Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-20
WHO ARE THE SHAREHOLDERS.

Who are the actual present Shareholders, is be-
coming more and more manifest to all the people of
this nation. The misrepresentation that has so
long deluded the unthinking, North and South,
that the little handful Of slave claimants are the
slave holders is becoming dissipated and it is now
one of the most obvious truths that this oligarchy is
utterly powerless, except through its alliance with
and control of non slave claimants, NORTH and
south. Thus is made apparent the Transparency
Of the pretence of Union savers, whether found
among the demagogues o! tho Republican, or Dem,
ocratic party.
As South Carolina bullying looses its powor to
%terrify, honest northern souls, the familiarity of
the people of the north to the idea of iisuni IN, por-
tends a real and serious danger to the friends cl
slavery; for the Union is the zeal or effective SUP
port of the system. This tho oliXarchs have al
ways known and have sought to prevent northern
assault upon it, Ivy their ~braggart threats, that they
would destroy, it themselves-that they would tum-
BILE down with their own hands this Sevastipol Of
their defence; and the silly, bcfooled nurth have
rembled at this childish threat of selfdestructinn
But the time for these threats to operate is fast
passing away, and this branch of the trade OF
Demagogues will we hope one day be at an end.
That the political leaders whose trade is union
saving, understand the true state of the question
is made continu lily manifest by their own acts ard
declaration. The Union saving New York Tri-
hume, has unanswerahly proved that the southern
slaveholding portion of the cOnfederacy, hangs
like an incubus upon the commercial and indus.
trial prosperity cf the north. That cur union in
aid Of slave holding, subjects us To the unceasing
pillage of the piratical slave States: That it has
through the church corrupted the morals Of the
north, and is fast bringing her manners down t.
the level of her own barbarian standard; and YET
the Tribune and its friends claim to lie the espe
cial champions Ct the union which is making al
this mighty evil to our physical and moral pros
perity. All the prominent Republican paper,
make, in effect, this same ex posture of the evils Of
our union, and are in consequence, by i'm plication,
charge by slave-holdint Democrats with being
disunio lists. Such, they are, just 80 far as they
are anti slavery. They only escape from the charge
by the grossest moral and logical Inconsistency, il
denying this inevitable condition., and uA5lushing
ly declaring themselves the friends of the Union
beyond all other men.
The New York Evening Post, in an article writ
ten Just before the election, gives its view of thC
influence of the Union in support Of slavery, il
the folio ling emphatic language.
1t says:
1T is not to be dissembled that there are two
sorts of men at the South who talk Of disunion
the knaves who do it To ~frighten the North, and
the madmen who do it to prepare the South for a
separation from The free States,
Both classes, however must see that these
threats make no impression upon the North. 1t is
one Of the most remarkable circumstances of the
present conte t for the Presidency, that the spirit
of the people is 50 thoroughly reused that they
pay no attention to big words. We laugh at the
knaves, for We know their game, and We defy the
nladmon, for We know their utter impotence. Let
the election DO accomplished and the knayes them