Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-05-30
THE DELUSION.

Under this head the last Eric True AMERICAN
well repeats some important truths. We copy
the article though we cannot agree with it in re
gard to the constitutional power of the govern.
mont. The governn emf is essentially and inhe-
renlly vicious, in its organization. The remedy is
therefore its destruction and the organization of
one on the principles of righteousness.
The delusion that Slavery is q sectional" in
stitution, wholly and exclusively, is u most crazy
one. So long US it exists in tho nation and the
nation permits il to exist 80 long it is national.
When a nation allows or tIlerates the preparation
of n crime within its COASTS, then it becomes verify
guilty of said crime. And this is true not of any
particular part or portion OF the nation, but the
whole of it. The great mission Of civil govern
ment is tn suppress crime rather than enforce vir-
tue, and to protect it's subjects from lawlessness
and plumber. We say this is its business. II
then Government permits theft, it perpetrates theft
If it allows seduction, it IL n seducer. if it tol.
crates slavery, it is responsible for it, The people
of the government are tho government hence the
people, each and every, are Responsible for what
the Government does and don't do. U)We perceive
no possibility of Sinking out of it.-State Soyer-
eighty cannot cover everything. Surprising one
half Of the people in South Carolina should fall to
bctchering the other half, in~discriminately and in
cold blood. would the General Government have
nothing to do with such business as that ?(2)
The General Government whose business it is to
see that the people of the whole country are kept
secure in their persons and eifects to suppress do
nestle violence to prevent the deprivation of any
citizen of life, liberty, or property without due
process OF law and to guarantee to the citizens of
each state all the privileges and immunities of cit
zens in the several States? Now it SO happens that
u horde of %rufians in South Carolina are more
than numbering three fourths of the citizens Of
that CJmmonwealth-kiliing them by n slow and
indescribable torture-the torture and the death Of
Slavery! How intensely imperative the duty of
| the GuVcrnmCut To rescue and protect these sub
liects.
But il the General Government is to do nothing
Of this kinds not to 'interfere" in matters oc.
curing inside of State boundaries-then what is
its business? What else is it but n great make.
ielieve." a DOWNRIGHT nuisance and humbug ?t3)
But it will lie said the General Government has ex.
elusive and undisputed control over the National
Territories. What n tremendous responsibility !!
Control only over the western swails and wilder
nesses and the scattered savages that roam in them.
Presently all the public domain may be worked
M into States. and then its power will lie still less
limited. This idea is chimerical and foolish. The
provisions of the Constitution are too express to
be gainsaii.-The Government that has no power
to protect and defend ITSELF, IS no Government.
Nov the worst and most dangerous enemy of this
Government, is Slavery. 1t necessarily breeds
violence and outrage, intestine disorder and com
motion. The Government has a right to protect
itself against the foe by e%xterminating it. And
rh"mas Jefferson, in his day, APPLY remarked =
WIN what eXeCriuOH Upu'u tHG stuleSulhU NC llhu-
ed, who, permitting one half the citizens to t ample
IN the rights of the other transform those into
iepOtc, and these into enemies, destroys the
morals of the one part, and the amor patrie of the
other"
One difficulty in the way of rightly interpreting
constitutional power arises from the fnlse and de.
fe ctive light in which slavery is popularity viewed.
1t 10 often spoken Of as an "ins.itutiOn" peculiar"
to the Southern States. Even the progressive
New York Tribune, in its Issue Of Saturday last.
talks of it as "A domestic institutions" and repeats
iur the ten thuusnndth time the trashy sOphism
has Two are morally bound by the spirit and
genius of the Union not to make that Union u lever
for the overthrow Of the domestic institutions Of
sister States We admit the fact, but for the
| sake of sense, justice and decency, we do not
,dmit tbat system of piracy, robbery, mansteal-
ing. adultery. and murder by wholesale, and by
which four millions Of the native-born inhabitants
If this country are sacrificed for this life and that
which is to conceive do not call this mlst extern
Sive and horrible scheme Of devilism known to earth.
a domestic Institution" Shame upon the syco
plant thai gabhle. such gibberish.. Slacery an
institution !" Upon n par and equal with the in
.titutinn of common schools, the institution ct re-
!iginus worship the institution of internal improve
ments If this crime may be, pray what h%ell-born
ltrociety may not he. an ''iDstitntionf |" a do
nestle institution" fprsooth What Is 1t hut a
system of domestic ~riOtencc, against which the Fed
eral Government is constitutionally bound 10 pro
cect each state! What is it but an outlaw, which
no law can le8all2e no constitution COnstitutioH-
lliZe. no tOloratiOn tolerate?
Will the dream never break-the delusive
iream that slavery is sectional and liberty nation
Al? The stupid trance, that some how or other.
The matter may be patched up and liberty and
slavery NAV both amicably subsist in the Republic,
both sit and rule upon the throne Of state as equal
inst tu,ions," to be equally fostercd and protect
ca, under the same Constitution? The gross mo-
ion that tho entire nation is not implicated IN the
crime Of slavery and that it is not the constitution
al right and moral duty of tho nation, as such, to
Iholish it?
Q.) Very different doctrine this from that every
where prevalent. The common idea s,that nobody
is responsible for national crimes. They are but
organic sins" to be charged to the nation in the
mass. Men join to perpetrate iniquity through
heir national organization, that they would scorn
10 countenance as individuals. What we want to
abolish slavery is a sense of individual response
bility in the matter. 1t is the restitution of this
tLat induces alike, Democrats and Republicans to
admit the pro.slavery character of the Constitu.
tion and the Union, and then with professions OF
auti-slavery upon their lips swear to support the
one and glorify the other.
(o) Morally she ought to have. But c%onstitu'
.ionally she should complacently look on if she
ha s agreed to tolerate such D~utchery.
{3) Nothing else and therefore we soy down
with the government. 1t ought not to stand q
single day. 1t is a cruel mockery and fit only fol
being overthrown.
WHAT ARE WE COMING TO ?-Not only will Mar
shall Rinders in New York catch and hold slayss
but in Now Orleans they are actually at the same
business. The Captain and owner of a schooner
was siezed in New Orleans a few days since on
suspicion of fitting out their vessel for the Slave
Trade and each put under bonds of $4,000.
SLAVE CArcnERs BAFFLED.-There was a good
deal Of excitement in Mechanicsburg and vicinity,
on Tuesday last, caused by an attempt on the part
of five Kentuckians, accompanied by q Deputy
Marshal from Cincinnati, to arrest a fugative slave,
named Addison.
They made a descent upon the cabin, which is
about a mile from Merchandising, early in the