Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-08-30


ming of the next the slave power had its policO
ready. On the plea that the new territories ob
tanned from Mexico were left free to decide fol
themselves about slavery, Mr.. Douglas encouraged
as there is reason to believe, by the late Car, WHIT
hoped to profit by disorder in the republic) pro
posed that Kansas and Nebraska should also b
Tree to have slave institutions or not; that the com
promise of 1850 should be regarded as final anC
conclusive, and that the Missouri compromise
should be repealed. The thing was done; and thu
vast territory to the northwest of the existing
Union is thrown open for the extension of slavery
The mode of the transaction was as disgiaceful u,
its object,
The rest is so recent that VIC need only indicate
the order Of the occurrences. Kansas, the terri
tory lying Immediately west of Missouri, was thu
first object Of the slave power. Every effort was
made to pour in Shareholders and slaves, to ge
possession first, but the Slave States are poor
thinly -~peopled, and unskilled in organization
while the Northern States have plenty OF wealth
and can send any amount of free settlers, botl
from their own population and from the immi
grant supply which is for ever flowing in. TIC
bnfle the free settlers, who would have framed
their institutions in an orderly and constitutions
way. ia pursuance of leave from the federal gov.
eminent, an armed banditti from Missouri crossed
the frontier. voted without any qualification of res
idence, and finally undermined a house where
the votes we're taken, seized the ballot.boxes, put
the free settlers to flight, removed The governor and
appointed another, and murdered several Of the
citizens. The President upheld these intruders in
the first instance, sanctioned their appointments,
seat Uaited States troops and ammunition to them
and INSTRUCTED to the atns Ost of his power the ap'
pointment of a co 1gressioual commission of in
quiry. That commission has sat, under threats o
violence; and the first part Of the evidence ha
been struggled safely TO Washington; but III,
capital, Lawrence, is burnt; more murders hay,
heen committed, and civil war seems to be fairly
begun. We have related from time to time thu
prncaedinos in tho Markham and SOnthprn States
in supper. Of the Free Settlers on the one hand and
the Border Ruhians on the other. We need only
add that as, according to the last census, the slave
holding population of the whole country is under
80 per cent of the white population it is clear that
the republic can make freedom national and slavery
only sectional, whenever it pleHses so to do. The
time seems to have come for a decision. The de
cision ought TO have been made long ago; but it
cannot now be deferred. The passions of the South
have been growing vehement since the election OF
Mr.. Banks as Speaker of the Representatives of
Washington. The course that will be taken about
Mr.. Brooks expulsion from Congress for his as
sault on Mr.. Sumrer will indicate much. The
spirit of the North is reused. II it does not re-
lapse into apathy, or fear or sordid interest, it may
decide the controversy which so yexed the soul o.
Washington and his comrades. What the solu
ton will be,-whether a submission on the part Of
the South t9 a complete remodeIling of the polio.
of the republic, or whether the republic will Sreal
up in its elements, and be rocompounded as two
the Northern being in sympathy with all othe
free countries, while the Southern lapses into bar
OarIsm, and pursues a manifest destiny" of buC
caneering aggression; or whether any new comb
nation, yet undreamed of, shall arise, we will nc
undertake to prophcsy. The one certain point i
the'case is that the crisis is come. Mr.. Evere
thinks that the gold of California would be wel
spent in purchasing oblivion of a single wcek-o
the week which saw Lawrence burnt beyond tn
Mississippi and Mr., Sumner struck down in tn
Senate at Washington. But; happily, such obi
WON is not possible, Compromises have been treC
and, one after another, they have melted away
Something mast be done to obtain a settlemen
and to preserve the republic; and that somethin
will not be a compromise.
We have endeavored to furnish an explanatio
of the terms of the controversy. Hencefortl
events are likely to speak very plainly for then
selves.