Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-08-04


from tho State of Missouri for that Massachusetts,
will not catch Kentucky niggers! Not to talk OF
the unconstItutionaty of such pro.slavery rev
enue arrangement consider its folly. 1t proposes
to stop the supplies of the neccssaries of life of
this very creature, and Of his brothers and sisters
and friends and neighbors. Missouri does not
manufacture. She has to Iuy, or go naked and
wretched. But all the manufacturing states re-
gard nigger-catching with equal repugnaEcc.-
General Phooe of Missouri, therefore, is obliged
to exclude all American manufactures from his
State. There are British fabrics. To bc sure.
But England not only refuses to catch slaves, but
emancipatcs all she has power over So with the
French. But France and England are out of the
Union, and not bound by the Compromises Of
the Constitututon." Then comes difficulty not
anticipated by the Generals and Majors of the
Southwest. The manufacturing States of this
Union are the importing States. If Missouri
wants Manchester or Birmingham, Lyons or Paris
fabrics, she has got to buy them in Philadelphia,
New York or Boston. She has not the choice of
going to New Orleans for them nor to Savannah,
nor to Charleston. They have lots of slaves there,
and carefully cherished slavery-bnt no ships,
no European trade, and no present visible means
of establishing direct European trade. Docs not
General Phoolc see that his resolution, beside
being selCinjurious, is impossible of execution
Missouri would become as ragged as lazarus and
moro impoverished than job, if she undertook to
accomplish the policy recommended to her Ivy tn c
cpauletted fools recently in Convention at Lexng
ton.
There would have been no harmony in this af-
! fair if some Colonel after hurricane of Missouri
elOqucncc, had not passed through the Convention
A resolution to suppress Free Soil opinions and
publications through the central slave States. My
percussion-cap friend, you might as well bag tho
winds that sweep your States praires-.as we'll
chain and hopplo the laws Of grayitation, as the
great law Of freedom Of thought, and in a Rcpub-
lie the consequent freedom of expressed opinion.
Know, too, military Sir, iucuS iucca3o) that
/ thar resolution sows civil war in the South. You
are not all of you FOOLS nor all welded by natural
| or imaginary interests to the system of slavery.
There are Coloncls and Generals who will think
and speak their conviction that unpaid negro labor
is tho bane of the prosperity of the South, and who
will ayow their unwilliagncss to transmit it rs the
| basis of social economy to their children and
erals will come by the ears. You had better be
careful how you pass such resolutions. They are
wholly useless utterly impracticablc-bu they
are dangerous too. They lay the foundations Of
an inqusitoral violence in your own society, which
will go far towards bloody issue Of this slavery
question.
The folly of these epaulcttes is q harmonious
one. 1t runs through their ideas of Trade, Com
mercc, Society, Politics, Finance and Law. Sla-
very is blessing, not a curse. Yet it is curse
too--to be ameiorated by expansion. A natural
settlement of Territory is by allowing the citi-
Izcns OF ncighboring State to legislate for it, a
refusal to allow State officers and State property
to be used by the United States Government in its
new business of negro-catching is declaration of
hostility against the CONSTITUTION. How magnif-
ccntly General Phoolc of Missouri must have
piled up the vocal on that word when speaking to
the resolution And then that thrcadbare threat
of dissolution of the Union-thc crowning lie
and impudcut capsheaf Of all slavedriving cOnvo-
cations. We wish from the bottom Of our heart
that dsunion could be slapped to these people for
Just two years. Oh, how they would sickcn of it {!
Within the first week Of its operation, from every
slave State would be seen men hurryng North
with portable property. An unccasing tide of cm-
gratiou would set in Of all people who could clear
out with what they had in hand or could soon re-
ducc to possession. The apprehension of future
trouble with the slaves would spread such sense Of
insecurity as to dopopulato the South of her white
mechanics, her lenders of money, her merchants,
teachers, small farmers, and all indeed who had
not taste for sleeping in the midst of armed pa
trolls, and with pistols under their pillows, and
who are not tied down by the ownership of slaves
and agricultural land. Credit would unwillingly
and timidly be given to the South ut the North, in
London and in llavrc. In q word, disunion would
bankrupt and destroy her. We think it would do
so in perfect finish within five years after it com
mcnccd making trial of it. But thcrois not man
4 in Miss )uri who has the least idea Of trying it.
"Di5union" is kept to scare Northern Boohoos,
and arm and equip Northern DouShtaccs.