Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-02-07
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and the South, with her slave labor, and mental
darkness, ana bloody despotism-there can be no
union, and there never has been one, except in
name. We are only palming off n sham before
the world, when we affect to regard 1t as some
thing worthy of veneration and perpetuity.
OF what value is 1t to us, as ireemen, in the
slave States2 What protection does it give 2
None whatever. HENRY WILSON is not for sun
dering the Union yet Henry WILSON has a rope
round his neck in one half of the Union, as the
outspoken advocate of the slave. lie dare not go
South, even to promulgate his Republican doc
trines for it would be at the peril OF his lie.
There is not q man ut the South who enjoys
liberty of conscience, OF speech. or OF the
press, rs against slavery. Now tell me why,
knowing all this, you still cry out in favor OF the
Union2 Does not the South lay her iyrannous
hands upon all the colored citizens of Massachu-
sets who are found upon her soil, thrust them
into her dungeons, and sell them into eternal
slavery if they are not ransomed As a Massa-
chusetts man, l am for no such Union as tha!-God
Forbid
Again, I am for the overthrow of the Union, be-
cause of the avowed determination of the South to
extend and perpetuate her accused slave system
od infnitum. With one voice, she declares that
she will never yield one jet or title in this strug-
gle for emancipation that she means to 20 for.
ward, and overthrow every barrier to the diffusion
Of chattel slavery throughout this continent that
she hates all our free institutions, and hopes to
subvert them. | know what is the spirit of the
South, and | take her at her word, and say. You
have shown that the time has come for us to sep
arate. Be it SOP
Sir, there is no power in the United States gov.
eminent, or in any State government, to give us
any protection in the slave States. We have a
right to go there, and deLounce slavery as q curse
and a crime "a natural right, which is GOd-given;
a constitutional right, by the original compact.
But if we go there, and attempt to exercise this
right, we are subjected to evOry description of
personal insult and outrage. We may make our
appeal for redress to the United States government,
Blu, we shall plead in vain.
Again, l am for the speedy overthrow of the
Union, because while it exists, | see no end to the
extension of slavery. l see everything in tho
hands of tho Slave Power now. l see the national
government for four years to come-all the re-
sources of the co~untry-every dollar in the treas
ury-tae army, the navy, the judiciary, every
thing in its grasp; and / know that, with all these
means and facilities, and the disposition to use
them, nothing can successfully contend against it.
l am sure OF another thing-that when the
North shall withdraw from the Union, there will
be an end to Sou hern fllibustering, and schemes
of annexation. Then the tables will be turned,
and we shall have tho Shareholders at our doors.
crying for mercy. Rely upon it there is not an
intelligent stakeholder at the South, who is for a
dissolution of the Union. l do not care what the
folly or insanity of the Southern nullfers be
] do not care how much they hate the North,
and threaten to separate from us; they are con-
~temptible numerically, and only make use of
these threats to bring the North down on her
knees, to do their bidding, in order to save the
Union. Not one of them is willing to have the
cord cut, and the South permitted 30 try the ex-
pertinent. If it be otherwise, God grant that she
may eoon take this step, and see whether she will
be able to hold a single slave one hour after the
deed is done!
The dissolution of the Union will paralyze the
power of the master, and therefore render enamel
patton certain. by a geographical necessity. The
1ine,-where will it run? 1t will run between
freedom and slavery, wherever that is; between
free labor and slave labor; between where man
is owned as a slave, and whsre men own them
selves, and have power to take care Of themselves
as free laborers. There is where the line WI
run. There will be. no Atlantic ocean rolling
between but the slave will be able, at q single
stride, to step over the line into a free and indie
pendent republic, where he will be protected
against all pursuit. Under such circumstances, NO
border State can long remain a slave State, in the
nature of things.
Yes, the dissolution of the Union will smite
slavery to the dust. What next will follow? The
jubilee having come, we shall be free every where;
free at the South, free at the North with free
labor, free schools, a free press IN common. With
universal freedom, we shall then organize a mag
nifcent Union from the Atlantic to the Pacific. in
which there shall be neither tyrant nor slave,
and it shall 60 well with US as q people. Zap
plause.)
DR.. Wayland, of Providence, has expressed
my views and feelings, in a speech which he de-
livered on the Kansas Nebraska bill. l beg leave
to read a single extract:
4 value the Union as much as any man.
would cheerfully sacrifice to it everything but
truth, justice and liberty. When l must surrender
these, as the price of the Union, the Union be
comes at once a thing which l abhor. To form &
union for the sake Of perpetuating oppression. is
to make myself an oppressor. This cannot do
for love liberty as much for my neighbor as fol
myself. To sacrifice my liberty for the sake 0
the Union, is impossible. God made me free
and / cannot he in b0ndsua 70 anv man. y 4
n Taking Christ, then, for my example
and striving to imbibe his spirit, car | do other
wise than take to my bosom every oppressed an,
down-trodden child of humanity? Jesus Christ
my master, is not ashamed to call them brethren
and can / have any partnership in an attempt t
trample them under foot? The Union, itself, be
comes TO me an accursed thing, if | must first steel
it in the tears and blood of those for whom Chris
died.
The Union is stepped in the tears and blood o
those for whom Christ died. and it is maintained
only at the sacrifice of truth, justice and liberty
therefore | pronounce it an accused thing AM
treat it accordingly.
Mr.. President, this theme is exhaustless. / can
not enter even upon the threshold of tn
argume on this occasion. But l vii
thank any man who will show me how we cal
nationally hope TO restrain the Slave Power in an,
direction, whilst the Union exists. aid the presen
determination of the Sooth remains to perpetual
slavery at all hazards. Until that he done, i shall
be an incorrigible Disunionist. tell you, men o
the North, as long as you proclaim in the ear o
the Slave Power that you never mean to yield VI
this Union, come what may of outrage and william,
in its tram, you thereby surrender everything
manhood, justice, liberty, reverence for Cod
and grant an unlimited license for the extension O
slavery over this continent. For remember this
the Slave Power conquers by intimidation. W
of the North are without c~ourage-without back
bons-and the Slave Power has long since foup,
IL out. We believe in preserving the Onion, no