Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-08-28

The Tariff and the Sub-TreaSury, the
Slaves of the North and of the South.

Slaves of the North and of the South.
We congratulate the abolitionists of the
country that the Tariff of 1912 is demolish-
ed, and the ub.Treaslry set up in its stead.
Not that we care whether the Wing or the
Democratic idol be the acknowledged Divin-
ity of the nation. 1t matters little to the i'm
terests of Freedom which party prevails in
placing its ~favorite efigies Of the golden calf
in the national Temple. But it is good to
know that the tyranny of the dominant
oligarchy is likely TO be felt in that part of
this peoples costume where they wear their
hearts-not upon their sleeves, but-in their
pockets. 1t is hopeful when there is a pros
pect that the Almighty Dollar may be reused
from his silver slumbers, to ring out a remon-
STRANGE at this invasion of his sanctity, which
may send a response even to the souls of
Northern merchants and manufacturers.
The control Of the public policy of the
country is of necessity, and by the consent
of the Northern people, in the hands of the
hundred thousand voting Shareholders, and
of their twenty-five representatives Of the
human flesh they own, in the House Of Rep
resentatives, and their clear majority of four
in the Senate, of the United States. This is
a matter of course, and, as matters now stand,
of right. But the lovers of freedom have
reason to rejoice when the tyrants draw the
chains so tight that it gals the limbs of their
Northern vassals. The only hope for them
is that their masters may kick a little spirit
into them. But the danger is, that they have
been SO long accustomed to their serviIe state,
that, as they are apt TO say Of their brother
slaves at the South, they do not wish to be
free '!-that they are happy and contonted,
and would not be free if they could!
But the analogy between the white slaves
Of State street and Wall street, and the black
slaves of the rice swamps and the cotton
fields, holds good throughout. In order to
be contented and happy in their chains,
they both must be fat and sleek Even
one of Mr.. Clay's fortunate servants was
driven from the Elysian shades of Ashland,
by three hundred lashes well laid on. Ca
NADIA is getting full of the fellow-slaves of
our great manufacturers, who have been
driven 10 dissolve their glorious union with
their common masters, to abrogate the illus
trious Constitution under which they lived,
10 violate the sacred compact between them,
and 10 set up for themselves. There may be
some of the black slaves Of the South, who
enjoy a sort of animal contentment as long as
they have enough TO eat, and are not fiogged
beyond endurance--who had rather bear the
ills they have than 10 fly to others that they
know not Of But when their allowance of
corn is shortened, and that of lashes doubled,
even they are aroused to a sense eff their con-
dition, and to look about for a way of escape.
And so it is with the corresponding class
of their brethren at the North. As long as
they are allowed to get a tolerable living out
of the proceeds of their own labor, after sup
porting their masters in idleness and luxury,
furnishing them with goods for nothing, pay
ing their taxes, providing them with the civil,
military and diplomatic offices-in short, as
the parsou says in Douglass's famous sermon
TO the slaves, letting them do all the Mink-
ing, while they do all The aVorking = as long
as they are allowed this indulgence, they are
well content with their lot, and are willing
10 curry favor with their masters, by helping
them keep the more FESTIVE class of their
~neighbors quiet, and by lodd-mouthed as
surances Of allegiance. But when their grub
is stopped, when their dividends are cutdown,
when the nicely balanced machinery of free
labor is d%eranged, when the cart-Whip cracks
sharp and fast about their ears, they begin to
howl, and whine, and vapor, and-taE about
the brave things they are nearly ready to do
for the maintaining Of their rights. But, I'M
fortunately, it lways ends there. They have
not the pluck of their black brethren, to dis
solve the connection between them and their
owners, from which all their ills arise.
Now, as between these parties, we do not
blame the Shareholders for the treatment they
bcstow on their white slaves. For here there
is a distinction between the two classes oil
bondmen. The white are voluntary, the
black involuntary, slaves. And when the
many consent to submit to the yoke Of the
few, the heavier it is made the better. The
Constitution of this Government is so ar
ranged and contrived, as TO benefit only the
governing, or slaveholding, class. And they
are right in using it for its legitimate purpo-
ses. Their Northern serfs would do the
same were they in their place. A willing
slave is ever a tyrant at his heart. The frogs
who could not endure the reign of King Log,
had TO submit to be gobbled up by King
Stork, when he was granted to their prayers,
The only hope for Northern emancipation is
in the very excess Of Southern caprice and
tyranny. The North must learn that the
South is its natural, necessary, legitimate en-
envy that all the prosperity they enjoy is in
spite, and not in consequence Of the Union that
binds tie two together, '~c0mpieru an miSerO,
in an embrace like that with which MeXen'
thus bound the living to the dead. This les
son they can, and will, only learn from thell
own suffeTings. And that these may be null
tiplied should be the prayer of every gooC
patriot. Experience, we are glad TO know
is doing its work, and multiludes are coming
reluctantly, but deliberately, to the conclu
sion, that THERE Is NO FREEDOM OR PRosPERI
TY FOR THE NoRTH BUT IN AN ENTIRE Pc
LITICAL SEPARATION FROM THE SOUTH -
THAT THE ONLY WAY TO SAFETY
AND PEACE LIES OVER THE RUINS
OF THE UNION AND OF THE CON
STITUTION.-Q.