Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-09-04
From the Albany Evening Journal.
BARGAINS WITH SHAREHOLDERS,

! BARGAINS WITH SHAREHOLDERS,
The dispute between the North and South is
coeval with the Union, The Souiherners only
cnmc in upon the stipulations that the Slave
Trade should not be abolished till 1908, that three'
Gfths Of theSlayes should be counted in the Appor-
tionment OF Representatives, and that they should
be allowed she privilege Of retaining escaped Flu.
giti YES by legal process. But they promised and
were believed. that these concessions would satisfy
them, and that they would interpose no obstacle
to Free Institutions anywhere and c,eryw here else,
and would soon take steps for the Abolition of
Slavery in their own domain. This was our first
Final Settlement" 1t lasted just FIVE years.
Then came a demand from the Shareholders that
Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama and Mississippi
should be admitted as Slave States. They urged
in support o! the claim that these were not nec
States, only pieces taken from Virginia, Carolina
and Georgia, where Slavery already existed, that
they of coarse would not dream of extending Sla.
very into any Territory already Free, but the erec'
ton Of State Governments in these localities
would interpose no obstacle to Emancipation
This, too, they declared would end and settle the
whole question about Slavery in the Union. So
we gave them what they asked, and made Final
Settlement" No. 2.
How long did it lat !? Till wo bought Louis.
lana, and not a day afterward. Then they sud-
denly set up q new pretension, before unheard OF,
that they had a right to extend Slavery az well as
we to extend Freedom. They drew q line across
the new purchase, saying, "this much shall be
yours to make Free States of, and this much, in
GLIDING Missouri, shall be ours, to make either
Slave or Free States, as We think bost. Give us
this line, and we will solemnly covenant never to
ask to plant Slavery on another foot of soil. Re-
fuse it, and we will worry you, and threaten you,
and brighten you, and even quit the Union, if You
don't look out" AT such appalling menaces,
coupled with such suggarod promises, we came
right down and begged them to take every inch
they wanted. Thus was made Final Settlement"
No. 3.
happened next? That little Republic won her
Independence by a gallant contest with Mexico,
but not before she had sullied her "Lone STAR
flag with the blotch of Slavery. "Shc must come
in" said the South. slavery and all" Let her
come in" said the North, but without slavery"
Slavery exists on her soil already" argued the
South" Mott till she planted it there,' reioined
the North "Well," said tie Southern men, com.
ing at last to their standing argument. 1--WE are
E going right straight out of this miserable Union
of yours we won't stay with such everlasting
mean fellows another day. What's more, we'll
, make a new Union, and take Texas in. and fog
e you old original United States till you can't see."
This fetched US. We knucklcd under or rather
D we thought we had made a capital bargain, when
D we listened to the solemn pledges that resounded
from either House of Congress, that there should
r be no more agitation and no m IRE claims pr esent'
: ed in behalf of Slavery, after this Final Settle.
e ment" No. 4.
e But it turned out we had to fight for Texas after
we had annexed it. We fought so effec,ually that
= before we knew it, we had q parcel more.territor,
on our hands. Some chunks Of Gold found undci
a saw'nill settled the destiny" of California by
drawing thither an emigration that made u Fret
Is State of it, before he South had consented to MAKE
n i. a State at all. But there still remained n large
J unorganized tract. The Southern mer looked a
it, and then came around US, on a new track
e w have the highest respect" they remarked
'for ancient Landmarks. We consider them time
honored and irrepealable. OF this sort is tn,
glorious Missouri Compromise. 1t has been tht
d bond of peace and union between lis for thirt,
10 years. Let US extend that beneficent Line oyel
the Pacific. So shall We set down in amity or
J both sides OF the line, and never more quarrel
~ But look here: if you refuse us this little request
and if you don't also agree to help US catch oui
niggers without interference of Judge or Jury
we'll knock this Internal Union higher than a kite
and set up n Southern Conlcderacy that will ulti
mately take in everything from Suffers saw,mil
to Cape Horn" Of course we acceded to this
convincing logic, and the Adjustment was herald
ed from one end of the Union to the other as the
harbinger OF general peace, the end of agitation
the termination of all slavery disputes past, pres
ent and to come-in short as Final Settlement
No. 5.
d But four years after we had to have another
The South discovered that it wanted n chance &c
4 grab land north of the Missouri Compromise line
us we'll u y SOuln VI III, anu up comes q proposal 10
repeal-allowing the inhabitants to prohibits
= slavery or not. as they may see fit" In vain did
we appeal to their past promises and Compromise
!. es in vain did we bring up against them theiI
own logic Of 1850, about the ancient Missouri line.
about it's being 'time honored" and 'irrepealable
"a bond of peace for thirty years." &C., &c. No
use. They declared it all ~bumbug, the Compro,
Y misc was only a temporary makethift, entirely
repealable like any other act of Congress, and one
that ought to be repealed, and, in short, if it
wasn't out of the Union they would go, instanter.
Congress, partly because it was scared by their
IS threats, partly because it was bought by the Pres.
N ident, but principally because it believed in their
reiterated declarations, that this should really,
truly and surely. be the end of the Slavery dis.
pute, tho ultima Thule of all their demands and
ID desires, at last consented. And so we reioiced in
Final Settlement" No. G.
How "inal' it was-how thoroughly it settled
things-the record of events in Kansas will tell
the invasions, ballot stufings, murders, robberies.
false imprisonments, forged returns, RuGian Gov.
%ernments Congressional i~ntrigues, Lecompton
Swindles and English Dodgesl And yet there are
those who have no longer memories, and no fur.
Their foresight, than to think there might somehow
10 DO patched up out of "sqratter sovereignty" OF
something else. a "Final Settlement" No. 7,
u There is q way and only one way to settle the
: Slavery Question. 1t is to stop making bargains
with the Shareholders. All the agreements about
the future disposition of the Territories. that thew
will make. are worse than worthless. While we
i make bargains ouly because VIC believe each will
{ be the last, they make them because they know
7 each will be the stepping stone to another. just
II so long as we keep making concessions, they will
u keep making demands. But go back to the old
Settlement, the first one and the best one-the one
made by the Trainers of the Union, coming sla.
very to the States where it exists, and within the
bounds prescribed by the Constitution. That is a
J settlement that will last. and ensure peace, and
e the only one that will.
3 We have got abolitionism pretty we'll out of the
e towns we will hammer away till il is out Of the
81 rural districts - Ohio J1Tr;of