Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-10-13
Ibe Anti 5Inurrp Bu4le.
WHAT EWING SAYS.

The Republican party of 1860 has become 80
conservative, that Thomas Ewing can now Join i's
forces, and advocate Lincoln's election. In n late
speech Chillcothe, he gave his views of the pc
siton of the party. After alluding to the Suppos
ed time when fanatica councils prevailed in the
party, he thus dscourses.
In Ohio extreme men ruled and seemed to be the
majority, but they AS in effer
escing fluid, all seems foam to those who look
only on it's surface, did this element seem to be
ell of the papty opposed to the repeal of the Mis-
souri, com promise while in truth its strength lay
in the calm, conservative Whig mass, which re-
nained inactive below. As examples in our own
state, OF extreme party action, witness the attack
last year u, the independence of the Judiciary
iu the person of Judge Swan-the refusal Of the
Legislature last winter when the subject be-
fore them, pass law to prohibit the forming or
fitting out of marauding expeditions into sister
States, and the refusal of Executive 10
der fugitives from justice--PurSuant to the re-
quiremcuts of the Constitution all of which indi-
Gated that this party was engaged in a conflict
which must be, in fact and deed, nrepreSSi6le so
long as it and the Union both endured and that
the organic law uf the republic had been superced-
ed by higher or lolcer aw-uamey, the ndivid-
ual will; dominant in the minds of excited men,
Such was the condition of things which caused me
to stand alOo from the party, the objects of whose
original organization l approved, and to advance
which objects abored afterwards om ofMe party,
earnestly and, have to believe, effectively.
But l looked for reaction, and it has come
Conservative men, law-lJvng, Law abiding men, Juld
not suffer the excesses of the time TO 90 abroad
under their apparent sanction and remain inac
tive. The reaction presented itself 10 two-fOld
aspect. Out of the party, by the Union organiza
tion in the North-in the party, by the rel jection
Of extreme party leaders and the nomination of a
sound conservative man for President at the late
Chicago Convention.
The resolutions of the Chicago ConvehOn-th
Platforms better than we have been accustomed
to- in speeches and resolves, for four Eve years
past--better in its positions, much better in tone
and temper. 1t quite rejects the heresy that any
law applicable to the civil government of our I'm
ion is higher than the Constitution Of the United
States. 1t condemns in strong terms the organ
ization of maraudng expeditions in any Of the
States TO attack the people or the institutions OF
neighborng States--a thing which the Ohio Leg
islature had recently refused to declare unlaw-
ful ; and in its whole tone and temper, eounsels
peace and mutual respect Of each others rights
between States instead of the maintainance Of a
continual and irrepressible conflict. L. also has
discovered and declared that the nation has some
mission other than that of perpetual over Sla-
very nd especially it advances sound old Wing
doctrine as to the fostering care which Govern
ment owes to the industry of its people. This
suts me we'll. 1t is a recurrence to first princi-
ples--a strong that the party, as it now
exists intends to build up and preserve, and not to
destroy.
But do not think the adoption Of portion ol
the Declaration Of Independence in very good
taste and SUCH indeed, seemed to be the opinion
OF a majority of the Convention but beyond that
1t is quite unimportant. The clause adopted is
true, in the vague and general sense in which II
was used by the trainers of the Declaration. who
we're three fourths of them; shareholders And n
that sense it seems to have been taken by the Con.
Hen,ion for if not it would be inconsistent with
their other resolves, which assers in express
terms the absolute right of States, slave and free
over their domestic institutions
I object to the eighth r, solution. The PROPOSE
tiop that ''the normal condition Of all the territory
of the United States is that of freedom" is not
troe ia point Of fact The rule, the norma which
is announced by the proposition, must apply 1t II
has any meaning, to the territory as it existed al
The time Of the formation of the Constitution
when Slavery existed under and by the law oil
nearly all the States and in all the Territories, ex
tept the territory northwest OF the river Ohio
sad as to the after acquired territory, the norma
OF r4le must be applied 10 it's condition at the mo