Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-05-08
TIIlu LAl 10 NIlIEI IlUIIs
LETTING DOWN.

We clunct too heartily condemn and despise
the milksoppy aud compromising tone OF many
leading Republican papers IN reference to the
Kansas difficulty. The disposition to set all prln'
ciplc asde-to cast the suffering slave and his in
terests and rights wholly of the reckoning
to bo the most approved policy of the leaders.
Tho New York Tribune is willing that Kansas
shall have slavery if she wants it. Nay, it seems
abundantly willing that the fact oi her chousng
and establishing slavery shall be no sort o bar to
to her coming into the Union as sovereign and
independent State. Now, this may happen not TO
result very badly in the case OF kansas, for,
unquestonably, when the question shall lie tnlrly
submitted to the absolute citizens ni thar Territory
they will scout and reject slavery by over" heming
mnjorites. But surprising she should not reject
slayery-whht them Why, she comes IN, neverr
theess, and entails upon the country all the dread
fnl results 50 long anticipated. But let IT result
either way, and what follows? a bad precedent IS
Observation-Disclosures and anti slavery are no long
er to bn mnde test in the admission Of new States.
We have then lost evei ything-and all anti slave
ry parties may well dsiand and all slide slong
to perditon together! The position of the Re-
publican party has been weak and cowardly
enough EiIherto-but now how much lower can
ia be sunk without Touching bottom !? So far from
touching Slavery where il exists-sO FAR from lift
ing uger for the rescue ui single s!ave--so far
from iDterdicting the slave trade between ths
Stntes--So lar from aboshing the accursed CRIME
at the National Cupitul--so far from repesling the
Infamous Fugitive slave law--we say, so far from
asking any of these things. the Republican Party
is no longer insist that there shall be sa mora
Slave States annexed t. the Union If this is to
lie its policy it is really difficult to see what is the
further need Of its existence. -
If we are willing to concede that maiorities
have the right TO enslave ninorities because they
have the power to do soft we going to put
Slavery on an equal footing with Freedom, invest
each with the same protection and acknowledge as
master whichever comes uppermost in power, why
it is eviden. have made smart and beautiful
progress these dozen years, in antl-savery gtOwthl
II this be the "phiiosophy Of reform. what must
be the philosophy of corruptnn2 We are ottep
shocked with the policy of the lenders, and, Wa
wonder how they came to BE leaders. The masses
thank God, hava some integrity, some
honest love Of justice, some just concep-
tions Of the right. If the honest masses Of
the people had their own way, you should notre-
cognze American politics in ten years--every thing
would be so righted up aud bettered. But now
every efJrt Of the people for efectual right every,
pulsaon of the popular heart toward human lib
erty, every strong blow which the masses would
strike in Behalf Of crushed Humanity, is foiledl
weakened. parried off and brought to nothiDgness
by time,servng, spineles and heartless poticansl.
When will tho people have party OF the people,
standing upon platform not shaped and scrimped
and tiukered up by artistic demagognes, but mod
el!ed by horny, hardy hands, in the fear of Godl'
We drop anchor fast upon the rock OF eternal
truth We 90 back to it every tine in search OF
foundation. principles, SLAVERY Is AN OUTLAW
We rest here