Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-06-16
How the 5olltb takes it.
Prom the Charleston Mercury.
WHAT THE SOUTH REQUIRES.

oouth ueVoNes upon hcr people the necessity OF
a resolute settlement in their own minds of what
they will demand of any and all parties who in
tho approaching Presidential canvass shall bid for
s@cir support.
Already the call of national organization is
being sounded already the eyes of greedy and
base politicians are turned to the booty of So and
measures and men are spoken of by which the
North is to be again pampered into insolence and
the South dragged down into loss and shame. 1t
is proper, therefore, that the true men of the
South should speak out now, while opinion is yet
in germ and before credulity and hope betray any
into treacherous bargains with party.
There are iSsues crowding now in Federal poll
ties unparalleled before in their intensity of feeling
and practical interest. The Missouri struggle in
1920 the tariff in 80, the repeal of the twentyrst
rule, the Wilmot Proviso in '4S, the admission of
California, and the Compromise measures, all sink
into nsignifcance when compared with the great
questions which are bursting upon us. Aggravated
by feeble paiatives, the disease has broken out
moro malignant than ever. The declaration is
made in bold and emphatic words, That Abolition
has the control of the Government and can use it
now to carry out its long cherished schemes - that
"there is no further need of compromises with sla
very !" and "there shall he none )" there shall be
no more slave States the fugitive law is to be re-
pealed the Missouri restriction restored Slavery
in the District of Columbia and in all places where
the Federal Government has jurisdiction is to be
abolished the Interstate slave trade is to be stop
ped and that the Northern man or party that
ly die; but more insolent than all, that "the
South" in the language of Giddings, "cannot be
kicked out Of the Union" and will !car witt some
grumbling and grimace perhaps anything that is
heaped upon her. 1erc is the chalice which Abo-
liton presents to Southern lips Let us analyzo
its contents.
The Fugitive Slave Law was the poor boon
which the South received for her acquiescence in
the compromise. 1t all she got in that infa-
nous swindle. 1t would have been spurned by
tbo n but f,rt ii i,to
sion of the border States The Constitution which
made the rendition of fugitive slaves matter be-
tween the States had proved impotent The slave
owner had been mobbed and murdered in the
streets of the North while seeking his property in
accordance with Its guarantees, and they thought
they had them in the fugitive law. But like the
Constitution, fanatcism made it from the begin
ming practically null and void, and has trampled
it out Of the statute book. What burning shame
and disappointment must they now feel who see
in it the disappointment Of their vain hopes and
for how paltry price they accepted the indignities
of the compromise. Yet Abolition demands that
this insignificant boon shall be taken from us 1t
is not enough that the Constitution avas moth
ing in the recovery of fugitive slaves--n lt
enough that the law tsclfis practically worthless
noncntity--not enough that State after State has
passed laws nuilifying it-but, to stamp upon our
hearts the conviction that neither our rights nor
honor. nor feelings, are thought of nor respected,
it is to be wiped out of the records of the land.
might find in the language of an obsolete nugatory
law-even that is to be taken away.
The restoration of the Missouri Compromise line
is the next feature i'll the programme. For thirty
wears has this stigma of the South's first suhmis-
mission been upon us. For thirty years the waves
of Southern colonization have beaten against this
barrier raised by Southern hands, and been turned
back. Still consentipg to its inequality and wrong
the South again and again rendered it to the North
as n settlement to the Pacific. But it was ALWAYS
It Stn unt nt thn inS nf thn Nm
thcrn men it was repealed by the Nebraska Kansas
bill. What is the consequence? Kansas, region
suited in all respects for Slavery, is thrown open
to the South. The North grows furious at the
thought. And now the contest opens. Nireng
emigrants poured in to eXtingush this new
hope of the South. But true to their institutions
and their homes, the Mssouriaps prepare for the
struggle. Away from the old centers of sectional
strife far off in the fair fields of Kansas, the Nortl
and the South fanaticism and Slavey meet face
to face 1t was mortal struggle, and Slavery
conquered.
The result has deepened the hostility of the
North. They demand in louder and fercer tones
than the restoration of the Missouri line anC
Kansas is to be excluded unless she abolish Sla
very. 1t is the highest and most aggressive policy
yet taken by Abolition 1t is practical and mo
mentous in all its bearings. Its decision agains
us settles the fate of Southern progress-settle
the superiority and domination of the North, and
seals the ultimate doom of Slavery. 1t involves
an issue rs momentous as any that can come upOr
q people. 1t contains the matured fruits of all the
hostility, sectional avarice and fanaticism which
watered by compromises and submission, have
been terminating for our destruction since the for
nation of the Government. The repeal of th
Fugitive Slave Law, the restoration of the Missouri
line and the rejection of Kansas as q slave State
with other measures noticed constitute the platform
of Abolition.
Our readers know with what an overwhelmn;
majority it has swept the entire North upon thes
;IoIin rtr bot God in II
way prostrating the Administration, and sendn
to the House of Representatives one hundred an
thirty members sworn to do its bidding. The mex
Presidential canvass will be inaugurated in tn
midst of the crisis. We shall have again partie
attempting to patch up sectional divisions, say
the Union, and control the spoils of the Cover
ment. The North will be mplored to be moderat
in her persecution and the South patient under he
suferings. There will be again party platforms
framed with euphonious ambiguity, to propitat
90 strong and cheat the weak. There will b
,ploGgfs, given with no honesty, and accepted wit
no faith. There will be the old story over agar
,of concession, unity and compromise, during til
struggle; of strife, treachery. and violated prom
Uses in the hour of victory. lt is in view of sue
q prospect, and with the issues and dangers in
nendinr over us that VIC declare what in our opir
ion the South should demand OF aay party whic
hopes for her support.
In the first place it will not be enough that til
question of Slavery is shut out of farty creeC
Whatever importance may be ascribed to othC
questions, Slavery is the one paramount vital que
ton in the South In the war which Is now wal
ing against her, every other issue is made to DO
before it. How can she consent to hush it up
give it a second place in her policy? When Il
whole North is abolitonized, for the South to ent
an organization which avoids the Slavery issu
because TO touch it is to involve its own own dlss
luton. which agrees to disagree upon this n
question Of life or death, in which trec-Sos
consents to stiae yet nurse its hostility for tho pa
pose of party triumph, and then, when loosed fro
party tics and clothed with power it shall tu
upon its duped ally and victim to mock and tral
pic upon hor--would indeed be a depth Of fol
and shame beyond our conception.