Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-04-29
Speaking Of the southern project to cOlOniIe The
valley Of the Amazon, II says;

Speaking Of the southern project to cOlOniIe The
valley Of The Amazon, it Says
This is one Of the many sublmely disbolicL
plots which that Power is stealthily concoctings
aided by an Administration servile to its Uilas
the trembling slave is to his overseer, and eagersts
prostitute all the strength Of the government -
its service. We have here only the beginning o.
the end.' By hook or by crook, by bribery or in
timdation, by cunning violence, the free nstfs
CATION Of the Amazon by American ships will be
obtained ere loDg--Southern planters will migrate
thther with their fettercd slayes--on its banks
and in the interior, cotton, rice and sugar plans.
tons will spring up, to be cultivated by unrequiteo
toll, under the slave drivers lash-the foreign
slave trade will be prosecuted MS q lawful com.
merce-the hapless natives, now officially declared
to be of no more value than so many wild beasts,
will be northumberland new annexatons, for
the sole benefit of Slavery will be the order OF tho
day, All this is contemplated-and oil this, and
more, is inevitable, If the present blood-ccmented
American Union is allowed 10 continue; Union,
Iunlawfully and wickedly made, through fear Of
George Ill., and utter dstrust of Almighty Uod,'
in that trying hour--which is, and has been, and
while il exists will be, ruled by the Slave Power.
with absolute and informal sway-and without
which, that Power would instantly lose all that
gives II vitality and security, and cease to curss
the earth. Dissolve the Union, and IL would be
impossible to keep the slaves in their chains dis
solve it, aud an end would be put to slaveholding
aggression and fllibustering dissolve it. and the
free States would be freed from incubus which
is pressing them to the earth dissolve II, and the
song Of jubilee would soon be heard from the Az
lautic to the Pacific. But let the Union be cher
ished let the North continue to make its preserva-
ton paramount to all other considerations, and.
with slavery every where protected by the Consti-
tuition, nothing is before us but career Of crime,
and infamy and blood, on colossal scale, and
fearful looking for Of judgment and fiery indig-
nation which will in due time be visited upon.
the whole land.
AT the late Cincinnati Convention, Fred. Douglass
objected to tho disunion movement, that though
II might relieve dsunionsts from cooperation in
the support of slavery, yet it left the slave to por
ish in his chains" True he did not as we could
perceive show how this was especially as tho
slaves chains were rivitcd by the hand Of the
Union. But letting that pass, we wish to say, as
we said there, that we recognize right Of north
ern people to escape from the partnership Of slave
holders, in any such manner as to leave the slave
to his fate. North and South have been partners
in the guilt Of his enslavement. Both have eaten
the fruit Of his oppression, and both are morally
responsible for his release, to the full extent Of
their power and as the chief instrument in this
oppression, past and present, has been and is the
Union, we are bound to seek its dissolution as the
means Of his enlargement
1t is not to escape responsibility that we are for
disunon. 1t is to acquit ourselves of this respon-
sibility. Disunion abolitionists are not tho sor,
that are wont to shrk responsibility. They arc
cmphatcally Intermediates. They hesitate not to
intermeddle with the most sacred things thrown in
the way of freedom. The church, nor the govern
ment, nor the Union, nor the constitution, nor the
Bible, nor religion, can shield slavery. They have
fanatical passion for intermeddlng for the slave,
past all cure. The Union cannot hinder nor cure
it, no more can, or will, should, the dissolution
of that union. They have by inheritance, and By
their own past support of slavery right to inter-
ferc, whether slavery he scctionalizcd in the union
or ndtonalized out Of it. And this right, to the
last of their existence, or Of slavery, they will
exercise.