Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-02-09

siitution, 80 US to defeat The very purpose they
had in voting for him. The CRirTENDEN compro-
mise pledges the protection Of slavery in the only
territory whore there is a possibility of it's exist.
ence, and in all territory TO DO acquired South. 1t,
would therefore inaugurste q system of flibuster.
ing for the extentiOn OF slavery, and hold the Gov.
ernmeut bound by its organic law to protect slay-
cry in all conquered territory. Let it be under.
stood at once in the slave States-those on the
border as well as those on the gulf-that the North
never will consent to this-never. If Virginia,
and Kentucky, and all the rest Of the slave States,
are only waiting to zee whether the CRIrTENpEN
proposition will be accepted by the North, we
assure them there is no chance whatever of its
acceptance, 1t is an impossibility, and they
nigh. as well make that fact q stand point now.
Ii this is disunion-we have only to say we are
profoundly sensible of the solemnity of the fact
and intensely sorry for it, but cannot help il. The
Northern Democrats in the Charleston Convention
would not accept the preposterous demands of the
Cotton State delegations, who had coupled their
demands with q resolution to secedo from the Con.
vention, if they were not submissively obeyed.
The people of the North, without distinction Of
party, will not submit, even for the sake of the
OANIt ~ ANaNAOh Va hlOh IN
posed by the madness and the folly Of the seces-
sion faction. AS the Northern Democrats at
Charleston saw their party torn to piece, by an
importunate minority who had been accustomed
to govern, and would not submit to the majority,
but with barbarian fury ruined where they could
not rule, so the Northern people will see the Un-
ion sundored rather than allow the despotic dicta-
tions of a desperate minority, ~ be fixed in the
Constitution.
The question comes-it is asked every hour and
is pertinent every hour-what would the Repu5li-
cans do to save the Union what would every
body in the North do to preserve or restore the
integrity of the Union? We answer-all things
that would become men. Party ties are nothing
in such a crisis. Perish all parties and all those
miserable platforms, which are but expressions Of
the cunning Of the class of professional politicians
who operate in conventions. But there are prin-
ciples that can not be sacrificed. There are in
stincts of manhood that can not and must not be
put down. We have said that the Republican
party is called upon in existing circumstances to
take an Affirmative position. What are the affirm
atoms that are made in its behalf? 1t presents
and with the holp of the men of the South who
profess to be moderate, there would be a large
majority Of both Houses Of Congress in favor Of
the propositions following:
L. An enabling act, authorizing the admission
of New Mexi;o, upon regular application being
made, with or without slavery. This would sWal.
low up the disputed territory.
2. The enforcement Of the fugitive slave law.
with compensation in case OF rescue-and the
punishment of those who may invade any of the
SkoKao -iIb nkoN 10 80. ao,u;lo
8. The following amendment to the Constitption.
submitted by ADAMS, of Massachusetts,, and np-
proved by Mr.. SEWARD:
No amendment OF this Constitution having for
its object any interference within the States with
the relation between their citizens and those de-
scribed in section two of the first article of the
Constitution as "other persons" shall originate
Nth any State That does not recognize that relation
Wihin its own limits, or shall be palid Without the
consent Of euery one Of the States composing the
Union,
These are tie salient points Of the only possible
settlement of sectional difficulties. If fortified 10
them, the border slave States will remain in the
Union, all will be we'll, for it is as certain that Mr..
LINCOLN would z~ealously guard the constitutional
rights of ali sections of the country-those of the
slave States as we'll as of the free States-as that
he is the constitulionally elected President of the
United States.
The interest joined to the duty Of the Southern
Suites to abide in the Union, is too clear to all cool
and candid minds, South as well as North for argu-
mens. But if the whole South will run away
from the constitutional guarantees Of the peculiar
interests of that section it is not our business to
restrain them by violent measures.
q If the Administration, now dimly existing, had
beer loyal to the Union. and had months ago ia
; ken active measures to protect its property and
honor, we believe the disunion movement would
I never have acquired the terrible momentum it ex-
Q bibits. 1t is nov too late for coercion. The Ma
. tional Iutelligencer, of Saturday, remarks with
9 great p~ropriety and force
: "If coercion is o right" it certainly is no
t remedy" for the wrong it purportS to cure, since,
: 50 far from healing the breach, it could only serve
D to make the schism wider and more incurable.
. No power of logic can ever suffice to convince us
e that tho fathers and founders of this Government
e intended in any way directly, or indirectly, to re-
cognize the right Of secession, and thus to plant
g in tho body polite the seeds of its own dissolution
0 and death but if, against the law Of our civil
5 O6luR, any euCu IceOIb u uuu 10 CIVIL suicide, 1t Is
Q plain that the vital spark cannot DO terminated
o by the shock of arms"
] 1t is a dishearteniDg confession to make, but
this is true. Every intelIigen, mans conscious
ness tells him it is true-and it should be express
ed by every honest man.
/. If there arc any unconditional Union men in
] the South they must fight the battle in their own
d way. The North will not i~nterpose it's military
I power between the South and the establishment
of any sort of government that may be the pleas
ure of its people. If the Border Slave States have
resolved upon accompanying the Cotton States,
we hope they will make the fact known immedi-
e ately, and then we are 10 favor of a Convention Of
all the States, that we may try the experiment Of
I peaceful separation. We have no grea. conf
e dence in the success of the experimental is as
> hazardous as il ia distasteful yat We will in tha