Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-08-23

UNION SAVING"

On Saturday evening, in CovnSton, Ky, was
held Democratic meeting, which was addressed
by one of the most prominent Of the promising
young men" Of that State. At this meeting, the
speaker used the following language:
is it possible that JuhnC Fremont can be elected
President Of this Union | am no alarmist, no
prophet, nor the of prophet; yet, let me tell
YOU that not three weeks from the day on which
John c. Fremont shall be elected President will
this Union be dissolved We Of Kentucky, may
regret the event, but if John c. Fremont is elected
President IF the United States then this issue will
cert tainly come.
Some one Of the Southern States, South Caro-
lima perhaps, may be the first to secede. She will
be followed by Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi
ard Texas.
Then, when the forces of the United States
shall bc brought down to subdue them, every slave.
holding State will have to declare itself in favor of
secession, or the Union. Then, o heaven prevent
this Uniun is dissolved !"
am informed that this is a fair specimen of the
appeals made by politicians to the people Of the
South, during the present campaign
The people love the urion or appear to love it.:
but love slavery better; hence almost all politicians
at the South cater TO this morbid appetite, which
seems never drunk to satiety.
Politicians well know that in any country. the
more unlearned the people, the more danger in ut
tcrance to seditionary sentiments. Yet, these
were uttered, will not say without stint or meas
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rangue; but with such zeal for the purpose of Say
ing souls" by exciting great fear, lest by any
means the poor slave, and the yet poorer "big,
black, greasy women" should have their cunsttu.
tiunal rights secured to them, that the speaker
seemed to lose sight Of the very natural direction
of his own argument.
He told them that if several OF the States did
secede and he said they would seceGe then there
would be civil war le did not choose to say that
in such event every negro in the South who sin
cerely desires freedom, would then easily secure it
in other words, that the existence of slavery and
secession in the South, for a long time, is mpossi-
ble Yet this deduction springs almost of necessi-
ty from the condition which he has supposed.
1t is pretty certain that the South loving slavery
as they do will not the whole system of slavery
broken up and destroyed as is here contemplated
because Of the election Of Col. Fremont to the
highest Office within the gift Of the people. And
why not? Col. Fremont and his parry propose
simply to limit thci IMPRESSIONS of slavery. Pre-
ierring freedom to slavery, they propose to confne
the latter to the States in which it belongs, that
other States may not be afflicted with the ravagcs
Of its unbrded appetites.
In short, they propose, in the spirit of self de
iense, to preserve the Government of the United
States from becoming suhugated, hopecssly, and
forever, to the slave power This politicians know
very well; therefore the more shame to those who
talk Of "disunion!" AT such, an indignant public
should point the finger of scorn They should re-
main in dishonor-in loathsome contempt of men.