Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-08-28

su;h n movement could not DO made without re.
sistahce, The old leaders saw, At once, that the
party must Ego under" in all the Free States un'
less 1t was resisted and they wero active and
earnest IN re onacting tho old platforms and un'
lufiing the banners. In Ono the downward
course Uf the party was stayed for several years
by the persistent efforts of tho leaders to keep it
from playing second fiddle" to TIL Slave Power :
and, year alter year, did the State Convention pass
resolutions, such as they now dcnounce as Black
Republican or Abolition. AT the State Conven-
ton which met Jan. 9Th, 1912, tho following was
a part Of their platform
Resolved, That the people Of Ohio now. as they
have always done, look upon the institution of
Slavery as an evil, and unfavorable to the full de.
velopment Of tho spirit and practical benefits of
Tree institutions and that, entertaining these sem
timents, they will feel it to DO their duty to use
all power consistent with the national com
pact to prevent its increase, and to mitigate and
finally to eradicate the evil.
At the State Conventions Of 1850, 1852, 1858,
1854 and 1856 the same determination to resist
the despotism Of Slavery was expressed in the
party platform and re enacted from year to year
MS follows
Resolved, That the people Of Ohio now, rs they
always have done, look upon slavery as an evil,
and unfavorable to tho development Of the spirit
and practical benefits of free institutions and that
entertaining these sentiments, they will at all times
feel it their duty to use all power clearly given, by
the terms of the National compact, to prevent its
increase, to mitigate, and finally eradicate the
evil
We have before us q letter written in those good
old times of Black Republican Democracy by I.
W. BARLEY, the gentleman who is now q candidate
for judge on the ticket Of the same Democracy con
verted into the instrument of the Slave Power
The following extracts will show that Black Re
publicanism is not 80 new as a good many pcoplt
suppose. The letter is dated at Mansfield, Jan
II, 1917, and is addressed to Mr.. Brinkerhoff.-
lie says
at is time-high time that Northern and West
ern Democrats should not be hood winked .,
Southern politicians, Southern ~artifcors and.South
ern treachery. n = X x If | were in Con
gress, | would see the political elements crumbleC
into dissolution before | would be overreached by
Southern treachery. Il u Il \ l would sus
tain Mr.. Pollock at all lengths but, when i
comes to the purchase of Mexican territory, tC
come into the Union, it cannot be said too soor
that it is not the object or design of the only true
free government in the world 70 e1tend the Gomdtr
Of Starery. Such 1 believe to be the general feel
ing Of our Ohio people,"
Yes, it waS and it is the general feeling of oui
Ohio people" and yet we see the party of. which
Judge BARLEY is a member converted into "hcwer:
Of wood and drawers of water" to these same
Southern politicians )" and the Judge himself
one of the most ardent v0taries of "Southern
treachery," and as ready as the rest to userall the
appliances of Rhetoric, a~rtifce, deception, public
patronage and public intimidation "to make thl
only free government in the rOrld" an instrument
30 extend the domain Of &aUery".