Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-10-16
THE INCONSISTENCY OF A FALSE POSI-,
TON.

Governor Chase made a political speech in Gin.
cinnati a few days since in which he exposed the
inconsistency of the Democratic party, in its pre-.
tensions to popular sovereignty. In the course of
his remarks he said
The Democracy preach to you popular sover.
eighty. lbelieve Unpopular sovereignty. Iii a
scod thing ard n right thing. 1t signifies that the
people ought to rule-and they do rule when they
have a chance. But human rights uuderlie pop
ular sovereignty. Every man fesls That be ought
to be a freeman that he is entitled to life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness'.-Man holds this
right from God. Community holds this right from
God for the protection Of man. Liberty is ~inalien.
ade. IL cannot Justly be taken from one man
and transferred 10 another. And it is for this reason
that | condemn the institution OF Slavery. i. Ought
not to exist anywhere by popular CONSENT"
A clear and admirable exposition of mans mai.
urai right to liberty and a decisive statement of
the duty Of Government to protect man in the en-.
joyment of thpt right. But alas, listen to the fol
lowing, which Immediately succeeds and COMPLETES
the paragraph from which the above is quoted.
I'VE are misrcpresented by the Democracy
as entertaining the designs of interfering with
vested rights. l wish now to state, and if there
be a Southern man in this assem- blage, | wish him
to note that we preach no such doctrine. He mean
to leare slarery in The States phere oar fathers left IL.
We mean 10 leare il for the disposal Of The peopie OF
Tie States Dhere ii crisis. Wien the people send
a President and Congressman to to the National
capital to administer the Government upon this
principle, youwill find men like Henry CLAW ana
Francis p. Blair all over the South, and thew will
take care of this question"
A modern Democrat ba5ling Of popular cover
eighty, and voring for the L%ecompton Constitution.
presents not a more revolving case Of moral incon.
sis'ency' than does this single paragraph of Gov.
crnor CHASSIS speech. No mau knows better than
he that the fathers left all non sla yeholding states
bound to give aid and protection to slavery in 9th.
er states, 80 long as the people Of those. tates
choose to maintain its existence. lie fully recop
nizes the authority Of slavery in tie federal gov.
mert. lie has had humiliating evidence of its
power in the Margaret Garner, Broadcast and 9th.
er cases, and yet he falsely represents slavery as
sustained exclusively by tho states where it exists.
The fathers left it as the imperative duty of, Massa.
chusetts to return the bondman upon whom Gov.
'hS Sh"So ooJp Nou oonicTTeu tu6 lDallenaDle
right of freedom. Aud here is just the difference
between Governor Chase and on abolitionist. The
Governor asserts the paramount authority of the con-
s'isution of the fathers, as against the Goi.giyen
Liberties of a human being. The abolitionist de.
clares that mans rights should be protected and
Gods law maintained whatever-the fathers
taught, or the constitution AYERS.
The Democrats pirate of popular sovereignty and
then force slavery upon one portion of the inhabit.
ants of Kansas by imposing a constitution against
their consent upon another portion thereof. Govern.
or Gaze believes in popular sovereignty which he
analizes and defines to be he inal.enable right of
the individual to freedom and self.government
and with the very next breath volunteers the
pledge that millions of slaves shall toll and die as
such while he has no designs of interfering by the
Government for the protection of their rights
The right of slayeholding is a vested right Sacred