Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-02-06
THE LECoMPToN CONSTITUTION.

its purpose Of forcing the %Lecompton Con.
stitution upon the people Of Kansas, to a success
ful issue. The only resistance possible in Con-
yress by the opposition, is to delay the final vote by
parliamentary quirks and quibles. Calhoun is
probably now in Washington, ready to complete
here, such repor. Of the election of officers under
il, as may be found needful to stock the new State
with officials Of the L%ecompton stamp.
In their present strength and power, buchanan
and his ~exacting masters, ec0rn c~oncealment and
are above-board in their disfrancbisement and robe.
ry OF the white people Of Kansas, as they are
to be with their black slaves. So in.
it must be if slavery is tolerated in the
nation. There can eventually be but two classes.
Those who are not masters, must be slaves. This
lie fast becoming manifest to oil who will see.
The President, it is said hopes to get the measure
through Congress in q fortnight. To facilitate this,
Fugitive. Slavc-law Mason announced the intention
of the South 20 resist the admission of Minnesota
till the Kansas question was settled. lie intima-
ted a purpose of d%isunion, if the Lecompton in.
strument should not be approved.
Messrs. Hale and Crittenden denounced this sort
OF threatening. The best method of denouncing
such inpertinencs and insult, would be for northern
men to join forces and hasten their exit. 1t would
be the greatest possible blessing to the slave, 20 the
country, and to the world.
Hon. PHILEMON BLlss.-The extracts we pub.
lish to-day from the recent able speech of this gen.
tleman. show him to be an earnest, hearty friend
of universal freedom. One of the few among our
political men in public life, who dares to be SO
singular as to recognize the elementary principles
of democracy and christianity, those set forth in
the Declaration of Independence and the Sermon
on the Mount, as the supreme law, as well for
governments as individuals. Mr.i Bliss also ad-
ministers a merited rebuke to those of his own
party, who from dishonesty or shortsightedness are
in the habit of disclaiming abolitionism. He has
the moral heroism to regard the interests and pro-
tect the rights of the poor and the helpless, even
though they may be black men and slaves. These
truths found of course, no recognition with the de-
based, partisan majority who control the House of
Representatives,; but all honor to Mr.. Bliss, that
he uses his distinguished position to attract to
them the attention Of the people.
1t was the evident purpose of the majority in
the House to suppress all anti-slavery discussion in
the general debate ON the Presidents Message,
neverthelessMr. Bliss, Mr.. Bingham and some two
or three others managed to get of telling speeches
in spite of this purpose of the slave drivers to gag
them.
CALHOUN AND BARRARAs.-Tho Ohio Statesman
(Douglas) says:
"The doing, Of John Calhoun, for months, were
disgraceful to the government that didn't remove
him from the Office he held in the Territory. and
every body knows it. Yet the honorable gentle.
man, Walker, was removed while this man was
retained. They cried out that Barrabas should be
released unto them. Now Barrabas was a
robber.'
And so was Walker only as it seemsa more
''gentlemanly" robber. See his correspondence
with the Secretary Of State as recently published
by requisition of Congress.
GOVERNOR WISE of Virginia does not seem al
all alarmed at the inva sion of tho Old Dominion
by Eli Thayr's Yankee colonists. In a recent lot
ter on tie subject he says:
"Our State needs settlers to develop her vast re
sources, and | would, from policy and without
fear, encourage migrants to come to our waste
lands and improve them, to increase our popula
ton, our wealth. our revenue and our State anC
federal strength. And SO conscious am | of thu
power of Virginil to protect and defend her insti
tutions, and the persoDs and properly of her citi
zens, in her own limits at least, that | would Meth
err feel nor betray any fear, if felt, which woulC
repel lawful immigration and settlement. Tha
State must be weak indeed. which would, from
mere apprehension, arrest the progress Of her de
velopement, lest she could not preserve her peac,
protect her persons and property, and enforce he
laws. l have no fear, therefore. that any emigra
ton scheme intended TO affect Virginia, can endau
ger either her honor, her rights, her possessions o
| har noana in bar o,rp mi -
LIBERALITY.-Lucretia Mott recently preache,
on a Sunday evening in the pulpit of Rev. Samue
Longfellow pastor of a Unitarian church in Brook
Ign, New York. The ti-Slayery Standar,
says:-
MANY, we presume, were induced to attend b.
q the notice of the meeting given by the Rev. Her
ry Ward Beecher to his congregation. Mr.. B.. no
only read the notice placed in his hands, but said
J in substance (for we do not pretend to give hi
+. exact words. that whatever might be the theOrie
q of the different members OF his congregation as t
i, the ~propriety of women's preaching. in general
he was sure that no one who had ever heard Lu
cretia Mott could doubt that she at least was
: properly endowed and legitimately ordained rel
s gious teacher"
+. NOTHING AGAINST nIM.-Fillibuster Walker or
in New Orleans on the LIST inst, and expressed b
0 anxiety to be put on trial for the alleged Violate
= of the neutrality laws, Judge M'Caleb inform,
> him he could not be & ati6ed, as the Grand Jul
had failed to find a verdict, aud there was nothir
r against him. Thus oozes out President Bucha
Q ans zeal against fllibust.rism.
For Ths Anti,slsvery Bugls.
q SLAVERY AT THE NORTH.
Q Were | to make the assertion that slavery exis
at the North, doubtless it would startle the unthin
/ ing, and they would pronounce i. false yet su
r is the melancholy fact, True, Senator Toombs h
d not yet carried out bis boastful threat. and real