Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-10-24

matter. We affirm the duty Of dissolution, on
grounds which cannot be shaken, and IN obedi'
ence to the higher law That duty we have en-
forced too often in our columns, and elsewhere, to
require its special calculation ut the present time
The Constitution Of the United States, as conced-
ed and acted upon by the nation, through ITS po-
litical arrangements, its judicial decisions. and its
governmental edicts, ever since the adoption thete-
of, as relating to slavery, is a covenant with
death, and an agreement with hell or else there
is no such thing rs sin in The universe. Think OF
that %piratical agreement on tho part of all the
States, tina. the foreign slave trade might be prose-
cuted with impunity, and to any extent, for a
term Of twenty years, under the American lag
nor terminated at tho end OF that period, unless
by an act of Congressl SO that if Congress shall
choose to sanction tho renewal of that horrible
traffic, it has the same constitutional right 10 in
stitute as to abolish it, and this right we are pre-
pared to see exercised at no distant day, it the
presentU MON be maintained, Think OF making the
whole North confederate in the act of keeping the
slaves in their chains, and rendering it impossible
for them to break thoso Gains, by a gener-
al revolt! Think Of the provision for hunt
ing and recapturing the wretched fugitives from
the Southern house of bondage, in every part OF
the country-thus making slave soil Of Massachu-
sets as we'll as of Carolina Think of allowing
a slaveholding representation iE Congress for the
benefit Of the slaveholders-of committing the
lamb to borrow the language of John Quincy
Adams, TO the custody of the wolf for cafe keep
ingv In the black record Of mi. uitouo compacts,
through all the past nges, Wnat can compare with
this for oppression and inhumani,y? Finally,
think OF such a Constitution every where support
e with siacrity' by a people protesting to love
liberty, to revere Christianity, and to adore God
" ere they ashamed when they had committed
abomination? Nay, they we're not at all ashamed,
neither could they blush
We leave it to others, therefore, to speak of the
expediency of the withdrawal Of the North from
the South. Our aim will be to deal with North
ern consciences and hearts in regard to the blood
red guilt of the Union to insist upon its essen
tial immortality, its awful wickedness and tc
urge The duty Of immediate and hearty repent
ance. That is an impregnable position. There
are many other weighty considerations why such
a confederacy should be sundered-such as, FOL
example, the loss of all freedom of speech and o.
the press ut the South on the subject of slavery
and the utter insanity of attempting to reconcile
and unite, in one general government, such oter
nally antagonistical elements as freedom anC
slavery, free institutions and slave institutions, the
interests of freemen and the interests of tyrants-
but the moral issue embraces every other, as the
greater includes the less. If the Union is sinfu
in it's very structure--if the Constitution is drip
ping with innocent blood-who that fears God OF
regards man 10 not ready to exclaim, Let thai
covenant with death be instantly annulled!
1t is vain to attempt to argue the seal from the
bond and to override the understanding and &C
ton OF the nation for q period OF seventy years,
by such verbal criticisms upon the Constitution
as those in which a respected correspondent in
Illinois INDUCES, in another column: they are all
mockeries. As he has go clearly proved, by its
letter, that the Constitution says nothing about
slavery, and gives no sanction or support to it, let
him next try his logical acumen and legal skill up
on the Fugitive Slave Law, and endeavor to alay
the indignation and horror which it has created on
both sides of the Atlantic, by proving that it has
no reference whatever to fugitive slaves, it being
couched in the very words Of the Constitution oil
the United States