Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-03-17

agreed Tint Congress may establish Uniform laws
"f naturalization. aud it might prohibit the i'm
pprtatiun Of persons after 1905 Communities in
the SOuthwest. detached from the Southern States,
we're growing up in the practice of Slavery, to be
capital States. New States would ,oon grow up
inthe Northwest, while ns Jet capital stoud aloof.
aud labor had not lifted the ax tn hrgn there its
endless but benrfcient task The fathers author.
lzsd Congress to make all needrul rules and regu-
lations concerning the management aud dispusi.
ton oi lhe public lands aud t. admit new States.
81 the Constitution, while it does not disturb or
affect tho system of capital in slaves, existing IN
any State under its Own laws does, at the sume
time, recognize every humau being when within
any exclusive sphere OF Federal Jurisdiction, not
IA capital, but person.
What was the action OF the fathers in Congress?
They admitted the new States Of The Southwost "a,
capital States, because il was practically impossible
to do otherwise aud 10y the ordnance Of l1e7
confirmed in 1889 they provided ror the trsani
ti"n aud ADMISSION OF only labor States in iha
NurthN est. They directed tugitives from sorvice
tn bc restored, not chattle- but IA persons
They awarded naturalization to immigrant Tree lt
borers and they prohibited the trade IN African
lnbofers This disposition Of the W ole sui ject was
10 harmony with the condition of society and in
The main, with the spirit oi the age The seven
Northern Safes contentedly became labor States
by their own acts. The six SJuthern States. with
eqDnl Tranquility aud 10y their own determination
remained capital States.
noDsoN's CHOICE
The choice Of tho nation is now between the
Democratic iarty and tho Republican party. lis
principles aud policy are, therefore, Justly aud
even necessarily examined. know of only ohe
n,icy which it has adopted or avowed namely.
fEe ,a,Ing OF the Terrtorie. Of the United States
If possible by Constitutional aud lawful means.
trum being homes ior Slavery and PulN gumy-
Who. that considers where this nation exists. of
~hat races il is compo-ed, in what ago IF the
world It acts tr part the public stage sud what
ire it's predominant institutions, customs, habits.
aud sentiment. doubts that the Republican party
and will if unwnVeringlv faithful tn that puli.
cy and loyal in all beside carry it into rlum phnl
success. To doubt is 10 be uncertain whether civi-
ilzauDn eau improve or Christianity ave mankind.
TUE WHITE MANS PARTY.
You accuse The Republican party of ulterior
aud secret designs. llnw can II party that counts
s votes in this land of Tree speech aud free press
by the hundreds of thousands have any secret de-
-igns. Whp is the can jurer, and wh 1re are the
hidden purpOsesg Y III name only one That
rne is t. introduce negro equality among you
suppose we hat the puSer IT, change your sleiaI
system, what wnrraut have yuu Tor surprising that
"e should carry negro equality among youS We
know, and We will show you. Il you will only give
heed, that what our system o! labor works out.
whereVet II wo7&s out anything, is the equrlity OF
white men. The laborer in the Free States, no
matter how humLe his occupation, is Il white
uan, and lie is politically the equal of his employ
er. Eighteen OF our thirty three States Free
labor States. There they are Maine New
hampshire, Massachusetts. Vermont. Rhode Is
land Conneciicut. New Yrk, New Jersey, Penn
syignnir, Ohin, Michigan, Illinois. Indiana, Wis
cousin, Mnnespta, lo"a, California ant Oregon
do not array them in contrast with the capital
States. | am no asSailLnt of States. All us the
States are parcels Of my c,untry-- the rest of
them not so wise and great as | am suro il will
here after be the State least developed and per-
fected among them all. is wiser aud better than
any Foreign State knnw. Is it. then, IN any.
and in whlHh Ct the States have named that ne
gro equality ofends the white mans pride
Throughout the wide world where is the Stal5
where class aud caste are so utterly extinguished
they are in each and every one of them? Let
the European immigrant, who avoids the Alrc n
~ II his skin exhaled contasion, answer. You
find him always il the State where labor is ever
tree Dad Washington, Jefferson and Henry,
when they mplured you to r"hnquSh ,ur system
and accept the one have adopted, propose t.
sink you down tuthe level of the African, or was
it their desire to e4alt all While men to common
political elevation
But do nut seek to force, or even to intruie,
uur system un you. We are excluded Justly. wise
ly and conten'edly from alb political pqwer aud
responsibility in your capital States. You are
sogereigus ON the subject of Slavery within your
own burders, as We arc on the same subject
within our BORDERS. 1t is well a'id wisely 81 ar
ranged. Use your autrorlty 10 maintain what
system you please. We are not dlstrustiul of the
the result. We have wisely, ~ we think. exercis-
ed ours to protect and p9rlect the manhood
of the members of lhe Sla:e The whple suVe r.
eighty upon domestic CONCERNS within the Union
is divided between Us by unmistakable boundaries.
You have your fifteen distinct parts, We egh cen
parts, equally distincr. Each must be main
tanned in order that the whole may Ue preserved.
II ours shall he nssAied, within or without, by
any enemy, or for any cause. and we shall have
need, We shall expect you To defend it Ii yours
shall be 80 assaed, in the emergency no matter
what the cause or the prelext. or who the fue. we
shall defend our sovereignty rs the equivalent ol
our own. We cannUt, indeed, aecept your system
Of capital or It's ethics That would bs to surren-
der and suhvert our own, which we esteem To be
beuer Besides, il 1e could, what need for any
division into States az nll2 You are equally at
liberty TO reject our system and its ethics. and to
maintain the superiority of your own 5y all the
forces Of persuasion and argument, We must, in
deed, mutually discuss both systems. Ali the
world discusses all systems. Especially must We
discuss them since We have to decide as q nation