Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-08-11

Judges, anu inSlotrs III chOINf upOn tctdinlnR
all the immunities and privileges that any
other State enjoys; and at the SAINT time re-
fuses 10 fulfill the conditions itpromised 10
observe as a member o. the Union. In the
other case, the seceeeding State disavows all
connection with the Federal government, dis
claims all right to representation IN Congress-
takes no part in the election or appointment
of officers and while insisting that 1t shall
itself be released from longer fulfilling the
governmental contract on the score of the i'm
morality of some Of its requirements, releases
all others who are parties to it-in one word,
dissolves the partnership so far as IL is con-
cerned. We assert that no State has a right
TO do the former, and that every one has a right
to do the latter. The first part Of this proPo-
silion is generally admitted and to deny the
remainder would be to make the United States
government even more iyTannical than Dis
unionists have ever believed it TO be and We
are unable 10 persuade ourselves that those
political ,eachers who DO so, are satisfied with
the position they assume.
Let US see how the principle would work.
Congress has an und QUILTED right to regulate
among the several States. Penn
s~ylvania is interested in the coal and iron
trade; and it is necessary to her continued
prosperity that she have a market without her
borders. Congress passes a law declaring
that the expectation of these articles from
n---1.-.. &, farov,r NrnhIhtfoA Will
Pennsylvania remain IN a union that thus
crushes her energies, and depriyes her, at one
blow, Of such vast advantages! Would he
of the Z" Journal counsel her so TO do! But
it may be said that such a law would be
clearly unconstitutional Pennsylvania would
doubtless so regard it; but she has agreed to
suspend her own judgment in such matters,
and refer them for decision to the Supreme
Court. For the sake Of more fully testing
the s~oundness Of the views of the I" Journal"
we will suppose that the Judiciary decides
that the law passed by Congress and approx
ed by the President, is constitutional. What
now is to be done! Either Pennsylvania
must engage in as an independent
State, or dwindle into insignifcance, a crush
ed and abject slave. Would the editor of the
"Journal" then declare il treason TO talk of
q Dissolution of the Unionl When he heard
the cry of Disunion coming up from her mi
ners in coal and her workers in iron, when
the people whose interests had been sacrifice
ed, when the entire State demhnded it, we
suspect he would preach another doctrine
than that we have placed at the head of this
article. The question would then be a home
question; and though the sentiments he adj
vances are applied to Southern Disunionists,'
yet the principle would be the same in the
case supposed, as the decision ought also to-
be.
We claim then that the Federal Union is,
not the rat-trap some represent it to be, into
which the victim is at liberty TO enter or not
to enter as he sees fit, but when once in can
never escape. 1t is rather a house, the door
of which is opened by the proprietor to such
who knock for admission, as he chooses to
receive, and who leaves all his guests at lib
erty TO depart when they will, without trou-
bling him to play the porter.
If one or more southern States choose to.
leave the Union because it is too anti-slave-
Ty; well and good, lei them we acknowledge
their right so to do, or rather assert it, upon
the ground Of Stale rights. And if one or
more northern States choose to leave because
it is too pro-slavery, we claim this as their
right. We think this is a common sense
view of the matter, and those who deny the
right of States so to act, had better look up
their authority. And if they should prove to
be in the right, and clearly establish the fact
that once in the Union, always in the Union,
is the despotic doctrine of this government,
we should not wonder if an opposite fact
should be created, as was the case with the
colonies of this country when Great Britain
, denied their right to Dissolve the Union.
"GREAT BATTLE IN ALLEGHENY Cry
This is the caption Of an article in the Pitts
burg Commercial Journal, in which is detail
ed an account of mob violence and mob tri
umph. The difficulty grew out of The differ
ence Of opinion on the part of the operative
and manufacturer in relation to the ten houI
system. The latter said they could not com.
pete with eastern manufacturers if they con
> tinued to pay the same wages for a less a
mount of labor; while the former, or many o
> them, resolved not to work more than lei
hours, nor for less than their usual wages,-
Both parties had a right 10 do this. But a
bout one hundred of the hands in the Pen
y Cotton Mill, afterward concluded to make
virtue Of necessity, and resumed work unde