Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-02-05

Tonnage and influence were exerted in favor Of the
most arrant despotism towards the iaborers OF the
South. Some Southern members we're more con-
sistent. They boldly asserted that labor must
everywhere be compulsory that both North and
South the capitalists owned the laborers that the
influence and powers of the Government should
therefore be ezerted for the protection Of capital
lists, and leave them to take care OF the aborers
and they welded its powers for that object.
was then, as now, incapable Of oomprehending
how an ssue in regard to tariff, or upon any other
collateral question, could effect radical reform in
our Government. The necessity for basing our
political efforts upon the essential truths avowed
by our Republican fathers, was to me most obvi'
ous
had assisted in trying the experiment Of unit
ing men of conflicting principles for the purpose OF
carrying the election in 1910, and driving the DEM
ocratic party from power. | abored earnestly for
the election of Harrison and Tyler, believing that
! if we succeeded we should. among other reforms,
regain the freedom Of debate in this body. After
the result was known, and while the President
elect was on his way to this city, made an effort
to speak on the subject Of Slavery. was met at
every step by Shareholders and by cog rules, but
succeeded. My friends regarded my effort as sue
cessful-as an achievement But the President,
whom had assisted to elect expressed his abhor'
renee of oil attempts to nstate the question of hu
man rights and when, after his arrival, called
at his quarters to pay him the customary respect
he gave me such unequivocal evidence of his In
dignation, that was constrained to surrender my
own sefrespect, or to Withhold all further manifes
ations Of respect for him. While he lived, his in
fuence was exerted in favor af the gag rules-ir
favor of Slavery; and the next year was public
! ly censured and driven from my seat in this body
for avowing doctrines which no Shareholder dared
deny; but they united with Northern serves to
ceneure me for uttering truths on which no man OF
reputation presumed to take issue This occurred
under Wing Administration, for whose election
l had labcred most earnestly; and by House, q
large majority of whose members belonged to the
party with whom had always acted. These facts
illustrate the salacy of uniting conflicting elements
merely to carry an election. They show that
when the Executive thus elected assumes any def
mite policy, the party at once dissoves into its
original elements, and the various factions turn
their weapons against each other. The disband'
ment of the Wing party in 1S4l left no remaing
! doubt on minds Of thinking men, that political
. party, to become permanent, must base its organ
. ization upon immutable truth and the failure o
President Tyler to cargo the views of tie part.
t who elected him constituted an important step to
d wards the development of our present issues.
s Mr.!Clay the Whig candidate in 1874 was con,
g mitted to our doctrines; but by surrendering hi
!. opposition to the annexation of Texas, he lost tn
d support of portion of the Northern vote, an
was therefore defeated. His failure constitute
= another lesson to politicians. against the policy
VI uniting political opponents for the mere purpos
T. of carrying an election.
j. The annexation of Texas, with the avowed pu,
" pose of extending and eternizing Slavery, const
- tutes an important chapter in the progress
Is events, showing that the Democratic party the
. acted upon the doctrines now avowed, but evade
y every effort 70 compel them to show their colors.
70 In l84S, the two great parties, in their Nations
e Conventions and in their platforms. CAREFUL
y avoided any issue upon the subject Of Slavery
'e But such was the popular feeling that new part
u was formed and although it did not adopt tn
le rights of mankind. enuncated in the Declaratio
u of Independence, the basis of its organization
e it founded its claims to support upon its devotion
to Freedom Its numbers we're respectable, and s
lie many votes were drawn from the Democratic par
g ty, that the Wings elected their candidate. Blu
: the new administration, upon its entrance into Of
n fee, was beset with the same difficulties which
rounded that of General Harrison, in lS4l. Gen
e eral Taylor could find definite doctrine pol
Is lev on which he had been elected, or to which h
n had been committed. Of course, the conflicting
D. elements were unable to unite they separated
e and the party dsbanded, and the necessity 70
selecting immutabletrlh as the basis for polit
is cal organization became still more apparent.
:, AT the assembling of the Thirty. first Congress
some eight members separated from the old pare
: avowing their determination 10 vote for no man
the office of Speaker, who hesitatsd to pledge him
self so to arrange the committees as to secure re
spectful reports upon Northern petitions in regar
:. to Slavery. Both of the leading organization
saw that this would at develop the great issu
which they feared, and they rejected the propos
. ton Under those circumstances, no candidat
;. could command majority Of the votes, and afte
contest of three weeks they united in a resolution
. declaring that the member receiving the high
= est number of votes should be elected. The Den
:. ocratic candidate was thus elected, and the Viii
party actually died by its efforts to prevent the d.
:, yelopmen. of that influence which defeated all i
- measures From that dayit appears only in hStor,
a But it were in vain for historians to record tran
piring events, if statesmen. politicians, and peop
a close their eyes to the obvious teachings Of the
"a examples, and strive to maintain political part
" com posed of dscordant elements, with no commc
=, principle on which all can unite.
,e The advocates of liberty had greatly increase
,e in 1852. Their National Convention was chara
he terized for its dignity, and the high moral and
n litical character Of its members. Its platform
NJ principles was more elevated and statesmanlil
n. than had been previously put forth by any poli'
r. cal party. But as neither of the old organization
to openly denied the truths of our Declaration OF
tha friands of EraAdom forehora IN r