Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-06-23
FROM the Minnesota iepubIlcnn.
THE DANGER OF THE UNION.

At a cent meeting of the citizens Of Cleveland
Ohio, --conyened in view of the recent outrages In
kansas--among the resolutions advocated by
Judge Spaulding and and others, and unanimously
adopted was the following -
5. That we deprecate u dissolution of the Union,
if it can be preserved without despte!toshe Declara
ton of lndepedence: But if we can only perpetuats
the American Confederacy Of States, by perpetun
ting and perpetually extending the curse of negro
slavery and by violating national compacs, and the
true principles Of popular sovereignty. thep--tha
Union will not be worth preserving.
When Northern men feel and talk in this way.
you may depend upon it the Union is i'll real dan.
ger. Liberty and Union" is a phrase sacred to
the people-sacred to patriotism. But when Lib,
erty and Union" are no longer zone and INSOFAR,
able" when "!Slarery and the Union" ara welded
in unholy bonds, the matter assumes different
aspect. A true patriot and statesman can never
contemplate the rapture Of this confederacy with.
out the deepest concern.--But if it comes to this,
! that man must be traitor to liberty or traitor
! to the Union, hemust be exceedingly debasod who
would long hesitate which to choose.
Disunion can no longer be spoken Of Us an im-
possibility. The grim and horrible phantoms go
often sumoned up to the imagination of Webster
terrible even in the dreams of the departed gen.
as almost probability, And if it is ever to be-
come reality Io hring men, or class of mep, will
be half SO much to blame for it, as those cowarj,y
compromisers whose temporzing expedients have
! brought the slavery question to such an attitude
that it is unmanagable The present crisis is the
result of previous blunders in statesmanship.-
They who have sought to save the Union by yield
Ing to the demands of slavery have we'll nigh ru,
ined it,
Had the trainers Of the Constitution acted upon
the principle that absolute right is the highest
expedieney," had they insisted that "henceforth
there should be slavery or involuntary servitudo
in the United States, except for crime" the Union
would have been secure to the latest generation.-
But they trusted to the sincerity Of the Sonth, and
the speedy extinction of slavery either by Con-
gross or the State governments, and compromssfS.
This was the beginning Of evil.
! Had the rule of ''no more slave States' been ap.
piled by the early Congresses to the States formed
in the Southwest as the founders OF the govern.
ment intended, slavery might easily have been shut
! in behind the Allegheny range. The Union might
have received jar. but would soon have been ~.
stored to stability.
Had the North in 1920, steedfastly witstood the
admission Of Missouri without free constitution,
it is probable the shock to the Union would hayc
been very serious but the wisdom Of the rsyolu.
ton had not died out, Jefferson was living, ths
South had not been debanched by the dogmas II
Calhoun and the integrity of the Union nigh, have
survived.
And even in 1850, had the massive iptsIlaot d
Daniel Webser been thrown into the scsls Of un
compromising opposition to the Slave Powes.-Aad
his moral instinct been aei'e enough to aetec. thl