Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-01-26
5rIrttions.
From the Boston Courier.
The Issue on the Slavery Question.


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Our Southern neighbors have again open
ed the safety valve of iheir polite al boiler,
aud now are letting off tie usual quantity OF
steam, which, at stated SEASONS, they must
emit or burst. IL is tircsome to witness these
! periodical putfs of angry vapor, which inva-
| riably pass through the same niouOtonous
process OF going up hot, and coming down
cold. The people of the South have surely
10 invention; their querulous bonbast is ut
( tered in stereotype phrases, which, by oter-
nal and wearisome repetition, have got TO he
us unmeaning as the pratug Of a parrot, or
the clack of u grist mill. We eau stand non
sense that is splccd up with variety, but mo
notonous and ten thousand times repeated
nonsense is dead bore.
| Again we are told that the crisis is nt
hand again we are told that the States
must speak out again we arc told that the
! South must take decided stand again we
are told that something must be done to ann
| pliiy iortiy and sauctiiy the holy aud pcct-
liar institution OF the South, or the Union
must he dissolved. For the iivc-and-fortieth,
or the FIVE hundred and ioriieth time, we are
told that the hour aud tlIe man are both
coule for final and tremendous explosion; /;
| but when the hour comes, the Inau is sure TO
he wanting; and all these ffigltiul gunpow-
der preparations 20 oil as quiet as candle
snuff.
We copy the latest specimen Of this cry of
woli!' from the Charleston Mercury:
Every day brings fresh evidence that the
movement begun by Mississippi is rapidly
gathering the force aud grandeur of an ad-
vance in complete union OF the Southern
States. We published the other day the sem
timents of Mr. Clingman, endorsed by Mr..
Mangllm, which gives the strongest earnest
of the spirit OF North Carolina. The Legis-
ature OF Georgia are maturing strong and
clear exposition OF the sentiments and deter
mination of that great State. Col. Gardner,
of the Consitutionalist, closes one of his last
letters from MilIsdgeyilie with the following
stirring language:
'The conviction is general in the Legisla-
ture, that the time has arrived when the
South should take a decided stand on the
slavery question. All have forcseen that
sooner or later, the time had to come, and
would come. Most OF us now see that the
time has come. There will be blending o.
parties on this question, and harmony OF ac
ton in the Legislature. a lew of each par
" may hang back, but the great majority
representing aud reilectng the will of TN
: people OF Georgia, will unite and will TAXI
steps TO place the issue directly before tn
, Northern people. Justice and equal right
Tor the South-conpliance with the obliga
; tions of the federal compact-no more ag
gressions OH the institution OF slayery-or,
, dissolution OF the Union
Justice and equal rights Is there an.
l man at the North who desires TO withhold
! these from tie South? Compliance with TN
I obligations of the federal compact! Is no
: this the very thing which the North is nov
] urging upon the South? We have made
r compact, and we call upon the South Il
: stand by il. The South declares she will no
comply with the obligations Of this compact
: and that the Federal Union shall no longe
exist unless she is allowed 10 dictate TO TN
Congress of the United States what laws tina
body shall and what il shall not make. Thi
she calls Justice and equal rights
= The advocates for the extension of SLAYER
y denv the right of Congress 10 enact laws pro
|, hbiting slavery in the territories. The ques
- ton will soon come to this point whethe
: Congress can logislate at all where n South
II crn State can find scruple. Slavery is jus
e as much under the Legislative control of Con
4 gress in the territories, as the law of debto
" and creditor, or the law of marriage. Is nc
d the peculiar institution of lotteries quite q
: good Il basis for u claim of equal rights d
l. that of slavery? South Carolina has lotteries
70 why does she not demand that Congres
. ., shall never prohibit lotteries in the Feder
d territory?
Of The Southern States came into the Unio
id with the institution of slavery. The institl
No ton is their affair, not ours. We condcn
slavery; but the bargain was made; let
D. stand; we have no power under the FEEDER
It, compact to compel the South TO cast off 81
pe very. But we have the power TO check Il
|, extension of slavery one inch beyond d
limits laid down to it by that compact. "
:! have the power TO oppose barrier TO an e'
nd which was bad enough ut the beginning, al
II, has been growing worse and worse ev
by since.
=, The South is running muck and won
10 strike down law and constitution with
OF blind recklessness as Malay with his Ol
um and llrss lays about linn in u crowd.
What does the South want-if we may a
her sober question? She has slavery;
SC, her hug it TO her bosom, and babblc VII
err nonsense of endearment she will TO her i'll
ll) For good or for evil this is her privilege, al
I'M we pretend not TO the power OF disturbing
Us, Beyond this, what does she require for j
M own comfort or the promotion OF the weiia
ID of the human race? She demands the pr
he ilege~ of spreading slavery over the we
he over the Union, over the world-tor there
ed nothing too eXtravagant for her TO denar
ed She wishes to march against the opinion
iw mankind, against the progress of civilizati
lth md human ;mnroyemept, and TO carry
the American Union with her. She is l