Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-03-30

oountenance, and insult the Divine Lawgiyer with
impunity, and declare 10 the cOuntry-a as does the
Chief Magistrale Of the DatiOn--'I have no pur-
pose. directly or indirectly, TO interfere with the
Institution Of Slavery whore IL exists; I believe I
have no lawful right to do 1t, and l have no in
~cliuatiOn to do IT," l also, might regard as sa-
cred, an ''Oath registered 10 Heaven" which, to
protect o Government, ignores four millions Of hu-
man beiugs, | too might appeal to bonds Of nfec-
ton, over the bleeding affections Of these millions,
and lay fingers upon the mystic chords Of memo
ry," regardless Of the discord, and thereby COM
placentIy hope to save the Union; BIZ. ! cannotl
Human Laws aud Constitutions are 10 bad busi-
ness %hen they undertake to oyerthrow Code
principles, and he who takes an oath to abide BY,
and execute them, takes upon himself more than
he can carry.
/ cannot join The Republican party in their srG-
umph. I cannot even enter into their elysiuu1 90
Content. / am not satisfied with the Pfesident's
inaugural. 1t settles nothing for Freedom, and
comedies much TO Slavery. The first part of il H.
n specification Of the fourth Resolution Of the
Chicago Platform, 10 me, the most inimioably
wicked Omnibus load, ever put upon a party No,
one in ton Of the rank and Gle of Republicans.
could bear 1t last summer; and / heard hundreds
Of them r~epudiate it altogether, as s~enseless twad-
die. The South saw the Resolutions; read them.
The Presidents word is no more to shem, than
was the ~platfOru. They know il he stands bshind
it, the people do not. Mr., Corwin said las. fall,
meoningly, who cares for Platforms" and the
South snap their fingers in the Presidents face,
and go away rs wise as they came.
The second section in the address is Mr.. Lin
coins opinion of the Fugitive Slave Law, the same
; as the North and the South have before under
stood him. But the South, for whose cara il was
prepared, know that mult.udes Of the Republi-
. can party, and scores Of its oldest leading men, ne
Sumner and Seward, Giddiugs, and Wade, sud
Hale, have expressed opposite opinions; declaring
it ia q plain violation of the Divine Law, and Of
the spirit and letter Of the Declaration Of Iode-
Q pendeuce, upon which the Constitution rests, aud
is therefore Unconstitutional and void. Half the
Republican members in the present Congress, have
: given this opinion favorable consideration.
In providing for the continued execution Of ihe
: Fugitive Law, the President very properly
$ guards the liberties Of those who are now free, by
saying Gin any Law upon this s%utjscs, Ough, NOS
oil the Safeguards of liberty, known in a civili-
zed and humane Jurisprudence, to be introduced so
; that a free man he not in any case, surrendered ~
s a Slave" If, to secure the liberty of one already
free, such process he just and lawful, is il less
just, and is q not an absolute duty, 10 reach the
: very verge of humane" judgment, in interpreting
It the law, 50 as to obtain The same blessing Of free
| dom to him who has lost itf " "a
In speaking Of The Constitution the President
9 says, mo foresight can anticipate, nor any doou.
o ment Of reasonable length contain express psovis-
9 ions for all possible qoessions;'' and cites US 70
these two. Shall ~fugitives from labor, be sur
rendered by National or State authority 2 The
Constitution does not expressly say. Muss Con-
d gress pro,ecs Slavery 10 the Terri,oriesf The
Constitution does NOS expressly say" Bot the
2 opinion Of the North, has decided the TERRITORIAL
question in the negative, and the Republican par
~ have lcgalised sha, dseision. The ~quession,
shall Fugisives from labor, sehich is not due, bs
surrendered, BY either National or State authority,
q is also before the American people. The senti-
" ment of the twenty-eigh. millions, against one
half million Of the people, decide in the nega-
10 tive. - taG se,s diru IN
az Upon secession, Mr.. Lincoln says, II hold that
81 in contemplation Of universal Law and the Con-
re- %stitution, the Union Of these States is perpetual
ief Bot in contemplation Of the sovereignty OF the
n people, he eays: THE Country with it's ins,itu,
~ lions belongs to the people who inhabit it.. When.
We ever they shall grow weary of the existing Gov
ng eminent, they con exercise their Constitutions
right Of amending, or their Revolutionary right u
dismember or overthrow it," sdl asFs7a e
An Interpretation Of the Constitution in favor o
Freedom in the Territories, by the people and tn,
Republican party, and q just a~nticipa ton Of
similar decision in favor of freedom to the fugi
tive slave, interfcres directly with the Institution
of Slavery in the Southern States, by overthrow
ing two important guarantees to It's existence. et
lu- Hence, these States are weary of the Govern
It'll ment, and resort to the Revolutionary right" h
ore overthrow it. The argument in the message 4
to lost. Notwithstanding this apparent view of tn,
IN. case, the President in his section on the destruc
tion Of the Union says, "will you hazard so des
,in perate a step, when any portion of the iis VOC a.
{ a from have no real existence" 'ure "a Z
~, If the South are in earnest in the supposs o
la Slavery, So not the opposing decision Of two third
ID; Of the people os the whole country, an III Of il
self, warning Them to fly, or yield q
no. And if the North are in earnest 10 their supper
.ck Of Freedom, Slavery being the bond Of Union
ed. may they not hazard disanion and the cruci6xiol
ub- Of Slavery, rather than Union and the erucifxio
I'M of Liberty ira .s.
cir In looking through Mr.. Stewards vision Q
;. The aspect Of the people, as given in hi
/ speech Of 29th Feb., 1860, the President say
"Al profess to be content in the Union, If sll Coz
MID stitutional rights can be maintained" How ca
owe this be, and Slavery be recognized as the balane
ion Of power in the Union; and who can in.srpr,
right, under the Constitution, to the satisfaction Z
md the American people both North and South; on
nh section claiming an unmolessed right to SLAYER
on- aud the other denying the right of property /
in man? Is we'll say, the South profess to be hal
in py it the North will only love Slavery; or th
me North, if Slavery were only abolished. Mr.. Lii
coin docs not, and he asks il you can shink Of q
sla- single instance 10 which a plainly written pro vi
and ion of the Constitution, has ever been denied.