Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-06-12

principles, when tho party was dubbed the Fro
Dcmocra'y' certainly gave it no higher claims t
be denominated tho true friend of Liberty thar
when sailing under the VanBuren flag.
In 1896, when the party pretending to be 70
Liberty ran still farther of the track into u SOFT o
repu6licanism, or old w~higgery done over, then i
was that ihere was so little of the leayen of tho ole
lump left, tina. it could not make a raise withou
iurther compromising its already dwarfed dimen
sions and running after the shadow of a ghos
OF pretensiOns to freedom, and was then beaten il
the race. Farther onward still, it only asked
through its congressional organs, that Kansas b.
n free state, that was all; and yet, the party com
promises. The last issue was, only let US beat
certain Lecompton, and we are content. Enough
of stealings were had to buy a suficiency of vote
to help L%ecompton through, and so republicanisn
was beaten in the last ditch. What the issue nov
is, VIVA knows?
And this is the legitimate result Of compromis
ing. In a controversy between right and wrong
whenever they enter upon q compromise it is uni
versally at the expense Of right. This case full,
proves the above position, and ought to serve as ar
everlasting caution to all who would WELD efici
ent action against oppression that thoy must as
sumo the high ground, that there is no law fol
slavery, and to put 1T down, no compacts, miscon
strued constitutions. or even national unions. 70,
a moment thould hinder its overthrow.
What does the slave-not Uncle Tom in the sin
gular number, but near four millions in the grea'
plural-what do they want? They want, and have
the right to demand, that equal and exact Justice
to which all men have n natural and inalien able
right. And does this republican party, as a party
ann to elevate them from chattelism to manhood!
Or does the democratic party propose to break the
yoke of the oppressed? No! Both deny with
equal earncstness that they have anything to dc
with slavery. The millions may in vain groan, il
is theirs to fight for spoils, power, Lecomptcn, OF
anti. Lecomptonl
The great mad-dog, slavery, must be untouched
IN fifteen States, said the democrocy fourteen
years ago, and ever since. Then Liberty men said
cut his head off! No, said wings and democrats
1t will dissolve the Union. Four years after Free.
soilers compromised to cut his legs off only, close
up to his body; then in '52 Free Democrats Just
wanted to cut his pa rs off, SO he could not travel
into new territories. Since that, all they have been
asking is, to cat his tail off and, so far to a point
bave they whitfield the compromise, that, let us
nip eff just the LITTLE END of his tail, and we will
call it a glorious anti. Lecompton triumph, but the
"%critter" growled; Underlined Douglas thought
1t was the lion in the mountains of IIepzidam, and
yead when they knew they should have nay'd as
the great L%ecompton whang-doodle howlcd. And
he has now the prerogative of wagging his latter
end in cxultation over the compromi5ers of liberty,
with all his paws, teeth and head to boot, and
Buchanan to keep his kennel clean.
But there are others, not a few, who aim not
merely to deprive this mad dog of his tail, of his
paws, of his legs, of his teeth, but even Of his life.
All parties of the North have those in their ranks
who wish, and will ere long labor for the success
full overthrow of slavery. There are thousands of
republicans who are exceeding 10th to bend so low
down as they do to, ask for so little, and finally get
nothing at last. There are likewise thousands Of
democrats with hearts in them who are fast be-
coming Disguised with their false position. and are
unwilling much longer to be inveigled by the delu-
sive cry Of a heart!ess democracy. Such elements
will sooner or later find a resting place in an Or
ganization which will be satisfied with nothing
loss for its object than the overthrow of slavery;
then in the great conflict between Liberty and Ty.
rany, which is now so fiercely waging, who can
doubt the ultimate triumph of the Right?