Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-10-18

~ HNN''hI hha hNiNNf y hANN oNlh NhhNs 1hN Nbh'
do say and stand ready to prove, aud defend the
/, position, that although it was adopted TO "Estab-
lish justice, insure domestic tranquility, and Sc
cure the blessings OF Liberty" yet il is now
being administered to effect the very reverse Of all
these, and numerous other rights that are sacredly
guaranteed 10y it.
Ours is not n Democratic Government: two OF
its four branches are apparently so, it is true, and
would be entirely so, il the President and House
Of Representatives were elected by the popular
vote, each man having an equal voice, but this is
not so. Districts in South Carolina and other
Southern States, having some 1000 whites, have,
Representatives here to neutrnlize the voice OF
our 10000 free white citizens of IIerkimer and
81, Lawrence. 80 with the President, States like
Delaware and Florida baving, combined, about the
same free white inhabitants as cur own district,
give six votes for President in the Electoral Col
leges to our one, and should the election go into
the aggregate white population, rs per last census,
ct only 1887, would have two votes, while tae
State OF New York, with her three millions and II
half OF people, would have but one and yet these
are the only branches Of our Government that
make any pretcnse to democracy.
Now of the other two hranches-the Senate aud
the Supreme Court of the United States. The
first represents noncntities, mere political corpo-
rations; the people are utterly ignored in this
branch of the National Legislature, and tho punv
States of the South are each the political equal Of
our own new York,
The Supreme Court is still worse. This body is
appointed for life, aud is of course entirely ire
sponsiblo to the people, and as no one can
tell what the Constitution or law OF tho land
is until adiudicated by it, and as it has uni
formly construed all laws in favor of Slavery and
Of the Federal Government, and against the people,
it can be considered in no other light than an un.
m~itigated despostism.
You say that | have sworn to support the Con
stitution of the United States. Well, go have
thousands of others and better men, and who have
no better opinion of it than | have, and who, like
me, have earnestly desired that it might be I'M
proved and better administered. l intend to sup
port 1t honestly, according to the tenor OF my
oath, "as | understand it," until tie people, OF
t whom ! am one, shall reform it or make a better
+? one, which, ] hope and trdst, will he soon.
/ Does it follow that because one swears to sup
! port the Constitution, the right for an honest effort
I for Il better is lost? If so, then the patriots who
S have at various times formed new Constitutions
c for our glorious State of New York, and those
f with Mr., jefferson at their head, who altered this
very Constitution Of the United States, were all
Q traitors.
You ask, what care you for the negroes in the
South ?" | answer, probably about as much at
t you do but for the white laboring nan, North and
il South, everything.
+ / am in 'J1aroy Of abolishing tile negro race. as
4 far as it is practicable, and thus put an end tC
: Slavery. While the aim of the South, and it,
"dough-faced" allies at the North. has been to en-
c courage 10y law, its increase. A few Southern
d States have the exclusive privilege to grow negroes
C the negro is now the only crop of which they have
f a surplus. The Government virtually protects
them in q profit of over one thousand per cen
against the foreign article, and has attached n death
penalty FIR contraband goods. A negro can be
brought from the coast oc Africa to II Southern
d State for about 500.
q The negro from Virginia costs the Alubamiar
IT about twelve hundred. Now, | ask you what you
h think of such political economy, and whether, il
$ your code of morality, you think it worse to bring
n a savage negro from Africa than to tear a human
IS lied and Christianized one from family, kindred
n and friends in Virginia. and sell him to the far
d South? And yet, by our laws, the one is piracy
= and its punishment is death, and the other is legit
b, innate commerce, and its reward, wealth.
d Ihave not time to answer all your queries, buI
: there is one other | cannot pass. You say tina
5 ''you hope to see Kansas admitted into the UnioI
as a Free State, but that it will he in the hands o
those who settle on the soil to decide that matter
The whole Kansas %iniquity is a fraud and an un
m%itigutcd lie, and was so from its very inception
and it's friends and devotees continue to propagate
the f~alsehood, now that its utter hypocrisy his be
y come apparent to every intelligent mind. l say tt
you that those who settle ON the soil have not been
and will not be permitted to settle this matter thu
: bona .fde settlers are prohibited by law, on pain o.
. being treated and punished as cOmmonf elons, from
even discussing the question. Left to decide y
y Shame, Oh. shame. The law organizing the Terri.
tory never intended any such thing as leaving it tt
> the people to decide.
; Under the specious plea of Popular Sovereignty
). i. sent into the Territory IA Governor, aJudiciary,
t. and Marshals, appointed by the Federal Govern
ment here, and who were all selected with especia'
I, reference to this very question of Negro Slavery
' against the will of the actual settlers and then
:. this Pro Slavery Government permitted, if i
b. | did not i~nstigate, a horde Of armed rufian Dor
= derers to invade the Territory, and force upon it,
b peaceful people laws more odiOus and dcspoti'
/ than would be tolerated for q day in any other par
: of the civilized world, and these pretended laws
i. are now being executed by the very %rufians whC
/. enacted them, by force of arms, with ths sanction
s of the Federal Government, with rapine, arson
h and murder in their train, upon peaceable, unoffend
q ing citizens of the Territory and in all these
e crimes, the murderous robbers and implacahlt
d Pro- Slavery despots are sustained and applauded
d by Northern "doughfaces."
But believe me, as true as there is n Just God
n this wrong will be avenged.
y And now for the remedy. The people mus
rally to the coming contest, and wrest that
y power, whi3h they have grossly abused, from the
h hands that now hold it, and con6de it to others
0 that will bring the Government back to the Jefer
!. sonian idea of Democracy. Should this fail. M
e true man would be any longer safe here from Tia,
assaults of the arrogant Slave Oligarchy, VIII,
n would then rule with an iron hand.
IS For the Free North would th0n be left the choic,
of a peaceful dissolution of the Union. a civil wa
= which would erd in the same, or an rnconditiona
n surrender of every principle held dear by freemcn
e Come what will, let others do as they NAV, | shall
never yield to the last, Everything else may q.
e before i will consent TO surrender the inalienabl,
right of every citizen-Free Thought and Ere,
d Speech.
am for Fremont and Freedom, and
very respectfully yours.
%(Signedl F. I. SPINNER.
GEORGE FoLTs. Esq, Frankfort, N. Y.