Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-08-14
August 5, 1858.
"a LIVE ISSUE"

"a LIVE ISSUE"
Since the adoption of the Democratic platform
at Columbus, tie Democrats are planting them
selve on its bred Scott plank with evident salts
faction. and are triumphantly challenging the Re
publicans either to join issue with them thereon or
confess they were wrong in protesting to prefer
the Declaration of Independence before that judi
cial monstrosity. The Democrats understand that
however it be about Lecompton, on the question OF
granting the right of suffrage to colored persons in
the state, they have their adversaries entirely in
their power for two reasons. First, because the
great majority of the party, made up of unregen
ate Wings and know ~nothings are as heartily me-
gro haters as they themselves, and second because
in the close and doubtful struggle for power, the
minority who are inclined to be believers in the po'
litical and civil equality of ali men, are destitute
of the moral courage and decision to accept the is
sue on so generally an unpopular question. These
moral Macawbers, prefer standing silent and still,
"waiting fer something to turn up and thus
practically associate themselves and their infu-
ence with the fancy Democrats, rather than
leopard their party success by joining the real 'iv-
ing issue presented them. They find it a great deal
easier to denounce slaveholding and slave trading,
and nun stealing some where else than to recognize
the rights of the enslaved class in their own midst
and where they have the political power too act
with efficiency. They do not oppose slavery in
the states because they have not the political pow
er to do so, having voluntarily thrown it away :;
and they do not grant and protect the rights of
colored persons where they have the political pow
err. because popular sentiment is SO strong agains.
,bor, ,,3 he C,ll;pn upras,stiprl 10 intn tho pnpn-
lar current, they hope to float and land some
where, under such circumstances as will enable
them successfully to breast the increased and syol.
en- torrent-iEcreased by the contributions of their
own personal and partisan influence. Fatal delu-
sion. 1t is just this delusion which roSs our best
men who are politicians of their strength, and per.
suades them to set aside golden opportunities for
action. which never return.
The Democrats of the North have the shameless
eff~rontery to boldly deny the doctrine OF human
equality. to treat with scorn the right of men to
self. government and proceed openly to reduce
their tyrannous opinions to law. They under
stand that this is the vital question. To the only real
question a. issue, have black men rights which
white men are bound to re spect, with Internal sell
complacency in their wickedness, they say no, and
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them on the issue, or confess themselves h~ypOcrit'
ical IN their professions of regard to the rights Of
man.
As q specimen of the tone and temper Of the
Democratic press of Ohio at this time we give the
following from the New Lisbon Patriot, the or
r gan of Democracy in this country. We wish we
could record a defiant answer to it from the Re-
publican press here or elsewhere. but we have ye,
to see the fist evidence from that quarter tina.
. there is any disposition to take up the gauntlet
thus thrown down. They prefer to rest under the
/ imputation inevitably attached to their silence.
i. A LIVE IssUE.-The Democracy of Ohio have
passed u resolution calling on the Legislature &c
enact a law which would efectnally prevent al
j negroes without reference to shade or proportion o.
T African blood from voting. This is a question al
q is q question. Ii presents a live domestic ISSUE
Shall mu!attoes vote in Ohio? IL is a great ques
ton, and involves immense principles. 1t ID thu
first step towards settling our relations to the Afri
II can. since Republicanism was sprung on US. 1t
d not only a matter as to whether q mulatto shall
ote-but whether we shall offer a premium OF
y amalga nation whether the negro-proscribed b.
all white men Except a few chronic dispepticsl b.
universal consent-by harmonious reclamation ey
if en-. shall have proposed, that if he will marry
/ white woman, his children shall he elevated t
u equality in the State. The Republicans used t
pTet6Du w tuiuh ~ hckiooo VI VI puuiJ tOueSe
IT If they think so still, let them say so. They hav
undertaken a herculean woIk-the ultimate fret
dom Of four millions Of men. That work goe
slow. 1t don't sweat the cattle much. The mula
e toes' is the strongest case. II the Southern Slave
should be free and equal to whites--then so niue
more should free negroes of the North be on equa
ity-then so much more should those having nil
ture of white blood. We have given them the be-
shape they could ask. will they meet us and dh
cuss3 If they wont do this. what will they 90?
In response to this Democratic argumer
against self'government, politically, that it favor
amalgamation we are almost inclined to thin
from the following statistics there may be SOM
he thing in it, though our Patriot has mistaken tn
class with whom the difficulty rests. The rroubl
seems to be that the Democrats in Mississippi an
virginia(not the mulattoes) have the right to vot,
According TO these facts and thePatriot's argumeI
we have only to let the colored people be as the
are and put the Democrats on their political leve
and the whole difficult and appalling question
amalgamation will be settled at once.
MALGAMATIoN.--"T census tables of 1850 g,
hibit a few peculiar facts. The State of Missii
to sippi contained &c. 1906 m~ulattoes in 1850. Will
re the State Of Illinois at tue same date ~coDtaine