Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-07-28
COMFORT FOR THE BOOHOOS.

Tho most dospondcnt and vocal Of our Boohoos
not personally in favor Of the annexation of
Texas. They would rather have had that star stay
out of our constellation, and they submitted to its
admission only, as they submit to all the advances
and usurpatons of the Slave power for the sake
of peace and to save the Union. They never wei
come the admission of Slave States for slavcry's
sake, but for the Unions, and always re- dice that
the balance is kept even by the cotemporaneous
admission Of free States. Well, gentlemen, if the
annexation of Texas with its Slavery was no great
blessing, would it be any great curse if it should
leave us? Or suppose Georgia should leave us, as
she threatens in case Kansas is not admitted with
Slavery, and should take Florida and South Caro-
lima with her, would that be any worse than the
dis-annexation of Texas Here we add q Free
State and get rid of three Slave States at blow.
The slave power thus throws at our feet much
as the result of half dozen Of its greatest victo-
ries. Is this very terrible? If the supposed
seeding States had never been embraced in the
Union failure to annex them as an offset to free
Kansas would not have been very deplorable,
would it?
How likely a faction which has always shown
so keen q relish for addition is to subtract three
States from its power, in revenge for being bated
in its design to add more, must be left entirely
to your credulity to decide. Ours is not adequate
to the task. We only call your attention to the
nature and degree of the evil in case it happens.
Weigh it well, gentlemen, before you exhaust the
briny floods within your sympathetic and patriotic
bosoms.
Possibly your fears extend to moro serious sub
traction, amounting to an entire secession OF the
stripes from the stars. You are in awe lest the
Slave States, having gained and long rGjoiced in
almost unlimited power over the Free States,
should relinquish the whole of that power If not
permitted slightly to increase it. In that case the
Union will be sundered precisely between freedom
and slavery, and poor Freedom will be left to make
her way down through the unexplored tracts Of
future history with an utter destituton of despots
What might befall her in such untried crcumstan-
ces is doubtless sufficient agtate the profoundest
depths of your timidity, and to unseal fountains
there worthy of the prophet Jeremiah. But first
consider whether the circumstances are at all prob
able. Remember how anxious all the Slave States
have always been to introduce into our treaties
with neghborng nations clause for the rcndi-
ton of their fugitive property of peculiar sort
The labors of our Federal diplomatsts for this
purpose with Mexico and Great Britain have far
exceeded the labors of Hercules in numbers and
difficulty. The Union, now interpreted and
administered, embodies such a treaty, or rather
exists as such. Whatever then may be said Of dis
tant slave States, will those most powerful and
populous ones which border on Free States volun-
tarily give up this treaty, now the sole practical
guarantee of their slave property, with certainty
that they will get nothing good in place Of it !!
Their sympathes may go hugely with the States
| south Of them; but they are under bonds TO the
precise money-yauo Of their slaves not to yield to
- -~"'~"'hos and they are too poor to forfeit
Hr''rht ?