Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-27
Che Anti 5lapsrp Bu9lr.
NO .CoNvENANT WITH DEATH,

NO 'CONvENANT WITH DEATH
II gives us high satisfaction to learn that call
for a STATE DISUNION CONVENTION, signed
by freedom-oving citizens of Worcester is to be
speedily nut forth, inviting mass meeting, at the
heart of the Common wealth. by delegation or other
wise, of such of the people of Massachusetts arc
convinced the attempt to unite Liberty and Sla-
very free institutions and slave institutions in
compact, is wild and guilty fantasy that the
time has come for the North to dissolve the bands
which connect her with the South, and which in
vove her in all the guilt of the slave system; that
proclaming her determination not only to perpet
uate her cruel oppression wherelt now exists, but
to extend it without lmtaton-and excluding
from her soil all who demand liberty for the en-
shaved and committing the most fagrant outrages
upon the persons and rights of Northern citizens
in manner admitting of no redress-the South
has taken the initiative step in the work of disun-
ion, and rendered it necessary, on the part of the
North, by every consideration of self-respect JUS
tice, humanity and personal freedom. From the
beginning, the American Union was Il fearful con
veEant with death and colossal iniquity: our
fathers sinned in forming it, however much their
conduct may be extenuated: to seek to perpetuate
it, in view of its real character and legitimate re-
suits, is to commit far greater sin; to overthrow
it is the first and highest duty. The reasons which
existed for the separation of the colonies from the
mother country dust in the balance cumpa-
red with those which call for a formal and an ehec
tual abrogat IN Of the blood stained national com
pact However perverse in spirit. the Charleston
Mercury is in its philosophy in declaring,
What must come four years hence had hetter he
met oday. There is, properly, no Uni"n now. AT
all events IL Is not true UaioR There is nothing
sacred in it. To borrow from Milton, we may ask.
Hath God joined hate with love, war with peace,
bitterness aud reving with gentleuess and furbear
ance? CaU this nat u Gods joitiag, Gut y1tter a
deuWs .joiaing'" And again, the same paper
speaks the truth when it says. 1.-The people of the
North and the people of the South were never one
people and nothing can make them So" They
differ in IDEAS institutions, habits, aims wide As
the polos asunder" in everything except common
responsibility for the existence OF slavery. Why
should such attempt to walk togetherf
The South is especially hostile to popular edu-
cation universally, and is for making instruction
strictly subservent to the interests of slavery
Every school and college in the South, says the
Richmond Enquirer, should teach that slave So
cety is the natural. rgh,iul, and normal state OF
society-that other form of society is, in the
general, right expedient No teacher should
be employed in private family or public school
at the South who is not ready to teach these doc
trnes Now what fellowship hath light with
darkness? :? -. s..es
The South, through its journals, is continually
casting its slime upon the North, and especially
upon New England, the glory of the world. Hear
what the Washington Union says of the people
of New England They the 81 ives of passion
of prejudice, of religious tyranny; they are
groanng under despotism which challenges
parallel in any other part of the world ! The
Carolina Times says-It is meet and proper that
the miserable sn-strcken. poliured and ungudly
population of the North should beg pardon for
their black sins recorded, committed against God
their fellow-men. As a generation OF vipers, they
ought to be warned to fee from the wrath to come.
All this because they go for free schools, fee Ia
bur, free speech, and the nOn-extenson Of slavery!
Delightful Union
How pleasant tits to see
Brethren and friends agree,
Each in sheir proper station move
Better says Senator Mason of Virginia far
better TO stand toward the Northern States we
stand tc the rest of the world.-'EnemieS in
war, ia peace frends'-than to remain halting
under common government, enemies under the
guise of peace, or friends at war; better immedi-
ate, absolute and eternal separation,
The Suuth is constantly threatening to dissolve
the Union, knowing from past xperience that she
can thus whip the North into craven submission to
all her nefarious designs and rs her demands
increase do her disunion threats, which, being
full of sound and fury, signify nothing except
that she believes they will prove efectua in the
future as in the past let her do what she may
Thus the New Orleans Delta boldly says-'We not
only desire to make territories free slave ter
ritory in which to extend slavery-such as Cuba,
Northeastern Mexico, &c.-but would reopen the
African slave trade And it 81 ignicantly adds
But the North would never consent to this they
would dissolve the Union rather than grant 1t, say
the crUakng impracticbes Gentlemen, you do not
know the North, oraculary you look when du-
biousv shaking yonr heads 1t would not oppose
any more bitterly large demand like this, boldly
made than the smallest one family and politely
urged. Try it. The same paper, speaking in
the same oracuar tone, says--'TAe acquisition of
Cuba in defiance of England and France, would
moi split the Unon-it would strengthen it The
regeneration (!) of Central America by Walker in
alliance with the United States would lead to
the gradual emancipation of the West Indies from
the infamous free negroism established by the en-
emies of American republicanism'! The reli-
ance for success in all this highhanded vilany is
still upon Northern idolatry Of the Union. To
bring the North to terms, Mr. Rhett, Vt Carolina,
recomends that at the present session OF Congress
Mr. Mason of Virginia or some other distn-
guished Southern Senator, should propose disso-
luton of the Union, and q division OF the nation
al property; for nothing more will be needed to
terrify the North into abject subserviency to the
will of the Slave Power In the same vein, the
Richmond Whg threatens that the ), nth will
again orm an alliance with England If the worst
comes to the worst, and We cannot find peace, JUS
tice, or safety. with our Yankee JrethTcR.' Not
so easy for the London Morning Star warns the
South not to dream of annexation to England
Any British that should give ear. for an
instant, to such a suggestion, would be swept out
of power in day in whirlwind of national in
dignation We helieve that if it were proposed to
import among US colony of lepers, it would hard
ly excite more horror and dismay, than offer to
incorporate slaveho'd ding communities as an inte-
gral part of the British dominions.' So much for
the cold shoulder in that direction. The South
means nothing by this buster. Her cowardce is
equal ITO her rufianism, and both are beyond COM
putaton. She will give due heed to the warning
given by Mr.. Arnold. of Tennessee, in his place
in Congress, a few years ago :-'Suppose the I'M
ion were dissolved what had the South to depend
uponP All the crowned heads were against her,
A million of slaves were ready to rise and strike
for freedom at the first tap of the drum. Were
thew cut loose from the North, whittier were they
to look for protection2 The more the South re,
fected the more clearly must she see that sho had
a deem and vital interest in maintaining the Union
Aud, in spite of her madness. she knows and sees
Ills 10 he true. for she has not forgotten the neen