Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-11-17


that right, can be supported withoutit." Speech
at Alton, Oct. Is, 1851
Is sueh a Constitution worth havihg--a Con-
%s,itution which cannot be supported without q fu-I
Eitive slave lawi Think Of il, anti-slavery Re
publicans, and repent Of your recent efforts to in
fuse vitality into such an instrument, and to elect
as the representative of Republican principles, a
man WIZ, holding such views, swears to support
such a Constitution.
SECTION. S.-"The real. issue In this controversy
the one pressing upon every mind, is the senti-
ment on the part Of one class that looks upon the
institution Of SLAYER as a wrong-and Of another
class that does not look upon it as q wrong. The
sentiment that ~contemplates the institution of
slavery in this country as o wrong, is the senti-
ment of the Republican party. They LOOK UPON
1T AG BEING A MORAL, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL WRONG !
AND WHILE THEY CONTEMPLATE 1T As SUCH, THEY
NEvHRTuELEss HAVE DUE REGARD FOR ITS ACTUAL
ExtsrENcE AMONG US, AND THE DIFFIcULTIEs OF GET
TING RID OF 1T IN ANY SATISFACTORY wAY-AND TO
ALL TEE CONSTITUTIONAL OBLIGATIONS THROWN
All UT 1T. Yet having a due regard for these,
they desire q policy in regard to it that looks to
it's not creating any more danger. They insist
that il should-as far as may bs-5e treated as q
wrong-and one of the methods Of treating it as
. wrong, is to MAKE PROVISION THAT 1T SHALL GROW
no LARGER. If there be a man among as ,cho does
mol think that tie Institution Of sldrery is prong in
any one Of tile aspects Of ,ohieh l hare spoken, he
Is misplaced, and ought not to be pih as. And if
there be a man amongst us ,cho is so impatient Of IL
80 a torong as TO disregard its actual presence
among US, and the difficulty Of getting rid Of il
suddenly in a satisfactory 'cdy, and to. disregard
the constitutional, obligations throtcn about it that
man is misplaced il he is o" our pldJorm."-
lSpeech at Alton, Oct. Is, 1858
Mr.. Lincoln is here somewhat ell-contrsdictory.
He first asserts as a fact, what is notOriously no
fact = that the Republican party looks upon slave
~ "As being a moral, social, and political wrong,
for the party has never made such a confession of
faith, and Shareholders to-day stand upon its plat
FORM. lie after ward says, that if any man in the
party does not believe slavery to be wrong in one
Of the aspects named, he is not 10 his proper place.
The great mass of the Republicans unquostion-
ably regard slavery as a political wrong; and a
portion Of the party regard it as a moral wrong.
Unfortunately both Of these classes adopt Mr..
Lincoln's code of ethics as applied to the removal
Of that wrong, which teaches them not to be impa-
tient to get rid of it, not to disregard the consti-
tUtional obligations thrown around it, though-we
are assured-it is 70 be treated as a wrong with
abe singular proviso, "as far AS may be-.
SECTION 9 "A FEW WORDS TO THE SoUTH.-
"We.t the Republicans, and others, forming the
opposition of the country, intend to stand by our
guns to be patient and firm, and in the long run
to beat you. When we do beat you, you perhaps
want to know what we will do with you.
81 will tell you, so far as | am authorized to
--oob -, ,ko orAoa;,in, urhat NO onn D. 40 ,-..b
you. We mean to treat you, as nearly as we pos
sibly can, as Washington. Jefferson, and Madison
treated yon. We mean to leave you alone, and ia
no uay interfere Nth your institution; to abide by
erery compromise Of the Constitution; and, in a
word, coming back to the original proposition, to
treat you as far as degenerated men (if we have
degenerated) may. according to the examples OF
those noble Washington, Jefferson and
Madison. We mean to remember that you are as
good as we are; that thereis no difference between
VS., other than the difference Of circumstances.
We mean to recognize and boar in mind, always
that you have as good hearts in your bosoms as
other people, or as we claim to have, and to treat
yon accordingly Speech a, Cincinnati, Sept. II,
1852
If we treat slavery as the fathers treated it, We
shall succeed no better in its extinction than the
fathers did. If we are conten. to leave the slave
holders unrebuked in their iniquity, refusing
wholly to interfere for the destruction Of their &C
cursed institution, if We abide by The compromise.
of the Constitution, catching up fugitive slave.
and shooting down i~nsurgent slaves, let US cease
to profane the truth by calling ourselves abolition,
lists, and let "Icha BOD" be written upon the anti.
slavery professions OF our former days.