Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-10-29

GUS decision Of the Supreme Court in the bred
ooo'. case which says the negro has no rights
which the white man is bound 10 respect A
more truly Internal sentiment would be hard 10
ma even nmong the maxims Of tho laud-pirate,
murrell. The party to which he belongs is more
intensely proslavery than the rotten Democracy
itself. Witness Goggin of Va, and Bell of Ky,
late Gubernatorial candidates, Abolitionists vot-
ing for John Gilner to 20 10 Congress-tbe mob
Observation-Disclosures buys and sells mothers
and their babes-who drove Chriet's ministers out
Of the land with murderous violence-telling
them that though he fully recognized their Christi
anity, yet they could not, and should not stay in
the countryl o tell it not in Gath, publish it not
in the streets Of Askelon, that the whole Quaker
church, with an exception hardly worthy Of mem
ton, not only voted for this wicked man, but have
been voting for Shareholders for nearly q century,
ever since the nations birth, and all the while
protesting to bear q faithful. testimony against
slavery I charge the Quaker church Of North
Carolina, with all its anti-slavery pretensioDs,
with being one Of the frmest props the Internal
institution has in the land. I do not say it has
been their design to thus support it. 1 only state
the facts. They have constantly voted for slave
holders, and this is the most efficient support 1;
slavery wants nothing more. l grant you they
have talked to some extent against slavery. Blu.
what of that? 1t only makes the matter worse
Suppose l were to talk loudly in favor of temper
ance, and drink all the whiskey / could find,
would any one concede my claim to be a temper
ance mani
But to return for a moment to Gilmsr. 1t is said
he has repented of his mobocracy and will sin no
more. Where is the prooff l cannot find it. /
can prove the contrary, that he has not r%epented.
When a man will acknowledge his crime, it looks
some like repentance. But what If he denies p
Gilmer went to lead the mob, but finding the job
not rs popular as be hoped, he now denies it, and
says he went to make peace. The proof exists to
establish his guilt beyond question, and prove bis
denial false. But, say some, his course on the
Kansas question was SO praiseworthy we now can
trust him. The least said on the Kansas question
the better for Gilmer. No mans record in Con-
gress is so absurd and crooked as his. He says,
and says truly, that the evidence to prove the Lee
compton Constitution a forgery was overwhelming.
Why then make SO great a virtue of his voting
against the forgery-against forcing it on Kansas?
But what is to be said to the threat and bride
with which Gilmer voted to approach Kansas, to
persuade her if possible to accept of slavery under
the border rufian constitution? The English jug
gle was worse than original Lecompton. 1t offered
a bribe of millions to corrupt her, and a threat to
keep her out Of the Union if she did not accept.
Why did GiImer insult Kansas with this bride and
this threatH His excuse was thnt he knew that
Kansas would reject 1t. How did he know it, The
friends of freedom were greatly fearful that a
wicked Administration would worry out q suffer-
ing people till they would have to submit; shall l
vote a william the opportunity to commit a rape on
my sister, and excuse my vote under the plea that
l believe my sister will be able to Withstand himi
The English bill was s~lavery's opportunity to COM
nit a rape on the virgin soil Of Kansas, and Gill
mer voted the william an open door and fair trial
to effect his DEVILS purpose. I take il, there is
only one criterion Of human duty, in voting as
we'll as in all things else, and that is to vote right
eously and in accordance with the divine will, and
not to make the times and the issues and the
circumstances and the consequence the rule of
our duty, for circumstances are variable, and con-
sequences are in the hands of Him who controls
results, not according to the ekpedients and devil
ces of worms Of the dust, but according to the
counsels of His own will. If l understand you,
it is not that you absolutely approve of Gilmer,
the stakeholder, that you vote for him, but that
you fear a worse man will succeed. You do not
deny that Gilmer is an evil, but you HI pc by his
election to overbalance the evil by the greater
amount of good. And pray what is this but do
ing evil that good may come. This seems so plain
that he that runs may read. But it is said, it is
fha haak mn M 10 ,oIo, - mt
very plea of the stakeholder, he says@it is the best
under the circumstances that he continue to hold
his slaves And thus under the plea of taking
the least of the evils (deviis,) have the society of
Friends in North Carolina been building up slave
~ for nearly a century In the meantime, slave
ry has grown infinitely worse. Once you could
free s~laves-educate t~hem-write and publish
opinions against slavery. but that time has passed.
These little evils (devils) Quakers have sent to
legislate for them have blocked that game. Still
you have gone to the polls and placed the whole
government IN the hands of Shareholders. You say
such would be elected anyhow, therefore you could
not help it. My response is, you do not want to
help it; you do not try. It was your duty to set q
good example in voting, and not go with the
multitude to do eviP. l have it from good author.
Ivy VIM Jea'e ago Ill an'i-sia'ery man De-
came o candidate in Randolph county for a seat in
the General Assembly.
He had a fair prospect of success with the aid
Of Friends votes. They went to the polls and vot-
ed for a stakeholder and elected him, and the anti
slavery man was beaten. He bitterly remarked
after the election that if any man expected Quaker
votes he must fist buy q few negroes. A citizen
of Guilford asked q leading Quaker (now no mora,
how he could reconcile it to his profession to 60 to
the polls and vote for Shareholders. The Friend
replied, that 'he had to hold his hat over his ey es
while voting. l would like to enquire whether
such expect God to hold q hat over His eyes when
he sits in judgment on such hypocrisy and wick
edness. The mar asking the question was no pro.