Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-03-23

powered By h4.4bers and crushed with brute force,
gss are hung as traitors like john Bfown.
But this, we see, is the judgment Of toe cuFgar,
Hud aO' the learned. Nor is IL she ~iudgnept Of
history, in the undyiug record Of Brutus and
Cesar. And your anti-slavery Senator from the
Tree State Of Ohio, would have the general gov
esnmeot aet out this iguoble sentiment, and pot
down by brute force the mother right Of ~selfgov.
'erapeptl Great God T. To what arc ,se comiugf
The descendants Of the heroes Of seventy-six aGvo-
Sauoaiing and enforcing the very doctrines against
which their fathers fought aud bled Did our
AmetiSah3 revoleionists do right to seccde from
the British Empire and set up an independent
q government Ifso, DID Grea. Britain do right
4, TO wage a seven years war to violate that right
and suppress that heroic struggle ?. Could the
blood and suferipgs Of that memorable war result,
a .lsgitimately from any thing but cyimef And
which vas guilty Of crime, the revolotionists, or
the oiiOus government which fought seven years
10 put them DOWN aat la 49, 81
vt..,rt c. the CRY OF TREASON.
THE CRY Of treason, that cd vatchword Of ty-
rants, which is / becoming SO common of late iu
sseur, government, and which is heard equally
ssAgainst freedom in Kansas, humanity in Boston,
and slavery in South Carolina, is generally in
ssdicatiFe of a declining despotism, You all remem-
Der the frequency and severity of the prosecutions
for. this crime, in the expiring days Of the oppres-
ave dynasty Of James II. Add an age which can
produce a James or the throne, will generally
find o Jefries for the Bench.
- When a government becomes SO corrupt as to
forfeit the respect and support of tho citizens In
whose name it is exercised, and for whose protec-
lection and benefit it processes to act, ii is very
apt to resent d~isloyalty with the charge Of treason
and rebellion. But q government which is obliged
TO resort to the punishment of treason to maintain
its authority, is like a man who is always sueing
fof his character. "
go The secession of South Carolina bes been called
In Congress "a revolt" and rebellion" But
tAis charge could coma only from a total misap-
tprehension Of the nature and object Of free GOV
eminent. Revolt is resistance to the supreme au-
thorisy. But the true idea of free government is,
that the people themselves are this supreme au.
%thotity. How, then, can a whole united people
BE chargeable with this crime Can they "re-
-yolt' against taomseivos2 The idea is absurd.
Aigernon Sidney says, "The whole body Of a
nation can notbe tied to any other obedience than
is consistent with the common good, according to
their oUn judgment; and having never been sub
dued, or brought to terms Of peace With their
magistrates, they can not DO said to rebel against
them 10 whom they owe no more than seems good
to themselves, and who are nothing of or by them,
sselves, more than other men. Pes 90 -eso1t.s
81 Tho sovereign people are competent 10 any pol
titieal act that is not unjust. They are
therefore, i~hoapable of the specific crime iOf IRE
-ssolt.7p They may be Ohargeabo with tyranny and
Aasurpation, but Of reyoir, nsrsr. And here, again
-rssappears that old dogma of ssmi=ciyilized Europe
Tho divine right of kings. Uaas3sos lEl1i
- IL wssths edioas-LoFd North who pronounced
the brave Afsntgonefy who fell at ihe stormine o
aQuetgc, q re5sL Bot 10 wssths iiiuairious Charles
tFsxssh0rssorted in these nobla words: 1.-THE torn
-sebet IL no certain mark Of disgrace. All.the grea
fasserters Of liberty, the sasiors of their country
oehe benefacsors of mankind in all ages, haze
sheen called rebels. We owe the Constitution
which enables us to sit IN this house to a rebel
Jion." And / may add, that we owe the ve.y ma
s~sionality, the right of which we now Tepudiate aud
&trample upon, to a rebellion. Such is the Geranged
and distracted condition of the political elements
cot our country atthe present lime, that, while the
South are bravely fighting the great battle of ma
-stional liberty in the name Of slavery, the North
eare m maintaining the principles Of oriental despot
&ism in the name of Liberty .aa7 iaef-a0b eA
p Mark I am not now considering the motive o.
object Of the secession Of the Southern States.
am only defending the priuciple Of sell-govern
sment, or the rigLt Of any people to make, otter, 0
abolish their own government Aapatse4 @
will not cay that the governing clses Of tn
slave States, by the summary repeal of all civ
Justice, in the enslavement of the poor, have nc
.justly forfeited their sovereignty but NOT 10 a COZ
afadersog which is equally guilty with, Aemselres.
will mot say that the civilized world should no
unite to wipe out chattel slavery, as too oinhuma
-tosb be tolerated; that they should not unitedly pr
scribe il, as they do the African slave trade, an
.inauguratc tras popular supremacy in its plac,
But this is not the question between the Unite
Estates and South Carolina. With US il is not
guest ON of philanthropy, but of aggrandizemen
-Ahdiour mstiVe is the identical passion that mad
Rome the "mistress of the. world" and the tyraI
ofherself. as ticsi t1a p DO .ots.s
E&l THE NrEREsTs OF TIE OTHER STATES,
We are told, again, chat the interests and safet
Of the remaining States would be endangered b
the secession Of one or more, and the formation G
another confederacy, and that the instinct of sell
protection jussifesi the coercion Of o secedin
State into the confederacy. But the same arge
i1nent Is pleaded In favor Of acquiring Mexico, an
Il is the indenticai doctrine Of the famOus, or RI
Their Infamous 0stend manifesto, in relation to lh
aoauisition of Cuba. And Senator johnson. {
bis late speech in favor Of coercion, even quote
the, os.snd manifesto as authority in his :avOr.-
Bat il is the Identical plea of The bandit OF con
nan thief. 1t is q temperance of the same o.
smenateF. that "HigA makes right" n is we
AnoMss that ia the canvass which resulted in Il
Presideneg of James Buchansn. no terms Of col
AsmaatiOa were too severe for his, political opp,
nants against the sentiments and authors Of thi
gamoas doeunent II is trus that :hsn it wa
yonr ball that gored my OK. But that does NJ
Eaks FObbssy justihable. II does not repeal lh
esiaeiples Of eternal justice. fs,sqsv "a, y, ~,