Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-11-08
From Tho Independent.
Liberal NcdilatiOnS.. ...KOSUth and Cotton.
by HENRY WARD BrrcnrR.

The topics of excitement nowadays fol-
low each other with such rapidity that we
seem To live IN a dream, in which the mnst
astonishing couluuctiuus and the srangrSt
objects no longer surprise. Our palntc is
becoming used to high tlavors. Nothing
| less than expeditions, revolutions, world ul-
liunccs, monster exhibitions, have any power
TO arrest attention. The unparalleled his
tory of tire settlement of California, the sud
den creation of fleet of sea steamers, sur
passing ia magnitude the men ol.war To
which we used to look up us the very
mountains of the deep, the disastcrous inya-
sion of Cuba, the extra legal tribunals of san
Francisco, 10y which the moh take the place
and functions of organized Jusicc, while
the courts aud government, caught in the
popular mesh, llnng like skeleton flies in u
spiders web, swinging in the wind; the cs-
, cape aud glorious advent of the most re-
uowucd OF modern men Louis kosslth; /;
these aud such like events occur almost dui-
ly. Once it was a thing to he spoken Of it
one had doubled the Horn or the Cape but
now it is becoming ms common US to go
from Broadway into Wull.s'rcet The ship
that insurcs to day. bound for Canton, looks
into San Francisco, cuts across the Pacific,
slows its Oolong aud lmperiul pierccs the
homrward deep, with lis bladG.prow, and
J is back again, almost before we have done
talking about her sailing. The globe used to
/ have n respectable circumference, in the
/ DAYS of Dulch-bult ships. Long voyages
/ used to be talked about. We might now
almost ms well talk Of long voyages in a
washlnb Very soon there will he 10 place
where villain can run away to, unless it he
1 behind the iccbergs OF the Polar Sea. Des-
crls are steadily Cncrouched upon. pceped
| into little aud n little further every year,
And Interior Africa will soon be familiar
whisiling-gOund to Yankee trudurs who will
! whitilr from the Cape OF Good Hope straight
through to the Nile or to Algers! Aiicr
| that, there will be no place left in The world
where man can lose himsell-unless lie
Join some Union Safety COmmtlcc. \ man
can scarcely be found there.
The topics Of the morning, over n dish of
coffee, are no longer the weather, the crops,
/ the upscllilg of II coach, or sncaklng bur
glnry or two We now eagerly count up
how many SCORES were smashed up III the
last railroad collision, and how many blown
up in tbe last cnpiaily executed steamboat
cyplosion. IL is matter of infinite plea
sure to us always to learn, on such occasions
that suo one was to blame" aud that the III
and conductors For, if one las acquanJ-
nnces in the calamity, it is a qualification Ia
know that their disaster was FATE, not a
careless accident; and that they died honor
ably by law Of nntura, not by the ncglecl
of a stupid conductor or II drunken cap
tain.
Then, too, we sup upon no wishywashy
highway rohberics we affect hearty nr-
drrs, aud capital hangngs,-especlally Il
the rope breaks. BY the way, ought not the
government to appoint a commission on
Hemp: We remember that Daniel Web
stcr very Significantly assured tie gentle
men of tho Senate, we think il was, that The
: operation of pulling hemp with nothing t'
stand on was very inconvenlcut. But late
lv we observe, tha: the cords which Gov
ernment selects are so economically manu-
featured that men fund something to stant
; on quite unexpectedly, and have TO he twice
hung before being once killed. This is not M
inpcrlincnt iniermeddling on otlr part. w
| claim to have personal interest in this mat
ter of hanging Daniel Webster has mos
cmphntirnily declared that resistance I
! the Fugitive Slave Law is treason. Judg
10 Kane Of Pennsylvania has charged the lnr
that the eXtcnIpOruneous Resistance OF 1t
D., gitives and their compeers TO civil proces
u was treason. President Fillmore has SCI
marshals with patriotic celerity TO Syrncus
to arrnign for treason all who aided an
. abeued the rendering of man to his ibe
: ~.
= Now it is quite plain that TREASON is to |
If plentiful. The prospects of harvest wei
i never better. We have felt the symptom
of rpcness ourselves. And rs treason is
capital offence, and brings man to hangin
it is plain that the Government has work q
!, hand for while to come. Every cnndida
y for such honors, therefore, has n right, "
/, think, to insist upon it that it the Cover
:, o mert will hang one man for helping anothC
% to his liberty, they shall at least provc
70 good hemp. It is against the law 10 try
man twice for the same offence. But OF
4, hangmen sometimes TRY fellow twice
. three times before they succeed We hay
&c prejudices against being hung with roit'
If cord This Southern hemp is not stroi
= enough TO hold the Union together il il
not strong enough to hold the weight of ol