Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-11-06

foundation Of national morality and civil govern.
ment, the same argument is just is pertinent
against its existence N the States.
Every State in the Union should be Free State.
This was the design the fathers had ir vew, when
tbey erected what they proudly called Free Re
public on this Western continent All the orisi
nal States were Slave States but the spirit and
tendency Of the new Federal Government vas tc
have its free, normal course, it would have accom-
plished that work, which was only partially com
pleted. 1t should he the business Of the men Of
this generation to finish it.
This is no sectional work, but strictly national
Freedom is the national idea but the idea of
slavery is sectional. and worse anti republican
The institution of q Government for the
enjoyment and perpetuaiion of liberty,
right and justice for and to every man, made
Freedom national, and placed the brand Of sec
tionalism upon slavery.
This national idea of Universal Freedom is the
only true unitary idea for the Republic or a nation
al party. Without it, the Union must of neces.
siy fall to pieces, for want of that cement which
only can preserve it. Americans should never
lose sight of the great fact that their Government
is, or processes to be founded the principle of
Equal Justice to ALL MEN," and that every dc
parture from this principle endangers its sta
bility.
national party is needed that shall fearless
Iy avow this principle, and be true to its profess
sions. If the present Republican party is too
cowarGy or too corrupt for this mission, it must
be superseded by another which shall not like the
Democratic pro'savery organization, plant itself
on merely sectional issues, but on those which are
truly American and national.
The sectional pro-savery party calls itself ma
tional, and is laboring to make itself really SO.
Its success will be the destruction of liberty and
of the Republic for these two must stand or fall
together. 1t seeks to na,ionalize the idea that
there can be property in man. 1t has succeeded
in infusing into the ihihd of the natiuD almost
universally, that slave property has rightful e2
istence in certain States, and that the nominal
owners right to such property should be acknowl,
edged and vndicated, when the property trans.
ports itself or is transported into State whose
and laws declare all men to be equal
ly entitled to their freedom. The same party now
claims that property in man exists in all the Ter.
ritories, and that the National Government is
there. Thus far has that party progressed in
making slavery national. Its work is in the last
stages of completion.
The success os the pro,slavery faction has been
owing to the non existence of any national party
adhering consistently and steadily to the true ma
tional idea of FREQ Republic. 1t is now time to
inaugurate euch party Is 1t too much to ask
when the sectional slave power sets up it's arro-
CANT claim to be national, when it has compelled
the National Government to legalize slavery 10
every State in the Union, and when it claims fer
it constitutional existence in oil the Territories
is it anything exravagant or fanatcal to desire
that there shall be an ulconquerable Phalanx of
Free Men, whose position shall be in all points di-
which shall seek to make Human Liberty rs wide
and universal ae their opponents seeking to
extend Slavery; let the demand for the other be
for Republic of Free Men.
There are this day thousands and tens of thous-
inds among the nonslav holders, and many among
The Shareholders of the South, who would hail
with glad hearts the rise Of a true national party
rs the harbinger of their delirerance from the
mousse of bondage. They see no hope for chem in
The present political party that limits itself to the
dea of the non extension of slavery, and is not
irm or consistent even in that 1t has no word or
iope or cheer for the struggling, desparing sons
If Freedom in the Slave States. 1t expressly de.
lies that it has any wish or desire to see those
States made Free. 1t is therefore, like it's oppo-
rent sectional in its views and objects. The
,reat want Of the time is national party which
hall unite the South and the North in earnest and
fectual efforts to save the Union, and give us
What our fathers anticipated, q FREE Republic