Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-09-01
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ATTEMPTED RESCUE or BURNS.

e ATTEMPTED RESCUE Or BURNS.
WORCESTER. August ~, 1856.
Ma. 0Ahsisoss have boon reading Mr.. Quin-
.cyf rery admirable Report. Il contains. PR ba-
bly,. Lut few things which history will nTt confirm
Among those fsw is. I trust. the judgement which
he records Of the attempt 10 rescue Burns. as ill
advised and injudicious.'
All unsuccessful attemp Is are termed gallant
and gorsrous;' were they successful, men wcu Id
add the higher compliment Of well advised and
juaicious,' The true history of that evening is
apparently known to very few. If il over is known.
| think it will 10 admitted that the attempt, how
ever injudicious it may have seemed, came within
On inch Of Of success; that the almost-success was
not an n%ccidont, either, but the result Of deliberate
calculation ; that the final failure, moreover, was
the result Of circumstances which could not have
been forseen; that, if that attempt failod.eny other
would have failed more surely; that if that at
tempt had not been made, none rould hare been
made; that, If no attempt he'd been made, we
should have had tho incffable disgrace Of seeing
Burns marched down State street under n corpo-
rails guard only, amidst q crowd Of irrcsulute
semi-abolitionists, hooting, groaning, and never
striking j blow.
This is a small mtttor. ~perhaps. Bat what par
a!yres us in a slave case lit may rs we'll be told)
is the timidity of the minority, the irresolution
of the rest, and the want of organization Of all.
We have not yet learned to trust each other
and ourselves to organize and unite on something.
Each has a different plan and each thinks the
others plan ll.advised and injudicious. But men
must risk something not only risk danger, but
even failre and the disapprobation of critics. The
great merit Of the Court house attempt is, that it
uas an attempt. That was q great step forward
FOR the Shadarach rescue was only q surprise, ad.
mirable as it was. Each slave case teaches us
something; If they como, l wish they would come
closer together, and we SHOULD isarn more rapidly. A
few more such defeats as that before the Cour.
House, and we shall have a victory.
1. II. HIGGINS0N.
A GREAT CouHrRY.-Kansas embraced within
its limits and area Of ii, 87e square miles, q re
gion three times as great as Ohio, and fourteen
times rs large as Massachusetts. 1t is susceptible
Of division into ten States which the same number
of square miles to each now embraced within the
limits of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts,
Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey
Delaware, Maryland and South Carolina, ant
susceptible of sustaining n population more thar
twice AS dense. With this state of facts, it is pro
posed to annex six counties of Missouri to Kansas
with an aggregate population of about 7O.OOt
among which are numbered some six Thousand
3 slaves. This would add a region one hundred
miles in length from north 10 south, and averaging
thirty miles in width giving us additional terrific
ry considerably greater than the State Of Della
ware.
We hope our friends of the press will give this
subject their immediate consideration. We have
poSitiue information that the project was favorablN
entertained by the Missouri Legislature last win
ter. The same body are to convene in Novombe
and will no doubt consumate the fraud, on thu
solicitation Of tho Quas:-Legisl iture Of Kansas
now assuming to legislate for the people Of thi!
Territory.-Kansas Herald Of Freedom.
THE CoMPRoMIsER's TnRE4rs.-The threats Will
+ which Northern compromising politicians c%onfron
the South, much resemble the fiarRer one nigh
address a ferocious beast that was found making
havoc on your premises: "If you do not CEASE
+ your devouring and destructive rage and aggres
sions, why we will sdmrnoh the whole neighbor
hood, we will saw off the ends of your horns
we viii crop off the tip ends of your ears, W,
will clip your long hair, your brisket and the enc
of your tail-all this we will surely do, if you d
not let us alone" Now this does not very niue!
brighten the monster; nor would it very mucl
E harm him if done. Yet so Northern politician
think to terrify Shareholders. and beat back tn
laggressions of the slave power.
Why, they will abolish slavery in the District G
/ Columbia and in the Territories" where. all couu
ted, there are not ten thousand slaves hut the
will surely leave all the four millions Of bondme
:, in the southern States still IN slavery, the Soutl
. need not take any alarm about that. Verify til
: North would raise an earthquake to move Il yer
little dust.--hdependent Press.