Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-10-18
From the London Times, Sep 20.
FREEDOM SUBDUED IN AMERICA.

The news brought by the Hermann confirms the
justice OF our remarks as to the superior vigor of
the Pro'Slayery party in the United States. In the
great battlefield Of Kansas that party has so far
succeeded in overcoming their Free-State oppo-
nents with lamentable results. Much blood has
been spilled and much property destroyed. That
Il collision was at hand was only too evident when
the vehement spirits of both parties had been flock.
ing to this arena on the systematic scheme Of
strengthening their respective causes. The tone
adopted by Joth-especially by the representative
OF the southern interest," has been such as could
not possibly be expected 30 end in idle vap oring,
unless the Americans are different from ourselves.
When, however. a whole population goes about
armed, not only with a COY iOus Vocabulary oi
proVocati0n and abuse, but with revolvers and
knives, and when Natural sympathy between man
and man, citizen and citizen. had given wav to
a nafral thirst for destruction, it was clear that
the outbreak might come any day. There had
been several small outbreaks, and it was Il matter
OF accident 'hey did not spread %iul tler. Now, it
appears that there has been one more extensive,
more sanGdlnary, and, we fear we must add, more
decisive, than any before. The slave-owncrs and
thelf irler DIS feel more and more that their cause
demands the most res"lute and desperate meas
ures. 1t cannot stand the test Of numbers it
must be beaten in debate it does not appeal to
cold blooded reason it is positively at war with
what Is commonly called humanity it has MT a
leg to stand upon. 1t must go to the wall, then,
unless 1t makes up for its weakness 10y greater en-
ergy, daring, promptness and unscrupulousness
The man who resolves at any risk to destroy half
q dozen others WHO have no such resolution, or
who are merely thinking what to do, is a danger
Gus, enemy, for, though they can do more than he
does, ne does more than they. The three or four
hundred thousand slave owners il. the Southern
States, whom a few ysars ago it was the fashion to
represent as in daily fear Of their lives from their
own slaves, have actually carried the war into the
pppmV'S nnnnfru and y TorpnilaI1 10 20 H. IL.
States Of the North.
Many will be surprised OF the news, and still
mere at the comment that this is likely to prove
no insulated fact, no mere accident, but the opera-
ton OF a great social law. No doubt there are
certain institutions and certain opinions and hab-
its that tend to power and dominion. The Romans
were net more civilized than the Etrurians and
their other neighbors; they were not more moral
or more religious, or superior in any good sense,
but simply determined to conquer at all events.
while the Others were not. The Macedonians were
not better than the Athenians in any respectable
sense. In like manner, the Normans were a hard,
determined, tyranical race, accustomed to lord il
over theE vassals, living in continual alarm, famil-
lar with battles, sieges, forays, plots and all kinds
OF horrors, They held life very cheap, regarded
the lower class as n different order Of beings, crea.
ted Tor the pleasure and convenience of their mas.
tiers, and, Tor their own part, preferred death to
submission. In this rugged school-not in col.
i'Ses " UeTcnhlllS ulncce, not IN SenateS or libra
ries-were trained the men who conquered half
Europe, aud founded families that flourish TO this
dny. Now, it is rather remarkable that it has often
been observed the Americans have not passed
through the feudal system, and to this have been
ascrlbed some of their national weaknesses. On
the other hand ithas been also remarked that Sla-
very is the best substitute for the feudal system,
and the nearest approach 30 the Norman baron is
to be found in the planter, lording it with a rod of
iron over his yassals, and well knowing that he
can only keep up his superiority by meeting every
emergency with the rapidity of lightning, by max
ing the seyerest examples, and by leaving i in no
MANI power 10 say that he had defed or insulted
his lord with impunity. The people who write
novels and essays against Slavery, who form asso.
Citations and collect subscriptions-they also who
deliver interminable harangues in the Congress,
are no match for antagonists who pounce with the
rapidity OF an eagle en- their prey, and cut short a
deep policy or an elaborate train of reasoning
with the knife or the revolver. the tarbarrel or the
%cowhide. Which Of these two classes most com,
manls the respect of the great American public il
is perhaps premature to say; but no doubt, the
whole race has a disproportionatc admiration foI
energy, promptness, decision, and the more mascu,
line qualities.
What Is most sericns about this intelligence is
that Kansas 10 the chosen arena for tho settle
ment of the question. The gauntlet has been
thrown down and accepted, and the fight was to
have come on this ground. Ea h side has felt its
incaleulable importance, and it can scarcely be
doubted that whichever party triumphs in this
neck OF land will be able TO push its victory into