Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-11-29

publican should lay aside his armor. Eternal
vigilance is the price of Liberty" Let no man
seek reposo. Let our organizations be maintained,
extended, and their numbers increased. Let our
presses continue to pour truth upon the populsI
mind, while our ministers preach she true gospel
OF Freedom. For one, | will listen to no preacher
who hesitates to denounce the crime Of buying
and selling the Savior Of mankind in the person
Of his followers, and Of ~1ogging, and scourcing,
and holding in degrading bondage the image OF
God. Above all let us vote for no man 10 any
Office who denies the doctrine that govern N ent'
arc instituted to secure all persons under thei'
Jurisdiction in the equal enjoyment of life and lib
erty.
But public attention is now directed toward
Kansas. Under the protection Of the President
and the party in power, armed rufians from mis-
souri, invaded that territory, and driving the rest
dent inhabitants from the polls, insultingly pro
fessed to elect from among themselves members o
= Territorial Legislature. The persons ihus cleo
ted. with an e6rontery AT unparalleled, p~rofe-sed Il
enact laws suhjecting the Territory TO Slavery
and the President ia now engaged in cOnsunlHls
ting this treason, BY employing tho army OF the
United States to enforce those infamous laws
while the minions ef his power are engaged in ar
resting and trying the friends Of liberty for refus
ing obedience to such tyranny. The advocates O.
freedom have been robbed, their dwellings burne ed
and many of thcn merdered by barbarisns en-
ployed by the Executive to en- ferce those laws.
This christian world synpsthized with the op
pressed Hungaris1s who, a few years since, were
subjected to almost every outrage by Austrian des
potisn: but the butcheries Of Haynau wers not
moro disgusting than those Of Atchison and String
fellow; nor did the lovers Of Liberty in Hungary
suffer greater wrongs, insults or outragas, than
those to which our friends in Kansas have been
subjected, for their devotion to the federal constl
tuition. But the Austrian tyrant bad somG eScust
for the exercise of his despotism; while the Presl
dent can assign none whatever for the preparation
Of crimes from which the Emperor Of Austria
would shrink back with horror. He has exercised
q tyranny unknown in the annals Of our nation
lie has wholly subverted tho constitution; and, IL
fragrant contempt Of that charter Of AResicsn lib
crty, he has for the time being, overthrcwn free
dom in Kansas by military force, by vioiesce snt
bloodshed, and has established q slaveholding Oil
garchy upon its ruins.
This has been done before the eyes Of the Amer
lean people; and while / now write, the friends o
liberty there are on trial for murder and treason
in consequence of defending themselves sgains
piratical invaders, who had come to the Territory
for the purposes Of rapine and bloodshea, Ih'
Executive must recede from his position, or thes'
defenders of the constitution must be hanged
Will the people Of the free States stand with fold
cd arms and see them ozecuted2 The question i
an important one. If there be any ono duty dc
volving on us as citizens Of this Republic, 1t 10 t.
maintain the Constitution against any and all ell
forts TO subyert it, whether those efforts are pu
forth by men in office, or by foreign invaders.
To surrender our friends to the gallows anC
Kansas to Slavery, will but invite and encoorngC
other and further outrages. If we permit Free
dom 30 be subverted there, what further %atrocitI
will be necessary to arouse us to action? Tit
provocation which called our fathers to the battle
fields of the Revolution, were trifing when com
pared with those which now impel us to the res
cue Of Kansas. This object cannot DO accom-
plished by charitable contributions, nor by timiC
measures. If effected, it must be by physical re
%sistancc to tyranny and that resistance shoult
be openly and m~anfully exerted by the people o
every State whose citizens have been and nov
are subjected to persecution in that Territory.
l have spoken to you thus frankly, believing
the time to have arrived when public men should
not Withhold an avowal of their opinions. ! an
about to leave you for q while to re-enter upon Off
cial duties but / may not live to express my view
in Congress, and I desire to leave With you thi
expression Of my own judgement in regard to th
). R. GIDDINas.