Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-02-19

Union should not be debated, yet they enter
upon its discussion, and endeavor 10 show
the disastrous results of its dissolution, and
predict bloodshed and ruin as a consequence.
Indeed, they throw considerable poetry into
the second paragraph, and speak of %bristling
cannon supplaniing waving wheat, armed
men treading down the products of the soil,
and the waters Of the Ohio running red with
blood. The South, with her three million of
slaves, would hardly be so silly as to make
an attack upon the North and the North
would hardly be dastardly enough TO menace
The helpless South. Such language as the
Committee use is quite a pretty rhetorical
flourish, but we opine that even in the esti-
nation Of the members Of that Committee
and Of the Senate it counts but little, as little
as does the talk about the value of the Union
10 Ohio, and what is Mat worth Virginia
kidnappers come upon her soil, carry of her
citizens and incarcerate them in the prisons
of the Old Dominion without the shadow Of
law upon their side. How great the value
of the Union! Kentucky sends her emissa-
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vaded and her citizens dragged into slave
~, while Ohio is powerless to resist. How
great the value Of the Union! The Execu-
tive of Ohio feels aggrieved, and in the name
Of the people demands justice at the hands
of the offending States, but no redress can be
obtained. How great the value of the I'm
ion. Slavery needs new feeding ground, a
vast extent of territory is annexed, and war
is the result. Ohio, though opposed-in
theory at least-to the war, is, by virtue of
.he Union, compelled to aid in its prosecu-
ton, to furnish men and money to fight a
people against whom she has no complaint.
How great the value of the Union! But it
is unnecessary to recur to the many events
by which Ohio has herself become so en-
shaved and degraded by her union with the
South, that she is willing to exchange her
birthright of freedom for the condition of a
vassal,
"Stooping in chains upon her downward
way,
Thicker to gather on her limbs and sir niger,
Day after day )"
and though a slave to the Union and to those
to whom the Union gives power, e~xulting in
the fact that she is contented and happy, and
like the slaves of Ashland, " fat and sleek"
The Committee tell us that " the perpetu-
ity of the Union should be assumed" aye !!
but suppose the assumption is denied ! what
then Another assumption must be made,
urhinh il that mn ana bac n RIGHT IN dahata tho
question-not at least if he is a Disunionist.
What cowardIy tyranny! Commend us to
Russia for a milder despotisin, TO Turkey and
Algiers for a more enlightened policy. The
spirit which moved the Committee to make
the report and the Senate TO adopt it, is the
same spirit that has consigned hund reds to
the dungeons of the Inquisiiion, and burned
heretics at the stake. True, the members of
the Ohio Senate have not the power possess
ed by the holy fathers, else these traitorous
Disunionists would pay the penalty for their
rashness in daring to question the sacred cha
racter Of a compact framed some sixty years
since by thirty-nine frail and erring men, and
ratified by those whose wisdom was not infi-
mite, whose judgment was not infallible.-
The love of the Ohio Senate for the Union,
and its ~epithets of denunciation hurled at those
who differ from it, was fully equalled, if not
surpassed, by the love Of King George, the
Sd, for the then existing union and his hatred
for the Disunionists of '76; and the position
of the latter was fully as tenable and demo-
cratic as that Of the former. Those whom
George denounced as traitors are now regard
ed by the people as worthy of all honor; SO
shall the memory Of those whom the SEN
ate denounces as traitors be embalmed in the
affections of the just and good Of coming
ages.
The love of country is a feeling natural to
man, existing alike in the heart of him who
dwells mid everlasting SHOWS, and of him
who roams the burning desert. This feeling
is instructive; not so with attachment &c
forms of government, laws, and constitutions
Although The Committee and the Senate say
this love for the American Union /" should be
instructive" unfortunately for them, God has
not made it so; and however much they think
ne may nave eIIeu III lUlS OMISSION, incl
opinion of it does not alter the fact. Wher
they say "the American should imbibe i
with his mothers milk" They ought certain.
ly to except the three millions of Americans
who toll in chains and dwell in degradatIor
because the American Union declares they
shall.
The Committee also appeal to those Of the
gentler sex among The memorialists, those
who are "averse to civil commotion and
Observation-Disclosures angels to man when
pain and sickness distracts him, tempering
with their s%Oitness the rough asperities Of
mans NATURE" and ask if they can look with
complaeercy upon such results as have beer