Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-04-28
. soUTHERNER's VIEW OF THE CASE.

A Washington correspondent Of the Tribune
sends to that paper the criticisms Of an old South
erncr, who has never been north OF Mason and
Dixon's line, upon the course Of Abolitioniste.
His estimate of the character Of tho supporters Of
Slavery, by whom ho is surrounded, may be
learned from the kind Of men ho would send To
oppose them. The defenders Of Slavery are brne-
CARTS and DULLES, better matched with Tom liver
and Bill Poole than with Seward and Sumner. No
doubt the New York bullies stand more nearly ON
n level with the oversoers than the intellectual and
accomplished Senators whom the Southerner
names. Slavery belongs to savageism. and bullios
and warriors must ever be its immediate patrons
and defenders. Nevertheless, while the North is
for Union with the South, we should prefer the
legislation of Seward and Sumner to that Of Tom
liver and Morrissey. Congress must he an unen-
viable place, to which tho chivalry sends such ruf.
fans. The Southerner says:
"Now il | were an Abolitionist, as I am not, and
lived in the North, as | do not, | will tell you what
I should do, as a practical man, desirous of doing
something in aid of my principles. l would leave
out such men as Seward and Sumner from the
Senate, and | would send the like Of Tom IIyer
and Yankee Sullivan to fill their places assuming,
Of course, that those two renowned gentlemen are
right upon the Slavery question. And whenever
such chaps as Mr.. Robert Toombs, or Mr.. Henry
Foote, or Mr.. JEFF. Davis rose and put a chip on
their shoulders, on the Niger question. l would
have these gertlemen deputed to refuse the stump
and step up and knock it off. In q word, wherever
opposing candidates offered for my suffrage, to
represent the Nor,h in Congress, / would first look
for fighting qualities. l would vote for no man
who was not ready to be a martyr to his principles.
within or without the code Of honor. When l
could have sense and intelligence with those quail
tiles, 1 would like the conjunction. But as be-
tween Mr.. Sumner and Mr.. Seward, who will not
fight, and Mr.. Sullivan and Mr.. liver, who teii, ]
should have no hesitation in choosing the latter.
In one word, | will say, that l believe the only
way in which the North can Offset the fighting
power OF Slavery, and so render Congress some
thing like an equal ground of contest between
Slavery and Anti-Slavery, is to send Town q
dozen or two of Members to outbully the DULLES,
and, in my estimation, the best men that could
be sent, next to the Flyers and Sullivans, would
be the old-fashioned Calvinistic deacons of your
orthodox churches. You have little or no chivalry
of sentiment at the North, and your fighting men
must be found among the men who act from n
sense of duty, and who, while they pray to God.
keep their powder dry, and know how to explode
it, on occasion.
In what follows, the Southerner is doubtless
right. Even Southern bullics and %rufians, can mp
preciate the value of a dough-faco and stamp him
with merited contempt:
Another thing I will tell you that perhaps may
surprise you. The only men in the North whom
the Southern men of brains truly respect, are the
stout and manly opponents of Slavery. They re.
gard all your patronizing and excusing parsons.
all your politicians who talk gingerly in favor Of
the institutions, and play the doughface generally.
as the meanest kind Of sneaks. They know them
TO be either stupid, soulless or rotten. Having =
most vivid apprehension of the immense evils Of
Slavery. their scorn Of voluntary apologists for it
is inexpressibly strong OF course they cannot ut
ter it in words often. but the feeling exists to n
wonderful extent. But the man who boldly con-
dems Slavery and openly opposes it, that man is
respected for his truth and honesty, however much
wordy hostility he may meet, or however much
brutal antagonism even, he may encounter"