Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-10-29
Tbe Anti- 9lapcrp Bnole.
From the Free South.
HOW TO OPPOSE SLAVERY WITH
EFFECT

vsfectual mode Of opposing slavery is by attacking
II where il exists instead of warning upon it where
81 may possibly exist at some future period. In thu
first case we fighting an actual, tangible enemy
in the second, we expend our strength against
more shadow, leaving the cause of the evils o.
which We complain, unharmed.
No enemy can be conquered until his stronghold
is taken and overthrown. Thestronghold to slave
lry is in the slave states. As long as it continues
TO exist and flourish there, it will be powerful
and unappeasable foe to free government and the
rights Of man in the Federal Administration, and
In all the states and territories of the Union.
The slave power has such firm footing in the
slave states, and has acquired such privileges and
'immunities that it can control the action of the
federal Government in all its departments and to
great extent bring he free states into suhjecton
10 its will The champions Of freedom can never
succeed against slavery az long as they suffer it to
remain unmolested in it citadel If they demand
shat there shall be slave states formed out
of territory originally free, the slave Power in
sists upon the constitutional rights of embr 20
State to be admitted into the Union with such do
mestic institutions as its people may choose to es-
tablish and carries its point. If the friends of
freedom urge that no foreign territory shall be ac-
quired by or annexed to the Union without pro-
viso against slavery and involuntary serviude, the
slave Power demands the territory without any
restriction and their demand is finally conceded.
If the prohibition Of slavery in all the territories
belonging to the Union is insisted on, Congress
sional slave code for the protection Of slavery in
all those territories is demanded. If the people OF
the free states oppose the execution Of the fugi-
tite slave law within their limits. the slave Power
re-opens the African slave trade by way Of retala-
tion. ''
The fathers Of our Republic attempted to put an
end to slavery by prohibiting its existence in any
territory then belonging to the Union, and by the
abolition Of the slave trade, without seeking to Gin
terfere" with the system where it then existed,
and was likely to continue to exist, if lie. alone :
After the lapse Of seventy years, have seen the
result Of this course. Slavery has continued to in
crease ]; the original slave States proper have been
more than doubled; it has invaded the territories
Of the Union all of which it exists to-day and the
trade 10 slaves from Africa to the Southern coast
of the United States is now carried on in defiance
of Federal law and of the Federal Government.
Confning the war upon slavery to mere oppo-
s.ionito its further spread is like attempting to
cures cancer by applying the corrosive sublimate
to parts where its roots might be supposed would
extend, instead Of applying it to the cancer itself
the result of which would be, that the sound flesh
would become irri.ated ,and the cancer, untouched
rage with encouraged ma!gnity and spreadit des
tructive fangs throughout the whole system. Sc
IL is ;E the attempt to confne slavery; the outside
opposition only gives it more life and energy, and
really tends to increase the effects it seeks to over
come. "
Shareholders buster about the opposition to the
Introduction of slavery into the territories; but
they have No fears on that account On the con-
srary, they at heart rather pleased with it, as
it serves to divert the attention of the people in
the free States from slavery itself, and affords f. cd
for the maecontents in the south who might other
wise stir up discussion at home on the question
of the policy Of sustaining the "institution".-
Thew are content to argue the question o! the pro-
priety Of extending slavery where it does not now
exist, SO long as no interference is attempted with
their "save property" nor no encouragement
given to free labor.
But touch that property-attempt in ever SO
slghta degree and ever SO mildly, to restore that
dom, aad you touch the apple of the stakeholder
eve; you inHame not merely his avarice, but you
arouse the feroest and darkest passions of the hu
man soul. He fails to fud language in which tc
portray the enormity of your crime, or with which
TO define the terrible punishment that should fall
on your devoted head.
This shows distinctly what and where the tree is
at the foot of which the axe should be laid. The
tree is Chattel Slavery. which grows and flourish
es in the Slave States. The axe must not be
struck at the branches at the trunk, but at The
root. The root is the holding of man as property
That is the thng-the principle-and must bt
preached out, talked out, written out, legislated
ont OF, existence. All efforts against slavery
tba. have not this for their primary and final OBJ
iect, ere as vain and useles as to throw up hand
fuls of sand against strong wind to return upor
and sully the garments of their projectors.
,ysH evis .a --~-
'TnE DEMocRATIc LAw.-Ws learn that since
the late election, suit has been commenced in
the Huron County Common Pleas against the
Trustees Of Greenfield township, by Stephen Rob-
inson for refusing his vote at the late election,
under the Black Law of the last Legislature on
the ground that he had visible admi4ture Of
African blood" Mr.. Robinson is old and
highly respected citizen of Greenfield, and has vo-
ted there for over twenty years. He has repeat
edIy been elected to office and now holds two civ
il Offices in the township. None would suspect
ahy such ''admixture" from his appearance.
Damages claimed 81, 900. Kennan & Stewart,
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
Another ,auit bas been commenced in the same
Csprt. BY a colored citizen Of Norwalk, against
tbs Trustees of that township for the same cause
damages claimed, 500. Strong & Kellogg, Ppfs
Attorney Toledo Blade