Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-11-01

universal freedom, with no root Of bitterness to
poison our cup; that, by perpetuoting this Union,
the Slave Power will grow stronger and stronger,
more and more exciting, and be able to consum.
mate its boldest designs; that to call those who
vindicate the eternal fitness IF slavery to the South
ern soil and cline, Christians ard democrats is as
insulting to reason as to II talk Of honest thieves and
sober drunkards-and to think Of kqeping their
company without strife or debate, unless degraded
to their own ahysmal level is complete infatuat'on;
that they constitute nm oligarcby more tyranni1al
in spiri', more hostile to human development more
barbarous in their conduct, and more shameless
in their villainy, than any that has ever cursed
mankind: that to separate from them, in form and
in fact, is due to selErespect, to true manhood, to
the cause Of freedom universally, to sound moral.
ty to the Christian religion MS exemplided by its
glorious founder. Finally. wo have faithfully pro.
tested against turning aside to attend to some To-
cal issue, but have always made the slave the
skeleton Mt every ie~ast-Banquo's ghost that will
not down at the bidding or cntreaty of any party
or ie;t-the test craftsmanship and true patriotism;
insisting that any struggle which leaves his deliv-
orpnce out of the question, or throws him into the
background, is essentially defective, and unworthy
Of our support.
Now, under all .hoso circumstances. for us to
rally to the polls in support of an incidental issue
with the slave power-to become the partisans OF
a man who simply prefers that the Western terri
tories should be cultivated by free laborers rather
than by slavcs-to indorse a party which declares
itself ready to carry out all the pro slavery com
promises Of the Constitution, and wholly indispos-
ed to NEEDLE with the institution of slavery in the
Southern States, merely because 1t i~strying to Sc
cure "A free homestead for white men--would he
the grossest Inconsistency, in utter disregard of all
our professions, and such glaring violation Of our
principles that The whole land would regard us
with pity, if not with contempt. Unless it is rigLt
to do evil that good may come, we are excluded
from the polls, in such a contest, by ar insuperaLle
moral barrier. The ballot which is stained with
the blood of four millions of slaves is not fit to be
handled by n freeman. If we can save Knnsa,
only by first swearing to maintain "a COVENANT
WITH DEATH" then God nbsolycs us from all re
sponsibiIity for its loss. We shall do our best Coi
the South, best for the Republic, by a stern adher
ence to our principles, and refusing to compromise
with sin. Our feet are planted upon the Eterna
rock: why should we place them upon a sand
foundation? If God be for US, who can BIZ
against us?"
2. The dissolution of tho Union is not to loav,
the Slaves to the mercy of their masters: it is t.
withdraw from their masters all those resources
and instrumentalities now furnished to them b,
the North, without which they are powerless. l
is admitted on all sides, and especially by the lead
ers of the Republican party, that it is madness
for the South to threaten a dissolution Of the Union
for it is only through the Union she is enabled t
keep her millions Of slaves in their chains. lie
her cut the connection, and she will be struck Will
paralysis. Tbistis true. How unspeakably awful
then, is such a Union! Whatever else n part
may be. whatever else it may be trying to do tina
is praiseworthy, how great must be its guilt il
conspiring 10 make perpetual the cnslavemen
Of a population equal to the whole of New Eng
land!
3. Let US remember that though there has beer
a Union in theory, there has never been one in fac
between the free and the slave States; that, from
the organization of the government till now, tn,
slave oligarchy has had The reius in its own hands
that the breach widens as the spirit of liberty in
creases in courage and strength at the North
chat Il Union still continues to exist in form onl,
because the vassalage OF the North is unbroken.
A. What an absurdity 1t is for those who can
not hold a public ,ioeting at the South ir favor o
freedom, and who would be lynched il they shoul
make the at:empt-for Seward, Hale. Sumner
Banks, Wilson, and Giddings-to declare that the
will stand by the Union 10 the last! PAGl ock
are upon their lips in one half Of the Union; sc
they insist on its preservation! Where is ,hei
manhuod--their Misrepresentation love of Ill
eriy?
( But l will add no more. Let us stand by OF
/ cause, by the slave in his chains, by the standar
D Of right, leaving the event in the hands Of an al
. wise God, who alone sees the end from the begin
. ming.
D Yours, for no Union with Shareholders,
WM. LLOYD GARRISON.
LUcRETIA MoTT thought that some acknowled;
mcnt was due for this interesting and importan
letter. 1t had been difficult to convince many pc
sons that Mr.. Garrison and his coadiutors were ne
9 really favourable to the election Of Buchanan; TIL
letter placed that matter in so clear II light tn,
u there could be no misconception upon he suffice