Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-12-29
Southern Buster.

We have given on the First Page copious ex-
tracts from the debates in the U. s. House of
Representatives, arising from the contest for the
Spcakership. Our object in so doing is to afford
our readers rs clear a view as possible OF the tao
tics by which the South has always managed to
rule the North. Let them read the speeches Of
Meade, Toombs, Stephens, and Colcock, and
they can hardly need any farther illustrations OF
the philosophy of Blustcr. Tn National Era
intimates its belief that this scene was all pre-
arranged with the deliberate purpose OF fright
ening Northern representatives, while a cores
pondcnt of the Pittsburgh Gazette declares that
some of these brave defenders of the peculiar
institution have admitted in private that their
speeches are chiefly intended for Bunkum-in
other words, to make them popular with their
constituents. Mr.. Root must have annoyed
them excessively by his keen wit and pointed
sarcasm. He made the whole thing look like a
farce, which it was and nothing else. That the
Northern members stood this bullying assault
better than in former years is a proof that the
labors of the Abolitionists to develop the latent
manliness of the Northern People have not been
wholly Intellectual. The North has been in O
STOPPING posture so long that her spinal organi-
cation is too seriously impaired to admit OF q
speedy remedy. She'll s~traighten herself ono
of these days, and when she docs, there will be
an end Of Southern Bluster. At present there
is not a man in Congress who takes the true po-
sition. They are all paralyzed by a false and
superstitious vcneration for the Union, as if il
were an End and not a Means, and to be pre-
served at all hazards. If Northern men could
so far rise above the weak subserviency which
grows out of this false idea as to tell the Soutl
that they might leave the Union just as soon a
they pleased, and the sooner the better; tina
come what might, they would not yield al
inch; that the Territories should be free, anC
that Slavery should be abolished in the Distric
of Columbia, even if the Union were blown int
a thousand fragments if she would only sa.
this calmly, and prove herself in earnest by he
deeds, the dcvotees of Slavery would C Xix
spaniels. This unnatural devotion to the Union
founded not in the love of Freedom but in
cowardly fear of the consequences of doing right
makes our Northern politicians weak as water
They paltcr and hesitate at the very time whei
a manly firmncss is most needed they tur
pale at the instant when a bold and courageou
word would ensure a victory. In this, howev
or, the North is only rcaping the legitimat
fruits of her unholy alliance with opprcssors.-
Her experience is an illustration of the truth S
finely expressed by Colcridge:
Never can true courage dwell with them
Who play tricks with conscience
Tho Union, from the first, was a 'trick upo
conscience a conspiracy against Justice an
Freedom, and an audacious attempt to 'circum
vent God by masking villany under hypocriti
cal professions of devotion to truth and virtu,
What wonder that the fruits of such PREACHER
and sclf-dcgradation are bitteri 'Whatsoevc
a man soweth that shall he also reap