Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-08-15

"'With slavery in the States we make no pre-.
/ tence of having anything politically to do. For
better or for worse the system belongs solely to
the people of those States and is separated by
an impassablc gulf of State sovereignty from any
Intervention of ours We cannot vote it down
| my more than we voto down the institution
II caste IN llindosan, or polgamy in tho Sultan $
domnions. Thus, precluded from all political ac-
ton in reference to it, prevented from touching
one stone of the edi6ce, not the slightest re.
sponsibility attaches to rs citizens for its con
tinued existence. But on tho question of extend
ing slavery over the free Territories of the United
States, it is right, it is imperative duty t
think, to feel, to speak and to vote. We canno
interfere to cover the shadows of slavery with th
sunshine of freedom, but we interfere to pre-
II vent the sunshine Of freedom from being eclipseC
by the shadows of slavery. We can interpose t
stay the progress of that institution, which aim
to drive free labor from its own heritage. Kan
sas should be divided up into countless homes fol
the ownership of men who Lave right to the
| fruit of their own labors. Free labor would make
| it bud and blossom like the rose /; would cover il
with beauty and drawing from its boundessiwealth
would thrOng it with population would make
States, nations, empires out of it, prosperous,
powerful, intelligent and free, illustrating II
wide theatre the bene6cent ends of Providence in
the formation of our government, to advance and
elevate the millions of race, and like the heat
in the body, from its central position sending
out every side, far and near the vital influen-
therefore be secured to free labor
"Now we fully and heartily indorse every line
of the latter part of this extract but, with all
due Difference TO our sage cotempOrary, we do
most emphatieav dissent from the sentiments
embodied in the first part. Pray, permit us to
ask--have the people of the North no interest in
the United States as nation, and do they not
see that slavery is great injury and disgrace to
the who'e country? Did they not, in the days
that tried mems souls, strike hard blows to Sc
cure the independence of Georgia they did in
defending the liberties Of Massachusetts, and is it
not VIGOROUSLY true that the TOryism of South
Carolina prolonged the war two years at least?
Is it not, moreover, equally true that the ogar-
chies of South Carolina have been unmitigated
pests and bores to the General Government ever
since it organized, and that the free and con-
scentous people of the North are virtually excu
ded from her soil, in consequence of slavery? ltl
is well known and ncontestible fact that the
Northern States furnished about two-thirds of
the American troops engaged in the Revolutionary
War, and, though they were neither moro nor less
brave patriotic than their ellowsoldiers of thel
South, yet :nasmuch the independence of our
country was mainly secured by virtue OF their nu-
mercial strength, we think they ought to consider
1t not only their right but their duty to make a.
firm and decisive effort to save the States which
they fought to Free from falling under tn yoke of
a worse tyranny than that which oversh allowed
them under the reign of King George the Third.
Freemen of the North earnestly entreat you
to think of the things. Hitherto, mere free
soilers, you have approached but halfway to the
line of your duty; now, for your own sake and
for ours. and for the purpose of perpetuating this
glorious Republic, which your fathers and D ur
fathers founded in septennial streams of blood,
we ask you, in all seriousness, to organize your
selves man under the banners of Liberty
and to aid US in crterminating slavery, which is
the only thing that initiates against our complete
aggrandiZement as nation"