Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-02-23

d. begin to come to paes, then look up, and tilt u
your hands, for your redemption draweth nigh
Luke XXI, 1928. Is it not so2 Why some o
these uniouists are almost frantic. Their heart
failing for fear coming events, for the uno,
(tseir heaven) is shaking, and SO distracted arr
they that they know not what to do. But Will,
their trouble is thickest, is not the political re
demption Of the slave drawing nigh? So it look
70 me.
Slavery is called the institution Of the South
In the North we, too, have an institution, as ven
erabe for age, as sAerel to man, and as worthy
the regard Of all, and that is free speech. think
, our institution is rather respectable than
theirs Of the South. And our Southern breth-
rem" complain that we Of the North have inter
fered with their institution. The greatest inter
ference most Of US have interposed is tho right of
free speech. Can't their sacred, time -honore !,
venerable, constitutional, scriptural inshtution
stand before our words? NOT, our sayings must
have potency, or their institution an inherent
weakness, which naturally makes the conflict be-
tween them irrepressble, and which it will not re-
quire the pTec;ence Of prophet to torshadow
the result that the latter is doomed to fall where
the former is tolerated. But what light have they
to complain of our interference with their in sti-
tuition? Have they not thousand times more
intertered with our institution of free speech
Most willingly have some Of our friends carried
out the Decldrati.n Of Independence 10 regard to
an occasional slave--er doing as they would he
done hy--obeying the higher law of humanity
but in how many hundreds and thousands of cases
has our institution been interfered with, and free
speech put down by mobs ? Aboliiionists have
sufared oil tha IF cpr
free expression Of opinion. The history of the
times proves this in the shape Of prosavery mobs,
lynchings, burniugs, destruction of presses, balls,
churches, and murders. l known the nature oil
their institution requires and even demands all
this, but TO forfeit all rights on this
account? Certainly not. Let compromisers 60
on, and make their decrees-the time has come
when freedom Of thought will be exercised. and
hus our institution is bound to ouliyes that of tC
Sou h.
We see that the south are very much opposed to
Icoercion--they are not going to submit to force
not they-get they endeavoring to coerce the
north-make not only their millions Of slaves do
their will. bat enforce submission on the part of
some 100000 Of northern people. to the require
ments Of Ices thon half million Of nabob, Under
these circumstances an glad TO see that they are
msLng such signal efforts TO secedo set up for
themseves-Pud be independent Of the north and
the rest If mankind LIE. them ccme themselves
out Of the uucn as fast as possible, for fnanc-
ally morally, religiously, politically and in every
way We can imagine, the north will be better Of
with that sort Of coercion Heretofore they have
proved ambitious covenant makers, and Just as
reckless covenant breakers. First to make laws
they have been The FIRST to break them.
Is it not rather funny that they all along have
had the government, the constitution, the courts
executives, and laws, :hey said, and the people in
their favor, and now the discovery is made that
these fugitive slave laws, the constitution and the
people no. quite strong enough in their behalf
When will they get things to please them? IfI
fugtives slaves laws, proslavery judges, unprin-
cipled commissioners, and bloodhound marshals
cant do enough for them, in the namo Of all that
is right who satisfy their wants? Courts,
mobs, priests OF the lover law order, aud even
armies have failed n efficiency to serve them with
fidelity In view of all this what can compro- |
misers do They may be as servle as the yeiiest
slaves, but that is about all the good it will do !
them. Mako laws eternal in favor Uf slavery 1t
is an absurdity. As before ntimated, the jury of
a civilized world has spoken verdict against
human oppression and as that idea, liberty, is let
loose to roam all over the earth, the spasmodic
throes of party Of compromisers cannot stem the
torrent of its onward course,
Some time since believe made reference to
the meetings of the Progressive Friends here.
These meetings are continuing, and increasing in
interest. Various questions come up for cons-
II.
slavery issue is sure to be brought in. Among
the anti-savery speakers is young gentleman by
The rame of Tomlinson, who is quite we'll posted
on the political issues of the day, and the way he
uses Up the pro-slavery spouters-for such have
hearing there--is no small drawback to their cause
Last Sunday Miss Dickinson made brief and
eloquent anti-slavery speech in that meeting and
" hen she sat down it amid the irrepressible
applause of not few present
For many years it was the boast Of the dem
ocracy that it, alone. saved the union. But that
vaunting party seems to have gone to smash-and
it was destroyed beyond redemption by its own
leaders and the slavery issue. Then to some of
the big churches have been attributed the salt that
saved the union but they too, have been rent by
slavery. Now some Of the leaders of the republi-
can party are trying TO save union by means oil
that organisation. / am sure it will be failure,
as il ought to be. If the grace of the popular
churches, and the servliIy Of the great democracy
have fallen before the tide OF progress free Speech
ind the irrepressiJle conflict, the comparatively
lew and untried republican party will be prostrat-
ID it ns a reed by the sweeping tornado, from the
anne causes.
1t seems to mo that the legislatures of some Of
he free states are making haste to do works Of
upererogation in behalf Of slavery by repeating
heir personal liberty bills In most il not all the
tates which have done propose doing SO, be-
ieve republicanism triumphed. Is not that great
partyf 1t was it's professions of op- t
ostion to slavery which gave the party success, s
nd now in power it is trying to obliterate every c
estige of law in favor freedom. They must be f
ery stupid 10 think that these acts of basen ess