Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-02-25
REPUBLICANS NOT ABoLITIONISTs.

There is strong and eager desire, and always
has been, among the bogus Democracy to spread
the notion that the Republicans are aiming at the
abolition of Slavery by the action Of the Federal
Government.
The Republican party was originated by the re-
peal of the Missouri Compromise. That repeal
was a measure designed to let Slavery into terri
tory from which il had been hitherto excluded
The Northern people united in party III order to
execrate that design, and forbid the exehsion of
that institution. This party they gave the name
of Republican. The object for @hi6h the party
was formed is stll the l6dding object of its exis-
tehCc. Ii offers itself as a breakwater and bull
wark against the nefarious purposes Of the repeal
efs Of the Missouri Compromise, and against those
who, ever since the time Of that repeal, have in
every way exerted themselves to further those
purposes. In doing this it has condemned Presi-
dents, Judges. Members of Congress. and agents
Of the Executive Government of high and low
degree. Right and left /. has dealt its blows at
the whole Of despoilGri Of Free Tertit6ry. II
has given them no quarter. Il intends to give them
hone. Whether they go for spreading Slavery by
letting Shareholders establish it on free territory,
or for spreading it by the 8rfh Of judicial power
forbiding all attempts to interfere with its univer
sal diffusion, or whether they go for spreading it
by Of Slave code, it is all the same to the
Republicans They detest all phases OF the
scheme with the same hatred. They fight against
al with equal fervor. and they will continue to do
So They believe in Freedom. and they do not
be ievs ia Sldeety. They will have the Public
Doman Kept sacred for free men and for free
mems chillren, and they with an irrepressible
determination against its prostitution to the spread
of the thrice accursed institution. They vow to
exuuguish its germs wherever they can fad them
newly planted, II it be possible thing They
will do this by Legislation where they can. and
where they cannot, they will do it by the Kansas
method if they are able. This spirit has been
evoseL by the attempt to spread Slavery over our
whole territory. And it will last while the sub
jsct Of it lasts.
Having said this we now wish to say little
more. The Republican party is not an Abolition
party. II has never proposed to use the powet OF
the Federal GoSetntheht to abolish Slavery. Such
dss ofhat Governhfont is not its creed, and never
was 1t does not %ishi by any national action to
interfere with Slavery ID the States where it exists
1t has no advice to give as to its management
there. 1t has no orusades to project. IL does not
contemplate national scheme OF emancipation
O the African race. The management of that
question: irs discussion its agitation is no part Of
it's programme. 1t is content to let the Slave
States manage their own peculiar social evils in
their own way, subject only to the public discus
sion, exposure. and comment which human action
invitably provokes from free and an intelligent
people.
Every sensible man knows. or ought to Know,
that this is the position of the Republican party
in regard to slavery. And yet we 6pd elaborate
essayists setting down professedly to persuade
Republicans to give up their IDEAS of abolishing
Slavery. with grave arguments to show them that
the country would not be SO we'll of if We should
thus dispose Of that institution, as it would If it
should be let alone. or course these arguments