Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-10-06

l SUPPOSE ihero is any essential difference between
the two meh, or would be any in their action.
But there is in the Republican party a strong anti
slavery element. And though the party will do
nothing for freedom now, that element will in
crease and before long-I trust-springiDg up
from the ruins Of the Republican party, will come
a great anti-slavery party, that will be true to free
DOM and recognize the rights Of oil men. But
while thus declare my desire 10 see the Reput-
hcan party succeed, | must say that as a party, I
regard 1t false to freedom and in no higher posi-
ton than tho Democratic party. And in its pres.
position it can do nothing for the salvation oe the
nation, notwithstanding the noble anti,slavery
men who are in il. For God has made it certain,
that the truth cannot be advanced by the telling
Of lies. believe thot IS giving the enemy the one
half, You cannot iase the olhet for as somebody
has said, every co%nqrcmise with the devil weakens
the man that makes Is
The Republicans any they are bringing the Gov.
ernment back to the policy Of the fathers. l do
not desire to do thiG she policy Of the fathers, was
not incorporating expedition to oppression and
nothing less than a position far higher than they
occupied, will ever make us worthy Of the name OF
freemen. If we cannot succeed by the force Of
ideas, then l 20 for a rolicy far different from that
of the fathers, if you refer TO their policy in the
management of the governments; for in that ease this
blood stained despotism must be overthrown. But
all peaceful means must first be exhausted. And
for one, though | cannot accomplish what many
others can, / am disposed to do everything / can
by moral and pacific means, to educate the people
into true ideas of their duiy-to eradicate the
mean spirit Of selfshness that makes almost every
one in the country look upon himself, his color, his
race, as alone worthy Of consideration.
This is the most wicked and the meanest kind
of infdelity ,st it is in all your ehurches,-even
your professors Of religion do not know the A B @
of the Bible, or of cbristianity,-do not know thai
God is no respector of persons, and has made Of
one blood ali the nations of man,-do not know
that colored men have the rights of humanity.
They condemn John Brown as the vilest of GRIM
inuls, yet laud the Revolutionary fathers for do.
ing what John did. II Washington and his asso-
ciates Of the Revolution, were right, SO was John
Brown. l know that Henry Ward Beecher preach.
ed a sermon in which he argued that John Brown
was in the wrong, in doing as he did, because
there was no prospect of success; thus making sue
cess the test of the matter. But if John Brown
was wrong in defeat, would he have been right in
success 7 If our Revolutionary fathers had failed,
WOulu tu6yJ tneTelOEo, nave D66u the greatest OF
criminals
What the age wants, is a confidence in justice
and a determination to do it. We are in fellow
ship with shareholders, and so long as we remain
in this position we are no better than they. The
receiver is as bad as .he thief. When you oonr
sent to carry out the fugitive slave law, you do as
badly as to hold slaves. What difference does il
make to me whether you hold me in bondage
yourself, or deliver mt up to the man who will.
Anthony Burns could feel as much respect-and
far more-for his master, than for those Boston
minions of slavery who gave him up to bondage.
Yet Abraham Lincoln will carry oni the fugitive
slave law, and you will carry him into office He
will be the bloodhound to catch the slave, and
send him Back to his hard life of toll, and you BY
sustaining him, will make yourselves as guilty as
he. / want to see the day when no Shareholder
will dare TO come here for bis slave. But that day
cannot come so long as you are willing to exalt to
the presidency men who endorse the bred Scott
decision. And all your Presidential candidates
do this. l know this has been denied of the Re.
publican candidate. But does any one who hears
me deny tina; Abraham Lincoln endorses, even the
worst features of that Infamous decision; that the
black man has no rights which the white man is
bound to ~respectF If any one denies or doubts IL
let him speak. In the state of Illinois, 1 cannot
testify against a white man in 'any court of Justice.
Any william may enter my house at Chicago and
outrage my family, and unless a white man stands
D by to see 1t done, l have no redress. Now, l went
t to Abraham Lincoln, personally, with a petition
for the repeal Of this infamous law, and asked him
to sign it, aud he refused to do it. 1 went also to
: Lyman Trumbull, with the ane petition, and he
? also refused; and he told me, if 1 did not like the
f laws of Illinois, l had better leave the State
g This is the doctrine of the bred Scott decision in
it's most odious form. 1t lie declaring, not only
Q in words, but in action, the infamous principle
that oOlored people have no rights which you are
S bound to respect. And yet, you tell me. you ara
s anti-slavery men, while you supper. such men as
these, for the highest Offices of the nation Sure'
ly, you will not expect ne to regard you as in favor
4 of freedom, when you will not recognize mt as q
e free man, or protect me on your own soil. Your
t anti-slavery should begin at home, or it is not to
be trusted. There is too much Of this hypocrical
r abolitionism. You profess to be in favor Of free
t dom, and tnen allow the STAKEHOLDER to come
8 among you and carry away your citizens. You
Q allow it, and you agree to ID, if you do not ap,
K prore it, and you have no right thus to sacrifice
d principle and practice, to save any political party.
Q To elevate men to office, is not an object for which
n a man should barter away his manhood. Let rs
g &C: nobly and juStly-do right, and leave the con-
. sequences to God.
81 But, you may inquire, wto shall we vote for :
It l answer, vote for an anti-slavery man, or do not
T vote at all. God put you here to do your duty
and be true to your own souls. lie never COM
manded you to tell a lie, sand violate principle. even
d to break the letters from the slave. And you can
not lreak the slaves letters by thus t~rampling on
every righteous principle. You gain no power for
" good by sacrificing principle'to gain numbers. God
e and one true man, are in a majority over all the
hosts of error and falsehood ; and we never can,