Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-03-02
SALEM coLUMBIANA COUNTY OHIO SATURDAY MARCH 1861

drop bis cloak Of sophis,ries and selfdeusions
and speak ana act exactly as he would If he had
no possible interests in the South. What them
Why, then, he would lose, he thinks, his CONNER
cial advantages What thenY Tho worst has
come-he would be poorer mani And is there
then. no trader in this generation who believes
that Liberty is worth what it costsi" II SO, in.
sane and fouls Sc were, o, Revolutionary heroes
whom every argument used by the late honorable
Mr. seward would have taught to couciliate the
mother country. Did ye not know that, by raising
fooIishr abstract Issues of fuudamen rights and
practically upboding them to the bitter end, ye
might have been mado poor' But canno, trea,
with irony subjeot SO sad.
| II is also sad to think Of the new epidemic
wnich mas lately seized our least ubpromineni
statesmen; 1t is not yet named, but resembles most
the defect termed shortness OF sight; it so affects
them that they are unable to see what the common
people, whom they profess to represent are so fu-
ly aware Of, viz: that no law was ever worth any,
tbing among free people after i. had ceased to
6s the popular mind.
What is the fugitive slave bill worth in the
greater part Of the North today? And vet these
ioierior-mnded statesmen talk and plead, and
propose, and suggest. and submit, their reams Of
ingenious contrivauces still farther to enfeeble nm
already almost efete law, by making it more
stringent! For this is the truth. and Union-savers
accomplish nothing by denying it, Our Northern
men are nosa nation Of slave catchers We may
talk 10 certain routine style, as We have been
taught, OF constitutional duties; but have never
found more than one man who would even profess
willingness TO turn in at the bidding of a Commits
sioner, an ], with his own hands, do the dirty work
OF catching another mans slave. And believe
have yet to ind the one who would, upon
trial, tarn from the gasping wretch who hopes to
end ct his door the weeks Of suspense and misery
he has chosen to endure for the sake of liberty.
And yet here is clearly constitutional duty;
this man who sinks on youF Threshold, at your
mercy, must not mislead you into sentimental pity
you must not treat him with common Christian
charity; If he starves, you must not give him q
crus; the south forbijs il and the Law condemns
1t. You may, indeed, take him in, speak him fair
and hold him safe for the Commissioner; or you
may hold him ou.side-he will not be hard tC
hold--rRtil tlss near pursusrs Turn The corner
then 60 intdyour supper with easy conscience
haviug fnlisi.d yonr higbesi constitutional duty.
But, after all, the question is not what you say
we all oughtto do, but what you ,oW do. You
will disobey, fear me, your Southern employ ers;
you will that fugitive. hide him and pass
him; so you will break o wicked legality, fulfilling
a holy law. AS is is with law. il is with con
sttution. The power of a government depends
not on the preservation of any system of govern.
mental machinery, bot on the harmony between
The working principles OF that sys,em aud the
sentiments Of those governed. .7a
We claim to be sself-managing. sslf-suOtainirg g
patton. Our resources are in ourselves. and not
in our instruments. Sweep from this country to-
day oil it's books and paper; are thought and eul-
ture extinct? Has the burning Of our books re-
solved the human mind into chaos2 To morrow
will see US beginning another literature construc-
ting purer forms for our thoughts and our convic-
tions. tett
The resources of people are in themselves,
and not in their instruments. Sweep from the ma
ton to-day all the fustian sewed in the shape OF
American banners; let some accident happen to
the parchment on which our Constitution is writ
ten. Are political principles deadi Tomorrow
will see os constructing q 6rmer confederation,
memory and grateful associations preserving us
all that was precious 10 the old, and sad ex-
pericnce giving full right to improve little on
our fathers in the building OF the new. And if,
in the raising of this nOber edifce from the old
grand materials. some outside plauks break off.
Why so? they gave way because they wero rotten,
and il were pity that we should endanger cur
whole new temple for them. And what q wild
and far-etched subject tf terror is the idea that if
we should separate into two parts We must crum-
bls into twenty! There is one element Of inevita-
be separation. and one only-the principle of sla-
very. This is the skeleton in the family the drag
at the wheels, the enoumbrance which has kept us
from maintaining the place, which, from the supe-
riorily of our Government in other respects, we
had right to hold as leader Of the nations. There
is no other element of disunion, and our Senators
know it. i5aa st- ...
II we're precious thing to be proud Of ones
country-to know ourselves in the van. Where
arc We now2 Russia has shaken of serfdom;
Italy is rising; France is perhaps greater than
ever before; England is almost free. Can We much
longer call our country the model OF the worldi
But le. US once be rid of this drag Of slavery; lei
that part Of the South whioh belongsto the l7th
century separate itself, as now or later it must
from us of the 10Th century; let us show the
world what free people can really do in the waI
Of seli-legislation when freed from clogs and hin
drances, and We may again have reason to b
proud. aa ts --su. -4.-r r.
A Northern COnfederacy! true Republican
Goyerrment, uuseandalized and undepraved b
incon nsistencies! That were indeed the glory Q
the world! SOcn may it come, and long will
endured 3 lrr nal.r5I o.. ..rs.,F v
LlNooLN's SisTkR-IS- -LAw.-Mrs. Abraham Lii
coin, wife Of the President Of the old Union, ha
two married sisters now on visit to Montgomery
Ala. One Is from Kentucky, and on sisitto he
sis,or who resides in Selma, Ala They are bot
strung secessionisie, and opposed to the govern
ment Of their bro,her-in-law, Abraham Lincoin.--
OF course they attract cOnsiderable attention. an'
are the toast Of Soutberners. The husband OF ont
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