Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-09-03

The Charleston IS. c. Mercury publishes
a communication from a Baltimore cores
pendent, setting forth that the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad is to terminate at Wheeling,
and that all connection with Pittsburgh, or
any portion of Pennsylvania, is to be avoid
ed. The cause of this change of purpose is
said to have originated in the recent disgrace
full riot at Carlisle, Pa, in attempting by vi
olence and bloodshed, to arrest from the GUS
tody Of their masters, three runaway slaves.
The attempt to enforce this new law of Penn
sylvania, and the new law itself, adds this
writer, has debarred all connection of Penn
sylvania with this great Maryland work.
For, under this new law, if the road passed
through Pennsylvania, the citizens of the
whole South would be deprived of its use,
if accompanied by servants. So great is the
feeling throughout the whole South, says the
writer, that Pennsylvania will be Stunned in
future by Southern dealers of all kinds, as
they will make sacrifices, if necessary, rather
than give their business to a State that is in
terfering with their constitutional rights.
In commenting npon this, the Courier re-
marks that il "notes it as a significant indi-
cation of what is the necessary and Legitimate
result from the course Of the Northern move
ments on the Slavery question. Can they
expect that we will unite ourselves more in
timately with them, when every cord is used
by them to bind us more helplessly to the
stake-while their WILMoTs and HANNIBAL
HAMLINs are organizing the destruction of
our Institutions We can as safely trust fire
in a magazine as such spirits in the intimat
communion that an active would
bring about. Maryland is the frontier slave
State, and she has decided wisely for herself
and happily for the slave States, in separating
her people from those who seek TO disturb
her repose, and drawing more closely the ties
of union with good old Virginia. Happy for
us will be the day when the whole slavehold-
ing country shall be perforated with railroads,
connecting and uniting together every por.
ton of it. We shall then be ~impregnable,
and if the whole world were to cease inter-
course with us, we could live within our
selves, independent in our vast resources
We rejoice in the spirit Of improvement
which is now SO rife in the South, and we
exultingly look TO it as the surest and most
efficient means of giving us not only pros
perity but safety.
But we forbear for the present. We
note this decision Of Maryland, and the
grounds Of it, as one of the most important
events of the times. Leading Northern men
are yielding step by step to abolition. and
thereby cutting one by one the ties that
unite US. They compel US 10 seek safety in
ne,D relations and netU arrangements. They
first surrendered the feelings of harmony and
affection. They have invaded our political
rights /; they trample on our social relations;
they excommunicate and drive off our church
es, and now most naturally follows our trade
and commerce. Is it not time for their men
of thought and influence to reconsider and
retTace their steps! We entreat them to
pause ere it is too late. We love this Union
in its purity, and we would save it as a
Union of peace and love; but that can only
be done by the North and West-by wise
and timely return on their part to that trater,
nal course towards us which distinguished
the conduct of their fathers in the early and
best days of the Republic"