Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-09-01
REPUBLICANISM AS DEFINED BY TOM
CORWIE.

ORWlE
lCorwin has been making a great speect-so
say the pnpers--at q Republican meeting at Nor.
row. The position Of the Republican party. as
compared with that Of the old Wing party, is thus
stated.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
Occupies the very gronnd Cd the subject of sla-
very and revenue that the Wing party occupied
from 1929 until it's dissolution, and the same
grouud upon the slavery question that the Demo-
cratic party of the North occupied up to 1854 the
same ground upon protect'o on Gen. Jackson occu-
pied at the time of his election
[After giving this consolation 10 those mourning
Republican abolitionists. who opposed Whiggery
when they cared more for principle than success,
but now swallow it as Republicanism, he next
presents the question at issue in its simple proper,
tioas.l
THE QUESTION.
What is the question before us 1t is sibybIy
whether slavery shall be extended into the terri
tories, or prohibited from going into them ? Sup.
pose we had 30 ConstAuticn, ard the Question, Of
the organization Of new societies. should! be ore.
seDied. Shall the work to DO done in the terri,oy
rias bo free or forced ? How wcuii every Bossst
man decide it ! Now we are all trying to get awaJ
from woTKI but the infinite God has made n l,w
which obliSes Us to work. We know that our vel.
iarc depends upon obedience to that hw. If wa
should all cease work for six months these would
be famine. 1t wo should oil cease work a yeAr
wo should starVe. We know that if men do aot
work with head or hands thio world would not he
worth n quarter Of a dollar. If we have TO have
"ork,do you prefer that it should be done by slaves
or ireehen II the question is, do you prefer the
African and his faulty to a horse or a mule. vou
would probably say you prefer your neighbor. II
wo1k Is The law which must be obeyed and upnr
which our existence depends, would YOU prefer a
lair days wages for a fair days work. or send TO
Africa for bondsmen to do your work and keen
you in sloth and idleness? Here Mr.. Corwin an
f tered into the philosophy of labor, and concluded
t this point by showing that tho African bondsman
does the work which is absolutely necessary to the
Q white man. And this question Of free labor. he
! said, is the reason for Reputlicanism. We hold.
u be said that the white man must have employment
D room for work, and fair wages. If denied these.
d he VIII soon become unfit for work. If the poor
white man and his pale faced wife is compelled To-
T stand at the door OF the rich man who owns labor
ers' begging him for work, the rich man will have
the power to say to him, vote for me or starre. This
' is no fancy sketch, but the solemn truth. IF you
look back to the Grecian States, you win find ii
wGs verified there. You will find that in one IittYs
republic of Greece there were ~fourteeen slaves 10
r one freeman. One man rises in their Assembly
! and moves that every laborer be made q sYSys
, Why? He found that the work was all done bT
slaves, and he concluded that it WAS better for all
f laborers to be placed upon a common basis, for the
d slaves monopolized the work, and none was left
for freemen, and they must have starved. This
is the result. of slavery everywhere. Free labor
r is reduced in price by slave competition, and tho
laborer must become q pa
II 1.-The above extract present. I'd r exhibition of
g the spirit which prompts the Republican party to
oppose the establishing of slavery in the territories
Not that the institution is a fn against God, and
a curse to the master and the slave, but because
'e by slavery the black man does the work the wbits
man needs to do himself, and lessons the price Of
labor. I'VE hold, says Corwin,-we Republicans
that the ~hHe man must have employment, room
s. to work, and fair wages We are left to infer
that it is a matter of no particular consequence
whether the black man has employment or net,
" whether he has room to work OF none, whether ho
receives fair wages, or gets moro kicks than cop.
pers' What need that the white mans party troub.
lie itself about the ~niggerSf What right to work,
or room to work or wages have they which Repub.
licans are bound to respect n
rs --
We 'THE HOUSE AND GARDEN.H-Thos. Brown Of
the Ohio Farmer proposes to issue a monthly
commencing on the lst of September-of l6 octa.
he vo pages,treating upon all subjects in which house.
Is. keepers and gardeners are presumed to be interest.
ed. Price for single copies so cents per year
so thirty copies 35 cents each fifty copies rs cents
or each. Sample copies sent on application to the
&c publisher at Cleveland.
IN Mr.. Brown will no doubt furnish 40 interesting
ny and useful publication, and one which will meO
We the wants Of many.