Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-05-12
A LITTLE FEARFUL.

Shareholders are not always courageous, though
they do generally play the ~braggart. They have
their seasons of apprehension, and conscience will
make towards of them all at times.
A Mobile editor writes as follows of the results
of the late elections:
1.-The success of the abolitionists. in the recent
election Of the United States Senators from the
North and Northwest, is ominous. The party
which twenty years ago, was ridiculed in the North
Tor the inslgnificance of its numbers and fana,i-
cisin, and treated with contempt in the South, now
controls the political destinies Of States like New
York. In the East, North and West, the reycrber-
atoms OF their cannon echo over hill and valley the
tiendish JOY of their triumphant hosts. Their
bonfires and rockets luridly glare upon their cold
sky and snow clad earth, in ommemoration of vic.
tory.
Along road, river and lake, upon sea shore
and mountain, from Massachusetts to Wisconsin,
shout answers shout from their jubilant follow.
ers.
"Abolitionism, the offspring of crazy preachers
and foolish women, the bantling of dirtiest dema-
gogues, now takes a seat in the Senate Chamber,
to counsel in the greatest assembly in the world,
and to advise the President of n Republicof States
1t has demoralized the Wing and Democratic mar
ties which sought its lewd embrace. 1t laughs to
scorn the Know Nothing party, which we were
told would Americanize and convert it from it's
pestifcrous course to conservatism.
at SCOTS at the word of God, tramples ON the
Constitution, violates sacred oaths without re.
morse, and yet the North-the pious Nortb-cel-
ebrated for its schools, for its churches, for it's
Sabbath ordinances, for Temperance laws, for
moral reform, it boldly marches forward, conouer-
ing every party that opposes it. What does this
portend What will be the end of this begin.
ming?
The election of the several Abolition Senator's is
not the triumph of men. Mr.. Stewards and Mr..
Wilson's election is no exponent of individual sue
cess. 1t is the exponent of great moral power. II
is the pulsation of the heart of a great revolution
which has been gathering strength slowly but
with accelerated progression from tie day that
Arthur Tappan and Horace Greeley put the ball
OF A9olitionism and Communism in motion. Sew
ard and Wilson are but flies upon the massive
wheels OF the car of Juggernaut, which will soon
crush all North and South that como in its resist.
less way. 1t is not Seward nor Wilson that are
to be feared. 1t is ideas that live-that revolution
ize, not men. Let not the South be limited in her
view, and lose sight of a great revolution, in watch.
ing the success of men.
If. then, the recent election of Abolition Sena-
tors is an index of a revolution in the North, and
not of individual, success, and if it be true that
never go backward, what has the South
To DO She must look to no party nor man North
OF Mason and Dixon's line for safety. She must
not expect it in the Constitution. The South must
to rely upon herself, for Abolitionism will
at ne distant day put her out Of the pale of the
Union"
Like this writer, Shareholders generally have the
impression that the North ought to put them out
Of the Union, if she would maintain her own lin.
erty. and hence their apprehensions lest she should.
They take the North to be sincerely anti-slayery-
so-hence they charge disunion upon
her as a settled purpose, and the vows of attach
nent to this existing, preposterous Union, when
made by Free Sellers, Republicans and Liberty
men, gain small credit Mt the South. Slave
holders IRE sincere in their attachment to tho
Union : for they have the Union without making
any concessions to liberty. The Union is to them
. consistent one-a possible one. 1t is not q I'm
ion of liberty and slavery, or of abolitionists and
shareholders, but a Union of North and South for
the support OF slavery. Nothing can be more di-
verse than Northern Republican and Free Soil, and
Southern pro-slavery views of the Union. The
former hope 10 have a Union which, while it toll
crates slavery in the States, shall exclude it from
the General Government. Vain expectation. The
latter intends the Union mainly if not solely for the
support of slavery; intends that slavery shall re-
main the controlling clement of the General Gov
eminent, and expects and intends it to subdue
in the non-slaveholding States. From the
in the intent of Northern and Southern
unionists, arises one marked difference in the Nor
thern and Southern advocacy of the Union. Nor
politicians, bovoysr snti-slavery In thcir