Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-02-02

"c''o'tS 'isPcd o. ute SuteJ qtiestion--Cba.
P"Gcy 70 d'ssore TIE Union--T -TreasonaJ!e-
ness Of tie Southern C5nusniion.
WAsmNoToN, Jan. Ie, 1850.
The Slavery question has assumed a some.
whit new aspect lately. Thtre is 10 Doubt
at all That within a lew days Developments
have come TO light which will fill all good
citizens and lovers of the Union with the
most serious apprehensions OF the tate Of
our coniederacy. Among the various move
inehts oi this session, which distinguish n
from all its predecessors, il, the refusal of
the committee of Ways aud Means 10 tnke
any action towards tic preparation OF tho
appropriation bills. have before advised
YOU Of The position of the committee with
respect to ilIe House. 1t is required, by tho
rules, 10 report all the principal appropria-
ton bills within thirty DAYS from the time of
IT'S appointment The intention of this regu-
lation Is To expedite the public business in
general, but particularly to phlee under tho
Inspection OF the members at the earliest
possible period oi the session those measures
III winch every one of them and all their
constituents have on immediate Interest,"
Inc disposition OF TIC public funds aud tho
application Of the taxes drawn from the peo-
ple, are Tie peculiar concern OF the popular
branch of the Legislature, and, as such.
under every free government ARE regulated
| by the suictcst rules, aud this is one of
them.
DayIy, the Chairman, refused for seventeen
| Gays TO call this committee together. At
length, on the 18th of this month they wcro
| summoned, and not even then to consider
Tie opriations-another meeting will
no; bo held until Monday the 21st Instant
These facts tuken in connection with tho
following rlmors may have an importance
and signiiicance which cannot be easily ex-
aggoratcd.
Ii IS reported that certain members be-
longing to the extreme Southern party have
come here with the deliberate purpose of
dissoving the Union, that they have openly
declared such TO he their object, aud that Il
they fail in the effort TO effect il in one mode
they will try others. The mode now to bo
attempted is said 10 I've To stop tho appropria-
IONS. hear from many sources, aud from
some oil The highest rUspectabllty, that there
arc seventy Southern members in tho
House who stand pledged TO that COURSE
whether these runlors Grc strictly and liter
any true, cannot for the present he asserted
by any one not IN the councils of. the per.
sons implicated in the designs referred TO in
Them. But here we have the one rcmarka-
| bic fact, inexplicable upon any other n.y.
potlcsis. The committee of WAYS and
Means refuse 10 act at all when immediate
nctoh upon n specific subject is made their
duty 10y the order of the House.
| 1t is Epe, us l have before said, that the
! committee have had two meetings, namely
| one yesterday, and another TO day, but tho
subject of lis deliberations was the PROPOSE
ton concerning the expense of collecting
the revenue, which has passed the Senate.
But many Southern men say il is no matter
how the work be done, dissolution must
come. They say it has been already begun
by the prolractcd disorganizaiion of tho
House of Representatives. A general
Southern Convention will be held in Juno,
at which II 10 already proposed that a Con-
s,ituton shall bc formed tor new Southern
contedcracy. That Council, in my Judge
inent, cannot be safely, nor constntlonally
held. The Constitution is express in It's pre-
hibition of any agreement between the sew
eral States for any purpose whatever This
Convention is the creature OF The legislatures
and executives Of certain Southern States.
Its members are to be appointed by State
authority. VI is TO assemble for the accom-
plishment of objects directly at variance with
the stability of the Union, and il is the duty
of the President TO suppress it But let
that pass for the present.
Ii 10 not for me 10 decide upon the rolia-
blity Of the reports to which have referred.
Every reader will do that for himself But
it is right TINT the people in all parts of tho
country should know what is done, and hot
ID contemplated and talked oil here.