Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-01-26

nuNe Saiu, WHO mas conquered ltI' lie wOul
have called upon the country for oil its militar
force and all its volunteer force to retake it, But
Sir, 1t was not to General Jackson that the stor
was told, but to another ard different sort of man
3 What was his answer? The President turned hir
out. lie said: Governor, We have no furthe
need OF your services; we wish you all prosperity
but you are not the to carry out squatter so,
ereignty in Kansas" Then he took Mr.. Wilso
/ Shannon; and Mr.. Wilson Shannon went, shou
ing over the plains as he went, that he was 70
, Slavery in Kansas. lie went too fast; and,
think, between the North and the South, Mr.. Will
son Shannon will not find very wide place t
stand upon. | do not think he will find q frien,
here to say, God save him % wien his tim
comes up.
So much for Kansas. After this allusion to it il
his message, the President undertakes to read
long lecture upon slavery. 1t is not the first tim
the President has delivered lectures on slavery
and have word or two to say on the view whicl
he takes of it, The President of the United State
in the paper which he sent here few DAYS ago
takes the ground that the gentlemen who do no
agree with him in his peculiar notions are the enc
mics of the Constitution. He SO puts it, for hi
says:
"lf the friends Of The Constitution are to hav
another struggle, its enemies could not present
more acceptable issue, than that of State, who's,
Constitution clearly embraces a republican form
OF government being excluded from the Union
because its domestic institutions may not in all re
/ spect comport with the ideas of what is wise anC
expedient entertained in some other State"
Thus the President undertakes to designate a.
enemies OF the Constitution those who differ from
him on this subject. l dc not know how Others
feel but say it is an insult to the majority of thi
nation. The President knows, if he reads any
thing beyond the most servile sheets that his crea
lures send to him, that the public sentiment of thi.
country condemns most decidedly his action il
that Territory. No man knows it better than he
or at least no man ought to know it better; and
when he goes on to characterize as enemies of the
Constitution those who differ from him, he knows
he SO characterzes certainly one half of the popu
lar branch OF Congress- and quite number of the
members of the Senate-no matter for them, how
ever; as they do no: belong to "hea!tby organiza.
tlons," let them take care of themselves. / will
not speak for them, but speak for myself, and
say that the President can do me no sort of harm by
any such denunciations as this l am perfectly
willing to take it; but, Sir, standing here rs
representative of our native State-his and mine
together-I will not have him hurl such an impu-
tatlon as that unchallenged or rebuked.
lie has no right to designate any men who are
here under the same oath to support the Constitu
ton which he has taken, as enemies of the Const
tuition; and when he does it he comes down from
the high place which God in his wrath for the
iation of our national pride, has permitted him tc
occupy. sayhe comes down from, that high place
into the arena of vulgar demagogue, and strips
himself of everything which should cothe with
dignity the Office of President OF the United States
Ideny the issue; hurl it back il his face; tell
him. when he undertakes to designate these men
as enemies Of the Constitution, he abuses and de.
flames men whose shoeatchets hC is unworthy to
unite.
Sir, these are plain words, but the time demands
them. When the President Of the United States
sends such mess as this to me, or to body OF
oh, IonI H.,
consideration from speaking what believe to be
the truth. The President says that if the enemies
! of the Constitution-we all know whom he in
cludes in this phrase-are to have another contest
with its friends, there cannot be better one
Grant it, Sir; let us have it, l tell him that this
is the very nlace where the fight is to be made
This part of his message, stripped Of its verbiage,
means this: If, by the Illegal violence of the men
who have gone over into Kansas, and undertaken
to establish slavery there, they shall here and
ask for admission into the Union with Slave
Constitution, an0 Kansas will be rejected, the Pre-
sident tells that is the most favorable aspect in
which that question can be presented. That will
be the issue, and, if it be decided against Slavery
we are threatened with civil war.
| Sir, | am not man of war; but when | have
heard it threatened SO often, l have sometimes
wished that God in his providence would let it
come II it had no other effect, think it would
| have one. / think it would learn those men who
are constantly talking about the dissolution of the
Union lesson which neither they, nor their chill
dren's children, would ever forget. l am moi
certain that | should not want the war to come or
while we have about just such a President as We
have now, and will tell you why. If the attempt
at disunon were made with such man as General
jackson, or General Taylor in the Presidential
chair, and it were repressed promptly, as it would
be- people would say, ooh, it was his great militia
ry power, his reputation his popularity, which wa:
it." God knows they could not say it of this Pres
ident. Laughter in the galleries.j If the Presi
dent succeeded, and if the Union were sustained
as it would be, it would be by its own inherent en-
ergy, and from no Fictitious power which it woult
acquire from the overshadowing popularity Of th,
President.
/ Sir when the President undertakes to stigma
tise, as he has done those who differ from him, i
steps beyond what he has right to do; he steps
over the mark; he violates the laws which, thinl
should govern the intercourse between the differ
ent members of this Government, When he de
nounces as enemies TO the Constitution those who
differ from him. think it proper to meet him in
this way, and to take issue with him. Does th
President think that upon this issue he can 60 be
fore the country? Does he think that he stands il
place where it is safe or prudent for him to de
nounce as inimical to the Constitution views whicl
are entetained by vast majority of tae people o
this countrYi
If he is safe, it is his obscurity, and nothing els
his position. Sir, heard very instructive com
ment made upon his Message by Southern gentle
men within very brief time. "Oh," said he 81
is ono of the best messages that ever was write
and Pierce is the best President we have ever ha
since Washington" "Well," said the person t
whom he was speaking you will re-nominate hin
will you not?" "No" said he, 'that is anothe
f thing; his message is little to strong to &c
t Northern votes with; we shall not use him an
more" That exactly the position in which tn
matter stands.
t do not wish, Sir to 60 any further into thi
, matter. If the views which have entertained ar
received by the Senate and country, as l suppos
S they will be. and no controversy be made. l sha
have nothing more to cay about it; but if, tn
0 other hand, my views shall be controverted, ma
take the occasion at some future day to go som'
. what at length into the various topics which til
0 President has suggested. But, Sir, when he sen
I such message as this, and when the only con
4 ments that were made on it were commendatory
s not omuepdatorv of this part | know, but con