Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-06-06
THE ANTI-SLAvERY BUGLE,

scarcely attempted, except by the NONRESIDENT OF
radical Abolitionists-the disciples of Mr.. CARR.
son or Mr.. Smith--aud they are so far in advance
Of Public Sentiment, that their lessons take effect
on but few.
In a great Presidential contest. like that Of last
November, where the people of the Free States are
called upon to pronounce judgment on an cut.
rageou' aggression of Slavery, they show that at
heart they are Anti-Slavery that no form OF
involuntary servitude could ever find foothold
among them that their own soil will forever re-
main unpolluted by tho foot of the slave that
once aroused by what hey regard as q dangerous
usurpation Of tho Slave Power, that can forget all
other questions and that it is quite possible to
provoke them to such an extent that not all the dis.
ipline, tact, and power Of the South can withstand
their resolute purpose.
1t lie something to have made such a demonatra-
ton but. what has since taken placer One goes
to his farm, another to his merchandise, another
to his workshop, and Connecticut is nearly, while
Iowa is quite, reclaimed by the Slave Democracy.
The press of the Free States is thinking of some
thing elese than educating the People ia Anti. Sla-
very action, and the People are beginning to drift
again, trusting with blind confidence thas all will
be well. They haze no system of policy; the
South haS-a fixed, consistent farreaching policy.
The Possession Of Federal P0tcer, 10 use for The
purpose Of Territorial expansion, al,cays as subsid.
'o'y 10 the domination Of the Sldreholding Class
and tie crtenSiOu Of Slareholding Institutions this
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The Kansas struggle to Shareholders is a mere
incident ; but, with q majority of the North the
main question Settle it, and this majority may
acquiesce OF be satisfed-but the Shareholders,
never. Ifdecided against them, they will be slim
ulated to greater exertions in othor quarters if in
their favor, what they gain will be but a
stepping-stone to new undertakings.
They constitute n distinct ~class-more distinct
and isolated than tho nobility of England--for
they are geographically isolated. Controlling the
States in which they reside, directly, they indi-
rectly control the States to which they are alien,
and from whose People they are separoted.-
Their ambition is to govern, not only themselves,
but those People, using their joint powers for
the advancement of their own policy. So far,
their ambition is gratifed-they do rule-and the
instrument of their rule is the Federal Government
Suppose Kansas be lost to Slavery, it does not se-
riously impair their power. The Federal Govern
ment Ia still in their possession, its patron.
age at their disposal. its policy under their direc-
ton. They have still a standing army of off cials
in the Free States, through which they can ope-
rate on local elections, and secure political power
among their adversaries. They can still work to
keep open the way for acquisition of territory on
the Southern border, and constrain the expansion
policy of the Government TO look always to the
South. They may yet hope to compensate them.
selves for the loss of Kansas by the acquisition of
Cuba, or as much of Central America as shall be
disable by slave labor.
IL Is tor the purpose OF keeping our readers ad-.
S'sed o. the liked and comprehensive policy of the
South, that we devote so much space to quotations
from its Press. We wish them to understand that
the Slaveholding Class have n clear, well defined,
comprehensive aggressive p~olicy-a policy dictat.
ed by the necessities of the Slave System and the
love OF power that the annexation of Texas, the
acquisition of Mexican Territory, the Kansas
struggle, the movement for the purchase of Cuba,
are but parts of this scheme of policy, which em.
braces perpetual and universal empire that they
may moderate their tone, disguise or postpone
their purposes, even make concession on some par
ncular point, but that their spirit and aim are al
ways the same-bent on suhjugating all opposi-
ton, establishing and extending their rule: and
that the practical inference from all this is, that
the People who are opposed to such a policy must
not rely upon irregular. spasmodic e~xertions to
defeat 1t, but must organize Tor themselves a sys.
tenn of policy no less defined, consistent, compre.
hensive, and active, with n view so establish their
in the Federal Government and Ad-
ministration.