Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-12-16
ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.
SENATOR ATCHIsoN ON KANSAS.

Senator Atchison, on leaving home for Washing.
ton, made speech, the purpose of which may be
gathered from an extract.
What legislator for freedom is this ex-Presi-
dent of the American Senate The speech is in
the true spirit Of slavery, unprincipled and un-
scrupaous. 1t will take advantage Of law. or will
disregard it, as best suits its purpose. If it be
true that vote against slavery in Kansas will
dissolve this Union, which provides such tyrants
and rufans Atchison to rule over us our interest,
in the of that vote will be greatly increased.
Gen. Atchson said that his mission here to-day
was, IT possible, to awaken the people of this
county to the danger ahead, and to suggest the
means to avoid it. The people of Kansas in their
first elections would decide the question, whether
or not the stakeholder was to be excluded, and it
depended upon majority of the votes cast at the
polls. Now, if a set Cf fanatics and dcmagogues,
thousand miles off, could afford to advance their
money, and exert every nerve to abolitionize the
Territory and exclude the stakeholder, when they
have not the least personal interest what is your
duty When you reside within days journey
Of the Territory, and phen your peace your 9uiei,
and your property depend upon your action you can
toithom an ererttoR send flee hundred0t your young
men ,cho wW oote IN tdror Of your Institutions.
Should each county in the State of Missouri only
do its duty, the question will be decided quietly
and peaceaby at the balot-box. If we are de-
feated, then Missouri and the other Southern
States will have shown themselves recreant to .her
interests and will deserve their fate. The Abo-
litionists will have nothing to gain or lose 1t is
an abstraction with them. We have much to gain
and much &c lose.
Said he if you burn my barn, sustain a great
loss, but you gain nothing. So i. is with the Colo
nization Societies, and the dupes they send here to
abolitionize Kansas.
If these Abolitonists steal all your negroes they
gam nothing. The negroes are inj jured; you
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tivity on your part.
FeJlowcitizens, we should not be apathetc when
so much is involved, We should be up and doing.
lie was for meeting organization with organiza-
ton. lie was for meeting those philanthropic
knaves psaceaJly at the ballot-box and out-yotng
them.
II ace cannot do Mjs, IL is an omen that the insttu
tion Of Slavery is to fail IL this and tie other Soah
ern States; but it ,oouId fall after much strife, ciri
lOIr and 6iOOdShed
If Aboilionsm, under its present auspices, IS
established in Kansas there will be constant strife
and bloodshed between Kansas and Missouri
Negro stealing will be principle and vocation
IL WW be the policy Of phHanthropic knares unti
they force the staochotder to abandon MSSonri--nol
icW II be long until il is done You cannot watcl
your stables to prevent thieves from stealing your
horses and mules; neither can you watch your ne
gro quarters to prevent your neighbors from seduc
ing away and stealing your negroes.
1t Krnsas is abotiUnized, all men who love
peace anu quiet VIII leave u.s. and all emigration
to Missouri from the slave States will cease.
In II hybrid state we cannot livc we cannot be
in constant quarrcl-in Il constant state of sus
picion of our neighbors. The feeling is entertained
by large portion Of mankind everywhere.
Yet he said he was willing, notwithstanding his
pacific views, to hang negro thieves; lie would not
punish those whn mere Y entertained abstract Opn-
ions =; but negro td:UeS, and persons who stirred W
insu30rdinatlOn and dnsurrection among our slaves
he believed it right to punish and they could no,
be punished too severely he would not punish 4
man who believed that rape, murder or larceny
abstractly right yet he would punish the mal
.yho committed either
lie sal that there were few men who entertained
those opinions in the western part of the State o
Missouri, and who doubt practiscd upon them
and that when full evidence was obtained justice
should be done them. Convincing evidence mus
be had. lie opposed to vioence-indScrimi
nate violence, but let punishment fall on tie quaty
Was it not strange to find, in State so deeply
interested in the question OF Slavery purti IN u
the press denouncing such Douglas, Cass
Bright, and others, and exuting over victories late
ly obtained 10y the Al olitionists in the northern
States Yet it was so. AS to ISLANDERS and abuse
heaped upon himself he cared but little. 1t wa.
the fate of better men. But 4 day of reckoning
would come. There will be reaction in the
northern States. The people of the North cannot
be in favor of dissolving the Union.
The mad platforms upon which the recent fusior
victories have been obtained, if carried out, woulC
inevitably dissolve the Union.
lie had always had great confidence in the iatelH
gence and rrtue Of the people, but he acknowledged
that this confidence had been somemhatshaken IN lat
gears.
He again told the audience that to succeed il
making Kansas slave Territory, it was not sufi
cent for the South to talk. but to act to 90 peace
ably and inhabU the Territory and peacedJigto cot
gnd settle the question according to the principles
the Douglas bill.