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

" "Vuih ~ v eusJ VI tneEe Werc hny neCebShy iOT I've
to add to the testimony presented, showing the Of
feet of the union in opl,oldipg slavery. Some
time ago he listened to a speech by a United States
Senator, (lienry WILSON, in which the same argu-
menss were made as cited by the friend who had
preceded him. He referred to the CRY ,hat the
union would be dissolved il tho south could not
have her own will. lie then argued that without
the union slavery could not stand. 1 thought he
made clean work Of il, fully proving bis position.
In a disunion speech his argument would have
been in place. But before he got through he
claimed for his party .bas. it was The truest of all
the parties to the Union / believe with these
men that itis the union between the Free and
Slave states that makes slavery possible at the
south-that without tie union slavery could not
exist. Hence / go for dissolution.
/ turn now to the resolutions before rs. Slavery
and freedom, it is declared, are eternal sntag-'
opisms, and can no more be roooncilcd than fire.
and water, or Christ and Belial. 1t SCENE TO me
that this is q truism, and that it would be so ac-
cepted anywhere else but here, whore an attempt
at such reconciliation has made the people incapa-
BILE of understanding the mplest elements Of moral
truth. If slavery and freedom are brought. to-
gether, being o~pposites, either they must be equal
and counterbalance each other; or one must Ss'
stronger than the other, when, Of course, the
stronger becomes the governor. The American,
Government is an illustration of this truth. Slave
ry and freedom were brought together il the same
confederacy. Slavery set to work to gain supre-
macy, and it succeeded. The slave power hes
never asked what eventually it did not get. 10
the people refused its demand ct first, it had but
to take two steps to gain what could not be attain
ed at one stride. When the slave power demand
ed the Missouri compromise. slavery could not
have been made the common law of the land.
Shareholders did not demand, then, that the south,
should DO the exclusive properly of slavery bar
agreed that the north should belong exclusively 70.
freedom, and the south be open alike to freedom
and slavery. But to day, another, ste has been,
taken. Now the South is to be the exclusive prop.
erty Of slavery, and the North is to DO open alike,
to slavery or freedom.
Slavery now gives you your presidents. 1t APP.
points your Supreme Judges and dictates their de-.
cisions. were told before the last Presidentiali
election even by Democrats, that they did not like,
Pierce's administration lie was controlled BY tho
slave power. But" said they, 1--WE will change
all this and adopt a truer policy, We will elect =
statesman-n man of long experience and Of
impartial judgment, and will have a truly DEM
ocratic government" We'll, they elected Buchan-
an. But with what RESULT 1t il q true doctrine,
in this country at least, that 1.-The King never dies''
the throne is never vacant. Polk or Fillmore, or.
Pierce, or Buchanan may be called President, yet
the power that rules, and acts through every nd
ministration remains forever on the throne.
There is no interregnum. Harrison may die and
give place to Tyler, Fillmore may take the place Of
Taylor, Pierce may sink back again into his sceus.
toned obscurity and Buchanan occupy his seat
Still through oil this there is no change of rulers.
Slavery does it all. These are but the instruments
it uses. We SEQ, then, as the resolution asserts.
the utter and necessary failure of every attempt to.
unite slavery and freedom.
Another illustration of this truth, is the attitude,
in which earnest anti slavery men ore being fast.
compelled to place themselves with regard to this,
question. When the anti-slavery agitation began,
nobody thought of questioning the value, and tho
influence for good, of the Union. We thought il
was only because good men had slumbered, neg.
Letting to look into the character of slavery, that.
they had not abolished it long ago. We thought
we had but to speak and millions would echo our
voices. But we soon found that the whole North.
must be converted 10 the principles of freedom be-
fore the South could be reached. The Union stood
between us and freedom. The South knew this
and cried, You are disunionists !" We denied,
J the charge. | remember twentyfour years ago I
t conducted an anti-slavery paper-the first in nv
native state. ! remember its title was" III Union
isk" l would attach the prefix "Dis" to it now.-
Instinct is q great natter. The South saw that
we must come to join issue with the Union and Tho
3 Government; and tho idolatry of the Union was
| SO universal in the minds of the people, that they
seemed determined to stand by the compac. and
t keep slavery, rather than to abolish slavery BY on
5 dangeriug the Union. So we discovered at length
. that the Union was the great bulwark of Slavery.
But next a difference arose between earnest
anti-slavery people, as to the proper course to boz
pursued in making war upon slavery, they were con-
sequently, divided into two parties. One party
Condemned the Union and refused all voluntary
connection with the Government. The other party
condemned the existing Government and Union,
but were unwilling to give up politics. They claimed
that the CONSTITUTE on on which the Union is based
!, had not been rightly interpreted. True, they
said, it is wrong to uphold slavery, but they de-
, MED the inference that it was also wrong to sus-
tain the Union, as they held that it was by a vio-
lation of the constitution that the Union had be-
. come the bulwark of slavery. A true interpreta.
. ton, they claimed, showed she Constitution to be
$ hostile TO slavery. 1t is the duty of the govern
9 ment, said they, 80 to cons.rue it that it will forey.
er abolish the system throughout the land. Thus,
they came upon the same ground, practically, that
We occupied. and that is set forth in the resolution
+ that there can be no union between freedom and
4 slavery.
s These two rallying points are gathering about
b them all the earnest anti slavery feeling OF the
9 country. True there are persons in the Republics
an party, who are sincerely opposed to slsvery.and
wish to act out consistently their opposition. who.
8 have not yet felt it their duty to withdraw wholly
o from the party. But I believe these men lack in.