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

none but lin practicable fanatics" moral ninnies
attempt to be ut all consistent with the principle,
Of freedom. Anti. Lecompton Democrats and Re.
publicaus have n most easy method, in common
With the great majority Of church members, OF
sacrificing principle to expediency. whenever per
sonsi or party interest suggests that COURSE
Hence we can place little confidence in their pro-
fessed devotion to liberty, however sincere we may
kbint them, or however earnest they may really be
for the time being. The only reason why non
voting aboli,ionists are and have ever been, the
etapding lest of Free Sellers and Republicans as
we'll as Democrats, Wings and church-members, is
chat they insist upon carrying out the principles Of
freedom; or in other words-they insist upon
obedience to the immutable and self evident laws
Of God. The mass of the anti slavery men OF the
North are for DOING SOMETHING" and scorn to be
shut up within the narrow boundaries Of princi
pie. Their genius and their philanthropy. alike
seorn such cramping restrictions. They prefer the
full swing Of e1pediency, and then they can req
sonably hope to accomplish something. Hence
they have not the slightest difficulty in c~ondemine
slavery az the greatest of moral and political here
sies, and at the same time honoring the herltie' as
equal companions in church and state, and reJoic'
ing to elevate them to the chief seats OF honor
and power. whence they may dispense both law
and morality to the nation.
Not SO with the Shareholders. They believe in
sticking to q principle. They do stick to principle
and therefore they succeed. Most impressive
illustrations of this they are constantly pressing
upon northern consideration in every variety oil
form, their interest and ingenuity can suggest.
They set out with the principle that slaveholding
is right, and then worry logically claim the privi'
leee Of practicing their right of slaveholding in
Kansas, and Verm mt, and wherever else their
interes, or duty prompts them to 90.
Men profess to be astonished at the principles OF
the Nebraska Bill, Of the bred Scott Decision and
the Leeompson swindlc. What of tLems They
all rebound 20 the glory Of the Patriarchal practice
Of slaveholdiug. They are but the practical asser-
ton of this God-given right. The indignant slave.
holders become at once moral heroes, worthy OF oil
honor. when they threaten to overthrow the constr
Observation-Disclosures the government and scatter
churches and ministers to the four winds of heav'
on, If they attempt to interfere with the practice
Of their patrisrchal duties, at any time or place.
Slaves are property by the enactnen.s of the
higher law. and neither Congresses, Judges, Gov
oFuOIo v u AIoeiuShtet ha'S my f6h'
With it's behests. And pray. has not q man a right
" cell ss we'll as hold his property. BY what right
then Goes Congress presume to pronounce the trade
In slaves, piracyf This is the view taken OF the
sass by the merchant princes in New Orleans, who
like the ancient pstriarchs, prophets and apostles,
prefer obedience to their divine law OF the right Of
slsveholding, at the sacrifice Of peace-,he Union
and the church rather than recognize the authority
Of Congress to pronounce the exercise of that
tight, piracy. Hencein defiance of Congress, the
trade in slaves IL now as really established with
the heather princes IF Africa, as with the Chris
tian" nabobs Of Virgins. (See the article from
she NeW Orleans Delta. in another c~olumn.)
The people of the North cry out against this as
horrible! Why so! Have they not consented to
il, whsn they consented to recognize slave owner
ship in Mississippi and. Louisiana.-The. Della and
its friends, the shippers of this African commerce
only claim what is logically and on principle
their pound of flesh. Did they not buy these slaves
on the coast of Africa. And this discrimination
of Congress, which makes it piracy to transport
and sell in Louisiana slaves bought in Africa,
while it pronounces it honorable commerce, to
transport and sell them from Virginia, is not only
an odious discrimination politically and CONNER
eislly. but it is also against the Divine right Of
slave holding, and these Southern moral T:tans are
resolved to resist; they will have the trade. Like
the Salt Lake Saints. they do not hesitate to choose
obedience to their chosen principle in defiance Of
Congress and the law vf the nation.
This con,ras, Of the frmness and persistence Of
these pirates upon principle, with the compromis-
ing, stultifying course Of that portion of the
nation which pretcnds to an honest love OF liberty,
il certainly greatly to the disadvantage of the
latter. The New Orleans Delta, represents the
feeling of the South, when it shows its contempt Of
abe subservieEcy and Inconsistency of the north
by the defiant particularly with which it gives
ths minute details Of this conspiracy, as well
against the laws of Congress as the laws OF God.
Its brayado is almost sublime. 1t would be quite
80, had not the north proved time and again, that
1t was without courage or self.respect before the
imprdeat demands of slave holding b~raggarts and
ibuliies. Indeed this impudent particularly of
the Delta, and the suddenness with which the
is sprung upon US, suggests the idea that
the statement may be a hoax. Such We should at
once pronounce it, did we not know that it is the
cprpose Of a portion Of the South to establish this
%. all hazards, and that their impotence
audaeity in crime, is equal to the conception
of the most inhuman and diabolical Of monsters.
, And yet even if it be true, that the slave trade
Is now in successful operation, VIC apprehend the
bold Villains who are prosecuting 1t, will find some
opposition and embarrassment in their commerce,
not SO much from the anti-slavery North
though that will be sufficient to aid the difficulty,
20 from the domestic producers of this species
Of merchandise. Governor Wise ne have no
doubt will be found as heartily opposed to free
trade in niggers. as in oysters, and we shall soon
expect TO see a message from him on the subject,
slsborately setting forth the immense profits of
slave growing, to the chigalrous citizens of the old
Dominion.
THE KNOXVILLE SYNOD. Tho principal branch
Of the Southern secession from the New choolPres-
kxk.r;.n nburah unaak. - Knox,,tI. Tu.