Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-07-05

similar appropriation are being taken in Central
America. II so they are restrained, not by any
fear Of the South com plctely vulnerable and thor
oughly helpless as it is, but by the power which
the Union derives from the popuous and vigorous
North. If they lorbear or postpone the African
zation of Cuba it is to avoid giving offence to the
great Coniederacy under whose shadow the South
reposes If impunity is hoped for the buccan neers
be let loose by the Southern proposition 81 abro
gate the neutrality laws upon what else is such
hope based but upon the respect inspired 10y cur
national power? Deprived cf the protection Of
that power, would not the South be only too hap
py to abandon every project of aggression, il it
could thereby secure to itself immunity from inva-
sion Would not its high and defiant tones, back
ed now by the fleets and the bayonets Of the North
subsde at once to n key the most dulcet and the
most amicable, if left to its own resources or,
more correctly, want of resources If new con.
ferences were held at Ostend by the diplomatists
Of Southern Confederacy would they make them
selves ridiculous by Offering millions for Cuba
without ability to raise dime, and menacing in
vasons without sailors enough to man a shallop !?
Certainly, these gentlemen will still condescend to
remain in Union, to the resources Of which they
contribute so little, but the whole power of which
they make available to objects peculiar to them
selves. Certainly. these gentlemen will still con-
descend to spend the money and use the moral and
physical power of the sixteen millions Of people
in the free States for the security and aggrandizc
the shelering wing of the Union for their safety,
these gentlemen should, however, cease to affect
to complain Of it as burden. Vain aifectaton
The sun which goes down upon the Union, goes
down upon Slavery as an aggressive and expand
ing power. From that moment, it can only strug
gle for life and being and safety, and with the
certainty before it of ultimate destruction. Its
doom will be sealed, and longer ambtiously
debating the policy of great nation, and no long
er welding treasures not of its own contribution,
and fleets not of its own raising, it will sink into
an alb ect suppliant for the commiseraton and Cor.
bcarance OF mankind.
1t would be to suppose the gentlemen Of the
South absolutely demented to believe that there
is one particle of sincerity in their empty threats
of dissOlying the Union. or to believe even that
they could be driven out Of the Union by any i'm
aginablc act on the part of the Government. The
Union, which is great and unmixed blessing to
all its members, este perpstud is an absolute ne
cessity to the South. Condemned to "mbecidHy
II quote Mr.. Madison's language) by their pecu-
liar institution, they do not conceal it from them.
selves, and will not conceal it from Others by any
amount of theatrical arrogance. Without fleets,
wealth, available population possible alliances,
they must give up :he preposterous imposture of
threatening to dissolve political connection with
out which they could not exist in safety one single
hour. The credulity of mankind is great, but not
inexhaustible.
Mo- The South, or rather the Slavery propa-
ganda which controls the South for the time being,
mediate such act of insanity as a dissolution
of the Union. Their purpose is, not to leave the
Union, but to rule it. They are not madmen, as
they would have US believe, but cool, wary, and
unscrnpuous calculators. Men identified with
such interest as theirs, as really weak as it is
affectedly arrogant, men with two thousand mil
lions of dollars in slave property cannot afford to
act upon the suggestions of passion. Whoever
believes they WILL knows nothing of the springs
IF human action. Whoever believes they will, |
shuts his eyes to the most patent and conspicuous
acts. If these Southern gentlemen are mad, they
nave method in their madness. They have po,-
cy, and they have Just avowed to the whole world
shat that policy is, in the platform which they
lavc erected at Cincinnati, and upon which they
lsk the country to elevate Mr.. Buchanan to the
Presidency.
Whoever Niahes to understand Southern policy, !
hould read that platform, in which it is plainly I
written down. 1t contains, not threats of dssolv |
ng the Union, but the commitment Of what was
,nce great and national party to the appropria-
ion of the entire resources of the Union to the !
single and local interest Of Slavery. 1t is the !
peech of General Quitman, from which | have
quoted, embodied in resolutions. 1t is flibusering
ligested into a code; and not flibu3tering for any
hing but for the spreal of Slavery. Affecting to pro-
lounce for Jree seas" it recognises only one sea,
md thai is tho American Mediterranean, around
which cluster the hopes and interests of Slavery.
)f the Indies, it can only the modern, and not
he anciont, tAe West Indies, and rot the East In
lies. 1t has no eyes for the Pacific Ocean, none
for the Sandwish Islands none for the vast COM
nerce yet to be DEVELOPED with China, with Japan
with Australia, and with all the regions of the
South Sea. Demanding protection to 'outiets, it
has eyes only for the Florida Pass and the Carr-
bean Sea- none for the st. Lawrence, with its mag
nfcent valley of million square miles. Not on
y not recommending railroad across tho Cont
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uncertain tones and with contradictory votes in
reference to any species OF overland communica-
cn 1t sees no mode of reaching California, ex
,ept by "iSthmuS rOHteS," the protection of which
will afford pretexts for buying or seizing Cuba,
md for enslaving St. Domingo. 1t points to ex-
,ansion in only one direction, and that direction
5 the Gulf of Mexico. Under preence of con
rolling the transit between the Atlantic and Pa
life in the interest of commerce, at the cost of a
var which would annihilate all commerce, 1t makes
he occupation of Nicaragua by the GUfht courrjers
# Slavery a canon Of Democratic faith. Inter
,reting language by the known views and purpos-
IS Of those who speak, it commits the Democratic "
,arty to the acquisition Of Cuba, and to the re-en-
lavement Of the blacks of st. Domingo. Cuba"
avs General Quitmaf, commands tie entire trade
f tie GAlc u is the commercial and naraJ STRAIT
getic hey Of the richest products Of the 'oorld.'
This is the systematic language Of the South
md when they demand permanent protection for
Domingo says Gen. Cazneau IS one of that "grdnd
Of islands which enclose the Caribbean Sea
md command our isthmus routes 10 the Racifc."
len. Cazneau the Texan, like Gen Quitman the
lississipian, feels deep interest in commerce.
t is an interest most disinterested and every way
emarkable
1t is for the sake Of commerce. that these gentle
nan and their associates speaking in the platform
rected at Cincinnati, demand that our ''acendeacy
n the Gulf Of lAerico" be Ensured" at all costs
md hazards. This "ascendcncy" in any intelli-
,ible sense, and for every legitimate purpose. al
eady exists. If we can rely upon Gen. jackson
is military authority, the naval strategetic key"
If the Florida Pass is not Havana, Tut the Dry
lortugas. 1t is not because the Moro Castle
HI eatens our shipping but because the possible
determination Of Cuba threatens the plantations
# Florida and Georgia and "aScsHaeacy IN the
I,df Of MericO" What is meant is not "ascen-
encyj in any sense which is military or CONNER
ial, but the linking Of the whole of "insular
Imerica" in the language Of Gen. Quitman, to a
common destiny" common interests" and "s'mt' /
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