Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-06-20
From the Minnesota Republican.
WHO MOST DIsHONORs THE COESTITU-
TI0N
4. II. Boyd,
Geo. ". C'awfrd.

Our opinions on the subject Of slavery, we un
derstand, were made the occasion of some contro
versy in n stage coach the other day; some admin
istration democrats who probably seldom read the
Republican, insisted that the editor an avowed
Garrisonan, who gloried in trampling the Cohsti
tuition under his profane soleleather; while Re-
publican passenger as positively declared that the
editor aforesaid further from being a
Garrisonian than were the gentlemen who thus as
sailed his alleged position. Our reporter does not
give the exact form of the coloquy, but it suits
well enough to suppose it may have been about of
ter this sort
%The editor of the Republican is a Garrsoniar
Abolitionist, despisng and ridiculng the Consti
tuition of his country"
4 think not. lie is even further from being
Garrisonian than you are.'
! 'uow do you make that appear
why, you agree with Garrison in two vita
points which belong to the slavery controversy
while Mr.. Ames agrees with him in but one Do
you not admit slavery to be wrong?
Certainly but we say the Constitution sane
tons it, and so we let it alone"
Exactly so. Mr.. Garrison Believes Just rs you
do, that slavery is wrong, and that the Consttu-
ton sanctions it. Mr.. Ames believes as you and
Mr.. Garrison do about the wrong}uness of sla
very but he differs from you both about the char
acter of the Constitution. Which of you is near
est to being Garrison man |?
friend is one of which it is worth while to call
public attention, not as it shows the opinion of
this man or that one but because it bears strong
ly upon the great controversy which is now shak
ing the nation Does not man occupy rather an
apkOaTd position who regards slavery as a great
wrong, considers it to be sustained by the Const-
tuition, and yet swears to support and obey that
INSTRUMENT? What is that but pledgng ones
self to commit high crime against both God and
man
Garrison says, 'The Constitution is league
with death, and n covenant with hell !" So viru-
ally says every man-be he Democrat or Republi-
can who admits that the Constitution fortifes and
supports slavery. If such an instrument would
not be a helsh and diabocal CON pact, pray tell
us what tc0uld? Our Taneys, who solemnly tell
us that the States who adopted it were pledged
to maintain the rights of the MASTER" are trying
to make us believe that our fathers were pirates!
that they framed a government on purpose to
rob the weak and defraud the helpless!-that they
entered into formal conspiracy TO build up and
lperpetuate system of violence and injustice such
as otker people under the whole heaven ever
thought of embodying in the structure of their
ganic law. The world has been wicked enough,
and there have been most monstrous forms of wrong
maintained in the name of government; sSat we
challange the production from history of single
example of nation which has deliberately incor-
porated into its very Constitution guarantees for
the maintenance of slavery and pledges so support
it, from the different sections of the nation Gar
rson believes the founders of this Republic perpe
tuated that base wrong and he washes his hands
s like true man, from all participation in it, Mul
: ttudes of men in the North admit the wrongful
ness of slaveholding, just as he; teaches it, anC
admit the pro-slavery character of the Constitu
ton just as he explains it, and yet glory in thei
! fidelity to such government! There man
Republicans, we admit who are cbargeabe wit
this very inconsistency; but we rejoice to kno'
that the recent illumination of the Supreme Coul
is shocking them into better logic, and wakin
up their manlier instincts.