Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-03-31
SALEM. OHIO, MARCH, 81, 1860.
a PROBABLE PLANK IN THE CHICAGO
PLATFORM.

There exists in the minds Of the Northern peo.
pie a conviction that they ought to be opposed To-
slavery that the political principles they profess
as well as tile religious faith they claim to hold,
requires some manifestation of opposition to tho
sys'eth. But they have so many entangling ALLAN.
ces in Church and 10 State, that their hatred Of
slavery resolves itself simply Into opposition to
slavery extension. The Republican party i. the
political expression of this feeling. Though many
honest anti-slavery men are found in it's ranks,
the organisation has been, ahd may again be used
by selfish, political a~spiFants az a hobby upon
which they can ride into ofco. The party lead.
ers. in calculating lie strength of their forces, are
in great fear less with the single issue of non.
%extehsioh they may fail IN the coming Presidential
contest. They are therefore appealing to a feel.
ing as common in the South as in the North.
and which is far stronger among the citizens of tho
free States than is their opposition to slavery. We
mean that hatred Of the colored man which is not
willing to allow him in the land Of his birth, those
rights which nre bestowed upon foreign born citi-
zensr and which, because Of the complexion God
has given him, see ks to exile him from his coun-
try. "
We have watched the development Of this feeling
upon the part Of the leaders of the Republican
host, until it has assumed SO much importance that
the signs Of the times Indicate til. the COLOMBIA
lion OF The free Colored man will be adopted a. A
political measure, necessary to the success Of the
Republican party. And instead Of the American
Colonization Society sending negroes to Africa as
civilizers and missionaries, we shall have the Re.
publican Colonization Society labnring on the one
hand to keep slave negroes out Of the fefrit6fies
of the United States. and on the other, striving 10
drive free negroes from tie entire country. And
in proportion as success waits upon the movements
of the party, will hatred of the culored man b6
Intensified and u determination to exile him from
his homo and the land Of his birth become strou!
ger and stronger.
The Colonization proposed by the Republican
party 10 advocated upon the same ground upon
which the American Colonization Society bss6s
its operations. 1t finds in existence q hatred Of
the colored man born of the injuries we have in.
Aicted upon him. and instead # seeking to remove
the feeling, seeks to remove the victims; impious-
y assuming that God has created a distinction in
the races which utterly disquali6ss them from liz.
ing in peace in the same country and in the same
government. The white men, being in the major!
ity, propose to expatriate their cOlored brethren,
"HN N'Nihh hop ohNu - N6u 10 ulRulY DQllAns
thropic, and will benefit both races.
As Republicans have a passion for talking aboai
bringing back the govern aient to the principles Of
Washington and Jefferson. they quote the authOri-
ty OF the latter for their Colonization scheme for
while Jefferson declared,
Nothing is more certainly written in tho book
Of fate. than ttat these people (the pegroes) are
to be Free"
He also affirmed,
Nor is il less certain that tho two races, equal.
~ free, cannot live in the same Governtneht."
Having thus laid the foundation stone. the work.
men begin to build, sud within the last six months
we have had declarations from many Of their
leading men, FROM their newspaper editors and
newspaper correspondents, from their Governors.
and from at least one State Coz invention, all drawn
to the same focus, and looking to the insertion Of
u nego colonization plank in The Chicago platform,
Frank P. Blair Of Missouri, Senator Wade Of
Ohio, Senator Trumbull of Illinois. and Jud0S
Bates OF Missouri are among those Who CIV,
Away with The negro! Do it gently, do it kind.
y, do it SsneVoleOtly, but away With him, We
cannot abide him /" TIE Republic at Washing.
ten, the N. y. Erening Post. the NJ Y. Tribune
through its Washington correspondent, the Ohio
STATE Journal. and various other papers Of lessor
Influence join in and cry. Away with him lt
Tho Governors Of Iowa. Wisconsin, and Ohio.
speaking OF tehalf Of their party in those States,
all take up the refrain; and the Missouri Republi.
can Convention unites to swell the chorus.
Ever since We were anti-SlaV6ry, we we're anti
colonisston; f5r Wc Justly regarded colonization