Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-04-09
WHOLE NO. 7O4.

| institutions Of our country, but the Pro,Slavery
Democracy, that is falling asunder, like piece Of
limestone when water is poured upon 1t. So al
so in regard to Cuba. The real object Of its pur'
lchase is not the orowed one. 1t is governed BY
race who do not speak our language who are un-
used to self f'government--who have, and IL an,
ne1cd as States will continue to have, an establish,
! ed form OF religion or Church and State United;
but, in spite of all, asked to purchase this
island, and TO place thirty millions in the hands
of the executive, to legn the ncsotatons-that 10
to BUY up the officials Does any one believe thas
it is for the benefit Of commerce. or the safety Of
navigation, that we are asked TO do all this If
so, why not seek to purchase the British Wes,
Indies ?--ITave we not as much to fear from Eng
land as from Spain And where is Canada and
the other British possessions that stretch all along
our Northern frontier, from the Atlantic TO the
Pacific No: it is not for the benefit Of commerce,
nor to guard against invasion, that we are asked
to purchase Cuba but it is for the slave breeders
and human flesh mongers. And yet those Demo.
Gratis profess that they want to get Slavery out Of
national politics. Would to God they wero sincerel
Wouldto Heaven this beast Of prey would take the
carcass of the slain into its lair 1t might knaw
the Aesh an1 craunch the bones without molesta-
,ion from me But instead Of that, it asks me to
hold its victim while it sucks the blood. But this
God helping me, l never will do. Take your
pound of flesh, if il SO nominated in the bond, bus
do not ask for the blood as WE'LL
Read over the whole message, and you will end
its entire texture to be Slavery. Every topic is
discussed with reference to its bearings on the
subject Of Slavery. And yet the Democrats with
an impudenco that challenges our admiration for
its sublmity turn to us, and say" Do not agitate
this subject. Do not keep up this sectional
strife! ITO agitate, to legisate, to make treaties
to annex territory, to purchase empires, for Slave.
ry, is all right but to do anything against Slavery
is wrong and sectional.
And here is another phase Of this fanatical spir.
it, which has taken up its dwelling place in the
Democratic party. It identifies Slavery with the
nation. and especially with the South.
Now, | am reckoned as ultra and extreme az
most on this subject. and yet, no one has eve,
heard me say anything against the South. II 10
only against Slavery that ! have spoken, and
propose to assal that only ip those modes justified
by the Constitution; yet am sectional, and Re-
publicans are sectional, When they only seek TO
prevent the extension Of system which is under
the ban Of the civilized world, they are charged
with being sectional. In Illinois, we have supped
full of this horror. Aud what ia the prooff o,
we have no delegates from slave States 70 attend
our National Nominating Conventions. Why have
we rone' Mark because if delegates attend
these Conventions they are mobbed and driven in.
to exile. What if we, in the free States should
say to the Democrats "If you attend the Charles.
ton Convention, We will hang you" and thus keep
them at home. and then reproach them with being
a sectional party, because only the slaves were
resented?-"Well you have no votes in the
slave States your principles do not circulate with
US at all; you dare not even proclaim your doc
trines among u.s." And why do not our principles
circulate in the slave States They used for they
are the principles Of Washington, and Franklin,
and other founders Of the Republic. The reason
why our principles do not circulate in the slave
States is, that this despotism has, like another
Napoleon, crushed out the freedom Of speech and
of the press. Allow as free access to the minds
of the non shareholders Of the South, and in one
year we would have more Republican votes in prot
portion. in the slave States, than there are Demo.
cratic votes in the free States. your principles
do not circulate down here" boasts the Slavery
pTopdRduoiet' caoieu hiotoiy seiis uo VI u ceTl6ln
rich man who died, and who was very unfortunate
in tie selection of future home; but, though an
impassatle gulf spread itself between him and
better world it seems he could converse with those
more happily situated.-Supposing now, this man
should lit up his voice, and send it booming
across the chasm that yawns between heaven and
hell, and say, "lIo, Abraham, Isaac. Gabriel, and
you celesals generally, you are a sectional party
up there; your principles do not circulate down
here" And why does not Ueaven's truth circu,
late down there? Because the inmates are 90
wicked that they will not tolerate the presence Of
any angel preacher. This man must have been
good sound, national Democrat. And so, sup
pose, was that illus:rous parsonage whom Milton
has described as bridging the chasm that spread
between earth and tho place Of his exile and who
claimed the right of carrying the local institutions
Of his realm into Paradise.
An effort is making in Philadelphia to raise mon.
ey to purchase Ellen Mitchell and her five chill
dren, held as slaves at Fredericksburg, Va. Her fs.
ther was a white man and her muther quadroon.
and she and her children are as white as the aver.
age of Virginia white folks. She was manumitted
by the will Of Mrs. Judge Coulter. but the heirs
broke the will--always an easy process in such
cases--and she and her children were remandsd
to slavery To those who think slavery not 90
goodfor white folks as for negroes this case makes
a strong appeal.
| New YORK, Marck 26.-The Courier des Estaks
Unis asserts that fbustering expedition is ready
to start for Cuba the receipt of the instructions
ex pected by the next steamer from Havana. Their
head quarters are, and their arms and ammunition
in some of the Southern cities. Tbs men are
ready to depart simultaneously from different parts
of the Union. and secret agents are on the island
engaged in preparing Pacihce access.
CHANGE AT THE SouTH.--Some Of the editors
in the Slave States have recently ventured to put
Whittier's name to his 6ne poems. when they copy
theua Thia nnaiia instica has Litharta haen dani