Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-01-05
N O M B & R 4.

Mr.. JONES: Before showing, as promised in
my third number, the utter fallacy and imminent
danger of adopting the European doctrine OF
ABsoLUTIsM," now claimed for the Federal Gov
eminent over the sovereign States Of this Union,
it may not be amiss, as South Carolina, acting in
her high sovereign capacity. has by a unanimous
vote of her Convention, repealed her ordinance Of
1888, which ratified and adopted the Federal Con,
sti;ution, and hereby severed, for good or for evil
her connection with her co-States, to show where
under the now popular theory of "ABsoLUTIsM,'
the power, flor right is out of the question: to CO
cree her into submission resides.
will begin with Congress, which, from tn,
popularity given to "ABsoLUTIsM" by Gen. Jack
son in his Proclamation of December the 10th
1882, will no doubt either with or without the rec
ommendation of the Executive department, com
mence eoercive measures to reduce South Carolint
into a state Of vassalage.
Taking, as in my third number, the census o
1850 and the States (South Carolina excepted
then in the Union as the basis of my calculation
it will be seen that sixteen Of the small States
with a population of but four millions, have in tn,
Senate of the United States the power to pass o.
defeat any law or resolution in regard to the seces
sion of South Carolina. And this too. recollect
in utter defiance of the will of seventeen million
Of che people Of the fourteen large States. Omit
ting fractions in both cases, let US subtract from
these Serenteen millions of people in the fourteen
large States, the four millions Of people in tn
sixteen small States, and we ther have the astoun
ding fact standing out in bold relief, that Thrice,
millions of the good and gullible, but deeply in
terestod people of this nameless, unchristened anC
imaginary Nation" are, to all intents and pur
poses, absolutely and unjustly deprived by GU,
Glorious Constitution" Of any participation il
the United States Senate in deciding this question
"a question vital to tie very existence of tn,
States. True, these very disfranchised citizens
may console themselves by the fact that they may
be thought worthy to be "drdfed" to fight under
the "Black Banners Of Absolutism," against those
sacred rights of self.gOvernment, promulgated to
the world in tie sublime and soul-cheerine Ian.
guage of Thomas Jefferson, namely, "that to Sc.
cure these rights, governments are Instituted
among men, deriving their just powers from the
consent Of the governed; and that whenever anv
form of government becomes destructive of these
ends, it is the right Of the people to alter or to
abolish it, and to institute a new government, lay
ing it's foundation on such principles, and organi-
sing it's powers in such form Os to them shall seem
most likely to effect their safety and happi.
ness"
now appeal to you my felIOw-citizens, Of every
party and sect, and ask If you are ready to enlist
uncer the BLACK Banners Of Absolutism," to
wage. at tho noon Of tue nineteenth century Of the
Christian era. n bloody and relentleas civil war of
perhaps, interminable length, 10 crush out liberty
by the annihilatiOn OF the sovereign States, and
to build Up on their ruins, the last hope for hu