Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-07-01
From the Nex York Tribune. I,
WHAT IS TREASON At THE soUTHf


well the trying to act it, by the politicians OF
the South is credited to them as ON evidence OF
theh love for the Union and the Con6titution while
the simplest expression of Republican sentiments
by Northern men, is regarded real treason in its
most hdeous form. The people OF the South can
worship Mr. Calhoun because he was nullifer,
can declare his most odious doctrines to contain the
pure spirit Of our institutions, for Federal
and State Offices on openly ayQwed Dispnion Hctets,
and can come into Congress- filled with hate OF tho
North and of Northern men, and the federal com
pact, and yet they are cordially received, occupy
imp ortant places upon committees and are generally
most active in bostering mp Southern institutions,
through the protecting influence Of the Union and
the Constitution If, on the other hand, private
citizen of the free States expresses himself in favor
Of freedom, or doubts the validity md morality Of
3 slavery, he Is execrated n Disunionst, BY tho
South, and pursued with the echong cry froth the
majority of Northern men who allow others to dp
their thinking Mr.. Seward, Mr.. Chase and Mr..
Sumner, are held up monsters of treason, for
defending the North from what thoy conceive to be
the aggressive spirit uf slavery, and although they
only do it through open debate in the balls Of
Congress- they would, If the South hs3 fs way, 10
absolutely prescribed from practical participation
in the legislation Of the country.
! On the other hand, there men in Congresa
from the South, who were elected to their seats
upon open and ayowed disunioa tickets wbo fneds
this direct issue with their opponents, and carried
their maorties because they were in favor of tfea;
son, yet these men, being Suuthorners, escape all
CCnSure, because treason, IN lSSlSSlppl, AlaDalnA,
and South Carolina, is construed into triumph Of
the Union and the Constitution. The fayorite doc
trine of the Southern politicians is Secession; IL
any real abstract distasteiul th occurs to them
in Congressional legislation, they immediately
threaten to divide the Union: this with them is set
down to patriotism; but let Northern man, suf-
iering under evils that he has been educated from
his youth up to oppose as contrary to good govern
ment and morals, hint that, rather than endure
further encroachments, he would submit to disso-
1ttipr Of tbn min o,l tharo nm rrU Of
horror, and the unfortunate victim is morally pur-
sued unto death.
There is tradition Of q secret Convention oncs
held at Hartford by certain citizens of New Eng
land. The real object of the assembly has never
been clearly divulged bet this fact has been made
The bugbcar by the South, and the term Hartford
COnventionist" has been the synonym of traitor,
and the people of the North have blindy Joined in
the cry and hunted down the Hartford Convention
lists. Now annually, for the last quarter of d
century, meetings have been held in the South to
discuss not the value of the Union, but how
soon the already pronounced worthless bond
should be cast aside There are speeches
uttered, and resolutions passed, which, for open
\, and high-handed treason, wCald make the most
| wildly imagined horrors Of the Hartford Conyen-
tonists sink into obscurity; yet the members of
these caLals 20 unscathed, receive rich Federal
Offices, and patriots, because treason in the
South is interpreted as triumph of the Union and
| the Constitution. .t ....
Dut recently u Convention was Hciu aJ
it called rally of the slave States, and was
avowed to meet to prepare for dissolution. Missis-
sippi and South Carolina officially declared their
4 sympathy with the object, and every Southwestern
slave State had sympathetic representatives. The
conclusion of the Convention was, that dissolution
was good thing necessary thing, and in the
minds Of the controllers Of public opinion Of the
South had already taken place; but that its pro-
clamatiOn and consequent acts must be deferred to
a future time Yet no Northern paper has pur-
/ wit lpnunci1tiun he Nashyiilh IuTvantiOn-
lists most of its active members arc now hOnored
servants of the Federal Government; and its
sympathzers are foremost in their denunciatiofs
of the few Northern men who have the courage
and the intellect to maintain their individuality,
! What is the cause of this ingenious distinction
against the men of the North? Is real treason
monopoly of the South? Look for hiUinent d.
some Of the most horored men Of the prGstht Ad.
mnstraton. There is De Bow, of the Census
/ Department, the Abby Folsom of the South who
has for years poured out his insane maedictions
upon the Union, in all sorts Of speeches and wri-
tings that possesses all the malevUlence and bitter,
ness of the widest I" Northern fanatic" but
possesses nothing else; he is elevated to the re-
sponsible Office he now holds, without n murmur
against his disunion sentiments, his treason-en-
couraging publications.; he is Southern man, and
with him treason is loyalty to the Union and tho
the Constitution. Soule is Minister to Spain. bu,
while the Compromise measures were before Con-
gress and after they had matured into laws Soule,
as United States Senator, went through the South,
applying the incendiary torch of dissolution, with
zeal that sinks the most vehement abolitonists Of
the North into obscurity. lie denounced the free
States, their people and their institutions with
violence that seemed to partakb Of insanity; no
gloated oyer the, TO him. immediate prospect Of tho
formation of Southern Republic" and for
no other reason than because it was n good thing
in itself. Yet this active official traitor escapes all
censure, and is honorcd with what is to TIE
people of the North the most important diplo,
matte appointment in the gift of the Government,
Jefferson Davis is Secretary Of War. SO rank
indeed is his ayowed hatred to the Union that he
resigned his seat in the United States Senate, pre-
paratory to appearing of the leaders in tho
formation of "Mr. Ca!houns Southern Republic"
d In Il speech at Natchez Miss, he spoke of the
templated Disunon, and, with all the explanatory
eloquence he is master Of melted rebellion against
J the Federal authorities Over his own signature
e he declared himself in favor of EARNED resistance
II and inSurrecton" rather than slavsh submission
: to the Federal laws, (the Compromise measures,)
Il ana suggested the establishment in the South OF
: manufactures Of arms and ammunition, as the
most efficient preparation for the final alternative
separation. Col. Davis counselcd with General
Qutnan, and indorsed that gentleman's Secession
! message, and sympathized with Quitman's confed=
erates in their refusal to raise the stars and stripes
over the State Capitol of Mississippi And yet
the h;renc presses of Washington. and tho siales
of party everywhere, raise their voices against tho
people of Boston, because they felt deep, soul
stricken horror at the scenes enacted among them
in the capture Of Burns, while thcy have not a
] word Of condemnation for the men Of tho South
who love disunion because of Itself, and are only
using the strong arm of the North to fortify their
position by sezing Nebraska, Cuba and Mexico
land are then leave the Free States to be whstled
down the wind, the objects Of their scorn and the
easy dupes of their arts, the mistaken yictima Of
false sacrafce for temporary peace.
CHrcAGo is extremely indignant at the passage of
the Nebraska bill. The approaching Fonrth Of
July is to bo observed thera-as day Of mourning.
Senator Douglas is said t5have been expected there
recently. but when it became known, the manites~
ta.ion against him was SO general and unmstakabis
that his friends elesraphed hn not to come With