Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-09-30
MORE DANGER THAN EVER.

The Washington Union is in ugonios for the
safety Of the Federal Union. 1t says:
"A great deal has been written about the doc
trlne of secession and the danger of disunion.
Many grave apprehensions have been excited by
previous discussions upon this doctrine. But the
mos formidable movement yet made in favor of
the doctrine of disuniou is that now progressing
in the free states. While the South is perfectly
quiescent--asking only that its rights shall DC pre-
served-thc North, under the lead Of the abolition
agitators, who have taken entire possession Of one
OF the great parties Of the free states, is now adyo-
eating and urging q project, which, if successful,
would certainly lead to n severance Of the Union.
Inc project contemplatcs the combination of the
people of the North into q great sectional party
against the South. To this end all other questions
are made to yield. No man is, if possible, to be
elected to any Office who is not the sworn foe of
the South, or the bound and covenanted advocate
OF abolitionism. 1t would be madness to attempt
to conceal from ourselves that this organization
has not retrogradod. Every day convinces us that
it is on the increase. We are not without q high
and n prayerlul hope, it is true-a patriotic conf
dencc, growing out Of a fervent affection for the
traditions and realities of the Union-tbat the con-
sorvativc element is not yet extinct in the Northern
states but is it not true that traitors, and knaves,
and hypocrites, like Greeley, and Sumner, and Gill
lette-is it not true that intidcls, like Phillips, con-
temners Of law, like Beecher, and meters to mob
violence like Parker, are at this moment welding
IL ieailul mhucncc over the Northern nina Is 1t
not true that the whole whig party of the free
states has been paralyzeG and terrified by these in
hncnceS, until there is scarcely q living soul in
that party that has nerve enough to say that the
South is entitled to any other consideration than
that which the conqueror yields to his captive? Is it
not true that when Il northern democrat raises his
voice in favor of a beleG cured constitution even
he is hunted like n wild beast, his character ira
duccd, his name stained with calumny, his very
manhood iidiculed and denied, until, at last, am
bilious and timid men seek elevation mud power by
catering to a sentiment which they fear to resist ?
is 1t not true that the pulpits Of the free states
ring with anathemas against the people and the
institutions of the South that maddencd mobs
threaten the lives of American Senators, and pre-.
vent the freedom of speech, and almost of the
press in cities boasting Of their especial progress
and lbery? We must not be told that we are
painting II picture from which the curtain should
not be raised. We reply that the state of the facts
requires it, and that he is a craven who in such
emergencies dares not speak the truth.
When the Union was last to be saved before, it
was the South which threatened. Now the danger
comes from the North. The New York Evening
Post very properly suggests that as when the
South was going to dissolve, the North petted and
paciiied her and saved the Union, by passing the
Fugitive Slave Law, giving slavery to New Mexico
and Utah, and ten millions to Texas. SO now the
South, in her turn, should initiate this successful
oSperiment,-repe the Fugitive Slave Law
give the assurance of freedom to Kansas and Ne
braska, and some how or other pay q fewer mil
lions to extend and strengthen freedom at the
North. Then we should have the agitation again
suppressed, and the Union saved.
Not a bad idea. But where is the Northern
backbone" to demand it?