Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-02-14

I In tho first place. my opposition to the Union
is one OF personal honor and duty ;-and this is
the strongest c0nsideration-ihe nucleus all the
others are incidental, secondary. 1t is question
of personal honor and duty with me. / am not
going into the question of the technicaties of the
lCOnsutution,--l do not care about them. For the
purposes of this hour we may take it for grant.
ed that the Constitution, present inter prcted
and executed isl pro.slavery Constitution-used
ny Slavery Tor It's own purposes that the power
OF debating the course to be pursued under that
I Constitution is in the hands of the Slave Power
You know what that Slave Power is. do not
near by that phrase exclusively Southern pow.
er. The Slave Power is here in Worcester just rs
much as in Charleston, s. G. The Slave power is
/ threeold it has the powee Of wealth-two thou.
sand millions of dollars invested in slaves draw
I ing 10 it the sympathy of all other kinds of capi
tai That is the first power, and in the nine
teenth century, the money sway is omnipotent.-
\ Then it has secondly the aristocracy of the Con-
stituton and, thirdly, the prejudice against col
4 or. The arstocracY of the Constitution where
have you seen an aristocracy with half its power
You may take small town, here in New Eng
land, with busy, active population of 2500, and
three or four such men as Gov. AIKEN, of South
Carolina, riding leasurely TO the polls md throw
ing their visiting cards in for ballots will blot out
the entire influence Of that New England town in
the Federal Government. That is your Republ-
canism Then, VIXEN you add to that the elo.
mont OF prejudice, which is concentrated in the
epithet niger, you make the three-straned cable
of the Slave POwer-the prejudice of race the
omnipoence of money, and the almost irresistible
po"er of aristocracy. That is the Slave Power
I Whatever you make Of the Constitution its ad-
ministration is in the hands Of the Slave Power.
When Henry Wilson goes up to the Senate Of the
f. United States,-N he wishes part of that Gov
ernment,-he must vote them into office, and vote
! money to carry on tho Governments and he
knows, if he carries it on, he carries on the Slave
Power. He knows that when be pays John Nc.
Liam fha IuI,r oil ho far
ing fugitive slaves. (llear hear.) When he votes
! Judge Lcavitts salary, he votes to pay him for
that trick that plunged Margret Garner back into
toe hell of bondage and cheated the State Of Ohio
ont Of her rights and | want to know when or
> where the Republican party, any other party,
ever avUwed their purpose to be, to get the power
of this Government into their aands in order that
no dollar in its treasury shall be allowed to go for
the support Of the Slave Power? Until they do
this, politics is personally dishonorable to an Abo-
I lltionist 1t is payin, Government, two-thirds
of which is directly and the other third indirect
covered all over with pro.savory service, from the
Judge on the Supreme Bench down to the Mar.
shall in the Courts. The bill which was paid for
returning Anthony Burns was 50 mixed up with
the salaries Of officers that it could not be disin-
tegrated without stopping the whole appropriation
bill. | deem the noblest piece of work the Re
ubcan party ever attempted was the effort to
stop the appropriation bill. Chief Justice Mar
shal said once, that whenever Senators were omit
ted to be chosen, the United States Government
fell To pieces. Why do you not let it talsto pec-
es As at present constituted, it is the right arm
Of the Slave Power. and you know it, South Car
ofna cannot breathe nor get her food day out of
the Union. Bankrupt, she talks CT walking out of
the Union !. Let her beg money to buy the
crutches she stands first. daughter and
appiause,)
Isay, sir, it is matter Of personal honor and
4 duty with me l do not see how any man vol
uuteer the SLIGHTEST amount of pcrSOunl
/ mary support to n government which, whatever
was its intent in 1889, is now practically a pro-
slavery Institution. | thanked God whe2 looked
into the eyes of Antony Burns, and in reply to
his agonized inquiry, Can YOU do nothing for
me ?, was obliged to answer, 'Nothng'-I thanked
God that ut least | could say. i never lifted fin
ger to build one stone of the Government that is
resting upon your heart to day. That Govern
ment returned Antony Burns; that Government is
organized year after year, and every dollar in its
treasury is spent in direct or indirect supper Of
slavery You know religions man, for instance,
protests against Idolatry, and the support of ido
trous Governments in Asia. Here is Government
just muck permeated by slavery us China or Ja-
pan with idulatry, and cannot vote under it. nor
Voluntarily supp ort it, do not cartsor parchments
\ they are not the Government. There are elements
beneath the parchment that fashion the Govern.
ment, and among these elements, first and beyond
all others. is this Slave Power, which controls the
4 Union. l do not know what it may be when it is
cnanGeG only know Wnat IL is now, ana say,
no Abolitionist can support it. If there is any
man who can tell me how, l should like to have
him do SO.
Then, again. how is the Republican party ever
to gain supremacy in the Government Certainly
by turning every atom of patronage aud pecuniary
profit in the keeping of the Federal Government
to the support of freedom You know that the
policy has been always acted upon, since
i Washington and it has been openly avowed ever
since Fillmore,-tha no man was to receive any
Office who not sound on the slavery question.
You remember the debate in the Senate when that
was distinctly avowed to be the policy of Mr..
Fillmore. You remember Mr.. Clay letting it drop
ont accidentally, in debate, that the saveholders
had always closely watched the Cabinet, and
kept majority there, in order to preserve the as
tendency of slavery. This is the policy which,
in the course of fifty years, has built up the Slave
Power. Now, how is the Republican party ever
to beat that Power down? By reversing that pO.
Icy, in favor of freedom. Cassus Clay said to me
two years ago, IF you will allow me to have the
patronage Of this government five years, and ex-
ercies it remorseessly, down to New Orleans
never permit any one but an avowed Aboitionist
to hold Office under the Federal Government
and will revolutionize the slave States themselves
in two Administrations That is q scheme of
efficient politics. But the Republican party has
never yet even professed any such policy. MIR,
Greely on the cOntrary,-and | take the Republi-
can party the highest type of political action at
the present ime,-avowed in the Tribune, that he
had often voted for STAKEHOLDER willingly, and
he never expected the time would como when he
shond lay down the principle of refusing to vote
for a STAKEHOLDER to office and that sentiment
has not only been reiterated by others OF the Re
publican party. but has never been disavowed by
any Suppose that you could develsp politics
up to this idea. tn t the whole patronage of the
Government should be turned in favor Of Abolition
1t would take two three generations to oVerrun
what the Slave Power has done in sixty years
with the power of aristocracy and the strength of
prejudice on its side. With the patronage of the
Government in its control, the Republican party
must work slowly 20 regenerate the Government
against those elements in opposition, when, with
them in its favor. the Slave Power has been some
sixty years in bringing about such a result as we
see around us. To reverse this, and work only
with the patronage of the Government, it would
take you long to effect the In my soul,
believe that dissolution Of the Union, sure to re-