Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-07-12
Tbr Antt GIoucrp Bu9Ir.
Frou the A. 8. Standard
A LETTER TO THE NORTH.


cannot write for the HdcpeH7ent& on any of my
usual topics, this week. Art and Literature, Ma
ture ITSELF seem to the veriest vanities and
shadows. l cannot look at my pictures, nor read
my books; my eyes wander, listless and unpoas.
ed, over this hourly miracle of the river and sky
over the flowers and trees that everywhere bud and
bloom.
"All is but toys: renown and grace is dead,
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is lett this vault to brag Off
Worse than all, shrink to-day, and these many
days. from my feow.men, for feel like n slave
among slaves, and dread lest this widespread
cowardce and desertion may make me, also,
craven.
It is bitter grief to be ashamed of my country
md to see that in disgraceful emergency God
gives us no Man meet for the Hour. 1t is shame
upon shame to know that so many years of the en-
ioyment of liberty have brought forth only this
mean frut that no attack upon the dearest rights
of freemen, however open, however bold, however
infamous, can stir us to any manly action. For
little while indeed the North frcts and fumes, for
little while she rants and busters, and then
grows cool. Words are bat wind, and the silence
of towards is better than the boast of towards. If
we can do nothing let us say rothirg.
No rdicule that the Southern can heap
upon us in this regard is the least exaggerated
Saw what she will, all remains true. The South
is master of the North and wW subduo The
North is afraid of the South, Have ! not seen,
has not every Northern seen, how, year
after year, tameness and seryility and COM
promise have come to nfcst all Professions
and all classes of society? Ever since the Rcpub-
IL; ,r,s forndad the Soutbnrncrs have zone on
step by step, slowly but surely, 10 their final vie
tory Those who have stood upon the watch
towers and seen their forces advancing not in
stealth, not in silence, but with music and banners
and SONGS of triumnh have been scoifed and de-.
rided The clear nroohesies Of Garrison and Phil.
iins bova hocn lnuohed 70 seorn. The truth on
which thev have never abandoned. namclv-"thnt
This Union must be dissolved that there can he
No rool Jr,ion betweon tho North and the Sputb
hot,reor sIoveh,lJers and freemon'-this truth we
mnst sooner or later. accent. Skulkinr nor hon.
estlvmeant comnromise will not shield us will not
IoIr ne We cannot serve God and Mammon. and
that is what the American people has been fool.
shly trying 70 do for the last eighty years it is
in vain that we beat about the bush. trying this
and th,t axnndient trusting in nol:ticians in the
;nHuence Of time. in compromises in every quack
medicine offered to cure our disease iy siliy OF
designing men, a separation from the South is
the 1nly cure for this otherwise mortal sickness
which eats Ms like a cancer and we rejoice to have
heard. within the last few days men everywhere
sneak Of it as n thing to he desired 1t was NJ.
wovs n I'm ucbenr never to be dreaded by any bat
thnse S,rtIrons vho would lose in us their pro
tector their teacher, the very supporter of their
lives. 1t is only by its connection with the North
tbnt the Sonth has been able for these many years
. TO mass muster among civilized nations for in the
lipht of Northern industry, thrift ingenuity. mo
nlitV and rpsppctuhllltV the ignorance, IuZuC8S.
imnroyidence and wide spreai centiousness OF the
south Il Iiceutiousness srrendng among all classes
of Societv and G,uler than that Of any other m
ton under the sun. have been overlooked or forgot
ten. In all history cannot find an instance Of
onv nnonln So shiitless SO immoral and so isnor-
nnf tthot has been able to stand alone No more
terrible sound could strike Southern cars than the
voice Of Northern men demanding dissolution Of
tho Union. YET by an ingenious system Of tactics
thew have made us believe, ever Since the first
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the North and not the South that will suffer by
sncb n senaration. We have been deludcd and
the South has laughed in her sleeve u, our simple
minded folly.
| say the South would dread such separation
uor Int sbcis steadily nreparnr for it in the fu,
ture. All this lonc story Of crime and double
dealing, which stains our national reputation in
these base later days-the roray upon Mexico the
Reneal Of the Missouri Compromise, the invasion
of Nicaragua the attempts to seize Cuba--are the
slow moves Sy which the South approaches her
checbmate She is sure of her game, and she
plays it with master hand. Already she has
secured Kansas by force, and Nicaragua; ncXt she
will have Cuba ana California. Then she viii re-
establish the African slave trade. supported by
Northern ships and Northern money, and having,
planted firm the feet of her Con(eleracy Of Dam
nation she will dissolve her Union with the North
and make her own terms in the bargain. That
this is her infamous aim do not doubt every clear
bended statesmen at the North sees and has long
seen and that every honest statesmen at the South
if there be such n thinr in existence will frankly
admit. And when our Fall comes as come it sure
Iv will unless we now repent and break these c.
cursed bonds it will be the legitimate result of
systen, of noiicv founded by the SIGNING of the
Gonstitntion-n system bv which religion is sepa-
rated from politics placed under different laws and
which declares that the worship of God and Nam.
mon is not only possible, but laudable
Meanwhile, we who sit at home watching the
rising and snreadinc of this cloud no bigger than
mans hand, are sick at heart when we see the
cowardice of the North in the presence of this ter
ble crisis. For it is not possible to put any conf
dence in words, even when uttered at monster