Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-12-29

Let US next examine the Executive department
of this government, and see if it is any more '"a-
just or equitable in It's organization than
the Legislative department,
Delaware with ninety-.hreo thousand, five hum
drcd and ninety-two Inhabitants, has H,ee rOies for
President and Vice President, while New York with
three millions, ninety-scycu thousand, thrco hun
dred and uinety-rour inhabitants has but thirty
fire roies.
That is, Delaware, on a tasis Of thirty thousand
Eve hundred aud len inhabitants, has one vote ioT
these two important furctiouaries Of the govern
mept, while New York has but one rote on Il basis
or eiyhiJ-cigH Mou8aH3, J3ur hun3,ea and ninety
SO inhabitants, which actually leaves tco Million
Marty thousand. fire Ln,dYc3 and Gyty.tour Of her
inhabitants absolutely, though uuconsciously per-
haps, DISTINGUISHED, in tho election Of President
and Vice President.
The tremendous power and patronage Of the
Executive department., in the selection Of which,
SO large a number of the people arc DISTINGUISHED,
must notbe forgotten. It dominates and appoints,
by and with, the advice and consent Of the Senete,
he Judicial department Of this government. 1t
makes treaties by and with the advice and con-
sent Of the Senate" it appoints ambassadors,
other public ministers and consuls, and all other
Ulcers Of the United States, whose appointments
are not otherwise provided fr." In all ;he5o
highly important functions Of the Executive de-
p%arIment, 2030,544 Of tho inhabitants Of New
York are, in fact, excluded from any participation.
They are, to all iutonts and purposes, as compar.
cd with the people Of Delaware, absolutely dis
lranchised, and yet without a murmur at such in.
justice and inequality.
As in the case Of State sovereignty, some poll
,icians, unable to make the United States Govern
! ment entirely National" 10 its character, hay,
e attempted to make it, at lea #, partly National
D They are forced to admit the Federal character 0
b the Senate, hut claim chat the House of Repre-
t senlatiyes is truly National" This position, how
e ever, is not sustained BY facts; Cor if the House .
2 Representative is truly National, there would b.
no fractions left in each State misreprosontoj, no
F would the State lines be, in the least, regarded il
the numoration Of tte Inhabitants for members 0
The House. This position neither Southern o.
Northern Democrats, Republicans, or GarIisouiar
Abolitionists, can by any possibility %refute, be
couse they defend the constitutional right of th,
slave states to base their req resentation in th,
House of Representatives partly upon their slaves
rs being tho 'WTee-fJHS of all OTHER persons
! named in the Federal Constitution. AT the adop
ton Of the Federal Constitution there was at leas
one free State. If then the 'threc-Gjths" clause Q
r The Federal Constitution means, and describe
slaves, as is almost universally claimed, it utterl
- and forever refutes the popular doctrine that eve
the House Of Representatives is "Nati0naV' i
A character. We Radical AJolaioniots it is true
utterly deny that the "three.ffhs" clause, as an
4 other clause in the Federal Constitution means, c
70 describes slaves, but it does not follow that the
. must necessarily maintain that the United State
Government is ''NGti0naE' instead of Fedora
~ in its character. On this question they are div
ded. Mr., Goodell, of tho Principal, is an out-an
out consolidetionist Of the old Federal school. l.
utterly rePudiates the right Of a State to sece(
from the Union, and would involve this confeder
cy of sovereign States in a bloody war, to coer
a seeding State into submission. In this NJ
" Goodell takes the popular view maintained by Il
Republican party, and the northern Domocrac
u Mr.. Goodell says Gas a natural, original rigl
Vi it NAV be conceded" This is o concession fat
I've to the claim Of coercing a State into eubmissio
Iu- The "IPadical AJol!tioniSts" truthtully deny tn
ny wrong can be legaliscd. If this be true, and if
I've be also true that the colonies had a natural, or
0'' iaal right" to secede from their Uuion with t
Il" British people, then, il follows, as an ineVital
oH' result, that TIE British Government had no rig
gu 10 coorce them into submission. God, Himself, b
i've no light to punish them for the peaceful exerc
Il d Of this natural, original right" and if He g
III ems the universe, lie will hold the British PEG
Ion ] II =. a-,n4 ;1;.- 60 4lo Ioeo1g v;.Lol n
the desyolic Efforts to coerce the 'seceding'' colon
sl"- into submission. Approvingly Mr.. Goodell quo
the language Of a stakeholder that cit is Treason
nan secede." If this be true, then it was 'treasoa'
the colonies. To prove that the Constitution
All adopted 'FOREVER'- that the dead have an
rrescriptible right to govern, without their c
Vi sent" the tecming millions who are to succeed
''"F in all future time, Mr.. Goodell catches with av
ty at 4 mere scrap Of history What a won
MA full discovery for q Radical Abolitionist' who
'e" the slavery question, repuGiates all scraps Of
loh' tory,' and correctly appeals to The plain sense
ls'a- intention Of the Constitution itself, for the poV
has of the Government created by it. On a for
"o'' occasion, and in defence Of liberty, Mr.. Goo
asserted that Rights nerer conflict aciM each OF
Is IL This is d selfevidcnt truth. Right is an etc
and liked principle that can cohJltct WH" DOT
v OF but its opposite, prong. Hence the natural, 0
nal righF Of o State to secede, can 'necer con
,a'e' with the assumed 'rigAF Of the Federal Gov
mar ment to coerce it into submission. ], as a fal
the Of illinois, have a natural, original. righF to
nsl'- a bushel Of wheat, and exchange it with one o
the fellow beings white or black,) in Canada,
oers ward of cloth, regardless of the revenue laws,
#o"- if the Government has q right under poins
wing penalties, to prohibit my light thus to Ia
rms rights do conflict The Government, bow
Il az IS wrong; and here, as in The case Of slH'
? It's wrong is said 70 be legalizcd and converted
OF rC ht, and is enforced against Figh|
The Radical Abolitionists' deny the auth
Of any government to outlaw ri9ht' or to leg
uronq; ard yet Mr.. Goodell, it seems to me, /
byee the question of secession ignoring the carr
principles by which we hope to overthrow not
nl slavery, bu; every other species of wrong. /