Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-10-06

the people were suspended; until a feeling
found expression, favourable TO an enlarge
ment of territory, and which was consumma-
ted by the purchase of Louisiana. Then fol-
lowed the acquisition of Florida, and close
upon it the annexation of Texas.
The union of COMPROMISE having totally
failed 10 bind together the people, as with
one heart, there followed next the union Of
FORCE, by which the various otherwise dis
jointed limbs have been kept in a sort Of mock
play, This latter union, however, has been
obliged TO give way 10 the union Of EXPEDIEN-
cY and how long this motive is to prevail. a
very few years will determine. 1t must be
acknowledged, that not for a moment, since
the ratification Of the Constitution, has there
been a hearty union between the people Of
the North and the South. And the very up-
p%earance of union has been owing mainly 10
the manufacture of cotton at the North. Had
there never been a cotton mandatory at the
North, Slavery would either have died out at
the South, for want of Northern capital to
sustain it, or the Union would have been dis
solved. The North has, ignorantly and I'M
willingly il may be, encouraged the growth
of cotton, rice, tobacco and hemp, the natur-
al products of the slave States and hence the
cupidity, which has led them into a regular
system of slave breeding, TO meet the expec-
ted demand for slave labor in new States, to
be formed out Of the recently acquired terri
tory in Mexico and California.
To show in what a false position we of the
North are placed in consequence Of this yeX-
ed question, and how childish a within is this
Union, it need only to be stated, that all COM
munication between the North and the South
is cut off, by the notification doctrines of
the South. A colored citizen of the United
States, entitled to vote for its President, is
liable to imprisonment at the South, if he
puts his foot upon an inch of that territory !;
and when so caught, and the sovereign State
IN which he belongs attempts to institute a
legal investigation before the Courts of the
United States in his behalf, the agent In that
honorable enterprise is thrust out Of that ter
rltory and menacec with death. And this is
called a Union. Blessed Union where all
sense of justice is repudiated, and where dol
lars and cents constitute the only links which
bind it together. Blessed Union where the
largest portion of the family are denied the
protection of laws, enacted for the benefit of
all. Blessed Union where the right of
speech and the liberty Of the press is denied.
Blessed Union where education is frowned
down, and where the word of God is not per-
mitted to be read.
We have been drawn to this subject in
consequence OF the stirring debate in the Sen
ate of The United States, just at the close Of
the session of Congress. In that debate Mr.,
Maneum, of North Carolina, took part. We
have been in the habit of paying great res
pect to this gentleman's opinions, and because
of their coincidence with our own, but fol
his frankness and honorable bearing towards
all from whom he differed. 1t was with no
little surprise, therefore, that we read the fol
lowing extract, at the close of his speech or
the Oregon question:
"Mr. Mangum said, l have no threats tc
make to the Union. In regard to the new
territory, he was ready TO surrender it, to
give it all up. 1t was not true that there was
not less attachment to the Union than there
had been. He felt less attachment than for
merly. His instinct told him this. To his
Northern friends he wished to say that they
could not carry out their principles upon thi:
question. They must yield, or forego al
sympathy with the South. The thing was
an insult to the South, and we were made il
this bill to feel our degradation, and TO suf
fer from il. We were kept here night afteI
night, and day after day, TO endure this in
suit. | would rather see my family annihi
lated, than endure this freedom, forced upor
me as an oppression. | do not wish to see
Slavery extended, but | will not see my owl
people excluded from the common rights ant
benefits Of the Union. Over this Wilmo
P~roviso, over this Missouri compromise, HI
believed the General Government had NJ
power whatever. In regard to the North
t there were the members, but the South haC
the power, the power of the Government, be
I cause it might control the Patronage. If W
: would ask nothing of the Government, bu
say, " hands off," and if we were true TO ouI
Y selves, we should conquer. At present, W
! were doing, and he said this for a portion G
| the Democratic party, but little better than t
: steal our neighbours lands. Upon this brigh
Sunday morning, after being without slice
for two nights, he might be heard with som
{ allowance, for he had spoken the honest ser
o timenls of his heart. He denounced thir
o parties, and held up a portion of the South
be eminently corrupt, and fit only to be pu
z chased. He thought enough could be pu
chased, if the South would surrender all ii
d spoiIs, 10 keep the South in the ascendal
cy."
s. He, Mr.. Mangum, was the last man,
our opinion, to %connive with Mr.. Calhoun
the revival of notification and dissolutiC
doctrines. Mr.. Mangum has been, hithert
too far sighted upon the subject of SLAYER
and the peculiar dangers incident to that i
stitution, to be willing TO yield the prote
tion, which the free States, by the Constit
ton, are bound TO afford to.them of the Sout
d but it seems that the cool judgment whic
has hitherto characterised Mr.. Mangum as
statesman, gave way under the pressure
those outside influences, which the South
IS we'll and SO effectually knows how to en-
ploy.
Any Union of States or individuals, that
to stand and to do good, must have for i
u foundation a settled principle, as to the la
= of right. If this first principle is so little u
y d~eTstood or agreed upon, that the Bibl
which is supposed to contain it, is read as a
= authority fol the Slave system at the Soutl
n and as utterly opposing il at the North-ho
. can it be possible that there should be an,
d thing fks union or sGrssmsnt upon any Of ii