Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-09-17

he be excluded from their support! Is it
because he has proved himself nothing but a
soldier, and destitute of all the higher quail
les Of wisdom, moderation and humanity !
No. Is it because he is anxious to add new
territory to the Union1 No; for /, is con
coded that such is not The fact. Admitting
him to be eminently wise, heroic, and pa,ri-
otto, he is to be ostracised simply and alone
because he is a SOUTHERN MANI! The same
objection would have shut out George Wash
ington, Thomas jefferson, and James Madi-
son. Well may the New York Express de-
clare, that when slavery becomes an issue in
the Presidential election, the Union is at an
end.
ave are speaking upon the superstition
(Which we by no means believe) that the
Tribune is correct, and that Gen. Taylor, be-
cause he has been so unfortunate as to draw
his first breath south of Mason and Dixon's
line, is to be debarred the honors which he
could readily secure if born in a Northern
State. We love and reverence the Union /;
but what is it worth, how long can it exist,
when one section is 10 be brought into sdch
hurniliating vassalage TO another? Is it not
enough that Southern institutions, guaranteed
in their integrity by the Constitution of the
common country, are made the constant OBJ
ject of assault by Northern Abolitionists 3
Is it not enough that the character Of slave
holders is every day blackened by Northern
prints Is it not enough, that, when fugi-
tive slaves escape to the Northern States, it
is next TO impossible to recover them from
those who disregard all obligations of justice
and good faith, while their masters are way
laid and murdered by an Infatuated mol =
Is it not enough that the North, as one man,
has declared that the South shall be excluded
from all participation in future territorial ac-
QUESTIONS, won by her own valor and conse-
Grated by the best blood of her sons! Is
there to be yet anotfe r heavy chain added TO
the ponderous weight of Southern vassalage,
and the South, abused, robbed and degraded,
to be eXpatriated also-to be placed upon the
footing of a foreign country, and prohibited
from all share in the administration Of the
General Government We cannot believe
that the free States are prepared for this en-
IRENE Of folly and suicidal madness. We
know that Southern men, at least, will be
no party to their W infamous degradation.
"None of Gen. Taylor's friends have ad-
vocated him as a Southern man. They would
have supported him just as warmly it he had
been a Northerner. None have urged his
election upon sectional considerations. lie
hHnsell Is opposed 10 lurther acquisition VI
territory. He is placed before the people on
broad national grounds. He comes before
them at their own call, from North, South
East, and West. He is no man of sections,
He is not even a man of parties. He de-
sires 10 be President, if at all, of the country
of the whole country. The circumstance
Of his birth has never been urged by his
friends as an argument in his favor, and has
only been introduced by his enemies as an
objection TO his elevation.
"The Union, dear as it ought to be when
it is a bond of free States, will cease TO be
anything but an object of detesta,ion, wher
it is only the Union of the oppressoT with
the oppressed, of the horse with the rider
But we do not and will not suppose that sucl
sentiments prevail in the free States as is in
dictated by the New York Tribune. w
wish to see other than Abolition authority
before we can consent TO such a conclusion
In the mean time. we shall continue TO be
lieve that neither North nor South will pro
scribe a patriot of the Washington stamp
wise, brave, modest, and humane, like tn
Father of his Country, simply because, lik
him, he was born under a Southern sky"