Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-09-25

than a quarter of a century. or ''be irowned
down." We think We shall hazard the
chance Of life or death, and continue to ac-
commodate correspondents who wish to disc
cuss the question Of repeal or dissolution.
however we may differ from them in regard TO
some Of their opinions. A dissolution Of the
Union is nos an event 10 be desired, nor is it
such a ~bug-bear as to Brighten sober and tenn
perate men from looking to it as a remedy for
an injustice, which has been sanctioned By
the Constitution, and submitted TO for half a
century, without complaint, by the free
Stntes. Neither Is it an event improbable to
happen in the next, or impossible TO happen
in the present, generation. We do not think
very highly of the sagacity of those who be-
lieve-if there he any such-that the whole
continent of North America will ever be uni
ted under one Federal Government. How
long the free Stltes,-,hosc, we mean, which
are technically called free, but which in real
ity are so much subjected to the legislation
OF the slave States as the British provinces
are to the Government Of Great Britain-will
tamply submit to the indigniriss which are
imposed on them by the slaveholding power
Of the South, we shall not undertake 10 pre-
dict. But human nature will not forever put
up with such injustice, although the Consti-
tuition has sanctioned an inp1nality, which
will forever give Slavery a 1repondprance
over Freedom. Doughflces will not always
be in a maj GRITTY at the North. Their num-
Der is diminishing, and after a few genera
tons The race may become extinct -
Fly swifter round, ye wheels of Time,
And bring the welcome day!
"Ho,tiFty 10 our IRE. institutions" =
What indication has this press ever given of
hostility In free institutions Is its un1inch-
ing advocacy, during tho whole term Of its
existence, OF that policy which affords en-
enlargement and protection TO the industrial
laoor Of the cOuntry-which tends 10 devpl-
op our national reSourcPs-to support our lit
erary, moral, and religious inslitutions-lo
render the nation politically, physically, and
intellectually free, and entirely INDEPENDENT
of all foreign nitlonS-to be cited as evidence
Of ''hostilIiy to our free Institutions 7"
But we will not affect TO misunderstood
our Georgian contemporary. By ''lree insti-
tutions," lie probably means nothing more
nor less than that ''peculiar Institution" of the
Snuth-negro siarery. Certainly we are has
tile TO tint. TIA peculiar institution over
rides all our free institu 'ions-il denies US the
right If petition it mis-shapes all the nation
al legislation, and thereby deprives the fec
laborrr of the just reward Of his industry -
y ueSlIoyS-dnu tenutrS Intellectual the votes
of free men, and imposes upon us magis.
tratas and Legislators, who are not the men OF
our choice and in various other ways in
fic's evils, which could never have been fore
seen by the trainers OF the Constitution.
Whatever opir ions may have bern,-or
my hereafter be,-expresspd by correspon-
dents to whose communications we may give
currency, w wish it TO be understood that
we are no advocate for a dissolution of the
Union, and shall not, as at present advised. |
labor excessively for the repeal of the new
tariff. If any effort Of our pen or press can
be Of any avail in placing the free Sites on
an equal footing with the slave States, and
insliIuling a balance of political power, and
thereby removing eventually IA national evil
aud "A national disgrace. God willing, we
shall not be found wanting.