Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-02-03
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salem, Ohio, February 3, 1855.
sERvILITY AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL

The Washington correspondent of the Tribune
publishes the shameful obsequiousness of the citi-
zcns of our National capital to slavery. No Won
der that print.sellers and book sellers arc there
servile slavcites. The representatives of the ma
ton congregate there, and give the city character
1t is the representative city of the nation. 1t faith.
fully represents the great national idea-that sla,
very is, and must continue to be, the great over
shade wing power of the n%ation, that its majesty
must never be invaded. The correspondent of the
Tribune must not marvel nor complain, that there
is no North known in Washington. There is ne
North known in the power Of the nation. There
has been no North to be represented, and hence
there has hecn none represented at Washington.
When the North shall resume its manhooi and its
selfrespcct-when it shall cease to be n conquered
province of the South-when it shall resume the
sceptre of its rightful power, which it has foolishly
cast to its enemy, then it wiW be represented at
Washington. Then, Northern papers and Nor
thcrn books, and the prints of Northern Senators
will be no rarity there. Men of business will vie
with each other in honoring those who respect
themselves.
The writer says:
"Emancipation in the District of Columbia
Not of the blacks but of the whites. Few Northern
people are aware of the s"eryility of the people OF
Washington to the South and to Southern prejudi-
ces. Why should it be SO? Is not this the Capital
of the North rs well as the South? a great i'm
provemcnt, it is true, is manifest here, especially
since 1850. Still the old feeling remains to n hu
initiating degree. This is seen, among Other
things, in the class of books you find in the book
stores here. A friend went into six of the princi
pal bookstores of the city, the other day, without
finding a single copy of several popular Northern
books which he wished to purchase. A Boston
publisher told me he found it very difficult to per
suade a Washington bookseller to keep his rubli
locations on sale. a print-sellcr, too, refused tc
expose Summers portrait for sale because, he said
= Sumner tramples on the Constitution
"A majority of the members of Congress arr
Northern men yet, if they wish a Northern bool
they are troubled to find it in Washington. So o
a hundred other things. The reading-rooms n
the hotels scarcely afford a Northern paper of an,
good reputation at home. If the free States wer
mere prorinces of the Union they would not be NOR,
insignificant in the estimation of the people of thi
District than they have been for many years.
leave ii to others to assign the reason and the rem
cdy.
".prentuhi,iohs of a change, however, alreaa@..
begin to appear. Among other indications, ma,
be mentioned n more respectful and less dogmati
3 bearing on the part of the chief conspirators il
the Nebraska outrage towards their opponents
This is especially observable among those VIII
; hail from States which have held elections recent
Augustus Caesar Dodge, the Senator from Iowa
I who has so often boosted that his State had neve
manifested any favor for Wilmot Provisos, is noN
pa rticularly humble as well as detected. VIII
knows but it may, some day, be for the interest L
the Northern Representatives to he men instead Z
doughfaces, even in Washington"