Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-03-01

mises and the best men of the Slaycholding
States, gho arc sensible of the ~iniquity, cannot
venture to declare their sentiments, lest they incur
the imputatiun Of deserving their own section in II
contest in which defeat would be a humiliation, and
for which the leaders who have produced it, would
subject them to Tie charge OF failing to stand by
the cause Of their peculiar instituticns."
Mr.. Blair finds the remedy for the present evils
Of the country in the restoration Of the old COM
promises the setting back of things to where they
stood before the passage of the Kansas Nebraska
act. lie says
"The repeal Of tie Kansas Nebraska act, wou1d
be tie finale, Of all tie existing commotions, and Of
tie eager ambitions uhich originated item. If this
single line is inrolled in in our flag, we shall con-
quer under it. 1t will be the Union flag"
On another topic the document proceeds
There is one view more which duty to my South.
ern constituents prompts me to present for consid-
GRAFTON. In tho South both the old parties, Wing
and Democratic, have blended their strength, to
secure the conquest of the free territories for the
Slave Institution. Mr.. Caruthers,a staunch Wing
of Missori, when asked where were the Wing party,
answered that its soul had translnigrated into tho
Democratic body in the South, and while pronoun-
cling the prodest e%ulogium on Henry Clay, whose
principles he still held as his political faith, admit
ted that the measure on which the slaveholding
section had planted its standard had identified in
its support the Wings and Democrats of the slave
holding States, however differing on Other oucstions.
The South Americans, altho all connection with
them was repr0bated by the Democratic caucus of
the House aud by the official organ of the Admin
istration at Washington, were constrained to sup
port Mr.. Aiken, the Admin stration candidate for
Speaker, at the close Of the contest. This proves
that all political organizations, hostile as they are
on all subordinate questions, upon the sectional
policy Of extending Slavery to territory hitherto
free, are one and indivisible. The success achieved
by the Southern politicians by inducing all the
Northern a~spirants for the Presidency to run a
race for the favor Of the South, in showing who
would 20 larthest and fastest to make surrender of
the ri ,hts of their constituents tn the slavehoiding
section, leaves no public man in the South any other
alternative than to r~elinquish his position, or in
sist on that great conquest for the tlaveholding in
tercst, to which it was contrived to give the appear
ance of being a voluntary boon rendered by the
North to the South. 1t is this strategy which
renders it impossible at this time for those among
the people who favor the compromises, to rally in
the South TO maintain what they are sensible honor
and good faith recognizes as binding, because made
by its own statesmen, then in c,mmand of tho
Government, and sanctioned by their own consent.
In the South there can never lie n party to assist
in redressing this wrong until the North dispels, by
its unanim!ty, the illusion that its people are viii.
ling to acquiesce in it.
At the conclusion Of the address, on motion it
was received as an exposition of the sentiments of
Mr.. Blair and his Southern friends.
In the course of the afternoon session Mr.. Rene
lin of Cincinnati made a more thoroughly anti.
slavery speech than any which had preceded.
Among other things he said
"The President ought to be rebuked for iterfer.
ing in elections ; the power to appoint postmasters
ought to lie taken away, and the patronage of the
President diminished in every possible manner.
He thought the North had erred in permitting the
South to charge them with sectionalism. They
ought not permit the South to say they were en-
deavorirg to establish u North, and they should no,
object to the South proclaiming that they would
establish a South. They were met to establish q
party which knew no North, no South, but went
for liberty for all. lie spoke of the popular SOW
ereignty of Kansas, and expressed a hope that this
Convention would recognize it--not, however, the
sovereignty which now enlisted there-a soyer-
eighty which was worse than the most tyrannical
governmental EurOpe-butt true popular SOVEREIGN
", which made the people rulers.
lie spoke Of the power of Congress with regard
= slavery, and referred to the early days of the
republic when Congress passed n law ubolishing
the slave trade, as an Instance OF the power with
which that body was invested. lie contended that
t at that time South Carolina had claimed that her
interests were interiered with by this law, and that
she would continue the traffic, the protest, would not
have availed and the law would have been, as it
was, executed.
The gentleman spoke at length on the evils of
slavery, and contcnded that wherever it was
todnd it had crept in by stealth, no man, as VET.
being found with hardihood sufficient to sit down
and write, Be it enacted, &C., that slavery shall
exist here, Sc.
Passmore Williamson was introduced by Judge
S~palding TO the Convention as the victim of Judge
Kane. Mr.. Williamson bowed to the audience
and was received with tremendous cheers by the
meeting.
In tones low and with a manner of the greatest
%modesty, he said he felt neither the disposition nor
the ability to make a speech or take part in the
proceedings of this meeting. lie was gratifed at
the manner in which the announcement of hi, pame
had been received in this city, not only now but ON
a former occasion. lie had accidentally been
placed IN a peculiar position which had brought
his name before the public. lie would make no
speech, and withdrew amid renewed cheers.
In the evening among the speakers were Preston
King, j. G. Vaughn, j. r. Giddings and G. W.
Julian. We have not room for q sketch of their
remarks, and will only add a paragraph from Mr..
Julian's he said that he was one of the Free Dam
ocratlc party, but when the other parties became
deiunct, his party, after a few convulsive struggles.
gave up the ghost also, ana since then he scarcely
knew where he stood. Tlere was no party i'm Indi.
ana now, and as he did not like Sam" and in
fact had never made his acquaintance, he came to
the Convention trusting that a place would be as.
signed him where the weary might find rest. lie
ielt surprised when he saw SO many people in diff.
iereht parts OF the country anxious to organize the
republican party on the narrow plank of tho res.
toratlon OF the Missouri Compromise. To accept
again that compromise would be to acknowledge
the slave power as an equll in the contract, and
to open an artery in the Republican party while il
closed one for Slavery which that power itself had
madly opened, and which now threatened to bleed
it to death"
SECOND DAY.
The second day Speeches were made ~ various
individuals and a letter read from Cassius NJ. CLAW.
y national nominating Convention was agreed
upon to be held, on the 18th of june, the anniyer.
sary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, in PHILADELPHIA.
An address was also adopted, written by Lieuten,
ant Governor Ia mold Of New York.
Abjah Mann, New York, from the Committee