Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-01-01

""e'"eE us total abolition is not practicable. This
oQJeet IS vast in its compass, awful in its prospects
sublime and BEAUTIFUL in its issue. A life devoted
10 II VIII be nobly spent or sacrificed"
On another occasion, Mr.. Adams SAYS:
~ law perpetuating slavery in Missouri. and
perhaps in North America, has been s%muggled
through both houses of Congress. have leen
convinced. from The first starting Of this question,
tha' 1t could not end Otherwise. Tie .fauH is ia
The Constitution cC The United States, which has
sanctioned a dishot oyo6e compromise rith slarery.
There is hencefortll no remedy for it but a Teor
9d"'zdtoh Of lie Union. to effect which a concert
81 all the white States is indispensable. Whether
mat can ever be accom plishad is doubtful. 1t is Il
contemplation not very creditable to human nature
mat the cement of common interest, produced by
slavery Is stronger and more solid han that Of un
mingled freedom. la this instance, she slave states
hGvc chung together in one unbroken phalanx. and
nave been victorious by means of nccomplices and
deserters from the ranks Of freedom. Time onl,
can show whether the contest may ever, with equal
advantage, he renewed but. 60 polluted are all the
streams of Legislation in regions 0: slavery, that
this bill has been obtained by two as unprincipled
articles as dishonesty ever devised. One, By coup.
S W. iNhNuEO " Nv llil v uuInlllllE
Maine into the Union the other, by the perpetrat
ing this outrage by the Speaker on the Rulos Of
the House."
MIR. Calhoun, after a debate ia the Cabinet or
the Missouri question, said to Mr.. adams that the
principles avowed by him were Just and noble, but
in the Southern country, whenever they were men.
toned, they were always understood as appI ginp
to white men.
Mr.. Adams replied, that he could not see things
10 the same light. at is in truth all perverted
sentiment installing labor for slavery, and do.
minion for freedom, The discussion of this Mis-,
souri, question has betrayed the secret of their
souls. In the abstract, they admit slavery to be
an evil. They disclaim all participation in tho in.
PRODUCTION Of it. and cast it all on the shoulders of
odd g~randame Great Britain" But when probeG
to the quick upon it, they showed at the bottom Of
their souls pride and vain.glory in their very con,
dition of masterdom. They fancy themselves more
generous and noble'hearted than the freemen, who
labor for subsistence. They look down on the
simplicity of Yankee manners, because they have
no habits Of overbearing like theirs, and cannot
treat negroes like dogs, 1t is among the evils of
slavery that it taints the very source of moral
principle. 1t establishes false estimates of virtue
and vice for what can be more false and heartles.
than this doctrine, which makes the first and boli.
est rights of humanity to depend on the color of
the skin. 1t perverts human reason, and reduces
man endowed with logical powers to maintain that
slavery is sanctioned by tho Christian religion (:
that slaves are happy and contented in their con.
dition.
1.-THE impression produced on my mind" con,
tinued MIR. Adams, "by the progress of this dis.
cussion, is that the bargain between freedom and
slavery contained in tie Constitution of the IuHed
States is morally and politically vicious inconsis,
tent with the principles or which alone our reyo.
luton can be justified cruel and oppressive. by
rivetting the chains Of slavery, by pleGging the
faith OF freedom 10 maintain and reperpetuate the
tyranny of the master and grossly unequal and
%impolitic, by admitting that slaves are at once en-.
emies to be kept in Subsection, property to be Sc.
cured and returned to their owners, and persons
not to be presented themselves, but for whom tLeir
masters are privileged with nearly q double share
of representation. The consequence has been,
that this slave representation has governed the
Unior. BenjaMih's portion above his brethren
has favined as a wolf. In the morning he has dc.
voured the prey, and in the evening has divided
the spoil. 1t would be no difficult matter to proyo.
by reviewing the history,,of the Union under this
Constitution, that almost every thing which hos
contributed TO the honor and welfare of this nation
has been accomplished in despite of them. or
forced upon them and that everything unpropitl.
Gus and dishonora6le, including the hlunders Of
dheir adversaries, may be traced to them. have
favored this Missouri Compromise, believing it to
be all that could be effected under the present
Constitution, and from extreme unwillingness 10
put the Union at hazard. But perhaps il would
have been a wiser and holder course to have pcr.
sisted in tho restriction on Missouri, until il
should have terminated in a Convention of the
States to revise and amend the Constitution. This
~O'ld hare produced a UaiOn Of thirteen or fourteen
States, unpoHuted pM slare'y. with a great md
glorious object, that Of ~rallying to their standard
the other States, by tho universal emancipation of
their slaves. If the Union must be dissolved sl1.
reTy is precisely The question upon which 1t ought to
break" " y y
The compromise by which Missouri was admit.
ted into the Union did not finally settle the qurs
ton in Congress. AT the next session it resp,
peared, in consequence Of the insertion into the
Consultation Of Missouri Of an article declaring it
to be the duty of the Legislature to pass laws pro.
hiblting free negroes and persons of color from
coming into missouri which declaration was di.
rectly repugnant to that article in the Constitution
Of the United States which provides that the citi.
zens of each State shall be entitled to all priyileg.
es aud immuniIies Of citizens of the other States
The only mode of getting out of this difficulty.
said Mr.. Adams, was for Congress to pass a res.
%olution, declaring the State of Missouri to be nd.
mi,ted from and after The time when the article
repugnant to the Constitution Of tht United States
should be expunged from it's Constitution. This
Question was much more clear against Missouri
than was that of their first admission into the
Union but the people Of the North, like many Of
their representatives. in Congress, began to give
indications of a disposition to finch from the con.