Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-06-02

bore the same cnlumny in their day; yet they
saved England and survived, gibbeted to everas.
ting contempt in the undying satire Of Hudibras
and the of bellies lctreS ever since; and like
the Coveuanters, as the Scotch poet says
"--bought,
Stern rushing upon Clavers's spears,
The freedom and the scorn Of after years."
We may buy it too but whether we buy it or not
our duty at such hours this is to see that the
Reprblic receives no detrimcnt, no matter whose
chances for the Presidency are Yerllod by the
discussion, the remorseess discussion, of the ques-
tion which the hour raises.
l agree with DR.. Cheever utterly in the opinion
which ho has been almost the first in this city of
the Empire to avow, in regard to this doctrine Of
contempt. No man who understands the nature
Of our government but would see, in a moment,
that according to the whole spirit of the United
States Constitution, neither in the Senate as a
Court nor in any court under republican institu.
tlons does there abide one shadow OF this despotc
usurpat n, the right 20 commit for contempt. We
did not bring it over to these States. We no
more brought it than we brought iho kings priv
iloge Of taking your houses and eating all you
have, without paying for it, as the Tudors and the
Stuayts did for hundreds Of years 1t is relic of
despotsm, which nothing but the serGilo indifer-
enco Or the timidity of the Republican members
of the Senate ever allowed to exist for moment,
The Senate has d right, if man disturb its scs,
sion5 by unseomly noise, to put him out; when he
is out OF that hall, he falls, every criminal does,
into the hands Of the police and the grand jury.
If he has offended the laws Of his county, the
courts are open, petit jury for his trial, the
States prison for his punishment; ard no
Republican Legislature, and no Republican Court,
sitting under the Constitution of the Union or the
State, possesses any power beyond that. l. is on
usurpation Judges and statesmenj and every
republican citizen who does not wish slavery to
| be no longer matter Of color, but to cover us,
the S .xon race, as we'll as the negro, is bound to
put his foot upon this first and most atrooious in
stance of Senatorial usurpation Cloud choers). II
Tie Tribune had not had its heart eaten out by the
miserable chances of Republican success, it Nigh,
have made some effort to give the keynote to the
Northern press in regard to this outrage on citi.
zenship, broader even than chattcl slavery itself.
You may say that use strong language, speak
ing OF Republican shortcomings ! do, and
mean to d. SO. Slavery ia no superficial evil tha
is to be killed n q moment, or by q single
blow. 1t is grouted into the very machinery o
the State it strikes its roots through thousand
strata, and is as powerful and more powerful than
the Union itself. Many men have thought they
saw it dying, and have thought they would sur
vive it, and been disappointed. John Randolph
said, thirty years ago, Slavery is weak in Vir-
ginia that shall yet see the slave chasing his
C,r n md ~
his slave" After he made the prophecy slavery
stopped over the Mississippi stole new lands up-
on which to plant itself, and took a new lease for
another half century. To-day, Republcanism
| lays down the delusive principle, that if slavery
can be curbed in the Territories, and confined to
the worn out soil of Virginia and the Carolinas,
! it will die Of itself. Bat in the meantime, great
commercial agent and agricultural discovery, qua
no, is undertaking to renew the exhausted life OF
the Carolinas and Of Georgia, and ten dollars laid
out upon one give result Of sixty or seventy
clear profit to the worn out coil Of the seaboard
and ono little discovery like this agricultural pat
ent of the last ten years is to make the whole
machinery Of republican argument useless aud
basele5s. 1t is only another stone in the structure
which we have been striving to rear for quarter
of century, that no efficient attack can be made
upon the system of slavery which does not de.
nounce it as sin, which does not claim it's aboli,
ton as duty, which does not demand on high
err level than expediency, that Of Christian prnci-
pie, of thirty million of people. that they put to
il total an unconditional and an immediate end
cloud applause.
1t is said that we have claimed too much; that
ba vn in cd tha rnli1ion mould
and attacked it. Do you believe that if thirty
thousand American pulpits had preached for three
years as this one Doctor of Divinity has preached
to us this morning, South Carolina could whip
New York into being her spaniel at Charleston ?
(Voices-No = NO l)'Political proachingi Wnon
Christ announced to his hearers his doctrines as to
the sinCulness and the fato of the men on whom
the tower Of Sloan fell, he was preaching to them
about the last news Of that morning, which the
boys had hawked about the streets OF Jerusalem
that very day. lie took for his text an extract
from The Jerusalem Observer (aughter) of that
very week, and preached on the last political and
social item of the hour and no man follows in
his footsteps that does not do exactly the same
thing. When want political preaching, l 60 to
the New Testament, which is nothing but a po-
liuca pam m2hlet, suited to the meridian OF Jerusa-
lem. If the Church has given us the truo doc
trine on the subjsct of the sinfulness of slavery,
should have settled this question ten years ago
on deeper and better basis than any that politics
can offer to US.
When look upon Republican statesman GOV,
ering himself up for availability, in equivocal
words, in timid announcements of principle, it
throws me back to the consideration, wha, have
we fanatics ever asked2 How much have we ever
claimed 2 Justice AS my friend Robert Pur-
Wis stood here. and spoke to us of the coloTed
race, 1t came to me, How lacking we have been
we, tho 'madmen' of the Abolition crusade
We have claimed for the slave, peeled and meeted
out, plundered and wronged for six generations
we have claimed for the im6ruted representa-
tive Of a race that has made onehalf Of this
nation Uhak IL is ihaL nakad and nann;Ioss