its ethics, its the ology its religion
for thee cannot be separated from each other.
The relations of man harmonic with the nature
Of man, and with the laws Of existence and of
Providence which control him. And with these
the activities of man, in order TO be successful
must conform. Man is social being. llu-
mahity in the sable slave and in the white
free man is the ssme. In nation where hu-
manity is crushed and embruted, humanity can.
not be free. The struggle described by the
Tribune, therefore is as great blunder in poll
tics, as it is in religion, in philosophy, and in NOR
ais. There is no way in which any portion of the
people OF nation can maintain their rights with
out contending for the rights Of every other portion
or the people OF that nation. On no other basis
can protecting law be established or administered
Universal history attests this. Our own passing
history Is now most impressively teaching it. The
Tribune speaks OF a past period in our history,
when the existence of slavery in our nation did
visibly and perceptibly, trench upon the liberties
OF the free whites, 1T was not practical question
in the Free States, except to those gifted with
prophecy" All the gift of prophecy" needed
IN the case, was to know and coniGe in the social
laws by which universal human nature is govern.
ed.) The Tribune wants to have that past period
and the struggle with THE Republican party ttho
Tribune understands) is to that end But that
can never be done. The incipicnt stage of devel.
opment is past, and can never return. AS well
might the vine-dresser, annoyed by his newly dis
covered vintage of grapes desire the fruit to
be transmitted back again into the once promising
Hover That past was guilty past. The reribu-
ton now presses uponIus. The generation that
blinded by sefshness. did not see in that tolerance
OF oppression. practical question for the Free
States" is succeeded by generation that will be
made to feel it practical question! 1t is thus
that the iniquties of the fathers are visited upon
the children, unto the third and fourth generation
OF them that cherish the same character
With nations, as with individuals, there is no
salvation without faith, salvation without repen
tance and fruits meet for repentance.
IT, in our political efforts for relief we are to
have no sympathy for the enslaved, no regard for
"the abstract rights of man." no earnest reference
to the Question whether Slavery is to exist or
not" then we are to have neither God, nor human.
ty, nor nature, nor religion, the changeless
laws OF political cause and effect, side, and
the result, except to those not gifted with prophe
cy," cannot be doubtful.
compromise (says the Tri5une) "dd its utmost
long ago, ana has failed" Yes, verify. But
what the compromise? What was ths nature
Iof it? What was its bect7 And how and why
did il fail2
All our compromises with Slavery have been
made on the principle of selfshness. They have
all ignored sympathy for the African" 'the alb
stract rights of man. and 1.-THE question whether
Slavery shall exist not" They have all said to
Slavery, Just let us alone" They have all been
occupied with "limitation," non-extension," and
plans TO prevent "the great mass of Americans"
from being "overshadowed and nullifed like the
poor whites at the South" All these compromises
have failed because they ought to fail, because
God DEGREES that human liberty ana prosperity
shall never be secured and preserved by any class
of men, or 10 any class, any such basis. AZ the
impartia! Father of all men, the black as well as
the white, he has bound up their liberty in one
bundle, and determined that the efforts of the
one class to secure their liberties shall avail
them nothing, without equal effort to secure the
liberties of their equal brethren.
Let it be understood, then that the question
whether Slavery shall exist or not" has become
not only practical question but an inevitable one
Ordinary affairs can no more take the place of it
or postpone it, that Autumn can postpone Winter
Compromise did its utmost long ago, and has
failed"
*William Pinckney,of Maryland in the House of
Delegates of that State, in $780, predicted that if
slavery was not abolished, the time would come
when those who lorded it over Others would be
come base enough to let others lord it over them.
"lf they resist" continued he, sit will be struq-
gle Of pride and selfshness not OF principle" Is
such the struggle of Northern free men?