Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-05-17
From the Pennsylvania Freeman.
Moro Panic Making.

i'HtNth HlNCGllN Iil lllt StINlCt VI lltH llnn-
tation aud cotton lords. Their confident as
sertions that the Union was saved" and
that the slave question was forever" " settled"
beyond the power or hope of further "agita-
ton" and their prediction that the occupa-
ton" of the abolitionists was "done," all
served their object for the hour, and are for
gotten; while tue old panc-cres of Dan
ger 10 the Union" Ruin to our trade" "An-
archy and civil war;" are shouted and Shrek
cd with the same eflrontery as fifty times
before.
1t is not enough that the North has brought
It's human victims to slnyery's CORY temple (;
not enough that young men and old, moth
ers aud children, and infants unborn, have
been doomed TO the tyranrs control and sent
to his dungeons and man-markets; not en-
ough that Massachusetts has been humbled,
that Boston aud the Cradle of Liberty have
been filled with slavery's armed llessians it
is not enough that the Northern press and
the Northern pulpit, with few manly ex-
ceptons, have bartered away conscience and
manhood, honor and truth, for the smiles of
their lords ; il is not enough that men whom
we have trusted have betrayed the holy cnuse
of Liberty--that the descendants of Iscariot
and Arnold have wormed their way into the
lolliest places of power, aud wear. unblush-
ingly the badges of f"respectability," nor is it
enough that slavery has forced its demands
through the National Congress. There is
still a Mordccai at the kings gate" and the
Slave Power walks uuquietly among its min
ions and mercenarics; for free thought is
not yet stiled, the voice of the truth-teler is
not yet silenccd, aud until that is done, the
tyrant knows that he has no safety.
Hence the efforts of the Shareholders and
their Northern vassals to suppress free dis
cussion, 10 "put down this agitation" Pro-
scriplion, bribes, threats, cnlumnics, assaults
OH private character, denunciations, frowns
and batteries have all been tried. A fear of
reaction alone prevents the foes Of freedom,
in their madness and modification, from re-
sorting directly to fines, dungeons and milf
tary power TO silence this troublesome agita-
ton. They have cunningly laid their plans,
however, as the late proceedings i'll Boston
show, 10 do this indirectly.
Meanwhile, TO insure u public sentiment
sufficiently corrupt and base TO sustain them
they are lahoring zealously to manufacture {
new "panic" through the North over the stale
bugbear of notification. South Carolna, as
usual is the big boy put forward to wear the
irigltful mask which we have seen put on
and taken off so many times before. The
bullying resolutions of her town and district
and parish meetings, and the fire eating
speeches of her noisy declaimers, are pub
lished and re-published through the North,
increasing in terrific importance the farther
they go.
The New York Herald which is ever fore
most in its base services to slavery is taking
the lead in this new effort. The following
from its leader of April 2lst, reveals one
scheme in its plot.
"A short time since we sent n special cor.
respondent from this office to South Carroll
ma, and the Southern States generally, for
the purpose OF canvassing public opinion in
those parts of the coniederacy aud reporting
the progress of the great secession movement
in that region, which was originally set in
motion by the abolition fanatics of the North
and which, according TO present appearan-
ces, is rapidly approaching a crisis"
This Especial correspondent" who seems
10 do the double work of helping to excite
South Carolina "crisis" and report il, sends
OH his dispatches made TO order, and they
are paraded in prominent columns of the
Herald, with n due supply of capitals and ex-
points, 10 be copied through other
pro-slavery journals at the North. We give
one or two extracts from these bulletins" as
specimens of their character.
In letter from Charleston, magniiying a
meeting in favor of secession" held there
April 18th, the Especial correspondent" says;
"Upon the issue TO secedc, or recede, il is
clear that this comparatively conser-
vative corner of the State, if the question
were put Tomorrow TO the vote for n deci-
sion, South Carolina, before dinner time, IcouId
be oM efh Union.
What, then, is the public sentiment of the
interior? Of course, it is far more conclu-
sive in favor of separate State action, without
waiting either for further aid or aggressions.
We believe there is but one solitary paper in
the State opposed TO secession and that has
been recently established. A State Conven-
lion has been elected, composed of l67 mem
bers, l27 of whom are opposed to further
with the North, and in japOr Of
cutting them adIif al once. The other 40, eX-
repting some three or four, are in favor of
secession as soon MS another State or two
will unite with South Carolina. This con-
fention will, probably, not meet till next
spring; and any modification of IFS opinions
N the interval, will depend materially upon
he state oi public feeling III the North, ana
of Northern action, and ON the policy Of the
and the proceedings Of Con-
gress."
What would become of the thirty States of
he Nation, if South Carolina should "cld
hem adTif al once" Who cOn conceive our
peril when outcasts from her protection and
iuccor? How deyout should be our graft
ude that in her long suffering she posipones
he catastrophe until after "dinner," and even
to make il conditional upon "North-
'rn action" in the next Congress, &c. Let
rs hasten to humble ourselves, before the
lugust Quat;lebums, that peradventure heir
wrath may be turned away and their pardon
be gained, aud that this great Union be not
'cut adriit" from its rock of salvation, TO be
ossed helmness upon bloody sea of revo-
luton, and dashed upon the rocks of discord!