Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-06-16
q o III II, II II
REPUBLICANISM.

1t is peculiarly interesting 10 an observer of the
times, to see the nightmare Of content that per-
vades the Republican party since the nomination
of a man to the Presidency. If the sectional par
ty and the sectional strife that SO rend and dis
tract the country had been ~allayed, if civil war
had been %averted, or if the abolition of slavery had
been announced at the Chicago convention, we
should look for the satisfaction, admiration and
free breathing, that We now meet at every corner.
But you have only to look into the face of these
complacent partisans, to find q solution of the
whole matter. You will there behold the glory of
a Republican, Washingtonian administration of
government for the next four years. A sublime
March oflndependence is reopened, and these grand
words of the Constitution, ITO establish Justice,
to promote the general welfare, and secure the
blessings of liberty" are no longer glittering gen.
%eralities, but absolute creations. This party in
power, will legislate for the greatest good of the
greatest number, by protecting the free labor of
the whole country. and by re-enacting the ordi-
nance Of 1887, (which under the action of the Su-
preme Court ratified by the President and Senate,
has again ceased to re a Law for the government
of all tho National Territory, declaring thereby,
that no person should ever be enslaved, except
for crime; or be deprived of Life or Liberty, with
out due process of Law, and the judgment of bis
peers; nor of his property, the produst of his
toll, without just compensation. In tho spirit and
genius of the Constitution, they will proceed to
promote the general welfare" by tolerating a
representation of property in slaves in Congress,
by tho liberation Of the Fugitive Slave Law Of
1850, and maintaining the especial and omnipo-
tent, right of each state, to order and control its
own domestic institutions, according to its own
judgment exclusively; by protecting slavery in the
District of Columbia and the Interstate Slave
Trade, and finally by protecting slavery in the
states and throughout the Union.
Under this benign administration, the degener-
ate Democracy will be arraigned and brought to
condign punishment, for its extra judicial proceed
ings, in the repeal of the laws for the protection of
free labor; the repeal of the laws for the protection
of freedom and free labor in the Territories; the
conquest of Foreign Territory for slavery, the ad-
mission into the Union of n foreign Slave State;
the rejection Of this sectional party of the Home.
stead Bill; the restriction of the right of petition,
the restoration of Fugitive Slaves at the national
expense; the attempt to reward slave pirates for
kidnapping Africans; the attempt to acquire Cuba
with her six hundred thousand slaves; the attempt
to fasten upon an unwilling people a slave consti
tuition; the attempt to enact a seditiOn law, there.
by restricting the freedom Of the press, and the
freedom of speech; and the attempt by extro, udi
cial interference to take away from the people and
their repres entatives, the power to legiSlate fol-
freedom and free labor in the territories. This is
the programme Of the Republican party in power,
and this is the Elysium of Content, to which its
%devotees are invited, ano are to be sucked in to
the whirlpool Of a Presidential Campaign.
1t would be unjust to classify all Republicans
as fascinated partisans. The fearful despotism Of
this government over four millions Of it's citizens,
the existence of the Union at the sacrifice of their
dearest rights, and all the Interests of this gener-
Gus unofending people, and their p~osterity; the
unmanly attempt of the Republican party to stiae
the cries Of this infuriated mass of humanity and