Anti Slavery Bugle

NON-LEGALIZATION OF SLAVERY

We publish, to-day, article no. 2 of William Goodell on this subject. We have always been a firm believer in the supremacy of the Divine over human law, and we are happy to extend that opinion and to impress it ineffaceably upon the hearts of the people. It is the great object for which we labor from week to week. Because we believe in this, it is, that we repudiate allegiance to the constitution and the Union, as well as the fugitive slave law. To aid us, we shall avail ourself of such portions of Mr. Goodell's argument as seems to us most important and impressive. If we are not mistaken, his course of argument will lead him pretty effectually to use up one of the most common arguments of voting anti-slavery men against their non-voting brethren. "Slavery," say they, "is the creature of law—is established by law, and can only be abolished by law." Now if slavery cannot be legalized what becomes of this argument? And yet we can name a multitude of freesoilers who make this concession and then flippantly turn upon us with the semblance of argument to which we have referred. We shall hereafter hand them over to the last liberty party candidate for the Presidency. If he makes out a case at all worthy of himself or his position, he will thoroughly push out the underpinning of this argument.