Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-07-28
From the LiberAtor.
MR.. PHILLIPS AND THE TRIBUNE.

The readers of the Liberdtor will see, on the
Arst page, an article from the New York Tribune,
styled "A New Misrepresentation being a criti'
cism on an article Of mine in q late Liberator.
1t will be observed that the Tribune does not give
Its readers any definite idea of my real charge
against Mr.. Lincoln, or The grounds of it. But,
covering that up in eQuivocal terms, it takes issue
on O mere technicality. This could not have been
done to save space, since my whole charge This
wishing to extend the Fugitive Slave clause over
the District of Colombia, where the Constitution
Scas not carry i) would not have required ten
Zines.
LIST. The Tribune says, Tie charge is based up
on the alleged fast that Mr.. Lincoln moUed to
reconsider &c.
l never said Mr.. Lincoln mored to reconsider,
Sc. To moue is a technical word in parliamentary
affairs. MIR. Lincoln made no motion at the time
stated. l never charged him with making one. l
said, Mr.. Lincoln in order to introduce this Bill,
requested the House to reconsider &c. Perhaps
this word is i'll chosen. The reader can Judge, for
here are the facts When Mr.. Wentw 1rth, at
Lincoin's request, withdrew, for a moment, his
motion, (which was to lay on the table the motion
TO reconsider Mr.. Lincoln said. by courtesy of
his colleague, he would say that if the vote on the
resolution was reconsidered, he should make an
effort 10 introduce an amendment which he should
now read The above request to Wentworth,
followed by such language, and by two votes for
reconsideration, certainly amounts to ,olling the
House that he toiShed the order reconsidered for
the purpose of introducing his amendment, which
was the Bill l quoted from. To save space, l
used a single word, perhaps too strong a ONE
requested the House, l still shiuk it a fair one
If the reader thinks otherwise, let it pass. He
now knows the exact fact; the value of which he
will appreciate more precisely if cid, that when
Mr.. Lincoln twi2c voted to get a reconsideration,
ne voted with Albert G.. Brown, Howell Cobb.
Rhett and ToOmbs, against Giddings, Daniel P.
King, Horace Mann, Palfrey. Julius Rockwell.
Collamer; Wilmot, Wentworth aud Greeley.
Which side repr scented Pro-slavery, and which
An:i.slavery. it will! be easy for any one to deter
mine.
The single vote of Mr.. Lincoln against laying
the wkole matter on the table, in which the Tribune
takes refuge, was given only to get his own bill
the chance Of being considered.
ID. The Tribune thinks me unfair in not quoting
the whole bill. l quoted all that concerned my
accusation, and certainly did not omit the resi-
U AZ Wlbu ~ hdhb IA AAuSOihs ~ La
itself is no credit to any man, being one Of Thu
poorest and most confused specimens of pro
slavery compromise. 1t provides, substantially
LIST, that no slave shall be carried out Of thu
District, and no slave shall be brought in. excep
by Ueited States officials coming from the South
who are about all the persons that wish to holC
slaves in the District. Such persons are to b.
allowed to hold them there forever. ID. All chill
dren born after 1850 were to be free some time o
other; il is not stated when. Sd. Slaves in tn
District were to remain such until their holder
wished to sell them, at which time the Unitet
States government was bound to buy them. 4th
All this was to be law, if the people of the Dis
trict voted for it II 9Th. The District was to b
slaVe-hunting ground forever!
Marvellous anti.slavery a proposition t
abolish robbery, if tho robbers request it \ An,
this is 10 l849 Of the Christian era; and relates t
a territory from which the Constitution exclude
all slavery; and of which Congress has the exclu
s've control. Considering that Republication pro
fesses to exclude slavery from oil cur Territories
as ITS specia! work, | should style Lincoln's bill
"A Bill Of the Republican President to recognize
extend and perpetuate slavery in one of the Ter
iitor;es of the United States II any of Mr.. Lin
coins friends consider this Bill a feather 10 hi
cap, let it. by all means, be %paraded. 1t strike
me as one of those bluders which a mans wei
wishers desire to hush up among his friends.
Sd. But my real charge was this:-
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE SLAVE HOUND OF ILL
Ho1s. We gibbet a Northern hound to-day, sid
by side with the Infamous Mason Of Virgins
Mason's Slave Bill is based on that clause of til
United States Constitution which provides for tn
surrender Of slaves escaping from one State int
another State of the Union.
Tho Supreme Court of the United States ha
decided that the District Of Columbia Is not
Slate within the meaning of the Constitution. 81
Hepburn ss. Ellsey, 2 Cranch 445. The Distri
Of Columbia is not, therefore, included in ii
terms of the Fugitive Slave clause. Whoevr
tries to extend the dominion of that clause ov,
The District Of Columbia, exhibits only bis yolur