Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-04-11

ING THE DISSOLUTION OF THE FEDERL UNION.
Your commit ee, after having carefully consid-
cred the prayer Of the memoralists, beg leave to
submit the following
REPORT.
The subject is one Of such trancendent import
ance that it may well challenge, more than a mere
passing notice. Events, are daily transpiaing,
calculated, and intended TO ALLEVIATE the affections
of a liberty loving people, from the National Gov
eminent. Disguise the matter as we may, it is a
fact to be deplored, not denied that those who ad-
minister the Federal Government seek to make il
the engine of the most rcmorseless despotism up
ON the face Of the earth. Before this despotism,
the barbarisms of the Dark Ages appear as tri.
fling enormities. France has had her Reign of Tor
roriand we as a nation are now pa sing through one
which, if less bloody is rot less infamous, and dis
graceful to the actors. 1t is even doubtful wheth-
err the pages which shall record the atrocities of a
Danton, II Marat, and a Robespirre, will be black
err than those which shall record the atrocities of a
Pierce, a Douglas, and an Atchison. Jefries'
bloody laurels have been plucked from his brow
by n Kane and a fancy. Under these circum-
stances, no one should be surprised if q people
who love justice, right, and liberty, and hate in
Justice, wrong, and slavery, should attribute to
the Government, what alone attached to the base,
bad, wicked men, who administer it.
Disunionists should. however, remember that in
the purer and better days of the Republic, and
under our present constitution, Washington sign
ed a bill excluding slavery from every foot of ter
ritory then belonging to the United States. JET
ferson then thought it constitutional Douglas
now does not. Washington thought it both right
and constitutional Franklin PIERCE now thinks il
neither. Madison, Franklin, and Patrick Henry
gave the weight of their great names to the meas
ure, which now meets the condemnation of Blu
chanau, Cass, and Striugfellow. They forget
that when these modern lights, go out, and theii
mission for evil is ended, that there may be virtue
enough left in the people to return to the safe
paths trod by the early fathers. They should re
member that for nearly fifty years, the highest ju
dicial tribunals in the land, uniformly decided thai
slavery was the creature of local laws. Then the
bench was graced with such men as Marshall and
Story. Now these decisions are over-ruled by
by such men as fancy and Grier. Time, which
corrects all errors. will yet vindicate a Marshall
and characterize a fancy.
The iron rule of these little, base, bad men, will
be as short as it has been iniquitous. Through the
darkling gloom of the present, the bright stars Of
the revolutionary struggle yet shine. Mingline
with the pigmies who now rule the hour are a few
of the giant sons of liberty. They are just now
10 the back ground, but are steadily advancing
The. van is led by q Chase, a Seward, q Sumner
and a Hale. There will be no pause in the on,
ward march of these men. The whip is now in
their hands, and the reins of government soor
will be. The ship Of State will be lifted from tht
reefs, rocks, breakers and quick-sands, upon which
she is now stranded, and again safely moored. in
her ancient harbor. Then will arise from hel
decks the glad anthems CT liberty. The Goodies,
Of Slavery, with her throne Of whips, chains, and
Igyves, and her crown Of manacles, forged for hu