Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-04-08
ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.
DIsUNI0N.
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Disunon is a word that is becoming familiar to
mems ears. They do not scout It as they did, nor
insult the man who utters it. Grave and cOnserv-
atiye wings, who went for the compromises Of
1850, now that the South violates the most sacred
Of all things, bargain, begin to talk Of dissolu-
ton Of partnership. And free soilcrs, who have
been very particularly careful to cuogize the union
with great swelling words, to save themselves from
being ranked with aboltionsts can now defy the
southern buos, and even threaten in their turn,
In n lato Tribune we find the following com
ments Of the Editor on letter Of Mr.. Foote, OF
Now Haven, which we copy, together with the
letter itself:
EAmong the Letters from the People which we
this morning publish, is one which merits particu-
lar attention as we'll from its subject from the
character of the author whose name is sigued TO It,
We refer to the communication OF MIR. FuoTE Oi
New-Ilayen, under the significant title OF Freedom
and DsuniOn. The writer is u retired and wealthy
man Of business, Of ripe years and moderate and
conservative tendencies. No person could be more
unlikely to take extreme OF lanatioal views vi any
great public question, and yet we lind hn coolli
advocating DsuniOn as the means of cxtricatnl
the free States not only from all participation in
the crimes and evils Of slayoholding, but from the
degraded position Of tools and abettOrs in the cX
tension of the accused system. At the same time
he boldly proclaims what is no doubt true, that
separation woul1 be Of great pccuniary benefit to
the Northern States. We publish his coinmunica-
ton as an evidence of the conclusion Mt which
sensible and quiet men are arriving under the CON
yctiOn that agreement or compromise which
the South may make this subject can he relied
on, and that southern tath to-day is as worthless
As Punic faith OF old, IT, they say,--and there
arc thousands of such men,-th's Union is TO be
converted into great instrument for the proTaga.
ton and pcrpetuaticn Of Slavery, Let it perish
Such is the effect of the Nebraska peridy at the
North. and such is the spirit to which these CON
spirators have given birth among the most calm
and refccting classes Nf our People.
FREEDOM AND DIsUNIoN.
10 lie Editor Of Me " /. TiLHae.
SIR: Can not n convention Of wise and prudent
men from tho free States b. had t. take into consid
Grafton the propriety of their immediate separation
from the slnve-brceding and slayewhipping States?
Tho painted Devil Of Dsunion has so long been
held up by the South a scare crow to MS Dougl,
Faces that we are becoming accustomed to it, aud
we no longer tremble with fear Mt the sight OF IL
ms heretofore. Perhaps it would be well for the
South to look its own bugbear in the face instead
of trying to frightcn their neighbors with 1t any
longer.
can perceive no good reason that should induce
the free States to wish TO remain one day longer
chained to the dead carcass of Slavery. They
have all the elements of great empire, and ms
much territory as can probably be well and safely
governed under Il republican regime. With un-
limited quantities Of wheat iron and coal their
command of sugar and cotton will be unlimited A;
and with the enterprise and industry which free
labor and cold climate will always create under
a free government, they must inevitably make
slave labor their tributary.
The struggle of the slave States for political
supremacy in our national councils is ono OF lille
and death to them, and they will inevitably sue
ceed in il because it is not life and death strug-
gle to the free States. Heretofore | have always
considered separation Of the States as altogether
impracticable, inasmuch as our great western riy-
crs all debouch through those States that must
form part of the southern cOniederacy. But our
railroads and canals have superseded the necessity
Of rivers for any other purpose than that for which
Richard Brinsley said they were created, viz, to
feed navigable canals.
| am not in the habit of writing political or any
other kind Of essays; but it appears that the pro-
Slavery feeling and the moral debauchery conse-
auent upon it is 50 rampant, that it becomes the
duty Of every man to raise his voice against it,
As public journalists you have much power and
influence, and if you would once look the subject
of the separation of the States calmly and cooy
in the face YOU would perceive it is not such u
horrible monster as it has bron represented, al
least so far the free States are concerned and
p if YOU were once to lie convinced that disunion
and destruction are not convertible terms, and that
it is better TO let southern brethren enjoy the
benefit Of their peculiar institutions in peace and
of that Of which they have long been aware, viz
That the breeding and whipping of negroes is moi
only dishonest and dishonorable but is also very
,uHpYoitable-t | think you could do much
good Very respectfully,
SAML. L. F00TE
NsT- HG,en. March TO- 1854
In n subsequent number of the Tribune, We find
the following to the same point;
ANNEXATION OF CANADA.
To hs Editor of The NJ y Tribune.
SIh; As the passage of the kanzas-Nebraska
bill OF the traitor Douglas may sooner or later
force upon the northern people dissolution OF the
Union we must look the question fairly ~ the lace
Your New Haven correspondent, Mr. Foote, has
expressed the views Of large portion OF the
northern people who now begin to believe the
prosperity of the North, vast it is, would be
.i further advanced by bursting the chains which
h have bound it to Slavery. Northern men are now
discovering how absolute has been southern sway,
depriving them Of the chances Of holding any
place under Government from President 10 Police
man, except upon condition of selling their con-
nd sciences and working for tho extension OF the ys
tenn Of buying selling, scourging and numbering
their fellow creatures, They are beginning now
70 discover how their best interests have always
been sacrificed in national legislation, which has
q. uniformly been for the supposed benefit of slave
M drivers Men OF the North now perceive tha
with Canada annexed they could form q free Re