Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-06-23

have them wait so long as a week for so good n
thing, but we can't avoid it.
But to Mr.. Burleighs answer to the objection
we have referred to. lie says:
wish to say one word more in reply to a pre-
ceding speaker, our friend WATSON. lie urged az
an objection against the doctrine of Disunion, that
we shall leave the South to go on in the perpetra-
ton OF lite unrestrained by what amount
of counterac.ion the North now Yields. Then, he
says, they will multiply the number of their slaves,
and augment their oppression, without any hold
back by the influence of the North. Why, it seems
to me that it is a very easy matter to dash the
brains out Of that argument. Does not our friend
know, does not the whole history Of the country
prove, that the Slave Power has won all its tri-
umphs by tho might of the Union-by the mid Of
the North ? If we had had no Union, do you think
Texas would have been annexed? Do you think
the South could have waged a successful war with
Mexico for the purpose of obtaining new territory
for slavery, without the help oe the North? And
do you think the South would have had the reno
test shadow Of a shade, or the remotest prospect of
u hope of obtain * further additions to its terri
tory, except as it draws that hope from the anti
cipated aid of the North? The South has sue
ceeded through Northern strength all the way
along, and it understands how the thing is done.
In the case Of the Mexican war, the South knew
better than to make a bold and frank proposal to
go to w.I with that country; she knew the North
WOulu HeNeT COuSeHI tO IL, bU bno Just Jugs tue ell
bow of President Polk, and says-Get up o war
with Mexico. Commit some aggression; and
then, when Mexico resents il, proclaim that war
exists by the act of Mexico,'-which, of course
you know is true. If / smite you in the face, Mr..
Chairman, that is not a battle-there is no war as
yeti but if you rise up and return the blow, then
war exists by your act, aud | may turn round and
complain that war exists by your act, and call on
every body who knows me to give me their aid
That was what the South did; and then, with the
profane doctrine of our insane and atheistic pat
riotism, Our country, right or wrong! the South
knew very well she could enlist the strength of the
North to win her victory, in the name of patriot
ism-for the honor of the nation, and the maint-
nance of our rights.
The South relies upon the same thing in regard
to Cuba. When even Spanish patience can en-
dure no more, and Spanish composure is disturbed
to the point of resistance, then she will declare
that war exists by the act of Spain, and summon
the North as well as the South, to defend the cause
of the country. So, Cuba is to be seized, and
Hayti, and Mexico, and Central America, to open
new fields to the rapacious Slave Power.
Now, lot the Union be dissol we'd, and the South
never can get another inch of slave territory. Let
this Union be dissolved, and the South cannot hold
what she has got. She cannot send her armed
%rufhans into Kansas, to trample on the rights
which she herself was so clamorous for the nation
to set up; aud we shall have all the territory of the
country, which is not now actually occupied by
slavery, for the service of freedom. We shall have
a country in which a freeman, once setting his
foot, is free for ever. And, when this is accom-.
%plished. what will slavery be worth all along the
border? In the course of a dark night, the slave
could fly to q country where he would be safe from
bis master. What would slavery be worth there :?
Not the trouble of retainingi it. Slavery dies there;
and not there only, but the disposition to escape
will spread from province to province, from coun-
try to country, until the value of slave property
will not pay the trouble of keeping it.
Slavery would die without the help of this Union.
| deprecate insurrection as much as our friend
Mr.. Wasson) does, and i believe we should not
need that to drive slavery out of the country. Be-
sides, it is a mistake to suppose that we are going
to let the South alone when we have dissolved the
Union. Political Union is one point of assault,
but after we have carried that, we have still our
moral nfluence-the ability to bear upon the sense
of honor, the conscience and regard for self-inter-
est of the stakeholder. We have a thousand chan
nels through which we can pour our anti-slavery
influence upon them, until we wither up, in its
burning heat, the very roots of the slave system,
and leave the institution to perish and crumble
into ashes. loud applause.)