Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-01-26
From The Boston Courier.
Threatened Secession of the South.

Our readers have been made acquainted,
from time TO time, with certain maneuvres
said 10 be in progress, under the management
Of South Carolinidn fatuiiy, for the purpose
Of sringing the slavery question to such a
Z tsesieal issue as to break up the Union al
once. The town is already mentioned by
name which is 10 be the seat Of government,
Of the new republic, where peculiar institu.
lions are never 10 be made the theme oil
criticism, and where the pure orthodox doc.
trlne OF the cotton bale is 10 he preached
from the gospel according to Calhoun.
There may or may not be truth in these ac-
counts; there may or may not be a settled
design TO nullify and secede we would not
give a brass farlhing to know how the fact
is. There is not a sensible man on this side
of Mason and Dixon's line, who cares any
more for The bullying and egotislical trumpe-
ry that is put forth by Southern newspapers
and Southern demagogues upon this matter,
than for the yelping Of so many puppy-dogs.
Those who are perpetually crying wolf
soon cease 10 be regarded, except by old wo-
men,: and as for the wolf 10 whose jaws we
Of the North have been regularly consigned
every six months, by the gallantry and chiv-
airy, lame logic and fustian eloquence Of the
S~outh,-every one knows him to be no wolf
at all, but a genuine braying ass.
We are told Of a Southern Confederacy '
now Matching. We believe there is no such
Thing, and never will be any such thing
There is, has been, and always will be-per-
haps-a South Carolins,-but as TO the ex-
istence Of a combination Of the Southern
states TO carry into effect any such mad pur.
pose as is indicated above. we are disposed
10 regard il as a bugbear and a chinera. The
people Of the Southern states, taken collect
lively, are not such demented blockheads
they know better than to 90 into confedera.
cies, and run their heads against the consli
tuition of the Uuited States, the rights Of man
and The philosophy Of common sense. Ma
ny foolish things they may do, and will do
SO long as they are under the curse Of slave,
ry, but they love themselves too well 10 Gu
their own throats by aiming a blow at tn
Union-it is political suicide, and they know
that a coroner's inquest upon their defunc
carcase would result in a verdict Of 'CeO d
Sc, occasioned by temporary insanity
We say the South will not do these things
but South Carolina may do something Of III
sort-or rather may utter much talk about i
We have nc hope of hearing reason or con
mon sense from that quarter, though Mr.. Ca
houn and his disciples, like Pope's railer
mankind,
May advance
Some general maxims, or be right by chance
AS long as South Carolina is South Care
lima, we shall expect TO be told that nothin
grows In the United States but cotton, tina
nothing is valuable in the world but cotton
and that political economy, good morals, tn
ten commandments, and the catechism, ar
all Developments Of cotton. Such is tn
whole mundane system, according TO th'
creed of South Carolina politicians, and VIII
this crazy CROCHET in their heads, they tall
de!irium, and will continue to talk dellrlum
ill The general sentiment OF the country shall
issue a commission of lunacy against them
and put their affairs under the guardianship
Of rational beings.
We say this madness 10 not emphatlcally
the madness Of The South, il is the madness
of South Carolina alone. She is at The bot
tom of it, at the top of II, and all around It,
1t is her affair, and set in agitation solely for
her benefit. She is discontented, querulous,
egotistical, arrogant, and e%nvious; and to
trouble others rather than 10 relieve herself,
: she would scatter frebrands 10 the right and