Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-09-24
A Great SlavehOlding Project.

mas DBBn WlUeIy CiTCuldlBu. we rejoice 10
see that Slavery is about to rest its claims
upon the grounds OF argument. We hope
the new paper may be started.-Nat. Era.
CHARLESTON, August 3, lsl7.
SIk>-We trust that we shall not be con-
sidered as taking an unwarrantable liberty in
addressing to yourself, and some others, in
whose discretion we rely, the followi ing COM
munication. We make an appeal to you, ir-
respective Of party politics, as one having a
common interest with ourselves, upon a mat
ter, as we conceive, Of momentous concern TO
every Southern man.
You cannot but have observed the rapid
progress in the Anti-Slavery spirit, for some
time past, and the alarming influence it has
exercised on the politics of the country, as
exhibited at Washington, and throughout the
tnon-slavehOlding States of the Union.
The inundation Of Congress with petitions
for the abolition Of slavery in the District of
Columbia, though the act of petitioning for
such a purposes assumes an inferiority in the
slaveholding States, and the language of the
petitions is replete with vituperation and in
suit, has been persevered in until it has al
most ceased to arrest attention. The appli-
cation, in the United States, of the principle
of the English case of Somerset, decided by
Lord Mansfield, by which it is declared that
the relation of master and slave ceases as soon
as the parties pass the jurisdiction of the To-
cal laws which authorize slavery-a princi-
pie which ~isolates and degrades the slave
holder-has been more than half acquiesced
in. We have seen State after State legis-
lating with a view to avoid the act of Con-
gress in regard to fugitive slaves, and pre-
vent its interference with the above princi-
pie, until we are so familiarized with such
lpnISlatIOn- that tho nuhlic cpaTpp aware
that the Pennsylvania Legislature has recent
ly nulliied this act of Congress, and affixed
a heavy punishment TO the attempt to enforce
it within the limits of the State.
The missions of Hoar and his compeer to
South Carolina and Louisiana, by which
Massachusetts undertook, on the very soil of
these States, by agents resident in Charles
ton and New Orleans, to obstruct the execu-
ton of the slave laws in regard to the intro
duction of free colored persons, though me:
promptly by the States, respectively, to whom
particularly the insult was offered, excited in
the South but a passing interest, and is now
almost forgotten.
Apathy on our part has been followed by
increased and still increasing activity on the
part of The enemies of our institutions.
The introduction, at the close of the session
of Congress before the last, of the WilmOt
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Representatives, by a vote of IS to 80 the
DIVISION, at the last session, against slavery,
IL the bill organizing a government for Ore
IN and the reputation of the principles of
T. e Missouri compromise, evinced by the re-
lection of Mr.. Burt's amendment; the renewal
of the Wilmot proposition by MIR. Preston
King the vote on this, and the adoption fl
nally of the Proviso, as shaped by Mr.. Han
nibal Hamlin, of Maine, in the House of
Representatives, by a large majority, are facts,
which leave no shadow of doubt as to the ut
ter disregard of Southern rights in that body.
The defeat of the obnoxious measure in the
Senate gives US no security in the future
Senators, in their places, openly proclaimed
their approval of the principle it contained,
and placed their opposition, distinctly, on
the ground that, though right in itself, the
slime and occasion " rendered its adoption
inexpedient. The Legislatures of eleven
States have, with singular unanimity, urged
a renewal of these efforts. Delaware, Penn
sylvania, New Jersey, New York, Rhode
Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa-
chusetts, Ohio, Michigan, and more recently
Maine, have all, through their Legislatures,
spoken still more explicitly than by their
Representatives in Congress.
The tone of the press, Wing and Demo
cratic, Agrarian and Religious, in every non
slaveholding State, manifests a forgone con
~clusion, that the Abolitionists are to be con-
ceded to, at least so far as to forbid the eX
tension of slavery in the United States beyond
its present boundaries.
While clouds thus gather, what prepare
ton do we make for the impending storm
Are our people even aware of its approach
How have the Abolitionists, so inconside
rable in numbers, and themselves withou
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swer is obvious. They have adhered 10 prin
cipk. They have made it paramount TO par
ty organization and temporary policy, an,
they have thus held the balance Of po,0er be
tween the two great parties. They have o.
this account been courted alternately and to
gether, by Wings and Democrats, until
has come about that no politician, on eithe
side, is considered as 50 auaiiabie," who car
not enlist in his behalf this necessary vote
and they are actually at this moment cor
trolling the destinies of this great Confedt
Tacy! Shall we not profit by their example
The Abolitionists have throughout tn
non-slaveholding States presses zealously
ably, and efficiently, enforcing their views
and presenting their paramount principle
and they have lately established an orpan i
the city of Washington. We have, in tn
South, papers Of both parties worthy of a
confidence, but these are but little read els,
where and there is no one of them of yer
general circulation, even in the Souther
States and we have not one paper in a mol
slaveholding State, and none in the city
Washington, which, in this emergency, ha
proved a fast and fearless friend; not on
which habitually reflects The public sentime,
of The South on this question. The INTEL
ggencer blinks the question; the Union II
Dukes equally the spirit of Abolition, and tn
spirit which resists its aggressions and wit
all, except the Abolitionists themselves, pa!
ty success, with its triumph and its spoils,
the absorbing, if not the sole consideration