Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-01-13
A NTI- VERY BUGLE.
SOUTHERN DIsuNIuN,

lhe MINNESOTA Republican, spirited youn!
paper, which Is desnrvcdly making its way in tn,
world at st. Paul has the following with rerart
to Southern threats Of dsunion:
"Wc have been cowel Ly this disunion bIuste,
long enough. If the South really understand,
the Constitution AS giving Slavery the "control o.
the Government for all coming time" and is read,
70 secede unless that control is granted then in
deed is reconciliation impossible The North ma,
again yield, as she always has done but she vii
never he reconclled There may be n parlev but
never peace, 50 long rs the freemen of the North
are asked to assume the responsibility of protect
ing extending system against which every rirh,
eons instinct of humanity cries out.
dissolve the Union" fellow countrvmen of the
South 1T you will We abide steadfastly 'by the
purpose avowed by millions of freemen, that we
VIII no longer be your instruments for enslavinc
our brother man.
We recognize no such obligation, neither in ma.
ture in revelation nor the Constitution of our
common country nor yet in the code of oxpodi-
ency. Our representatives will not, we trust ever
consent to the reception of another slave State
Dissolve the Union" if you will. The North
dscaims all responsibility for such threat We
have done nothing to provoke it, We shall do
nothing to provoke it. We shall treat slavery as
sectional, freedom as national. We shall regard
it us wrong % hold men as property and shall la
bor to spread that conviction throughout the Union
and throughout the world. Asking only Of the
Federal Government to cease to abuse its power
Ny helping to extend slavery, we shall employ only
moral ani christian melns tn eradicate it from the
land Scrupulously regarding our allegiance to
the Union, and tcnderly careful of your riphts os
of our own, we nevertheless must remain freemen,
and must be discharged from all completely in the
work of enslavng others
Dissolve the Union, if you will brethren of the
sunny South. We shall mourn and weep. and
turn pale with horror, the suicide of that day
The prosperity of fifty years will perish at a blow
we shall suffer in our commerce. in our agricu-
ture, III our manufactures, in every material in
terest, and perhaps in our internal concord But
we hope not to suffer in our reputation, noI in our
patriotism. nor in our morality, nor in our nelli-
gcnce. We shall recover from the shock of that
social earthquake, and shall walk onward to a bet.
ter day.
Dissolve the Union, but long curse will follow
that people who do it that they NAV grow rich
upon the unpaid toll Of the oppressed. No nation
under the whole heavens will respect the conled-
eracy of Shareholders No hand of wer from
the North will repc the approach of the invader
No longer our fellow citizens and countrvmen but
o aliens and foreigners the people of the South
could appeal to no ''ocnserva i've feeling at the
North, to shield them from the influence of a con
terminous nation of abolonists. ~ line of fire
would then indeed blaze around item; and thar
powder house of which SIuthern statesmen have
spoken. would ignite, and fearful would lie the ~u-
IN and deSolation which would follow the explo-
SION The dreams Of great saveholline con
federaey, surrounding the Gulf of Mexico and the
olSles OF the West Indies, would never he realized
The escaping fugitive would be irreclnimaLle the
moment he crossed the border While southern
institutions would find not a single new safeguard
their present security would vanish with the Fed
eral Government. Loosed from all hold upon the
sympathy of the world, the Southern Republic
would be at the mercy of the waves of ruin such
as never yet dashed upon nation since time be-
gan.
Better counsels trust will prevail the South
will learn her true interest, and many generations