Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-11-14

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world has never seen.
Again, Mr.. Pryne thinks il we refuse take part
la the Government, the consequence will be that
a pro-slaSery minority will continue to rule the
nation, 50 long as even one twentieth of the voters
choose to do So. Is there, then, no such thing in
the world as moral power that can defy The power
Of n few politicians {? Is there no such thing as
influencing politics without being a politician p
Have women ever done anything of this kind!-
Did the bringing of the names Of eight hundred
thousand petitioners into the British Parliament do
nothing toward West India Emancipation2 Wasit
nothing to compel the man who, at FIRST. declared
the Movement wild and fanatical to sethis name to
the act of emancipation? Did Jesus and his dis
ciplcs make no impression upon the Roman En-
pire2
Suppose We withdraw from tie ballet box does
any body believe that u minority could enact pro-
slavery laws, and enforce them against two.thirdS
Of the people l will give you M'ecJtths Of the
voters eff the country. and engage with the other
tro.ffths. and the non.yoiers who will stand with
them, to make it imI ossiblc to give political sup
port t, slavery. In giving me ;wo-fifths OF the
voters, yen will give me four.fiths Of the women,
and four.ffths of the minors for they are more
ready than men to take sides with the oppressed
Give me these men. and miners and women, and
III give you a force that james Buchanan ,-bache-
lor as he is-with all the aid he can draw around
him cannot resist. No. You could not WELD
this Government against n strong anti-slavery mi
nority Of voters. We could defy your influence
md scatter your forces like chat before the wind
S. s. Foster, said he wished to enter his solemn
protest against using the time Of this Convention
10 the discussion of a question. which, when dis
cussed and settled, leaves us Just where we were.
Why will Mr.. Pryne persist in spending the time
of this Convention in defending a doctrine that he
does not himself believe to be true, as his practice
shows. Did he not, in his paper, support Salmon
7. Chase at the last election If his views are not
of Importance enough for him to practice, he ought
not to come here and consume time in defending
them. There is not in all the land one single ad.
vocate Of this anti.slavery Interpretation of the
constitution, who, when he has been in Office, or
has in any way been called to act in the matter, has
not trampled upon his own ~professed principles
Am | to be required to listen without protest, 10y
the hour, to the nonsense of such men? And L
disapprove Of the course Of Mr.. Burleigh just as
much. The resolutions before US have nothing to
do with this constitutional question. The time for
the discussion Of it has passed by. We have dis
cussed it for fifteen years, and we have settled it,
Besides, every leading man in this country who
claims any interest in our causes admits that dissol-
u.ion is inevitable, whate yer may be said of the
Constitution. These men are not here to-day just
because they admit it, and hence, do not care to
discuss it. Everybody admits our Arguments
Ask Governor Chase why he did not save Margaret
Garner. and he points you to the union-he says
he cannot aid the slave unless he gives up the un.
ion. This is the point. The union is to be broken
up aud the question of to-day is how to do it, not
how not to do it,.
If we could know the feelings of the leading
Republican politicians of this State, we would find
that in their hea rts they wish US to push forward
this movement. How could it be otherwise? Dc
they not desire to stand up and be men? Yet they
know they cannot do this in the Union. What
want is this-and for one l earnestly demand it
that this Convention fix its eye upon this single
point-the dissolution Of the union. Let us to-
morrow consider what measures we shall adopI
to accomplish this end.
Mr.. A. PRYNE, said that he voted for Mr.
Chase, yet his statement that he had never voted
for a man holding the pro-slavery view of the con-
%stitution was true. Mr.. Chase believes the consti
tuition to be anti-slayery. He declared many
years ago in the United States senate that if he
were a Federal Judge, and a slave were brought
before him, be would declare him free, by
virtue of the constitution. With regard to the
giving up of Margaret Garner, it was, as he knew
from private sources, Mr.. Chase's determination to
prevent her being returned to slavery but he
trusted to the promise made him by JudgeLeavitt,
that when brought before him he would give hel
back into the hands of the State authorities
Leavitt broke this pledge, and though Mr.. Chas'
had d military force in readiness to protect her
she was hurried into Kentucky before he hear,
Of her surrender.
A. X. FosrRR, said Governor Chase never pre-
posed to protect Margaret Garner, if at all, on til
ground that a fugitive slave should not be give
up. lie has always declared that the constitutio
requires the surrender Of f~ugitives from SLAYER,
and that he will be true to the constitution. II
does not take, and never has taken The groun
that the constitution is anti-slavery. He above
Margaret q lrner's children to be given up to ST.
very when he did know what was going on, an
he has never in a single case i~nserfered to preveI
the giving up of fugitive slaves.
SECOND DAY MORNING SESSION.
l.. ToDD addressed the convention. lie sal
he was in favor of disunion he had long regarC
ed it as the only remedy for the wrongs of the Of
pressed in this country. Revolution is the oni
remedy of the people against oppression. We
1857, have the same right to form a Government
suit ourselves, that our fathers had in l776.-
This is but the doctrine Of popular sovereignt
He believed some Of the positions of the Garris
nian disunionists 10 be i'm practieable; the non. votir
policy has been tried ard failed; and the nation ht
not been reached. They appealed to the conscien
Of the country, bot in vain. Slavery laughs
their efforts. The nation Is dead 10 trespasses al
sins you cannot reyoIatiOnize the country
moral means alone TO attempt it is to east pear
before swine.
Other means, then, must be brought into requii
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