Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-08-25
TIE SOUTH CRYING WOLF" AGAIN.

Whenever our slaveholding neighbors have been
doing medtating anything particularly outrage
Gus towards the North they are sure to accompany
it with howl about disunon and the impossbility
Of living longer under the roof with people who
treat them to unfairly. When they were trying to
get the free territory of California and New Mexi-
co converted into slave Sulte, our readers will
remember when an ado was made about the wrongs
lof the South, and that separation or dsh0nor were
inevitable
Whom they got the fugitive slave law, which
converted every northern man and woman into
slave hunters, one would have supposed by the
clamor Of its friends that tie Union could not
dure another hour without the special interposi-
tion Of Divine Providence. Recently greater
outrage upon the rights Of the North has been
perpctrated than ever contemplated before, in
the violent introduction Of slavery into Kansas.
To reconcile the people who have been wronged,
to this ruifanly proceeding it has been necessary
to resort to the old tune tho dangers of the
Union.
This music is now heard simultaneously in all
parts of the Union, rs in 1880. Yesterday we
published a letter from Senator Benjamin, of
Louisiana, designed to show that republic could
not possibly endure beyond the political life of
next Congress To day we quote from the Rich
mord Enquirer long article apparently extracted
from the first message of the Governor-eect, the
probable candidate of the dsunioniss for the pres
dency at the next election, in which we are told
that tho refusal to admit Kansae into the Union
as q slave State must make Mason and Dixon's
line the boundaries Of foreign States and in view
of that result asking the legislature to take steps
Immediately to have the state put into condition
of military defence.
The writer says there are two hundred thousand
fighting men in Virginia, and that one-tenth, or
twenty-thousand, ought Mt to he drafted into
the militia and carefully drilled by the graduates ut
the military school, With an army thus disciplined
and trained, the writer thinks but one thing more
would be requisite TO render the Old Dominion
impregnable TO the assaults of frcesoilers. She
must have railroads to move her troops with
hence the necessity for Immediately completing the
Petersburgh and Norfolk and Richmond and York
river, the Coyinglon and Ohio, and the LynchAurg
and Charlottesville railroads.
| This is very absurd and childish twadile. and
yet it is with just such twaddle that southern
Journals, and southern conventions, and southern
politicians will TEEN until the Kansas question is
finally disposed Of Such twaddle has suficed to
! frghten the commercial and manufacturing inter.
ests Of the northern states before now, Rndft is
expected that it will serve the same turn again
Richmond and New Orleans have already given the
cue through organs of opposite political parties
and we may expect to bear of nothing bui
the hopeless prospects Of the Union, until the
South has realized abandoned all it hopes TO ac
complish in Kansas.
We have suspicion that the northern people
have heard this VOLTS cry of dissolution once toe
often, and that since the emigrants have got pos
session Of Castle Garden, it will be difficult to
rally enough Unon-savers in the free States to pay
the wages of the drummers. At all events, We
shall waitlti those railroads are completed, and
we have some such substantial! evidence that oul
southern neighbors are in earnest. If. by the
clamor Of dsunion, the Virginians could be per
suaded to complete the roads deemed so essential
to her military defence, by the writer in the Ea
quirer. without coming to Wall street for the mon
ey to do il with, should be half disposed to joir
in the cry ourselves for those improvements would
be Of infinite service to Virginia while the dsuniof
Sugbea7, we suspect, is past doing much harm
Meantime we respectfully commend to the medita
ton Of southern statesmen, and especially TO thu
writer's for the Enquirer, the contents Of pape
from the pen Of Mr.. Benton, which we publsl
10 another part Of this sheet. They win there fnC
food for doubt whether the discomfort OF tn
: South with the existing confedeivcy, is conse
quence of or in any way connected with the insti
tuition Of slavery
Mr.. Benton thinks not lie thinks, and we agro
with him, that it results from disregard by tn
federal government Of those doctrines of strie
construction which are indispensable TO fair ant
equitable distribution Of political right and priv
J lleeob tetvsen states, ard 70 the snccuragsmsr
given to all kinds Of special aud protective legs