Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-03-13

shall reap the whirlwind.' II
Kneading heir dough and depoUring their judg.
el These are among the smallest Of their oper.
ntions, when the wicked compass about the right.
eous and are permitted to use them and the cons,i.
tuition itself, tor their purposs; and the bred Scott
decision, and the promulgating Of it's principle,
with its bitter fruits forced down the threats Of a
submissive people are the natural result. Only one
thing was needed, only one element,to constitute in
our government an exact Counterpart presentment
OF the picture of iniquity in the Scriptures. and
that we now have in full tho garroting Of truth,
and practice of open uneduIterated forgery and
lying ia the halls Of Legislation, and in the seated su.
preme magistracy, anu in the published deliberate
messages and edicts of the magistrate, in defiance
OF the moral stnse and common sense and undis-
puted knowledge OF the whole community. Those
that sit in the gate speak ialsehood. and judgement
IL turned away backward, an ! justice stnudeth aiar
of. for truth is fallen in the streets, and equity
cannot enter. Our judges arc evening wolves
they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. That
they may do evil With both hands earnestly, the
prince asketh and the judge asketb Tor a reward.
and the great mau, he uttereth his n.ischievous de-
sire, and 50 they wrap it up. The best of them is
a briar the most upright is sharper than u thorn
hedge
pray thee. o prophet Of the Lord, Of whom is
this spoken ? Was il written cf the Jews, and
are we transmitted into their identity of depravity
and judicial blindness Have we gone back by
tie dial Of AbnZ three thousand years to ar-ogate
and appropriate. with irresistible application, this
. Indictment Of taseuess aud villainy as ours? Let
the i%niquitous and despoiic legislation uow being
wrought to its perfection in Congress. and the vio'
lent sitting OF inquisition into crime, answer. In
what legislative assembly on earth was there ever
before such Endorsement Of known frauds, an
such open, deliberate. daring suppression of inqui-
ryP Tho fraud discovered ami proven, glaripg
aud undeniable, and yet legal investigation forbid
den, and that in the sight VI all the people The
witnesses at hand, with full aud perfect evidence.
and yet not one Of them permitted to appear in
court or 10 speak 1t is as when, in q land of
slavery, a man shall openly, daringly, steal, muir
der, commit adultery, and the eyes of a thousand
slaves shall be upon him but there shall be no legal
proof 50 these crimes in Congress are crimes with
only slaves as witnesses, and there can be no testi-
.mony. Tie thing may neve. be doubted, but the
Law SO ensnaringly contrived, and the conspiracy
OF suppression 50 unanimous, that the prosecutor
himself shall be prosecuted, condemned al hang,
ed, while the criminal goes free. None calleth
for justice, nor any pleadeth for tt ruth they trus,
in vanity, and speak lies ; they conceive mischief
and bring forth %iniquity. They hatch cockatricc,s
eggs, and weave the splder's web he that eateth
of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed
breaketh out into a viper Aud so on, to the end
OF the chapter, which, had it been now first reveal
ed from heaven for our condemnation, could not
more accurately have depicted our iniquity and
shame.
1t is a terrible thing to see produced in America
the scenes of Senatorial degradation that darkeu
the pages of Tac'tus; to see a body of Legislator,
once the freest in the world; reduced to the condi
ton Of a mere machiCery Of registers for recording
the DEGREES of a despotism of three hundred thous
: and slavocrats ! To see men. at the nod Of Caesar,
and in the way indicated by him, give their votes
20 establish bis will, and call for the yeas and nays
Just as if they were freemen 70 see them at his
plasure make or unmake laws, affirm and deny in
the same breath, interpret and force constitutions
20 suit his purpose. placing themselves at his dis
posal. as his tools ; and doing all this under the
continued forms, not yet laid aside, of a republican
government, and of senatorial and Representative
i,1apapdapca 7 To gan III nusa nf Ram aSenfa III vn
commanding an investigation into one of the great
! ost political and social crimes that darken the re
corded history of the world, and then tamely sub
hitting to have the whole scrutiny crushed, surO
.cated. turned into ridicule, by the t%reachery o
their own Speaker without one single movement
either to punish his betraya of their trust, or t
resoyer and exercise their own inslted jurisdiction
Such is the Federal Slaveocracy. OF al' spectaclet
on earth, none was ever SO thoroughly Illuminating
And still, republican senator's vote fer standing
'armies,t to be used for enforcing slave constitutions
And still the Tribunes of the people parade tn
streets, and keep 40 the terrible delusi0n OF ibelt.
10 the last, and even when the Constitution TO
freedom is buried, will appear a. the chief mourn
ers and masters OF ceremonies AS to the SUP
preston Of truth, and usurpaIiou OF power by tn
servauts Of the people. 10 disobey, confound, an
defeat the rightful will of the masters nf the socla
AMI civil trust, the Executive Committee of tn
American Tract Socety having set the example {
betraying their sacred stewardship, and tetyin
the authority. and defeating, the object of thei
constituency, il is not wonderful that so high an
popular an instance of c%oncealment and frau
should Ne regarded with reverence and admiration
Why should not the example set by a .proiessedl
religious body to he followed by those in politics
place and power? IF such things be done in tn
green tree, what shall be done in the dryf A n
lisious OK pedienc 80 adrOit and successful IN q
Executive Tract Committee, cannot, surely. be col
.demned or forbidden in an investigating Comm
tee Of the House of Representatives. They,i to-
may gnr0le evidence. may multilate the record
may suppress inquiry, may refuse to publish ma
.rightfuliy cover up more truth than that famou
executive sixpence which could bury, as a bushe
the whole word and subject of slavery. on the col
scientions plea of a uniform adherence to the opii
ions Of all evangelicalChristendom. Why n~otdtrdy
suppress truth. for the sake of suppressing aglh
ton? II purity were not requisite Tor peace, whl
a happy world, and what q model republic our
would be.
Will the free North nerer take the government
and administer it for freedom? The people ar
like the unarmed passengers Of a ship, with a p
rate in command at the helm. he is armed to tn
teeth and his officers with him and Will
he stands with his revolver in on
hand. and the other on the wheel, giving
his orders, what can the covering shrinking
unarmed rabble DO but obey? But piracy ON boar
q ship is not to be compared, in its criminalitl
with the piracy of usurpation in the State for II
cake of slavery. There is no higher crime tina
that Of ~usurping the authority OF law by fraud an
violence. And it is a participation in the mol
strous guilt, when men cousel a com Yliance with
asubmission to it, an Ignorance OF 1t or a coneea
ment and voluntary forgetfulness of the prime i
iouity. Nofhiag Jut RESOLUTION and resistance ca
be right. II cannot be right, because a lie hi
been told. to support it ms the truth. rather thI
fake the trouble 10 contradict it. Yet this IS Il
urirciple of those who have counselea submissit
to the usurpation in Kansas, submission to it's Law
asif the government were a legal and legitima
authority. Submission to such "A government. ii
receiving and acknowledging of it rs right. is II
destruction of all government, and q bounty f(
the highest crime. j..
Our fathers resisted with turbulence and vi
lence an act of the British Parliament, their ow
legitimate government, for taxing them witbo'
representation. In the short period of seventy'h'
years, so infinite a change has passed upon the
decendants that they are enforcing on free citizen
with The United States army. laws that were e
acted by an iilegitimate legislature. laws witho