Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-07-21
WHoLE NO. III.

legislators of the Republic would shame posterity
into a brave indifference to its empty ceremonies.
John Quincy Adams said, twenty years ago, that
the preservation, propagation and perpetuation of
slavery is the vital and animatng spirit Of the ma
tiona government : and this truth is no less ap-
parent to-day, Every department of our national
life-the Presidents chair, the Senate OF the Unit
ed States, the Supreme Court, and the American
pupt-is occupied and controlled by the dark
spirit Of American slavery We have four parties
in this country that have marshalled themselves
on the highway Of American politics asking for
the votes Of the American people to place them in
possession Of the government. We have what is
called the Union party, led by Mr.. Bell, of Ten.
nessee we have what is called ,he Democratic
party, led by Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois; VIC
have the party called the Seceders, or the Slave
Code Democrats led by John G. Breckenridge, Of
Kentucky and then we have the Republican par
ty, led by Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois. All ot
these parties ask for your support because they
profess to represent principle. So far as the
principles OF freedom and the hopes Of the black
man are concerned all these parties are barren
and unfruitful; neither Of them seeks to lift tho
negro out OF his letters, and this day from
odium and disgrace.
Take Abraham Lincoln. l want to know if any
man can tell me the difference between the anti
slavery of Abraham Lincoln ard the anti-siavery
of the old Wing party or the anti-sayery of Henry
Clay? Why, there is difference between them.
Abraham Lincoln is simply Henry Clay Wing,
and be believes just as Henry Clay believed in
regard to this question And Henry Clay was
just as odious to the snti-slavery cause and anil
slavery men ever was John q. Calhoun. In fact
he did as much to perpetuate negro slavery in this
country as any ther man who has ever lived
Henry Clay once said, That is property whick
the law declares to be property" and that two
hundred years of legislation have sanctioned and
sauctfed property in saves" Wherever Henry
Clay is to-day in the universe of God, that athe.
stic lie is with him, With all it's tormeuting memo
ries (app ause.) t -,
! | know Abraham Lincoln, and I know some
hing about his anti slavery. know the Republi.
cans do not like this kind of talk, because, whilO
they willing to steal our thunder, they are IN.
willing to submit to the conditions imposed upon
that party that assumes to be anti-slavery. They
say that they cannot 60 fast as you t,slavery
men go in this matter; that they cannot afford to
be uncompromisiDgly honest, nor so radical 90
you Garrisonians; that they want to taxe time;
say, We must not be in too great hurry to over.
throw slavery; at least, must take half loaf if
we cannot get the whole Now, my friends,
believe that the very beet way to overthrow slavery
in this country is to occupy the highest possible
antislavery ground. Washington Irving tells q
story Of a Dutchman who wanted to jump over
ditch, and ho went back three miles in order to
get good start and when he got up to the ditch
he had TO sit down on the wrong side to get his
breath So it is with these political parties; they
are compelled they say, when they get up to the
ditch of slavery to stop and take breath.
! do not believe in the anti. slavery of Abraham
Lincoln, because. We IS on the side of this Slave
Power Of which am speaking, that has possession
of the Federal Government. What does he pro.
pose to do? Simply to let the people and the
Territories regulate their domestic institutions in
their own way, In the great debate between Lin
coin and Douglas, in llliuois,when he was nterro-
gated as to whether he in favor Of the admis-
sion of more slave States into the Union, be said,
that so long as we owned The Territories, be did
not see any other way Of doing than to admit
those States, when they msde application, WITH
OR WITHOUT SLAVERY. Now, that is Douglass doc
trine; it is stealing the thunder of Stephen A
Douglas,
In regard to tho repeal Of The Fugitive Slave
law. Abraham Lincoln occupies the same position
that the old Whig party occupied in 1882 They
asserted then in their PLATFORM that they were not
in favor of the repeal of that law, and that they
would do nothing to lessen its efficiency. What
did he say at Freepori Why, that the south was
entitled to a Fugitive Slave law; and. although he
tn dght the law could b, modified little, yet, he
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| in such way as not TO lessen It's efficiency!
! We're, then, is Abraham Lincoln in favor of car
|ry'ng ou that infamous Fugitive Slave law that
not only strikes down the liberty Of every black
man in the United States, but, virtually, the libet
I ty of every white man as we'll; for under that
law, there is not man in this presence who might
not be arrested o.day upon the simple testimony
of ore man, and, after an er Pdrte trial. hurried
off to slavery and to chains. HabeaS corpus, trial
by jury-those great bulwarks Of freedom, reared
by the blood and unspeakable woe of your English
ancestors, amidst the conflicts of thousand years
are struck down by this law; and the man whose
name is inscribed upon the Presidential banner Of
the Republican party is in favor of keeping ii
upon the statute book!
Not only would | arraigu Mr.. Lincoln, in regard
to that law, for his prOslavery character and prn,
cpes, but when he was a member of the House
of Representatives, in ls49 on the 10Th day of
January, he went through the District Of Columbia
and consulted the prominent pro-savery men and
Shareholders Of the District, and then went into tho
House of Representatives and introduced. on his
own responsibility, Fugitive Slave law for the
District of Columbia. II is we'll known that the
law of 1893 did not apply to ihe District and it
was necessary, in order that Shareholders might
catch their slaves who sought safety under the
shadow of the Capitol, that special law shorld
be passed for the District OF Columbia; and so