Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-04-30

with the interests OF FREEDOM in this country, than
Stephen Arnold Douglas himself.
These are the men, with their great personal
and political influence, who are ever ready and de.
sirous to defeat any measure that has aught of
hopo or promise in it, for our millions of slaves.
These are the men who, (since their party was or
ganized,) in Connecticut, New York, Wisconsin,
Iowa and Oregon, disfranchised and degraded the
whole colored race and were ready to do the
same in Kansas, by almost a unanimous vote, un.
der the Topeka Constitution only forty six Of all
the Free State settlers voting against it
These are the men who hob MOB with all the
pro'slavery priests of the country, to gloss over the
crimes and c%ruelties of the system with their bi,
bles, baptisms, sermons and sacraments and who
vilify the abolitionists as everything infdel, impure
and execrable.
And finally, these are the men who shave voted
for Shareholders" $50 they boast,) and would do it
again." $50 they affirm, even for President
Now, Mr.. Editor, is there any meaning to our
motto, mo Union with Shareholders 2" Or is our
talk Of Dissolution, as the last, only hope for the
slave" all for Buncombe?
Nothing in the present aspect Of the times, so
appals me, as apologies and defeuces for the
Republican party. coming from those to whom we
have ever turned for counsel and guidance. Brave
men and true are in that party, no one ever denies,
but most OF its leaders are foul and false de.
ceitful and desperate. Our leaders and ourselves
should beware of them.
Not long ago, and in less perilous times than
these, we were counseled thus:
at is not in the nature of a political party to
purify or strengthen the moral sentiment Of q PEG
ple-it cannot carry out, or advance a moral enter
prise per Sc. Its reliance for success is not on
truth and right, but on dexterity, deception, and
numerical superiority-its tendency is to throw
contempt upon moral suasion to substitute the
use of carnal for spiritual weapons to induce a
reliance on the chariots and horsemen of Egypt,
rather than on the arm Of the Lord"
And a little longer ago, it was propounded by
the same high authority,
THAT in the present emergency of the Anti.
Slavery enterprise, in this dark hour Of our ma
toms history, it bebooves abolitionists to summon
all their manhood, for a final conflict with the
Slave power-to be more united than ever in their
means and modes of action-more jealous than
ever in the PRONUNCIATION of their doctrines-mor
incorporating than ever vith tile pro Slavery
church and state"
Aud, THAT to continue in partnership with
Robbers till they voluntarily cease from their rob.
berries, with Rum distillers and Vendors till they
choose to poison the community no longer, with
Shareholders and Slave traders till they are willing
to let the Oppressed 60 free, giving them the bene.
fit of our capital, credit, and cooperative power,
is not to lay the axe at the root of the tree, nor to
bear O consistent testimony against crime, nor to
keep our garments unstained by innocent blood
but is the ray to perpetuate phat zee profess TO ab.
hor."
And still farther on,
THAT the dissolution of the American Union,
which is emphatically a covenant with death, and
an agreement with hell, is the only r%allying word
which should be found in the mouths of abolition
lists, and the one grand object they should now ain
to accomplish"
And while the Wing Party has done we'll ir
. so far as they have resisted the annexation of Tex
d as, as an ubiquitous and unconstitutional measure
> and while the conduct of the Democratic party OF
u the same question, has been ~prohigate and perfd
u ious almost beyond parallel, in the criminal histo
ry Of political parties, we can make no truce will
> either of them, so long as they resolve to cling /
. The Constitution as 1t is, and to the Union as i
is"-and for the same reason, we register our ties
timony against the Liberty Party, as occupying
u pro.slavery position under the Constitution, an,
absorbing the moral energies Of its adhe,ents, in
mere political crusade"
And more than all this, we were also assure
from our supremest seats OF influence, that
ut is a delusion of Satan which leads any ma,
to suppose that slavery is to be overcome by cor
ceding to its claims, participating in its outrage.
= and submitting to be drawn at its chariot wheels.
" And again.
"Why do the Anti Slavery Societies adopt rest
%lutions against the Liberty Party ? Because ev,
III ry vote given for even the very best of its cand
L dates, every subscription paid to its papers, ever
: word said in its favor, helps that party to 60 on
it has begun, to hedge up the way of the Ant
,s Slavery Lecturers; TO keep the people away frol
u Anti.Slavery meetings ito calumniate the charact,
~ and retain possession ofthe property of the Slave
advocates ; and to destroy the moral efforts an
II Influences which are needed 10 convert men
hearts,"
Such were some of my earliest lessons in tt
Anti. Slavery warfare. They came down to m
from our very highest authorities, and to them
have striven to be true, at whatever cost. Meth,
the new organic alton conspiracy, the unhappy \
p. Rogers alienation, theBufalo Platform apost
cy, or the more memorable j. G. Fremont ag
nistic, had any effect upon me except to drive n
nearer and keep me closer to our great fundamel
tai principles and doctrines.
And never, as it appears to me, was there nee
: of the stern, Incorporating, indomi;able app
y cation of our principles, if not now. In the la
Presidential canvass, some Of our oldest teache
o. virtually instructed every one, not q non.r
" sistant, to vote for Fremont and Free Kansas
: when Kansas had not yet proposed to be moro fir
ne than is Oregon, under her prospective and abor
Unable Constitution. And Fremont himself W
49, no better. The result was, that almost every pr
ne fsssed nonresident in the land, so far as | trave
ed and Investigated, went up to the idol temp
Is, and sacrificed with the rest.
ty And now we are fast approaching another