Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-11-07


meet the thick-comins sggressions of the slave
power In the full pweep Of it's dospotism. They
know that that power has been false to. the well un.
derstcod Engagement in tho faith Of which 1t re-
ceived aauslihed liberation under the Fedora. I'm.
Ion In tho old states, They know that compacts and
compromises are binding alike upon both parties tC
them. They know that usurpation, long continu
ed. naturally breeds revolt, in a people determined
to be free, and that revolt knows no law but ne
cessity for its action. Planting themselves upor
the Declaration Of Independence as tho basis Of
their policy, they did not say precisely how the
enemies OF slavery, in their future struggles, should
make their approaches or prosecute their assaults
whether chiefly through the federal ageroies,o or the
saving grace of State Righ,s, so gloriously illus
trated by the State of Wisconsin but they virtu-
ally proclaimed war against the institution, and the
determination to rescue the nation from it's power.
stand therefore with the Republican party and
would stand with no party upon any narrower
platform. I am for the Union, simply rs the servant
OF Liberty, and l shall go for its dissolution the
moment | become convinced that it can be pre-.
served only through the perpetual en%slavement Of
four millions Of people and their descendants
We of the free states, without resorting to revolu-
tion, have the power to settle the slavery question
wisely and justly. Let us strive to eradicate the
scntim ent of tyranny from our hearts, and to kim
die in it's place a love of liberty so dominant and
all swaying and a hatred of slavery so intense and
auquencbabie, that the question of disunion shall
be forgotten in the prerious question Of deliverance
to the captive. The union will cease to be the cita-
del of slavery, when placed in the hands of men
who really love liberty. If we can breathe into
our people a true anti-slavery life, the Union, in
stead of being the prison-house of the slave will be
the chosen gate way of his escape. But so long as
we fail in our work of moral and political regener
alton, the dissolution Of the Union will be imprac-
ticable, if not undesirable.
fought perhaps to add one further remark. l
have said that my hope is with the Republican
party. l freely confess that 1 am not sanguine in
hope. l decidedly condemn the policy Of
of that party in making Immediate Success" the
basis Of its action in trusting in the power
of numbers, rather than the force Of All honest ex-
ample; in compromising and concealing the truth
for the sake of which it has protested to labor in
re%sorting to dishonoreble coalitions, and shallow
expedients, bringing reproach upon its cause; in
protesting perpetually. and with uplifted hands,
against every form of "abolitionism" as if Slavery
were right in itself; and in vainly looking for the
triumph of it's principles through the noisy
demonstrations of excited political contests occur.
ing at distant intervals, instead of systematic eff.
forts, prosecuted from year to year, for the spread
of needed formatio among the people. These
errors and short comings are mainly chargeable to
the bad leadership of unbelieving politicians, and
they must be abandoned before Republicanism can
honestly hold up its head as the friend Of the slave.
To this end as aRepublican Ishall steadfastly labor
hereafter, as l have done heretofore.
Very truly your friend,
GEO. w. JULIAN.