Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-11-03
THE A~NTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.
Testimony Of a Southern Statesman,

A writer in the Danville (va.) Register (pro-
nounced by the Editor to be one of the first
statesmen in Virginia. utters the following en-
phatic testimony as to the effects likely to result
from a dissolution of the Union:
9TH Abolitionist thinks that disunion will,
lin the long run, utterly eradicate slavery on the
North American continent AND TIE ABO-
LTTIONIST THINKS RIGHTLY AND TRU-
LY."
Again, the same writer says:
III L were an Abolitionist, and were looking,
without regard to other consequences, for a
speedy remedy for the real or fancied evils OF
Slavery, L WOULD GO FOR A DISUNION
OF THESE STATES"
The reasoning by which the writer supports
his opinion is substantially this That the South,
in order to meet the immense expenses of a sep
arate government, will be compelled to resortto
a Tariff; that the natural result of this will be
to introduce manufactures, which will require
Free Labor; that Free and Slave Labor, being
at war with each other when separated by the
distance between South Carolina and Massachu-
sets, will be still more hostile when they come
to look into each others windows and finally,
that the Free Laborers thus introduced, by uni
ting with the non-slaveholders, will overthrow
slavery by the power of the ballot-box. "You
must" he says, "give the master a vote for
each one of his slaves, or the institution will
perish !" and he adds "a single mandatory
of coo hands, in the county of Pittsylvania or
Halifax, would turn the scale against the slave
holder" If slavery can scarcely be sustained
in Virginia now, what, he asks, will be its doom,
when the Union has been dissolved, and an i'm
mense amount Of Free Labor has been infused
into the State, and each Free Laborer has the
political power of the master of a hundred
slaves The destruction of the system in that
case, he declares, would BE CERTAIN
AND SUDDEN"
The writer sees great difficulties in the way
of forming a Southern Republic. Who can say,
he asks, that Virginia, Maryland, Missouri and
Kentucky would not prefer an alliance with the
North Truly this is a significant question. L
the North were only true to herself, if she would
act boldly, resolutely, and upon principle, it is
by no means improbable that all or a part O.
these States would so with her. The writer
thus depicts inc Iate WHICH WOuIu AohOW Ilt
Southern Confederacy;
awe should set out on a summer sea, but
how long would it be before we should meet
with troubled waters? We should, at the first
Congress, have a Northern and a Southern par
ty-a tariff and an anti-tariffp arty-and, hea-
ven save the mark an abolition and an anti-a6-
clifton pa,zy-and these parties the more fierce,
and the more unrelenting, for the intimacy Of
the contact. South Carolina would still have q
thorn in the flesh. Maryland and Virginia, ana
Missouri and Kentucky, could soon be Massdchu-
sets, Consecticut, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, I'M
der other names, bat breathing the same hateful
doctrines. There would be another disunion
and another, and yet another, until South Caro-
lima would at last be the lone star, and in a posi-.
ton no longer to be defeated in her eager desire
to invest a iavorite son with the emblcms OF Of
fee"
Thus, in the opinion Of one Of the first states
men Of Virginia, the Union is the principal safe
guard of Slavery, without which it would b,
speedily and e~tiectually destroyed. We advo
cate Disunio upon principle, as q measure rem
dcred imperative by every demand of justice
and morality, without regard to consequence
but we entertain no doubt that the South i
right in her belief that such an event would en-
sure the speedy abolition of her hellish institu