Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-01-26
THE INTERNAL WEAKNESS OF SLAVE
STATES.

We are accustomed to hear no small amount of
buster from the ctivalry of South Croiina. OF
course every body knows that with her slaves out
numbering her fee population, the State must be
without power for assault or even defence. The
same state of things in fact though not in degree,
exists in all the slave States. A Carolina cores
pendent of the New York Tribune, speaking of
this state of things, says:
When it is known that the funds in the Treasu-
ry of this State are inadequate to meet the de-
mands of an extravagant aristocracy; that the peo-
pie are already taxed beyond endurance; that not
only is there n tax imposed on every article of
merchandise, but a personal tax on every white
male and on every free colored person, male and
female, whether negro, mulatto, Indian, half breed
or (by recent enactments) Egyptians, while every
slave and all other property are subject to heavy
assessments. The Legislature during its recent
session have thought it necessary in almost every
particular to increase the burdens already imposed
upon the people; and as it is known that the whole
population of this State does not exceed 670, 900,
with no manufactures to sustain them, and that
The price of cotton is low, what have the people of
the North, what have the Free-State men of Kan
sas, to fear from the chivalry of South Carolina?
The fact is, the Southern States feel themselves
to be in n weak and tottering condition. The pros
poets to the individual planter, especially in the
present depressed state of the Gotten market, are
not sufficiently fattering to induce him to make
great sacrifices on behalf Of Slavery in Kansas,
and neither men nor money can be found for this
purpose in numbers or amount sufficient to make
any formidable array in Kansas, should it come to
an open military engagement. 1t is .rue, Soath
Carolina is not the whole South; but what is true
of this State must be proportionatcly true Of all
the Southern States, and should it come to q trial
of strength between the North and the South,
there can be little doubt of what would be the
ultimate rnSulf Dlnnfaro and human Of clonaS
are the only persons who feel n deep interest in
upholding 1.-THE peculiar institutinn," and they
dare not leave their patrol and militia duties at
home to those who are indifferent on the subject.
How, then, ran they take an active part in the con-
test? They cannot do it, except to a very limited
extent; and a firm, united stand on the part or the
North, would soon convince the South of the fulfil
ity OF any attempt on their part to establish Sla-
very in Kansas by force of arms.
j. W. BARBER, who was coolly murdered by a
company of the rufians who recently invaded Kan
Isas, was formerly q citizen of Prebble county in
this State. His old neighbors and friends recently
held a meeting in which they passed resolutions
endorsing his character as a peaeeable, moral,
worthy man denouncing his murderers and urg-
ing an attempt to bring them to JUSTICE.
If they m action under this last resoIu.
ton they should begin with President Pierce and
Governor Shannon. They are principals in the
bloody deed.
WHAT THEY ARE DoISG.-The Republican associ
alton OF Washington City announce that they have
taken a Hal! in a central position in that city, es.
tablished a Reading Room for the benefit of our
Republican friends, and have made arrangements
for the issue in pamphlet form of all important
speeches that may be made during the present
Congress, They have also engaged the services of
a very competent German translator, with the in
%tention, should the means be afforded, TO have
many of the speeches translated into the German
language.