Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-10-04
FRANCIS P. BLAIR.

borhood of Mr., Blair in Maryland, special occa.
zion was taken to offer him i~ndignity in conse.
quenee of his connection with the Republican
party. In reply to this Mr.. Blair has addressed a
long letter 10 his neighpors," from which we
make the following extract, which we have no
doubt presents him as he is,an enterprising benev-
client man, but b~enighted by his education and
connection with Slavery and the government SO as
on the whole to think it right for him to be a
, stakeholder and a "sincere opponent of sweeping
abolition" We have no doubt but as he SAYS,
"his strongest sympathies are with the laboring
phHe man." and that he sees and deplores tho in.
auence of Slavery upon the white man and is
: therefore sincerely and heartily enlisted in tho
Republican movement, to prevent the extension Of
!, Slave labor. Nor have we any doubt that he is
equally sincere in his declaration that to call the
Republican party an abolition party SIS an auda.
cious lbeP' and that lie looks to the action of
the Republican party, as a security to the %institu.
ton in the States whore it now exists"
Mr.. Blair's character and views are of impor.
lance to the community, because more than any
other quiet gentleman his hand moves the Repub-
0 Iican machinery aud if the party is successful, he
Will doubtless be enc of its leading executives.
We can therefore hope for nothing better from
the party in power, than may be warranted by
. the opinions of this, its distinguished supporter.
And in the paragraphs below he presents himself
in his most amiable attitude towards the question
of universal freedom. His n~eigbbors w~bo!know him
best, know that his declarations against sweep
ing abolition are sincere" They know tLatthe is
the owner of slaves ard tlty lnow also as do
others that the party he sustairs is resolved to
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continuing to hold them. The virtues therefore of
Mr.. Blair's private characte., his invaluable SER
vices to his neighborhood; and the sterling virtues
of many anti-slavery men out Of Maryland cannot
save the slaveholding purpose of that party from
just condemnation by all thorough, consistent
abolitionists.
We have room this week only for the following
extract from the close Of the letter which as we
think presents most correctly as we'll as Sincere
ly" the purpose and influence of the Republican
orga ~lization
Another %pretence for dissolution of the Union
urged by MIR. Brooks and his COM patriots, is the
assumption that the Republican party is an aboli.
ton party. This is an dudaciouS libel. The Re
publican party put out its manifesto at its inaugu-
ration at Plttsburg. Hdtyues the idea Of inter-
meddtthg triM StdreTy UheIe ii erjStS, or interferiRq
nth ii IN any State irhich may hereafter establish Il.
1t insists only on the right OF Congress to lcgislate
on the subject in the territorics-a right exerted
under the contedelacy, recognised and established
by the constitution, and enectuated by the acts of
Congress, from the foundation Of the government
to the present hour, 10 the formation of every
territory into an embryo state. The partizans in
the Senate OF that mockery OF all law, squatter
sovereignty, admitted the principle at the last
session, in their pitiful attempt to mitigate the
atrocity of Atchison's d~espotic laws making it
| felony to question slavery in Kansas
IwaS at ItHSCurgh-Ua member oCMe commit
lee uhtch embodied az form tie principles on uhich
The Republicans Of the onion installed their organi-
zatt0n. II was designed to oppose the phalanx of
f nullltiers, welding tho Executive power to over
throw the most solemn compacts made between the
staies-to destroy the principles OF the Constitu-
ton, and to found an ollgarchy based on slavery in
their stead; Ian SAFELY AFFIRM THAT
ii1Ehh Ao NJ IN THAT CONNEN.
lON WHO looked TO IT'S ACTION AS A
MEANS OF ABOLlSlilNG SLAVERY IN THE
a STATES. On the contrary, they looked
10 as act'2n, IN restoring the pacifcdtion rhih
60annd ne states together. AS A SECURITY TO
LIE iNSIilUilO IN The STATES WHERE
= l. hAiol9. Every man must now see that paci-
hcatioh ana the preservation OF the Union is its
only security. It's well known that civil war, in
a nation where slavery exists, libcrates the slaves.
ihe civil wars 81 MlariuI and Scylla liberated the
slaves ~ Italy. The civil war in Mexico and of
the South American republics, abolished it within
them. ihe states invaded by Bolivar offered free
dom to all the slaves who would join the ranks to
oppose him. Bolivar on his part proclaimed univer-
sal emancipation to recruit his ranks, History
records the result.
AS a member of the Republican Convention, /
can say with cohhdence that,to the prevalent sense
OF that body, NOTHING BE MORE RE
lOLIlNG than he general manumiSSion Of the
StateS ~ ne SCUM, ana PHfthg them on a terei
TtM me ~hHe race.
The liberation OF the blacks, under existing cir
cumstanccs, is known to BIO impossIble-that it
would DO ruinous to their owners-a great evil 50
all others OF the white race and fatal to the negroes,
VINO Woulu perlsn uhuer 'he Intelligence and ener-
~ ., superior raceas the Nnrfasansetts, Pequods
anu Nlohicahs Perished uhder 1t IN another quarter.
humanity or lne ihcapao,e race iorDids the exper-
nnen'' anu Jusuce 10 pom classes OF the superior
one requires that they should be saved from the