Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-06-23
CHE Anti glaperp Buale.
SALEM, OHIO, JUNE %, 1855.
DISUNION DISCUSSION, IN THE N. E
CONVENTION.

Reader are you weary of this continued disunion
blast of our Bugle from week to week Some
times we fancy you are, and we cast abort to find
some other topic of equal Importance and interest
to the slaves cause, but for our life we cant find
it. From whatever point we start or whitherso-
ever we drive, we are brought to this one point at
last. All tho past of slavery-all the history of
our government, all the experience of abolitionists
point to this one RESULTANT slavery men-all of
them, however Jealous or conservative they may
be of the Union in ordinary times, whenever they
get in earnest, and speak as men should speak on
such a question, always go for dissolution. In
fortunately the great mass of these people, what
ever their professions, are never in earnest, except
when the..slayeholdcrs perpetratc some terrible out
rage as when they steal Texas, make war on
Mexico, and pass a fugitive slave act, or a Nebras-
ka bill. Then they wake up from their senseless
~lethargy, and in their brief moments of sanity
they cry out Justify for dissolution. But %unfortu.
nately they Immediately relax into their moral
stupor and senselessly chatter of the value and
glory of this lying pretence Of a union between
freedom and slavery.
Another thing is remarkable, that our most able,
and eminent anti-slavery politicians, with Charles
Sumner and Joshua R. Giddings at their head, who
have taken such eminent pains to make themselves
ridiculous by affirming and re-afirming their at
tachment to the union and their high estimate of
its value, have never yet been able to convince the
slave holders that they believed what they said
These slave holders know full well, that such is
the dependent relation of slavery to the Union,
that he who is the enemy of slavery is no friend
of the Union or if SO, a deceived and mistaken
man. Hence they have made lno scruple of meet
ing these declarations of affection for the Union,
when coupled with genuine, earnest anti-slavery
words and actions, with a fiat denial, and for their
pains, these anti-slavery men, have only had the
modification of being charged anew with the In.
%tention of destroying the Union. We are happy
to say that this ill success of our friends has not
been lost upon them; and their declarations of at
tachment are much less frequent and vehement
than formerly. The most prominent and pertinent
argument now is, that as the north has wickedly
aided to enslave the bondman of the south, it is the
consummation of meanness and indifference, to
shirk out and leave him without the political
aid of this Union. No one pretends that this
Union has given any aid to freedom for the slaves,
in times past.
Even those who urge this argument know and
acknowledge that the main prop of slavery has
! been the Union. Such they confess it is now
What ii can do in the future for anti-slavery is on
/, ly conjecture, and conjecture against past history
3 and reasonable probability. We give below Charles
3 c. Burleigh's disposition of this argument at the
late New England Convention. By the way, that
' Convention, the proceedings of which have occu-
pied the columns of the Liberator and Standard
for the las. three weeks, and from which we have
largely extracted, must have been one of great in
%terest. To us it is the more SO, because this dis
union question received SO great a share of atten-
ton and so thorough a discussion. The friends of
Union have not heretofore met the question with
serious argument. They have raved, threatened,
stormed. detained, besought, bswailed and done
everything but argue. But of late, prejudice and
, passion are losing their sway; men are seriously
{ setting about an argument, to prove that the Union
t is antislayery. Some of them will succeed in
) convincing themselves that they are erong-all
will come to look at the question with more calm
ness and reason, and by and bye in some hour of
righteous indignation they will take the revolu-
: tionary step and the work will be done. Next
week We shall give Wendell Philips mastery
speech on this subject, and every body will read
it to the end who once begins it. And we hope
any body who can answer it satisfactorily to them
selves or others will set about the job. We are
sorry 70 delay from our readers the pleasure and
profit of its immediate psrrsal. We don't like to