Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-03-03

1856, or as It is to be made up in 1860. and II you
will allow me 1 will refer to .he record. l cannot
read oil Of the platform, but | give you my word
there is Lo such clause In H."
That Is certainly very candid and very Consist
emit. A party which can remain in o contederacy
in which there are fifteen slave States, need noe
have any s~cruples Of conscience about admitting
any more. Having swallowed the camel, it would
be q great piece Of aGectation to strain at a gnds
In relation to the Fugitive Slave Law, Mr.. Clay
speaks as by authority.
1.-THE f,uIth charge is that we propose to repeal
the Fugitive Slave Law, ard practically refuse to
obey the Constitution on that subject. l do NOS
deny that in some of the States there has been an
effort made Of that kind, but | do utterly deny
that there is any such clause 10 the platform OF
1885 or the call Of 1860. Without dwelling fur
Their UPON that, l pass it by, saying that l do NOT
care to avow that | stand on that subject With
Daniel Webster, the man whom, Of all others ID
tho country, we have styled the expounder OF the
Constitution-certainly upon Constitutional law the
highest authority Of this country or any other.
Mr.. Webster although be was over persuaded fiat.
tered by tie idea that he would get Sohthefh sup
port BY yielding his true. born opinion, said what,
in his speech Of the 7th March He said that
this was a power that belonged not to Congress-
but to the several States" That is my belief ;
III II hopuUiluhE purity, uoShOuo VI uoAAhNHy
yielded it, and struck it out of our platform in
1856, and do not intend to incorporate it in the
platform of $780,"
The Republican party, it seems, for the sake Of
harmony, yields a constitutional principle. and in
order to secure SUCCESS, determin ed in 1856 not to
oppose one of the most Ubiquitous laws any nation
ever framed and with the same object in view.
will in 1890, eowsfd-like pursue a similar course.
u,,;no Kh,a d;sDOuaA of tho En1itiva Slava Ta-
lie comments in the following strain upon some
other charges.
'To refuse to prevent or punish by State action
the spoliation of slave property, but, on the con-
trary, to make it O criminal offense in their citi-
zens to obey the laws of the Union in so far as
they protect property In African slaves" Gentle
men, don't we tell them in our call that we 20 for
protecting the rights of all the States, and, so far
from hindering them in the return of their prop-
erty, that we pledge ourselves as a party to defend
them against your State, or my State, and every
State, or against foreign invasion. OF course, il
we are honest in one purpUse,we are honest in the
other, and we cannot be honest in that avowal, IL
we are dishonest IN the first imputation.
ITO abolish slavery In the District Of Column
b;a." 1 need not read our platform again. but I
defy any man to lind any such a clause in il,
ITO abolish it in the forts, arsenals. dock. yards
and other places in the South where Congress has
exclusive Jurisdiction" There is no such clause 40
that in the platform Of 1860.
ITO abolish the internal and coastwise trade"
There is no such clause as that in 1t either.
ITO limit, harass, and frown upon the institu-
ton Of slavery in every mode Of political &C:
ton, and by every form Of public opinion;"
We in fact make a directly opposite svowal.
So far from that, We not only are com'
celled by the necessity OF the case, but we pro.
pose, in carrying out In good faith this associated
brotherhood Of conlederated States, not to take
EmsncipationistS alone upon our platform, not
simply to appoint them to Offices, but we propose
and invite Shareholders to act in conjunction With
US, and 10 assist US in carrying out the Govern
ment, which we shall in all probability 90 soon
control. How can this be true How can 70
then intend TO harass the institution by every
mode Of Political action Why, gentlemen, The
thing is impossible in the nature of things, and
unless yon have proof that we are dishonest, thers
is no believing that We can. or desire to, monopo-
lie all the Offices in the country"
That is very plain, and simple, and easily uu.
derstood, and Cassius M. Clay is not the only man
who thus expounds the principles and measures
Of the Republican party. and speaking too, BY the
authority Of position. Yet Notwithstanding such
declarations, men will be found who will insist
upon the anti-slavery character Of the party, and
will obtain pecuniary support, and influence, and
votes under that false pretence and will beguile
into their nets men who ought to be able 10 put to.
gether even moro than two ideas, and do their
own thinking. Some NEE talk Of the rank and
file of the Democracy "gOing il blind, "and
so they do and yet there was never q
more blinded and befOOled set of political dupes
that are toled on by Republican demagogueG to
forsake every principle they profess to hold dear,
to abandon every measure they declare they desire
to sustain, i'll order that by so doing they may re.
alize tho great idea of party success, and secure
the loaves and fishes of political consideration.