Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-09-04
From the 1ndependant Examiner.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ANT
SLAVERY.

| Do we really live in progressive agef Editorsi
politicians and ministers tell us that we do. Su:
periciay regarded the assurance 10 unquestion-
ably true. Progress IS being made, but-in schat
direction The wight or the wrong7 If we narrow
down the enquiry to the political phase of AFFAIRS
there need be little hesitancy in assuming that the
political progress of the day is not in the rgh. d.
rection And it is needless that we travel far to
make good this position. The ground assumed ~
the Republican party with reference to the subject
of American Slavery is a fruitful theme for con-
temptation and we may add of modification.
! When in 1856, this party brought into exist
ence, at Philadelphia, large proportion Of it's ad.
herents were little conversant with the giant evil
slavery whose purpose, ostensibly it was of the
party to check-not to say overthrow Hence il
were unreasonable to presume that the party
or its members would assume high. bold and eff
ective Anti.Slavery ground. The attainmept of
such position, by the masses in the party to be
hoped for by an education of them into thorough
understanding of the evil and crime of Slavery,
and the aims and purposes of the Slave P9wer.--,
We confess, oandidly. shat did not in 1855 an.
ticpate any direct benefit to Freedom from the sue:
cess of the Republican party in the contest of that
year. Yet, we supported the party then, in these
columns, and on the stump; and wEy Simply
because we DID look for INDIRECT benefit to Free
dom, in DIRECT rebuke of the pretensons Of the
the Slave Oligarchy, and in the confinement of Sla'
very to the soil it then occupied-satisfed as we
then were, and still are that Slavery must
have domain, from time to time, or die from
lis own e&naustlnB quulltles-nOplDR anu DeHeV-
Ing at the time, that the Anti,Slavery seets
then being sown during the approaching year or
two would bring forth harvest of full grown, ,weli
matured Abolitoniss-nOt even so much as sus.
pectng that the Republicans of 1856 would ever
be solicited to re mount so himsy o structure as
that erected by the Republican Convention at Phil
adelpha on the 18th Of june 1856.
But whatever of progress has been made ty The
Republican party during the past two years seeing
to have been, and has been, rather of retrogressive
than of upward and onward character. The
bulk of the members of the party. instead Of be-
ing bold, resolute abolitioniss, are the sheeress
shriVeod.up anti cztensionists.*
In order that the reader may not think that we
make this statement too strongly, We invite his at
ention to extract in the Declaration of Princi
pies" put forth by the recent Republican State
Convention Of llliunos. said to have been composed
of fifteen hundred delegates-the extract being "a
follows I've recognize the equal rights Of an
the States and avow our readiness and Willingness
to maintain them, and disciaim all Intention of Gti
tempting either directly or indirectly, 10 asssf Of
abridge the rights of any of the members of tie
Coniederacy guaranteed by the Constitution, or IN
ANY NANNER.to interfere with the institution OF
Slavery in the States where it exists"
! Now, why do men oppose tho "institution Of
! Slavery" at all Because it is wrong in itself, or
because of the political inequalities of which it is
the generator? If the later be the sole reason,
then must the concentration of the opposing pow.
er Of necessity be weak and impotent But, If
Slavery be opposed because Of its intrinsic wrong
lulness-becaus it is at war with justice and in
alienable right-defant alike of the claims of hui.
manity and the thunderings of Sinai-then III
it's resistance is something more, something
stronger than mere passive opposition demanded, !,
and the demand must be needed. Itis not ezoGgh
to say that the institution shall not hage eystence
beyond its present noxious foothoh. IT II ts
wrong extend Slavery, it is wrong to tolerate its
existence anyphere; and it is moral cowardice OF
the most reprehensiye character fora party or an
ind ydual to say that it or he will not Il" any
manner interfere with the institution where i ex.
lists. Descend to shs low and degraded position
, and then shaukIe the press and Button the hpG--
for you promise neither to speak OF that institution
exeyrated of Heaven and the yilest of all vile sys
items beneath the sun. TO the dogs with such
doctrines aud such syeophoncy! To the catci
combs of oblivion with that time eservng political
ldcgeneracy which would thus estop free canvass
of the workings of monster wrong. and rivts
tighter the shackles upon the limbs of The wca'y
and COM fortress bondman! God helping us, We
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sen platform 10 in process
Of after plank by tho leaders Of the he
party mo slave states was exchanged for No
more again for No slavery North
OF deg miu' only hear mo sayvsy With
the vote of majority Of WRITE cuEens kArscAs
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