Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-09-15
Che Anti 9laperp Buele.
PUBLIC SENTIMENT AT THE SOUTH.

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A Georgia correspondent, who has read with
surprise Gov. HuNT's letter suggesting appeals tC
s'tho conservative mon OF the South" for aid in
restoring the Missouri Restriction, writes us al
follows Tribune.
ssMAcoN, Ga, Monday. August 20, 1856.
.I was in the South at the time wher
the Missouri Compromise was repealed, and have
been here ever since, and have had very good op
portunities Of learning the views of the people here
ON that and other current political questions.
have never yet heard Southern man regret, how
ever family, the repeal of what all here affect tc
regard as measure ut once unconstitutional and
humiliating, and dishonorable to the South, viz.
tho Missouri Compromise act. hare heard many
express 10Y and gratitude at its repeal. l have
never known Southerner intimate the least dis
appreciation of the course of the Missourians in
forcibly taking possession of the polls in Kansas
and ole citing members from among themselves to
her Legislature, in resorting to means OF what
ever kind to force slavery thither. hdre heard
numbers of them declare that the crisis demands
precisely that course Of action which Mssourians
have pursued, condemn in unmeasured terms the
tardiness of tho President in removing Governor
Reeder, and express their determination to tight
IL necessary to the bitter end to plant the instl-
tuition on the soil Of Kansas.
nI have indeed read that there is, now and then
n person to be found in the South, who looks
ON the repeal Of the Missouri Restriction as o
per6dious abrogation Of solemn compact, and
on the irruption into Kansas of the citizens OF
Missouri and their subsequent acts as outragcs
that should have been promptly rsdressed: But
have never seen one who holds opinions akin to
these. and would not know which way to tnrp to
find one.
''In the canvass now in progress here The ques-
tion of slavery itself is seldom, 1t ever discussed.
But other questions are considered chiefly IN RET
erence to it. and are regarded of more or less i'm
n AQQDtatlOn
ma:ntcnance and extension of slavery. 1t is pre-
sumed, of course that every member OF both par.
ties desires its permanence ano extension, ana
parties appear to differ chiefly in their choice OF
means for affecting these purposes. So lar as l
can learn no other principles are talked about than
those of Know-Nothingism, and these are discuss
cd with almost exclusive reference to their pre-
sumed relation to the alimportant subject OF
slayerv. Democrats taunt KnowNothings with
sf6latng with Northern Abolitionists, and declare
that the present Administration are entitled to
the credit Of the repeal o. the odious Missouri act
and of the consequent introduction of slavery into
the Territories of the northwest. Know.Nothings
snv in reply that all foreigners arc abolltonists
and that the inmates of tho prisons ana hospitals
of Europe are shipped by cargoes to New York at
the expense of the respective governments ana
are conveyed thence to Kansas by the assistance
or at the entire expense OF emigration aid socie-
ties. while each head of family receives one
hundred and sixty acres of land, donated to him
by the votes of philanthropic Democrats. Party
feeling is thoroughly aroused, to be sure and
trouble begins to Be apprehendod at the coming
election. Still the bitterest foe of the present Ad
ministration has not word of rebuke for its in
furiated Congress-, or its desperate Executive, for
the parts they respectively performed in the Kan
sas. Nebraska drama. All parties and all classes
of men manifest equal devotion to the interests Of
slavery. Evon those who depend upon their daily
labor for support whose labor comes in direct COM
ret;tion with .he low-priccd labor of slaves, and
who. whatever their desire, have no hope of ever
becoming slaveownsrs themselves are as jealous
of the rights of the South apparently as earnest
in the expression of their wish Tor the extension
of slavery aud as bitterly hostile to Northerners,
nearly ali of whom they consider 'cussed Aboli-
tionicts,' as are the wealthest slave owning mag
mates Of the land
"Probably the majority Of Southern men are
greatly obliged to Gov. Hunt for characterizng rs
dshonorabe their 'upholdirg Of the lawless doings
Of the Missouri borderers,' and they may perhaps
feel 40 deep sense of their obligation to him as
10 lend him their aid in his endcavors to preserve
a National Wing organization. shall be curious
to know what encouragement they offered him in
this enterprise Perhaps the extent OF 1t will not
be known until Kansas is refused admission as O
slave State.
.'The people Of this State are at present too ma
tiona in feeling to devote much attention to State
politics There is Temperance party here, but
regret to say that / believe it is too young and
slow of growth to accomplish much good this
year. In time it may grow to strength and use
{ulness. Y"