Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-08-08

ritv for. besides the power in the State Govern
ments to use their own militia. 1t will be me duty
of the General Government to aid them 'cuM he
strenqM of the Union, when called for'-and that
duty has been performed with alacrity on more
than one occasion.
The United States Constitution was not adopted
without some twinges of conscience on the part OF
some of its trainers. Thus in the course OF the
discussions, Luther Martin lhimselt oelegatel
states
1T was said we had just assumed place
among independent nations, in consequence OF our
opposition to the attempts of Great Britain to en-
stdve us that this opposition was grounded upon
the preservation of those rights to which God and
Nature had entitled US, not in particular, but in
common with all the rest of mankind that we
had appealed to the Supreme Being for his asss-
tance, as the God Of freedom, who could not but
approve our efforts to preserve the rights which
be had thus impaired to his creatures that now,
when we had scarcely risen from our knees, from
supplcatipg his mercy and protection in forming
our government over a free people,-a government
formed pretendedly on the principles OF liberty
and for its preservation,-in that government toI
have provision not only puttingit out of its pow
er to restrain and prevent the slave trade, put
even encouraging that most infamous trahc, by
giving the States power and influence In thel
Union in proportion as they cruelty and wantony
sported with the rights of their fellowcreatures,
ought to be considered as C solemn mockery Of
and insult to, that God whose protection We had
then implored. and render us contemplate to ev-
cry true friend Of liberty in the world
The Constitution remains to this day unchang-
ed in its slavehodng provisions, except that rela-
ting to the foreign slave traffic, which 1t Is In the
power of Congress at any time to restore, and TOR
the restoration of which leading journals at the
South are now beginning to clamor. Inc
Constitution and the Union are synonymous
terms destroy the one, and the other ceases to
exist
Now, that such Union is stained with blood,
and organically inqutous, is as certain ps that
robbery and murder are crimes ; that 1t cannot De
supported without personal guilt, to fearful ex-
tent, is equally clear that 1t ought never 10
have been formed with such fragrant stipulatlons,
no matter what might been the consequences, and
therefore ought not to be continued single hour
longer is as undeniable as any seli-evident moral
proposition. Pollution covers the garments, blood
stains the hands of every man who swears 10 up
hold it. No other language SO forcibly describes
it as that used by the prophet OF old, ana Whlcn
is to be reiterated to the end-lt Is a co0endnt WtM
death and an agreement aclh heN.' Without ut,
where would be the power OF the South or the secu
rity of Shareholders? If the Canada line were
brought down side by side with the border slave
States-if the North were free and Independent
republic, how would it be possible for the South to
keep her slaves in bondage -? TO the non-slave
holding States particularly (says the Marysvile
| (Tennessee) Hteligeucer, we are indebted ior
armament safeguard against insurrechon.' says
MT. UnQerWOOu, Oh htubuChy, L"C
iof the Union is the dissolution Of s's-
rery. If the Union were dissolved into two
parts the slaves would cross the line, ana
then turn round and curse his master from the
other shore Says Mr.. Arnold, OF Tennessee-
| What had The South to rely on, if the Union 'cere
dissolued 2 Were they cut loose from the Nofth'
whittier were they to look for protection
| This is Southern testimony, which could be quo,
ted to any extent Listen to what Is confessed
on the part of eminent men at the North says
the Hon Horace Mann-'An escaped slave couiu
not be recovered before the adoption OF the Con-
sttntion. The power to sieze upon escaping slaves
was one of the motives for adopting IL. hon.
Joshua R. Gddings says-'We are bound to per
nit the master to take him wherever Ae hnds him.
We must not secrete him from the master: we
must not defend him against his master nor are
we to rescue him from his masters custody after
| he shall have taken him. . The master has the
same constitutional right to pursue and capture
his slave in free State, that he possesses to pur-
sue and capture his horse or mule. by what
code of morality, then, do Mr.. Giddings and Mr..
Mann justify themselves in swearing 70 support
such a Constitution Taking them at their word
taking the fact as it is-what are they. with all
the people of the North, but the accomplces OF
the slave hunter?
! Expustulating with the South for threatening
to dissolve the Union, Mr.. Mann says, in cases OF
secession-'The Mississippi and Ohio rivers
where they border upon free States, Will be alive
as with shoals of porpoises. Rememoer, there Is
no Constitution of the United States now That
you have broken. The free States are, therefore,
absolved from all obligation to surrender ugtives.
Thousands and tens of thousands can escape even
while YOU are dining. What facilities for escape,
too. will the ocean present! To guard twenty
five hundred miles of coast is impossible. Under
such circumstances, slavery would melt away
upon your borders like iceberg in the tropics.
II Tile dan for the po,cer and triumph Of those Whom
you hate abolitionists t0iH hare arTtped.'
Il Of fha
said the late Hon. Stephen G. Phillips, slavery
presented the first claim to 10 the protection Of tho
general goue nment, and, by the guarantees which
d. it exacted, became enabled to draw its hte-blood
from. The ritals Of the Union. Every State Is thus
) made in measure responsible for maintaining or
, submitting to it. While the Federal Constitution
lasts, it will be the free States, as much as the
slave that will sustain O relation to slavery indts-
: pensi6le TO its security and continuance. 1t Is
enough to cause US to tremble We anticipate oul
, share of the righteous judgments of God,
The Hon. Josiah Quincy, Senior, says-'So long
, as the fugitive slave clause remains in the Const
. tuition of the United States, there is not militia
man in Massachusetts who may not be compelled
tomorrow, to cut the throat blow out the brains
of feow.ctzen, at the will of the basest slave
t holder. Are the Shareholders fools or madmen
: They go out of this Union for the purpose o
A maintaining the subjection of their slaves! VIII.
the arm of The Union is the cery stnew Of that su9ieC
a tion ! II is the Shareholders main strength. IL
: continuance his forlorn hope.
. Finally. John Quincy Adams declares-'The ba,
gain betaceenoF Freedom and &areJy, contained in
Constitution ofthe United States is morally and po
y ically rcious inconsistent with the prin ciciples
u which alone our revolution can be justified ,crttetan
oppressive by riuetng the chains Of sarery, by pied
ing the faith Of freedom to maintain and perpetual
e the tyranny Of the master and grossly unequal an
L. impotic by admitting that slaves are at once enc
mics to be kept in subecton, property to be secui
y ed and returned to their owners, and persons nc
s to be represented themselves, but for whom thei
masters are privileged with nearly double shar
n of representation. The consequence has beer
c, that this slave representation has governed tn
NJ Union Bepjamin's portion above his brethre
n has ravined as a wolf. In the morning he has dc
70 voured the prey, and in the evening has divide
r. the spoil Again Mr.. Adams says-'In the Art
70 cles of Confederation, there was no guarantee fo
le the property of the slaveholder-no double repre-
ic santatinn Of him in the Fedaral COnncls-no poN