Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-09-04
HOW TO ESTABLISH HARMONY BE
TWEEN THE NORTH AND THE
SOUTH

Horace Greedy lately made a speech in Ulster
County in New York in which be gave his views
of the principles and policy necessary to be adop-
ted to settle the slavery question and enable all
to live together in peace and fraternal Union. lie
seems to have become ar advocate of the Cincin.
natl platform and gives his approval Ct one Of its
principles as follows
Gle gave q history of the legislation of Con
gress against slavery in the territories. from the
first prohibition proposed by jefferson in 1854,
down to the Missouri compromise. lie was salts
fed that 10 state ca ud hereafter be refused admis-
son into the Union on the ground Of its being n
slave state. They would not be able to 90 behind
the sovereignty OF the new state to prevent her
adopting such institutions rs she pleased III her
constitution were only republican in form. The
only point of effective resistance was to the estaO,
iisllment Of slavery IN the territories. If Cuba
were to form a state government in order to come
into the Union, they would not be able to keep her
out because of her being n slave state. Whatever
they might say about 2oI ular sovereignty or the
rights of the people, experience had setteled the
principle o~bliqucly laid down in the Cincinnati
platform, and directly affirmed by Buchanan's
message, that the proper time for q community to
decide whether or not it would have slavery. is
when they come to present their constitution. But
the question arose, what should be tho law o. the
territory prior to that time.
This speech was made at a meeting, designed to
fuse the Republicans and Americans, andi Mr..
Headly one of the Knownotbing speakers on the
occasion, was worry decided in his affirmation that
politicians could not stick to any fixed principles
but must change with changing circumstances
and very appropriately quoted in illustration the
fact that ION the Crittenden Amendment in Con.
gress, the Republicans and Democrats strapped
11rtuci,IeSD A etotop,opf ubicb pa;thor Ar. G-oo
ly or any one else disputed. A good exposition Of
the easy virtue of the politicians.
In the following paragraph which We select
from tho New York Posts report Of Mr.. Greedy
speech, We have his method. in addition to the
above, for permanently settling the difficulty. lie
said
The'causes were deeper than any Presidents pol.
icy. and those causes still existed to override the
policy of future Presidents. elected by similar
means. There would never be unity and harmony
between the North ard the South, until they arriv'
ed at an understanding of certain fundamental
truths. The old revolutionary policy of Washing.
ton and Jefferson could alone bring tranquility
That policy was q recognition of slavery as a 10.
cal evil, with which only the people of the local.,
ties affected have to deal, and the recognition oil
freedom as the natural condition Of man. These
principles and that policy would give the country
peace, and establish harmony between the NORTH
any the South.
MIR. Greedy does not proceed to tell us, as h,
should have done, how, if he should succeed il
bringing back the question to original principles
he will in future keep it there. Why may it no
slide off the track, as he admits it has done hereto
fore and bitterness and confusion be again as nov
the result. Such a propositirn would be secuted n
the suggestion of idiocy, but for the fact that tn,
moral vision of the nation is lost by their habitua
com compromising with slavery.