Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-03-23
WHOLE NO. sO6.

6etpcea The parfies;" aiding also this prophets
declaration, that "a dissolution offhs Unioa w,E
enSus."
! Col. Mason said, "The most jsrring elements 81
nature, FIRE ami water themselves, are not mors
incompatible than such mixture Of civil liberty
and military execution. viii the militia march
from one State into another in order 10 collect
the taxes from the delinquent members Of She
Republicf Will they maintain an army for this
purpos Of Will not the citizens Of the invsdsd
States assist one another till tbey rise as one man
and shake Of the Union altogether :"
What delusive spell is upon our dominant pol
ticans that they shat their eyes to the clear Light
Of other days, and attempt TO manage the aasirs
Of mighty bat distracted nation, with their own
minds embarrassed with ignorance, and envelopsd
in the cIouds Of party passion and preiudiees '
Where, under the lead Of such political quaekeRy
|and utter selfshness; is the nation drifsingf
Milton says of the political managers Ofhis day.
chow to solder, how to stop leak, how 70 ksep
up the floating carcass of 9 erasy and diseased
monarchy or State. besvixs wind and water, swim.
ming still upon her dead lees, 1sGi nov Is the
deep design OF q politician !"
Il seems as il the prophetic philosopher. vhsa
be penned that description, had in h;s eye the very
political tinkers Of Washington in eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-one.
/, needs broader views, loftier aims, and holiss
purposes to guide the statesman amidst the storm
and darkness Of political and civil conynlsion,
when the great pillars Of the government reel un-
der the strokes Of revolutionary violence. than
mexely TO manage political party in an ordinary
contest for the spoils-of Office.
These are times which require mos merely polii.
icAl cunning, but profound statesmauship. They
demand the triumph and control Of the great prinr
c pies Of permanent and unchanging truth.
THE CASE REVERsKD.
Suppose the case reversed, and instead Of South
Caroliua. desiring 10 secede from the Union. for
The interests Of slavery, Msssachuse.ts sheuia
wish 10 seceds. for the interests Of liberty. Sup.
pose the people Of the latter should feel conscisn-
tiously bound TO Withdraw political fellowship and
compleisy with slavery and to exercise their naa-
ural soversignty in just, humane, and impartial
systsm Of government, ,--would il nos be oppreee-
ion 10 eosree her to remainf Would not the com.
bined tyranny Of shirty-thre cosrcing Ssasss Be
more intoisrsbIs despotism than any single tyrsns
Would il not DO oppression for ahs general sos'
ernment to collect an involuntary tribute from en-
unwilling State, to support governments whose
dag protects not only the crimo of slavery bus ths
African slave trade itselff Nor 10 the ease 81 ell
i'm probable, if even Massachusetts 10 not wholly
corrupt By the progressive degeneracy OF tho
times. Even now the government Of tho United
States is deemed intolersbly oppressive BY ths
best citizens Of Massachusetts and many OF the
the other Northern States. There is not foot Of
soil within the vide domain of our Republic.
whore persecution for righteousness sake 10 noe
tho dominan, principle. Fines aud imprisonmsHs
follow with fearful certainty the holiest ssa es
Christian charity. The friends Of liberty and q
free conscience should be careful how they sane.
s:on principle against South carOlina, which
may have equal power against the hOlest inissinss
of humanity in the people Of the Northern S'Atss.
Is SECESSION CoNsTITuTIoSALl
am asked il there is any provision in the Con-
s.itution Of the United States for the secession OF
a State from the Union Jreply. msnifessly and
OF course not. No government can contemplate
it's own dissolution. Governments are formed tos
action and not cessation. We must not, there
fore, look for any positive warrant for dssolusion
in the Constitution itself. But trace this war.
rant to far higher. holier, and more authorita-
tive source than the Constitution of the United
States. II is right inherent in the divine consti-
tuition of human nature, and anterior to all hu.
man constitutions. Az Senator Benjamin. in his
laA Senatorial effort we'll and truly said. sit is IN
inAerani inaIienaols right" 1t IL nothing less
than the great natural right of sslfgovsrnmsns.
which is only selfprotectiOn read il in that di-
vine image-.has imperial snperscription, stamped
unon the heart OF man in his creation, By which
he ia born a sopereign and not subject. reeoxr
nse Il in The constitutional political supremacy Oh
tbe poopIe, which 10 fatal alike 10 contederaisd
despotism and chattel slavery. ts
TEE RIGHT OF REvOLurrcN.
But this, am told, is the right Of Rsvoiusions
and that is conceded. Wen, If this il conceded
all that is essential 10 conceded If the people Of
apy territory have the natural righ. of revolution
it can moi be the right of any power 10 put thas
revolution down. The natural rights OF men esA
never conflict. The right Of revolution, and NE
right Of the suppression Of the same, eannos %.
exist. Senator Wade. in sounding shs busla-
h,ast Of that civil var which threatens 10 con.
Solae and desolate the land eoneedes the right ct
reyoutisn, and says, il successful, the revolutions
i.ts are heroes. Bot he maintains the eo-exisiina
right Of tho general government 20 put them desn
by forse and IL successful to consitute ths reve-
lu.ionists traitors instead Of heroes and saai
number Of Northern politicians have followed hil
lead But what 10 this sentiment but that old athe
istic monster, that ''migh makes r'gha" Thi
sentimeu, is altogether unworthy Of eisilisAsiea
aud true philosophy.
This right of revolution. which hardly snl
American Citizen can be SO inoOnsistsn, As 20 DO
ny In theory. is only the natural and inhsfsn
right Of selfgovernment.
/ Sir Thomas Smith. eminent Brisish states
man, in his Ccmmonwsalth Of England says Q
revelation. or Of rising sgaiast syrsns 'tAal n
vulgar judge Of il according 20 ihs sssnt. ead y
lSsorned according 70 the purpose e than tAai % q
, Tiers va, haze u II you are suoeemful, % We