Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-04-28
SALEM CoLUMB1ANA COUNTY OHIO. SATURDAY, APRIL a

world, is under the control or guarantees Of the
Constitu,ion--not one particle.
Mr.. McCIernand (Dem. M wish to ask the
gentleman whether be has always held that the
Constitution deserved to be sustained and accepted
-whsther, at any time Of his life, he held that the
Constitution ought to be trOdden under foOsi
Mr.. Lovejuy Never. ST.; never. always de-
Tended il, aud always will. whether it be against
the Democrats who perveri it, or the DisuriOnistS
who trample on il.
Mr.. McClernsnd: If the gentleman says he
never said so, am not prepared to contradict
him, for know nothing, personally, about iti but
| had understood that the gentleman once uttered
this language that the Constitution was piece
of rotten parchment that ought TO be tsodden un.
der FOOT
Mr.. Loveioy Yes that was thrown In my face
once before here, and denied it. It never had
the least foundation in truth. l always defended
the Consultation, because il was for Liberty. It
was ordained by the people Of the United States,
not by a superannuated old mummy Of q Judge
and q Jesuit at that--but by tie people CT the
United States to establish justice, secure the bles
sings Of Liberty fof themselves and their poster
ity and to secure the natural rights of every hu-
man being within its exclusive Jurisdiction.
Therefore l love it. These men can conceive moth.
ing in the Constitution but Slavery. A young
man leads blushing bride to the altar. and takes
the martial vow before God and attendant witness
ses, to love, cherish, and protect her. There she
stands-the divinest thing that God has fashioned
and placed upon earth-radiant in the beauty Of
YOUTH her cheek glowing with the color of the
rose, which expands and fades away into that of
the lily; her eyes sparkling like the stars from the
depths of blue, and her tresses falling around her
neck like the locks Of the morning. Is the mole
on that fair round neck, or the wart that plump,
soft hand, TIE WOMAN whom the bridegroom
swore to love aud cherish So there is the Con-
stitution-instinct with freedom, radiant with the
principles Of universal liberty. seizing the inspired
utterAnces Of our Magma Charta, and reducing
them to practical and organic realization. Now,
Sir insist that if the clauses that deemed to
refer to the subject of Slavery mean all that the
widest enthusiast claims them to mean, they
bear other relation proportion to the Consti-
tuition which swear to support, than the excres
cence on the hand or neck does to the woman
whom the bridegroom swore to love and cherish.
He loves her not for these things, but in spite Of
them. But you will say the woman had a right
to sport an excrescence her hand il she chose,
f I concede it; and as Federal law-maker. con-
= cede that the States have the right to sport this
fungus OF Slavery, because it is beyond my reach.
But time rolls away. Tbis youthful pair have
= years of middle age upon them. Olive plants
have sprung up around the parent stem. The
woman has gone mad. She glosts over the ex-
. crescence which has spread and covers her entire
;. hand. She exclaims Husband, this is dear
sweet darling, real love Of a wart, and want to
ugrafI it on the hands of All our daughters. l
d had it when was married you vowed to protec!
me, and claim the right to transfer to all the
c children, If you do not will 20 to Indiana and
}. get divorce. l will dissolve the union between
e us.' The husband, calm and firm, replies, My
r dear, have INDUCED you in this whim about
!. your hand, because took you for better or for
= WORSE and thought it one of your individual
rights, which was not at liberty to disturb. Blu,
/ if you propose to transfer this deforniy to the
;, daughters say distinctly and decidedly, it can
s, not be DONE This 10 my preroga,ive, and mus
II exercise it, So l say to the Slavery Propagan
N dists who desire to transplant Slavery to the Ter
!. rtories and thus fasten il upon the daughters o
% the Republic. MY dears. it cannot be dOne.'
% say, therefore, Mr.. Chairman, that there is nj
D. justification for the practice of savehodng from
y the fact that the ensaved race. are al
is inferior race, no justification, from thu
d pretended fact tat it imparts Chrstiani
0. ~ and civilization to them; and none in the guar
n antics of the Constitution. Now, there are some
n Christian men the other side Of The House;
n want to put it to them in all candor-for while
B. intend to speak of slaveholding with as severe
8. reprobation rs possibly can do not intend t.
s. offend any individual personally-I want to know
,s Of you, Christian gentlemen, how you are going
I, to ChristsiniEe men when you do not give then
10 homes
., A Member Give them what!
a. Mr.. Loyejoy Homes, and legal sanction Il
IN the conjugal and parental relations. HoS arr
you going to Christianize men whom you turr
"a out to herd together like the buAaloes that
;, upon the Western prairies You cannot do it
n It may be asked Sir. when confess that hav
\. no control over this matter why discuss it why
a. talk about it
= Mr.. Singleton (Dem. Miss.): want to know
y il the gentleman gives homes
Mr.. Lovejoy: must decline to yisli to tn
~ gentleman.
n. Mr. Singleton; want to answer the gen tleman'
question by asking him another. want to know
IT. il be gives homes to the negroes he carries ron
ur the South to Canada and other places :
lis A Member: The negroes he steals
The Chairman: The gentleman from MississiI
~ pi is not in order,
~ Mr.. Barksdale (Dem. Miss.); hope my co
league will hold no parley with that perjured nj
W. gro thief
in Mr. LovejOy: II is asked why discuss th
as question Why talk about it, when it is confes
'rs ed that we have no constitutional power to leg
I'D late upon III will tell you, Mr.. Chairman.
I'm will be reeollected that Mr. Webster once sal
'o' when speaking Of the threatened interPositiOn
ne Russia to snatch Kossu,h fSOm the protection
lat Turkey. for the purpose of sacrificing him On Il
i altar Of despotism "dentlemen, there is som
ir Ilhinn n a.rth nronAar Ahan arhifaru nr daEnnt