Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-10-27

laborers. This party is also swollen by consid-
erabe number Of the inhabitants of the Free States
ii e., the States n which slavery does not exist
-who through various influences, sympa,hise
with the slave system. The Democratic party has
had the government of the United States in in
hands for tho last eight years. During that time
they have succeeded in carrying various measures
the tendency of which is to extend and perp
the system of slavery, by raising it to full ascend
ency in the administration Of national affairs
Among other steps in this direL ton, they have go
the Fugitive Slave Law enacted, by which magis
in the Free States are bound to adopt active
measures to have slaves who escape from their
masters, and come within the bounds of their iu-
risdicion, restored to their so-called owners
They also gave what is now proved to have been
very corrupt governmental countenance and sup
port 10 desperate aud most unfair measures, the
object Of which was to have Kansas admitted as a
Slave state into the Union, in opposition to the
bona tide votes Of the great aority Of the nhaL-
itants of that territory.
The object of the Republican party, with which
the AboltiUnists do not ANA gamate is in the first
place to stop the progress of the slave system and
have it shut ur, they say, as with wall of fire.
within the bounds which it now occupies, and to
GUST the Democratic party from the place of power
which it now fills, SO much to the Injury of the in.
terests Of freedom. The Republican party has al
preser; majority in what is called "The House,"
corresponding 70 cur House Of Commons and the
Democratic party has ma jority in the "Senate, "
corresponding 20 our House of Lords. 1t is to be
marked that, by the Constitution of the United
States, every several StatS has sovereignty within
its own terri;ory-has the right to enact its own
laws, and administer these, as if it were an indie
enGent State. The friends Of liberty in America
have thus difficulties to contend against, which are
apt to lie overlooked by those who look the con
test from this side of the Atlantic. Slavery cannot
be summarily abolished by vote of Congress, a:
it was Hy the British Parliament in the colonies
Of this country. The Republican party cannot
" ell make the immediate abolition of slavery it.
political object without proposing what it's op-
pOnenta would denOunce rs revolutionary, and O
breach of federal compact. Such; at least; is ouI
impression. But though it does not put this in
the programme Of it's distinctive principles, lead
ing statesmen in the party are now openly de-
nouncing slavery in the very darkest colors, both
in the Senate and the HoussI The late speeches
of Sumner, Lovejoy, and Adams, afe orations Of
surprising power in which the horrors and the
horrible influence and effects of slavery are set
forth with thrilling eoquence; that are not far
outrvaled by those of Cicero or Demosthenes, and
these speeches are in the of being crculst-
ed over the Free States for they are tabooed in the
Slave S,ates) in hundreds of thousands. These,
along with the scOrching eloquence of many dis
tnguished orators OF the Abolition Society, are
telling heavily on the slave interest, however
strong, as volleys from redoubts furnished with
Armstrong guns would on the walls of the strong
est fortress.
But how is it that slavery has taken such deep
root in the American soil, and has, at the present
time, such powerful held of society in the United
States, amidst all the light of the nineteenth cen-
tury, and 10 spite of all the influence which a
widely difused Christianity is exer,ingi This
question is worthy of tiure attention than it has
hitherto received. This arises from an evil prin-
cipe, deeply rooted in fallen human;ty-an evil
principle which is not peculiar to any age or any
country, and is at this hour exertDg a most 5ane-
ful influence. and yielding widespread evil fruits
on this as we'll as the other side of the great Ats
laniic IL is what the spirit Of God assures us is
the root Of all evil-"the love of morey,"-an in
ordinate thirst for worldly gain and carn4l az
graf dsement This earth has in all ages been
studded over with upss trees, which have sprung
frotf this cursed root. Of these, the system of
slasery in the United States is of the most gi-
gan,ic that has yet appeared in our fallen world.
Slavery is great money Interest in the United
States. The Shareholders are the mliionaires, al
most the Ro.hschllds Of the States. The estimat-
81 ,l,a If tha mill nl ia Q f.
900 900 dollars. a sum which is about equal to the
whole national debt of Britain. This seems to
preclude the idea Uf emancipation by a peculiarly
com pepastUn to The shareholders and the annu-
al increase of the slaves is rendering deliverance
for tne oppressed in this way less and less possi-
Bile. Slaves being held as property on the same
footing as houses or land horses or cattle, the
owner Ut 500 or 1000 slaves is man Of wealth.
His riches consist ot the human beings whom he
holds in bondage: they are his estate, and the
fruits Of their tui yield him a large annual reven-
ue. There ia also very luctalVe slave traffic
carried on between the saVe-breeding and slave
labor States. Tue dark deed connected with this
trade do not admi, Of rehersal. The most sacred,
natural, aud moral rights OF the enslaved are Ut
terly Ignored alas ignored by nominally Chris
tian men, Injured by habit 10 the perpetra Oi
,he blackesi crimes, without remorse. There are
no less than so 600 human beings sen, annually in
druves like cattle, from the save-breeding States
to the soulhern sfave-markets. One State, Virgin
ia, alone sends every year 10000. In this accurs-
I'd traffic, mems natural right to freedom, the hal
lowed bonds OF marriage, and the endeared rela-
lion of parent aud child, brothers and sisters,
utterly set at nough:. Il is appalling to think
that some Of the grestest crimes Of which man is
capable should be committed on a scale 80 inn
nense, not in the dark, but before the not in
paeaa lands, 'the abOdes Of horrid cruelty" but
n the midss Of high civilization, and where the
,lear beams Of gOspel light shine with brightness.
Again. great numbers in the Free States are SO
with slavery and the Slave States, by &
lfnitiss Of various kinds, by an actual money in
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