Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-10-03
From the Asbtabula Sentinel.
DEMOCRATIC MORALITY.

AT the recent Democratic Convention resou.
tion was adopted, approving the bred Scott decis-
ion, (which is based upon acknowledged falsehood; ;
is atrocious u its reasoning, barbarous in its doc
trincs, and piratica in its conclusions 1t declares
that black men have no rights which white men
are bound to respect Yes, reader, nearly one
hundred citizens of our county there in mass con-
vention, proclaim to the youth and people of
this country, that the black female holds no right
to her virtue which white men are bound to re-
spect the ba ok man holds no right to his wife
or children which white are bound to respect
no right to the avails Of his labor to his liberty
or his lile which white men are bound to re-
spect.
1t was not collection of avowed pirates, or of
acknowledged heather who proclaimed these re-
vpting doctrines. 1t done by men who reside
among us, who ass ciate with people it
done by church members who profess to set ex-
amples of pety and Godliness before unbelieving
,infdes.
Now it Of those men were to carry out the
resolutions for which they voted, by violating the
right of q cUlored female to her virtue we should
seui such scOundrel to the penitentiary; or
were one of them to rob Il colUred man OF his
life, though church member, we should hang
him, unfit to live in civilized or Christian com
munity ; he would soon dangle at the end of a
rope, stead of sitting mt the communion table.
"a But while these men are deferred from carrying
out their avnwed doctrines by dread Of the pen
iteutiary and the galows. they can safely avow
the feelings OF their hearts. Ihey can safely ue-
clare their sympathy with Shareholders and slave
dealers, for " no sell their offspring to in
terminable bondage.
In thus declaring their approval of crimes, in
saying they would themselves commit them, ex-
cept from fear Of the gallUws or the pententinry,
they incur other danger than of being under
stood and appreciated by their neighhors. Indeed.
we think they did right in thus expressing their
undisgused hostility to the doctrines of Him who
taught "do unto others we would that others
sho aid do unto u.s." We think every man should
speak the honest emotions OF his own heart.
Had this Democratic Convention met in Borneo
or in the Fee Jee Islands, where the people gener-
orally hold the same doctrines, there would have
been no merit in proclaiming them. Bet we APP
prove and admire the heroism exhibited by men
who boldly proclaim such sentiments among civil
lied men, and in tho midst Of Christian com
munity.
Our great ii fficulty in past years has consisted
in making known the real character of those who
H advocate such heathcnish barbarty They pro-
fessed to be Christians. and claimed tn be pl-
Gus declared they loved justice, and proclaimed
themselves supporters of liberty They now vol
UNFAIRLY stand forth proclaimng their real doc
trines, Such is now the position of the Democrat
c party. This support of the doctrines avowed
in the Dred Scott case constitutes the present test
of party devotion.
Need we say more to induce every Christian
every lover of justice, every friend OF humanity to
be at the polls on the day Of election, and by his
vote them and by all his moral political and reli'-
ious influence before and after election, and at
all times, endeavor to relieve our country and
mankind from the disgrace Of such doctrines?
s.l..f- G.