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

selves Will help keep the madmen in order. They
know that the safety Of their plantations, the val.
Nv of their negroes, and the profitable exchange of
the products Of their soil, all depend on their union
with the free States; and if the men who are pui
forward to utter these threats make Ia single step
towards carrying them practically into effect, their
masters will put forth that power which now 80
ehcctually imposes silence on all who entertain
liberal opinions at the South and will crush them
ON the spot. The free States, they know, will nev.
err consent that the rivers which rise within their
limits, and The bays and harbors through which
these rivers pour themselves into the sea, shall
pass, in any part of their course, under a foreign
government. They know, too, that the robbery Of
our national exchequer and of our navy Yards,
which such prints as the Richmond Enquirer, and
such speakers as Brooks and Butler avow the de.
termination TO commit, would make the people of
the free States start to their feet, and take down
their guns from the wall. In q contest with the
free States, they know that they are weaker ,han
the Roman empire, when, corrupted and enervu-
ted by the intestine evil Of slavery, it fell helpless
under the power of the invaders of tho North
There is not n plantation in all the South the mas
tiers of which will not grow pale at the tidings of
such q war-a war no longer the idle theme Of a
timid harangue, but lowering over them in its &C.
tual approach. 1t is their own soil that will be
the scat of such a war; it is in their waters that
the war steamers of the free states will carry their
%thunders and lightnings; il is their towns that will
be exposed to ca pture. or what they can do be-.
yond their own limits we shall have no fear; their
attention will be occupied at home with watching
that class of their population whom they call their
property. They cannot leave their ill-guarded
homes to carry war into the populous region where
every man is a freeman, and where every man on
such an occasion would be a soldier. What ter.
ror would spread along the southern rivers, wher.
ever the arms Of the free states should penetrate
what desolation will fall on the plantations-how
the workpcople would be dispersed There is no
owner of slaves at the South who does not feel the
utter madness of provoking such n contest as that
of which Senator Butler speaks with such nippan-
cy; who would not resort to every device Of concili.
alton and postponement to avoid it, and who would
not cheerfully purchase a continuance of the peace
and prosperity ey now enjoy under the shelter
of the Union by the sacrifice of the whole class of
politicians who stand forever on the verge of trea.
son, and once in six weeks make a boisterous proc
%lamation of their intention to pass beyond it,"
In this forcible statement of the Inherent weak
ness of savery and its dependence uyon the Union
FOR continued existence. every intelligent nan in
the nation must coincide, unless he lie mad with
political and slaveholding ianaticism. Especial,
must intelligent and prominent republicans, who
nave given the attention of clear minds and arous.
ed feelings to the question, be convinced that the
slave-claimants hold their slaves in security, only
by the constitutional aid of the Union. We cannot
think 80 meanly of their intellectual perceptions
as to believe that they do not see these palpable
facts. Indeed every antislavery speech they make
proves that their Dyes are open to IT, lem, and yet
the exordlum and peroration of every such speech
is adorned with their most brilliant rhetoric ia
glorifcation of that Union. They curse slavery
and then pay their most devoted homage. and
promise their utmost aid to prop up the main pillar
of its support,-'the Union as it has heen, as it is.
and as they pray God it never may tc." What
then are such men but slave holders, convicted as
such by their own anti-slavery professions. The
sayiours of the Union thereof, whether slave claim
ants in the South, or Democrats, Americans or Re-
publicans in The North are the real and political
Evening Post, in the quotations above has incnn-
powerfully shown. We therefore call upon all wEo
are to any extent the enemies of slavery to cease
their Qualification of the Union, and join hnnds
for the overthrow Of this main pillar of am Ameri-
can despotism.