Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-08-29
From the NationSl Anti-slavery Standard.
THE DISUNION CONVENTION.

We think that those of our readers who keep an
eve on the newspapers, and on the Pro-Slavery
Department OF the STANDARD must have had the
Importance of the Convention soon to be held,
probably at Cleveland fully impressed on their
minds If seeing ourselves as others see us be a
thing mucti to be desiderated help to self
know ledge the knowledge of how others, and es
pecially our eneDies, look upon what we are about
or propose doingis, perhaps, the very best way OF
learning the true character OF our course IN either
case. L. is sale, as general rule, to DO what our
euenmies wish us not to do, and it is by pretty
close observation Of this rule of action that the
Abolitionists have made the mark shey have upon
the country. We have always been the objects
Of the kindest solicitude AT every stage OF our
progress we have been warned of the mischief we
were doing to our own cause, and pointed to the
more excellent way which would lead us to the
end we wished to compass. If we would not ruin
,ur prospects and retard the emancipation of tue
slaves from two hundred years to eternity, we
must let the Colonization Society alone, if we
would not make of its blessings; we must be
cautious how arrayed either OF the great polit-
ical parties against US should piously shut
our eyes to the little inGrmites of our Mother
Church in the little matter of devourins her own
children, and of welcoming Slavery 10 the table OF
her Master, and pouring the waters OF baptism
upon its brow.
And so on, at every step in our changeful his
tory, we have been denounced for making 1t n
wrong one, and, though slavery were Divine
Institution and part and parcel of Rcpub-
lcauism and Christianity, we were very worthy
of blame for not proceeding in way that should
be efeCtual utterly to destroy it. But the Aboll-
tionsts headstrong generation, and
they followed the light of their own eyes and flew
directly in the face of the wsest and most states
manlike man. and did the things that were the
most unpleasant to Our First Men in Church and
State and made very unpleasant disturbance
wherever they happened to find themselves They
would persist in compelling people to think OF
those ineegant negroes at the South, to whose
existence all manner of people had agreed to shut
their eyes, and in making the very pew-cushiohs
uncomfortable to the Saints, and the ward-rooms
and ballot boxes uneasy TO the Sinners, by reason
of their incessant importantly in behalf OF those
unpleasant and intrusive individuals But though
the course of the Abolitionists has not commended
itself the to appreciation of men of weight and in
huence in Church and State, it has answered pre-
ciscy the purposed to themselves They have
done exactly what they meant TO do, and that is
what not many OF the wise and prudent, as the
world calls such, can say Of themselves. The first
and essential thing to be done is an organized at
tack upon such o system slavery was to draw
peoples attention to it to force them to know oi
its essential nature and necessary accidents &c
keep iys image, in all It's ugness, continually y
before their eyes. And we humbly hope that 1t
will not be denied by anybody North or South, thai
we have done that.
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the history of our Movement than the one wher
we felt compelled to take up our position against
the Constitution and the Union. The Shareholders
and their Northern abettors felt that prufant
hands had been laid on the Ark of the Covenant
of Slavery Slavery knew by the infalllbllity OF
instinct that its enemies had learnt where was
its vital part and were armng their hands agains
Il it, John Quincy Adams baited for many
days in Congress- and it seemed at first as II his
expulsion was sdre, for presenting Northern
petition for n Dissolution Of the Union, couched II
the Identical words of from South Carolina, II
1882. which was received and referred without
censure. In this City that Judge in Israel
| Mordecai Menasseh Noah, charged the GRAND
Jurors that, if we should be mobbed for consider
ling the question of Dissolution (which he allowed
he had perfect legal right to dol' they. should
Iindict-not the rioters, but-us for having pro
voked breach of the peace And, IN all IKE
lihood. nothing but the fact that the great rac'
between Boston and Fashion came on that DAY
and distracted the attention of the patriotic multi
tude from u.s. prevented the riot which the lie
corder of New York thus solemnly commende'
, from the Bench. But this was not the worst tina
we had to endure. Many earnest ana falthiv
Abolitionists who had stood side by side with u
in all the earlier prosecutions and distresses, couI
not longer see eye to eye with Us in this matteran
. left us and walked with us no more.
{ But Time, which tries all things has set his sea
upon this measure of ours, also. Our agitation