Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-03-27
ANTI SLAVERY AT THE SOUTH. RE
PROVING REPUBLICAN," COM
PROMISE AT THE NORTH.

ANTI SLAVERY AT THE SOUTH, RE ]
PROVING REPUBLICAN" COM .
PROMISE AT THE NORTH. |,
We cannot say that the Anti.slavery sentiment Il
beginning to be manifested in Missouri, or even 1;
in Kentucky, is of so high q moral and political
tone as it ought to be. We think it is not. But
from the following, it will appear that it ~embodies T
earnestness and sagacity enough to r%epudiate and G
rebuke the disclaimers of Northern Republicans b
of any desire to interfere with slavery in the =,
States where it exists What good could such
helpers do to the cause of freedom at the Sou,h?- g
Radical AbolitioniSt. l(
A VOICE FROM MISSOURI. a
From the Missouri Democrat. '
"Among the signs Of the times are expressions
recently uttered 10y Republican Members on 'he
floor Of the Senate. which we DO not feel at liberty
to pass without notice. Mr.. Seward has stated that
he regards the great battle between Freedom and
Slavery as over" inasmuch as, before one year
passes away, the free States will he to the Slave
as nineteen 20 fifteen. This has been followed by
4 remark from Mr.. Fressenden expressly disavow-
ing any Intention or desire to interfere with Slave
~ in the States where it now exists, and others
have asserted the same thing in language equally
as broad. 1t is with deep regret we chronicle the
use OF such terms by men in whose public con.
duct we have seen much to admire heretofore. and
we must deplore the tendency which betrays it.
self in certain quarters to give so great u cnuse
a purely sectional aspect. If Mr.. Seward wishes
only a preponderance Of Northern States in the
confedcracy, he may we'll say the battle is over;
and if Mr.. Fessenden desires to contine the
benefits of free white labor to the section 1t now
holds, be may well say that he does not intend to
interfere with Slavery in the Slave States; but oil
must see that such positions, whether so intended
] or not, are sectional, selfish, and recreant TO
human progress. Partisans and placement may
bs content to wear the honors they have
won. but the people will not rest satisfied with the
delights Of any such Capua. To-day We are
struggling here in Missouri, a present Slave
{ State, to give all it's valleys 10 cultivation by free
f white citizens. relieved from slavery competition,
0 and we are told that such effort meets no indorse-
b ment at the hands of men who have heretofore
held TO q broad faith in the progress Of free insti'
9 tut!ons. Very well, let il be so. We shall go
= forward, nevertheless, and may say with Nelson,
e when sighted by admiralty dispatches, some
n day we shall have a Gazette of our own" We
n are struggling now and here, not for theorotic
y preponderauce of Free States in the Federal Gov
d eminent, not for mere Territorial liberties to
e guarantee free labor expansion, but also to re-
e claim Missouri from the Disadvantages OF q slave
n system ,hat is paralyzing her energies and criI-
1t ping her advance. And we make bold to say,
2 furthermore, that our sympathy and our service
are not confined within the line that separates ou'
State from adjacent Slater ; but that all Efforts t.
confer like benefit upon other
ic to elevate and encourage and protect the labor OF
le tho free working citizens against the depression
Of servile toll, will ever meet with our Jealous co
to operation. In Kentucky. Tennessee, Virginia. and
u MARYLAND, the same n. ovementi in behalf OF free si
II for the free labor Of n free yeOmaDry Is transplr
IN ing, and we hail it with emphatic conRratnlntion
70 We know that it will be said in vindication of thu
uositione assumed by Senators, that Congress ant
Id the Federal Government, have no right to interfere
h in such work, and that the Republican party ha'
lie no mission TO ~cons,rain the expansion OF ire
- l,:,;.Ia. - Gl,ua Sfafou Tins IN Dart Is true
4. but it does not fully meet the case. Practically
r. Congress is determining now the existence o.
~ non. existence of Slavery in Kansas, nnder I'M
shadow Of a dominant party. of an Administrator
be and of a Supreme Court that do NOT recognize
r. the power of Congress over the question OF Slave
i. nv in the Territories. 1t is the influence, tn
mr. patronage. the moral weight, the protection Q
the Federal Government that affects the subJec
even in the absence of direct Intervention. ]
= has been go in Kansas; it lie so in Missouri. A
al these are now thrown into the scale against fire.
labor and for slave labor. Moreover, it is the TO
~ of political organization, national and otherwise
an to formulate distinct policies, to give momentum
Of to great truths, to achieve victories everywhere !
~ behalf of the right. To this end the extinction
-. Slavery in the central grain-growing Slave State
is one of the first steps in the path of progress
To h step that is to be accomplished through I'll
- instrumentality of their own swelling population
doing the work. as Us now being done in the to
ritories and elsewhere, and sustained in so dom
A., by an emDOQleu pubic beutinenJ tnTouRuout ~
IDS nation, call it party or whatever name suits. thu
la' will cheer or uphold their self Advancement.
an is idle for leaders, in their isolation, to ignol
1e such manifest outgrowths. The shoots chow fort
PIE the vital sap in the trunk. Whether, therefor
on' presen. organizations may see tt to accept the a
pointed mission OF cherishing fee principle
extending q protecting egis over free e%migratio
and vindicating the cause Of free labor ever
where, as it moves from cline to cline, is a matt
of small consequence; for the masses of the pc
re. ole of the United States will not long want COT
e is biba.ion, expressive Of these great ends, whe
md ever the same becomes needful. 1t is morrow
In thus, and thus only. that a true nationality W
the take the place of mere sectionalism. for 1t tran
'at ters the strife from a conflict between States to
let contes; for population. 1t substitutes physic
development. social elevation. and home aggra
of ~dizement, for the issues Of prejudice. repressi
ge, and disunion which now obtain. 1t subordinat
self the Slavery question to the popular will, al
ace makes appeal 10 that will q legitimate field
cry controversy. The Free Labor movement, as
hat has taken body and shape and form out Of t
late Territorial and i~ncipient State struggles, as
raE has found it's development in thickening sett
nit. ment, as it has gathered in its hand the aspl'
aud tons Of the heroic. the hopes OF the econom
our the d~evotions Of the fanatical and the calculatio
ons Of the speculativss. as it has manipulated I
nas tide Of streaming thousands who pour forth fe