Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-08-01

ry of the Sumner outrage is softoned by the twin
deaths Of its OCCASION. The Fugitive Slave Law
and the repeal of the Missouri Compromise have
ceased to be novelties and the bred Scott decis.
ion is acquiosced in by many, as a merely abstract
grievance.
But all this is merely q truce, not peace. We
have no idemnity for the past, no security for the
future. Not a wrong is yet redressed; Kansas is
not yet saved Sumner is not yet restored Mis-
souri, is no. y~ct.freed Virginia is not yet coloniz-
ed, The future, in all these cases, is till cloud
ed by uncertainties. If the bred Scott case be an
abstraction, it is one of those distractions
whose practical consequences ~convulse the
world. For all our efforts, there is not vet an
inch of truly Free Soil in tie nation. The great
State of Ohio, under the ablest Republican
government, has just been the scene of bloody
and successful slave.bunts. That the new admins
tration will be thoroughly subservient to the Slave
Power, is q ~fOregone conclusion. The existence
of slavery is aggression, and new ingenuities of
outrage may, at any moment, be sprung upon,
us. "
From mere Politics there is little to be expected.
The Slave power has always commanded lust
votes enough to carry its measures, and, under
our present organization, always will. II the Re-
publican party told truth, last November, the
Presidential election transferred the balance Of
power, more than ever, to the side of Slavery
1t has four years of corruption, conquest and M,
nexation before it, and it remains to be proved that
that any merely political combination can de-
feat it. On the other hand, the attitude
of the Republican leaders is now, as always.
one of timidity and compromise. They deprc-
ciate, with profuso caution, the charge of any dispo-
sition to interfere with slavery, as IL is, and claim
the support of Southern men for their nomina-
tions, as ~affOrding undiminished security to sla-
very. 1t is evident that the mass of Republican
voters, in many States, are becoming more radi-
cally anti-slavery. And nothing will do so much
to promote that desirable change as she fearless
discussion we propose. Undoubtedly, the first
Objects, to create n united and determined North.
But IL there is even q chance that the ultimate
result OF that effort is to be Disunion, every one,
must admit the necessity of being prepared for it.
In view OF these facts, we regard the present rs
an opportune period for our Convention. We,
wish to acs with calmness, not with impetuosity I:
to be controlled, not by impulse, but by mature,
conviction. 1t is not strange that such a Conven-
non should be proposed in a period of excitement.
That 1t should be held, in q time of comparative
. quiet is a fact of momentous significance.
Such q Convention appeals to three distinct.
classes of persons
l. Those who r~e?udiate the United States Con-
5 stitution as essentially prOslavery, and hence alb
: jure all union under it.
e 2. Those who, not accepting this view of the
u Constitution, still concur in the opinion that there
can be no permanent union between Free and
i Slave States, and that the only practicable .olu-
III tiOn will he fnund aOonor or 1ot,r q; -
II 3. Those who bell ewing in the ultimate triumph
! OF Freedom, without Disunion, still approve of the
0 agitation of the subject, because they admit Dis
union to be aposs'6e result; and because the dis
cussion Will tend, in any case, to strengthen and
consolidate the North on the side of Freedom,
1t has been determined to summon the Conyen-
t on by means of a Call, to be signed by such
!, persons as may, from either of the motives above,
indicated, sympathize with its object. By obtain
ing many such names, from every Free State, tho
existence and wide distribution of this sentiment
: will be exhibited, and increased interest will be
given to the Convention.
You are therefore respectfully invited to append
= to this Call you own signature, and to obtain such
y others as may be within your reach. 1t is be-
= lieved that any effort, SO bestowed, will
be useful antislavery work. All copies of the
Call should be returned, with signatures, and
a memorandum of the place where obtained, to
JosErA A, Rowland, Worcester, Mass, on or
~ before Sept. LIST, 1857.
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON,
WENDELL PHILLIPS,
DANIEL MANN,
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON,
~ +. W. BIRD.
h CALL FOR A NORTHERN CONVENTION
he Whereas, it must be obvious to all that the
American Union is constantly becoming more
and more divided, by Slavery, into two distinct
is impossible, and even ordinary intercourse is
becoming dangerous;
be And, whereas, Slavery has now gained entire con.
is. troll over the three branches of our National Gov
eminent, Executive, Judiciary, and Legislative
,0 has so interpreted the Constitution as to deny the
be right of Congress to establish freedom even in
Ia the territories. and by the same process has remov
as ed all legal protection from a large portion of the
:. people of the free States, and has inflicted, at
" many times and places, outrages far greater
- than those which our fathers rose in arms to
nj repel
he And, whereas, there seems no probability thai
- the futurk will, in these respects, be different from
'"' the past, under existing State relations
The undersigned respectfully invite their fel
he low citizens of the Free States to meet in Conyen
IN. ton, at ---,i in October, 1857, to eonsid
+ er the practicability, probability, and expediency o
a separation of the Free and Slave States, and t.
take such other measures as the condition Of til,
times may require.
LEGAL VOTERS. OTHER PERSONS,