Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-07-05
The Union.

The Union.
A company of Disunionists in one of Tho
Southern States, being on their way to a con
vention, overlook a revolutionary soldier. Or
his inquiring their destination, they said, w,
are going to a Convention which is To devils,
: means for dissolving the Union. The old mar
: shook his head sorrowfully, and replied, Wal
: little while, till am dead !-LoaisviRe Jour.
Who that has the heart to prefer justice to al
the associations and attachments that have
gathered around our national union, but will bC
touched with tho imploring sorrow of the old
hero of this incident. We can appreciate and
honor the attachment of the old man to the
Union, around which had clustered the triumph.
and hopes Of his youth-which had been the
pride and glory of his manhood, to which he
had looked for security and happiness to hi.
postcrity--and which was to be the dispenser Of
freedoms choicest blessings to tho world. This
vcnoration is deep rooted and has porvaded all
classes of our white population. The Union
has been to tho multitudo--tho emblem Of yir.
tue, of freedom, of security, of prosperity and
happiness. We can fully sympathise with this
veneration, for in our ignorance of the influence
of tho Union upon the slave, it was no less sa-
cred to us. Such attachments we would not
lightly assail. We can respect them even now,
as Developments of the better impulses of hu-
manity, though knowing them to be based upon
delusion and falsehood. The very word itself
is sacred. Our enemies in appropriating it to
cloyorv has foIo Toe e
Gus idea, with which to delude themselves and
bcfool others. Union Would tha: we had
it. Would that the continent, the world were
united by its holy bonds. 1t is for this VIC are
laboring. We seek to destroy the present false
ly alledged and attempted union of antagonisms,
only that we may substitute afHnitics.
But this veneration for tho present unnatural
union is fas; passing away. 1t has passed from
the minds of thousands. Tho earnest determi-
nation of the Calhouns, in their cool, vilainous,
intellectual plottings. The great swelling words
and unmeaning threats uttered by southern
dcmagogues. The unwearicd and determined
enmity Of the despised band in the North, who
hate it for the same cause for which Southern
unionists love it, these are all doing something
to destroy our national attachment to the Union.
But none of these arc doing moro than arc the
volunteer saviours who every where abound.
The Webster, Cox and Union Committee sort
politicians priests aud capitalists who are ever
canting abou: liberty while compromising every
thing to slavery. These are making the Union
Kissing and bye-word among all the good
at home and stencil in the nostrils of all tho
world besides. With multitudes the word has
lost it power TO charm or tcrrify. The union is
no longer an end to be secured by any and every
means but itself means for the attainment of
a great end. Failing in this it is worthless !;
hopelessly sustaining slavery it is to be abhor-
red and ovcrthrown. Its destruction, like its
preservation, is but means to q great end, the
establishment of universal frccdom-this is
what we seek.
If our Liberty Party brethren can revolu-
tionize public sentiment-save the Union-and
abolish slavery-by their new Interpretation of
the constitution, the revolution will be effected
and we shall be satisfied with the result. If our
Free Soil Friends can rcgcncrate the nation,
preserve its unity and abolish slavery by pre-
venting its extension and doing whatever else
the Buffalo Platform proposes. Wcarc equally
we'll satisfied.
Bnt as these means look to us inadequate and
hopeless. AS there is nothing good in slavery
to be savod-we can wage no defensive war
against projects of slavery extension and per-
petuity. Ours is an ofe,asiUe aud erterminating
war. We would carry it without delay to the
home and sanctuary of the enemy. Give him
no time to plot extension, but compelling him
to fight with dying desperation for existence
Giving him no quarter within sovereign states
or at the horns of the constitutional altar-tear-
ing away if need be the church, tho union, or
whatever plants itself for its defence.
But slavery is so interviewer with all the ac-
tive interests of the present. that VIC look not to
preaching by word alone, for success, however
demonstrative its facts or persuasive its clo-
quence Circumstances which the conflict now
in progress will dovelope, will drive the North
to its true position and the right instrumental
ty. We must and shall have sermons of op-
pressivc facts. The fugitive law was one. 1t
convinced some of the sin of their present asso-
citation. 1t must be some new and to us incon-
ceivably greater outrage upon northern citizens
-somo oft repeated, intolerable oppression that
must preach successful crusade against slavery
and the main pillar of its support-the present
slave holding and slave catching Union.
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