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Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-08-06
From the Atlantic Messenger.
A LETTER FROM'PARKER PIsLsBURY.

Mr.. EDITOR In you account of my meeting in
this place last week, you intimate thai | said mo
law of the United States was violated by the act Of
Captain Bacon, in the returning of Columbus
Jones to bondage" My idea was, though per-
haps not we'll expressed, that no, only was the
constitution(not the laws) of the United States not
violated in the foul act, BUT THE SPIRIT OF 1T WAS
STRICTLY KEPT. So would have said the trainers
Of the instrument themselves; so, surely, would
have said President George Washington, who
signed the fret fugitive slave act. and hunted bis
own escaped fugitive slave under it. before the ma
ton, before all nations, and before God, all the
way TO. the bleak hills of New Hampshire; 30 said
Congress and Attorney-General Crit,enden when
enacting the more monstrous fugitive slave law Of
1850, signed by Willard Fillmore as President of
the United States; so have said nearly oil the Jud-
ges of the Supreme Court, from the Jays and Mar
shalls down to the bottomless pit law and logic
of Judge fancy himself.
The inexperienced Captain Bacon only acted a
little in advance of the constitution and lsw,-the
constitution and law of the whole country, Repub-
licanism with the rest; for it does not appear that
one party, more than another, proposed to refuse
the right of the stakeholder to his victims, or to al
low him to hunt them from Mexico TO M~adawiska
Republicanism does not yet even propose to amend,
much less to repeal, the atrocious act of 1885,
not to speak of General Washington's law Of 1893,
whose constitutionali;y has not been questioned.
The truth is, our government is one grand con-
spiracy against liberty and humanity,-a whole
sale system of land-piracy, under which a great
nation volunteers to hold unknown nyriads of i'm
mortal beings in endless bondage,-to kill them
should they resist, to return them should they run!
and small difference to them can it make whether
a Northern or Southern man command in so dia-
bolical an enterprise.
James X. Polk or Franklin Pierce, James Bu-
chanan or John G. Fremont, it must be all the
same to over four millions Of slaves. Each must
swear to support the same constitution; and as to
slavery WHERE 1T Is, none Of those named ever ex-
pressed difference of opinion about the obligations
of the whole country to protect it; and John P.
Hale went so far as to declare it as his opinion that
slavery would be even more secure under Mr..
Fremont than under Mr.. Buchanan. Perhaps had
he been elected President, he might have made it
immortal. lie certainly WOULD HAVE MADE HIM
SELF IMMORTAL IN THE DOING 80.
am glad to see your gallant little Messenger
oo iuo W JUSTINE ohu iooi'y. ~ u u
deed l dare hardly promise it, a circulation a,
wide, at least, as the of Cape Cod with
the South. l trust you have nailed your colors t.
the mast. If firm and true to Justice and liberty
should you 90 down, you do but sink to another
sea-" No true word can be lost, either in tn
oceans or the ages.
Hyaunis, July 5, 1859.
PARKER PILLSBURY.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-08-06
From the Northern Independent.
WHAT WILL THE BORDER DOT

That 30 much of the NJ. E. Church as is located
in slave-holding territory is irretrievably commit.
ted to slavery, we never have doubted. From the
first, all indications from that quarter have point
ed 10 one result, and but one, whenever the anti
slavery sentiment of our connection should so far
advance as to make non-slaveholding a test of
membership. Secession is the w%atchword from
little Delaware to broad Missouri, unless the Dis
%cipline shall remain as it lie, and the same practic-
al misapplication of it shall continue. The Bord-
er has the merit of explicitness upon this point
We are assured by DR.. Bond, that the Border, though
intensely anti-slavery, would never consent to
part with the inestimable practice Of slaveholdiug,
and that to enact a prohibitory law would necessi-
tate a mastery inactivity" in its execution. or an
open secession. Nothing has occurred since his
death to change the aspect of things in that region.
II may safely be concluded that reform will cause
a separation of the Border-that lovely section
having a stronger bias to slaveholding than to
Methodism. The question is openly discussed in
their public prints, and apparently without q dis
sentiDg voice. The following, which we take from
a late number of the Baltimore Christian Advo.
cate, is a fair expression of sentiment in that re-
gion
"On the supposition that this Ian utterly pro.
~hibitory rule] will be the case. what should be The
course fine 'Border'f This ID a momentous CUES
ton, and ought to be well considered before any
conclusion is adopted. According to my humble
judgment there are but three courses of action
before US out Of which to choose. We might con
tinue our present relation to the Methodist Episcopal
Church. aud nudity practically the neW rule. Thi,
would be the only course We could pursue, if We
should remain in connection with the Methodist
! Episcopal Church. for it would be simply impossi
BILE to enforce such q rule in our territory. But in
my judgment adherence to the Methodist Episco
pal Church with such a rule would be utter ruiz
to our GAUGE 10 the slave territory. This course
then. is out of the question.
"Inohsr course open TO US is 10 90 South. Tbi
in some respects. is preferable to the former; bu
; there are perhaps insuperabls difficulties in th'
way, The two parties along the immediate Bords
could never be made to harmonize ard unite as on
! ICharob. Besides. the ultra proslavery position Q
the Church. South, is an ~efsstual barrier to such
union. We cannot consent 10 sbandou our oil
! snti-slsvsry platform fOs the proslsvsry platform o
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-08-06
KANSAS CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION

North or South, East or West, Democracy just
now is bound up in the African. Their orators,
their organs, and their Statesmen, discourse little
else. Sambo is omnipresent and omnipotent in
the party. He is the Alpha and the Omega of the
Democratic organization.
IL the Kansas Convention, the Democrats lose
no opportunity to bring forward the colored indi-
viGuai. They are in a pitiful minority, but what
they lack in numbers they make up in "nigger."
The Republican majority are disposed to go right
along and get up a sound Republican Constitution
for all the people Of the State, but the Democracy
occupy themselves with framing and Offering
amendments extending political rights to negroes
and mulattoes, and then voting against their own
motions. They even attempted to amend by in
sorting sections recognizing the Fugitive Slave
Law and the bred Scott decision. but could bring
only their weak party strength to the support Of
such monstrosities in a State Constitution.
On the section prohibiting slavery or involunta-
~ servitude in the State, the Republicans brought
the Democrats to face the music, and the vote
stood 4S to l. Buchanan and hs Administration
after all their efforts to get Kansas into the Union
as a Slave State, must feel reSuked by that almost
unanimous vote of the representatives Of the peo-
pie of Kansas to prohibit slavery forever. 1t is a
glorious finale of an oppressive, bloody, and pro-
tracted war by Democracy on freedom in Kansas.
In the bill of rights as adopted by the Conven-
ton, the elective franchise is limited by the word
"white," No soldier or seaman in the U. S. SER
vice is allowed to vote, so that Uncle Sam can no
longer use his men to contro! the elections in the
new State. Persons of foreign birth, who have
declared their intention to become citizens Of the
United States. are allowed to vote-a six months
residence in Kansas being required of all parties,
and ten days in the county. The annual State
elections are to be held on the Tuesday after the
first Monday in November Cleveland Leader.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-08-06
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.

the South. We believe it be the old platform Of
the fathers and Of the Bible, aud cannot abandon
II for the wild vsgaries Of either aboli,ionism or
pro>slavery. IL only remains for ne then 10 assume
an Independent position, and standing by the Dis
cipline as il is. to which we have pledged our
selves again and again, maintain and preserve our
old-fashioned conservative Mo,hodism, equally re-
moved from the fanatical extremes Of both North
and South. Such a course, it is admitted, will not
be entirely without difficulties, but il will have less
than either Of the others, and besides is the only
one we can pursue with safety to the cause Of
Christ. 1t should not be decided by the ministry
alone the laity should also be called upon for their
counsel and aid in this important j~upcture. Hence
a convention should be called, composed Of minis
tiers and laymen, to decide upon the course to be
pursued"
Here secession is boldly proclaimed and strong
ly maintained, if the General Conference shall ever
so constitutionally prohibit the holding of slaves. 1t
is curious to see how this undisguised threat
is treated by DR.. Stevens. Instead of re-
proving the Border for its avowed design
of d~ismembering the Church, he devotes a
column to fulsome eulogy. and then another col
umn to stern remembrance against the further pro-
gress of apti-slavery reform in the M. E. Church,
but not a word does he say against tho declared
purpose of these proslavery come-outers. DR.. Ste
vens has harped long and loud on connections and
disasters in Central New York, where neither dis
turbance nor secession exists or is likely to exist,
and yet when the whole slaveholding Conferences
threaten to secede, he abstaips from all reproof,
and warmly commends their fidelity to the Church,
and lauds that sheerest Of fctions-their pretend
ed anti-slaveryism. By this the dullest can see
what to others has been plain enough all along,
namely, thas the Doctor is like minded with the
Border-he wishes slaveholding retained in the
Church, and hence does not regard it in the light
of q crime. Such is DR.. Stevens now, whatever be
may once have been. If in New England be wos
anti-slavery-a conclusion rendered probable by
the admirable articles OF DR.. Wise-in New York
he is the very reverse, as his own pro-slavery edit
orials abundantly demonstrate.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-08-06

n Constitution formed indirectly recognizing the
institution During the early years Of the Gov
ernmsht. the incempatibllity, incongruity, and i'm
possibility Of the co-existence of Slavery and Lib
erty had not been fully developed. But the subse.
quent history Of the country had proved that those
interested 10 SLAYER, had beet %etefnaIly yipilant.
never losing sight Of the political and social pow.
err they derived from it, until II had Etosh from a
~suppliaut to a great Power, threatening to over.
spread the whole continent, and carry us back to
the despotism of ancient ages. This WAS lie tfes.
ent relation to the interests Of the American peo-
pie and conservative men Of the North, South,
East and West had been driven from neutrality in
to taking q position upon it. The hope of Ifehry
Lee, Franklin, Adams, jay and Morris, when by
the ordinance of 'S7 they dedicated oil the unoc-
cupied territory Of the country to eternal freedom,
that it was destined to speedy extinction, had prov
ed q fatal illusion. 1t had spread in the admis.
sion OF Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana and Mis-
souri, (; and under the name of Conservatism, and
the threat Of the dissolution of the Union, had
again and again triumphed over the laborers of
the South and the North. and invaded the terrific
ry set apart to be forever free. Was there any one
within the sound Of his voice, whether calling him
self Democrat, Wing, American or Republican,
who did not feel that the enslavement of ANY man
invaded the rights and degraded the position of
every other man who earned his bread With his
hands
THE COMPROMISES.
Influenced, he knew not by what fatal spirit Of
compromise. in 1920 the freemen of the North and
the South had at last said Take Missouri give
it up to this system which degrades every man
that holds a pillow or drives a team-which would
have the capitalist own the laborer-but it must
not extend to more territory north Of 5000, let
that be eternally consecrsted to free labor-op open
to the free e~migrant from the North, and those
from the South driven out by the terrible %compsti-
ton of this malign system" That compromise
was considered so sacred that the conservative
journals of the day, the National Intelligencsr,
and Niles Register declared that when it should
be overthrow, American liberty would be over
thrown with it. Yet the Slave Power, which had
made it, was the first to lay sacrilegious bands up
on this great pacific measure. When Texas, q
slaveState, with the privilege of being divided into
five slave States. desired admission, it was prompt.
ly welcomed to the Union; but California, which
opened to us a commerce of which any empire
might be prond, because a free State, was kept
waiting for a year and then only admitted under
a compromise" including the enactment of the
Fugitive Slave Law, with its odious and ~invidious
provisions, subjecting American freemen to inva-
sions of their rights such as no British subject
could be subjected to.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-08-06

We find In the New Orleans Picayuns the fol-
lowing description Of the free colored population
of New Orleans.
"Our free colored population form a distinct
class from those elsewhere iu the United States.
Far from being antipathstic to the whites, they
have followed in their footsteps, and progressed
with them, with q oommendable spirit of emula-
tion, in the various branches Of industry most
adapted to their sphere. Some Of our best me-
chanics and artisans are to be found among the
free colored men. They form the great majority
Of our regular settled masons. bricklayers. build
ers. carpenters, taylors. shoemaksrs, &C., whose
sudden emigration from this community would
certainly be attended with some degree of annoy
snos while We count among them in no small
plumbers. excellent musicians, jewelers.. goldsmiths
trsdssmen and msrchapts. AZ Q general rule, the
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-08-06

free colored people Of Louisiana, and especially OF
New orleans-the creole ooloree people, as they
style hemselves-sre a sober. industrious aud
moral class, far advanced in education and civil
cation. From that class came the battalion Of col
ored men who foughs for the country under Gen.
Jackson in 1Sl4l5. and whose remnants, veterans
whom age has withered, are taken by the hand on
the anniversary of the glorious Eighth Of Janua-
~, by their white bretbren-in-arm and proudly
march with them under the same Hag."
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-08-06
C. M. CLAY AT COVINGTON.

Cassius NJ. Clay recently delivered an address
at Covington, KY, from which we extract the fol-
lowing history of American Compromise, begin
niog with the first great blunder in the Constitu-
ton, and going down to the Infamous measures of
1850.
With a Compromising Constitution, what better
could be expected? The seed was planted in 1889,
and every year since we have reaped a harvest
like unto it.
LIBERTY AND DEsPoTIsM.
After abiding to the right of every citizen Of
Kentucky-a State professedly free. and republi-
can in its institutions, to express frankly his
political sentiments, no man, the speaker remark
ed, could fail to see that there was now a crisis
in the history Of our Republic. which called upon
the patriotism and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS hum
ble-of every man who loved his country. The
great Napoleon had we'll said that Europe must Ill
%timately be either all Republican or all Cossack.
There was an endless conflict between the princi-
Piles Of Republicanism and of Despotism /; one
could not exist in Europe beside the other. Free
dom was an Elysium upon which the subject Of q
despo,ism could not look, without aching to be
free themselves and the rise and fall of Ma
poleon afforded apt illustrations of the truth Of bis
own saying. Human natdre was the Same here
ms in Europe and though we called ourselves
Republican, the love Of power was as strong here
as there, and the same eternal conflict of opinions
was going on. Nothing os the slightest value
not even one of our growing crops-could be pre-
served but by our own exertions ; and how could
we expect our liberty-pronounced by all philoso.
piers, statesmen snd j%urists the most priceless OIL
possessions-to be maintained without eternal Wig
lance
AGGREssIoNs OF SLAVERY.
When the Federal Constitution was made, Sla
very was in conflict with the principles Of Liberty
and Progress. 1t stood in the very Convention
which framed il, in the persons Of the representa-
tives from Georgia and South Carolina, and there
t as always, dictated to US. 1t said to our father
!, who had sent forth the Declaration of Independ
ence "If you do not make a Constitution recoe
mixing Slavery, and permitting the importation o
: slaves for twenty years, all your labors for libert,
and a formation of a Union, shall be undone, ant
]. you shall! be driven back perhaps to another con
D Aict with Great Britain" Under the fear of thi
drssd alternative the point had been yielded, an,
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-08-06

1.-The following lie a more detailed account OF
The Chicago kidnapping case than that we gave
last week..
Daily national Democrat., 1859-01-09

CoLoN1zATIoN OF TURKEY.-The Ottoman
government has issued decree for the en-
couragement of immigration to its dominons.
The instrument is extremely liberal in its
character, guaranteeing perpetual federation
in religious matters and exemption from tax
alton and military service to colonists for sta
ted periods, viz: in Roumclia for six, and in
Asia for twelve years. Assuming the condi-
ton of subjects of the Sultan, the latter will
have to tax, the oath of allegiance to the
Porte anl to submit themselves to the au-
thorities of the Kaza and Saniak township
and county, to which the villages and towns,
when they are established, may belong, and
they are to be governed by them like other
subjects of the empire. Colonsts will not
be entitled to sell the lands which shall be
granted to them gratuitously by the govern
ment until after the lapse of twenty years.
If prior to that time they wish to leave the
country and relinquish their allegiance, they
will have to restore their lands with all the
improvements erected thereon to the govern
mcnt, without receiving any compensation
for the same. The last clause appears some
what hard but considering the peculiar po-
litical situation of Turkey, it is perhaps the
only condition which could ensure the per-
manent settlement and improvement of the
public lands, and the consequent political
Advancement and security of the empire
ErchdnQe.
Daily national Democrat., 1859-01-09
NO. 1875.
1allp 3(ationaI Drmotrat.

ANGLo-SAxoN DEGRADATION OF WOMEN
DIsrael, in the "Sybil," thus describes the
English miners coming from the pits in the
the evening They come forth: the mine
delivers It's gang and the pit its bondsmen;
the forge Is silent, and engine is still. The
plain Is covered with the swarming multi
tude; bands of stalwart men, broad chested
and muscular, wet with toll, and black as the
children of tropics; troops of youth-alas!
of both seXes-though neither their raiment
nor their language indicates the difference:
all are clad in mail attire and oaths that
men might shudder at issue from lips born to
breathe words of sweetness Y ct these are
to be-scme are-the mothers of England
Bnt can we wonder at the hideous coarseness
of their language, when we remember the
savage rudeness of their lives Naked to
the waist, an iron chain, fastened to a belt of
leather, runs between their legs clad in can
vass trousers, while on hands and feet, an
English girl, for twelve, sometimes for six.
teen hours a day, hauls and hurries tubs Of
coal up subterranean roads, dark precipitous
and plashy-circumstanc that seem to have
escaped the notice of the Society for the Alb
olition of Negro Slavery Those worthy
gentlemen, too, appear to have been singu-
lary unconscious of the sutferings of the lit
tie trappers, which was remarkable, as many
of them were in their own employ.
See, too, these emerge from the bowels Of
the earth Infants of four and FIVE wears of
age, many of them girls, pretty, and still
soft and timid intrusted with the fulflment
of most responsible duties, and the nature of
which entails on them the necessity of being
the earliest to enter the mine, and the latest
to leave it. Their labor, indeed, is not Sc
vere for that would be impossible, but it is
passed in darkness and solitude They endure
that punishment which philosophical philan-
thropy has invented for the drest criminals,
and which these criminals deem more terri
Bile than the death for which it is substituted.
Daily national Democrat., 1859-01-09
VILE, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY MORNING. JANUARY O. 1859
Special 1lotites,
To the Aflloted.--Let no false dclicacy p-

To the Atllicted.--Let no false delicacy prevent
the invalid from seeking medical rcicf-the card of
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dicatcs where to obtain reliable and competent ply
sican. 1t is seldom that we called upon to bear
testimony in favor of the skill of any physician, but
sense of duty as well justice demands that we
should not pass Dr. Czapkay by, without something
more than mere mention. Unlike the greater por-
ton of those who thrust themselves and their nostrums
before the public, whose practices empirical, Dr..
Czapkay is gentleman of rare medical and scientific
attachments, having held the position ofchef surgeon
of the ltberating army during the late Hungarian
Revolution, being voted honorary member of the
Philadelphia College of Medicine, and is possessed of
all the requisite experience and skill for the
fu practice of his profession 1t to the and adj
vice of such a physician would recommend all
suffering from the effects of sexual or private diseases
feeling assured that in all such complaints, whether
arising from Infection ndiScretou, sefabuse, or loss
of virty he can guarantee, from his extensive prac-
tice, speedy and permanent To those suffer
ing from the effects OF physical and mental debility,
would say let common sense take the place of
from an untmey grave, and lead you back again to
pristine health, const Dir. Czapkay whom we cheer
fully endorse As a skul and tried physician, capa-
bic of coping with and successfully eradcatins those
sef-inticted mseres the evils of empirical practices
and all diseases of seminal nature Dr.. Czapkay's
rooms are on Sacramento street, opposite the Pacific
Mail Steamship Co.'S Office, San Francisco
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