Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-06
From the Liberator.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

Many of the Republican party, strange to say,
are not only blind to the evidence, which is ire
sistably gathering from every quarter, both OF the
moral and the political necessity for a dissolution
of this unnatural Union of free and slave States
but, while protesting to he friends and servants Ct
a cause which loves the light and courts investiga
ton ana discussion, are still erincing a most rab.
id fear Of the doctrines OF unc0m promlslng anti
slavery, and cry out with terror when a conven
ton or lecture is appointed for their neighborhood,
Lot US alcne-depart out OF our coasts This
is the height Of folly, and argues a timidity and
most inconsistent in those who pretend
to be on the side Of freedom, and from which, We
are sure, no effective opposition to TIE aggressions
of tho Slave Power can ever come. BE 1t under
stood, that we make no complaint on our own ac-
count. For TIE sake Of the great cause we have
at heart, and from which no party maneuvering
nor ~sectarian bias has yet been able to make us
swerve, we would indeed be glad to have the sym
pathy and cooperation of Republicans every
where. But we desire to be beholden to them for
no favors such as would seem to imply the slight
est restriction Upon the utmost freedom OF speech
We desire to owe the Republicans nothing but
fair dealing and impartial criticism. We ask OF
them nothing more nor less than WI ask of Wings
and Democrats that they will put their manhood
above theis partiz lnship. and the latter under
feet, when it requires them TO become the accom-
plice of ''meu-stealers' and COMMUNICATIONS,
or causes them to tremble with alarm for their
party when the trumpet of freedom is blown too
near their dwellings. Long experience has taught
us how almost hopeless it is to make this demand
lof pledged Wings and Democrats, above all, OF
those who especially wear the livery OF the Slave
Power who bring the name of Democracy and
even of Christianity to sanction and %sanctify what
ever the despot and rufian may see fit to enact or
to do, in behalf of slavery. But, with protested
Republicans, we feel that the call for an uncom.
promising and fearless warfare on slavery and
whatever sustains it ought to have n sincere wei
come and full weight. Common sense should
teach them that it is not by timid or halfway meas
ures, not by useless and humiliating endeayors to
maintain peace with men who will have no peace
with them, least of all by prescription of the men
and women who have borne the burden and heat
of the day in Freedoms long warfare that Sla-
very is oven to be checked, much more abolished,
But they must walk in their own path, and, If
they choose, throw away their strength in idly OPP
posing with one hand what they build up with the
other. Sure We are that the true and uncOmprO-
missing AbOllIionists every where will pursue their
honest and straightforward work, without losing
one jot Of faith or courage, and, if they cannot
do the work of Liberty with the help of'the Re.
pubublicans. will do it without them-to the eter-
nal shame Of those who name that sacred name,
without the Independent and manly spirit to assert
their own freedom and manhood. S. NJ.
w think it must be that the Republicans Of
whom tho Liberator speaks are of the class who
were translated without any sort of regeneration
from OLD bunker Whiggery to Repubicanism just
because they had nowhere else to vote. Certainly
Republicans who have in thoir composition any
thing Of the anttslavery element, must sec that
they can do nothing hereafter exeep, as they abo
litionize the country, and If they are possessed 0
the elements Of good policy they will welcom'
and aid every honest aniisllycry effort
, Our Friend Mr.. foss, it seems has found
different set Of Republicans IN Indiana from Ties
r whom the Liberator so Justly condemns. See bi
IS letter 10 another column.
The New York Tribune says. on what II believe
to be reliable authority, that the post Of Secrets
10 ~ of State has been olTeied to Gen. Cass, and WI
accepted by the distinguished Michigan Senate