Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-11-14
WHOLE NO. 63l.

es could not properly be called Union at all, any
more than the relation between the criminals con-
fined in the pententiares and the people who place
them there could be so denominated.
Amongst those who contend for the anti-slGve-
ry character of the Constitution, there many
who give evidence of want of confidence in their
own arguments,by going and voting for candidates
for Office who take the common views of that in
strument:
Me- PRYYE-For one do not, and never did,
vote for man who believes the Constitution to be
pro-savery.
Mr. BrR1rtGu.- Then our friend did not vote
for Salmon p. Chase. If Mr. Chase had not believed
the Constitution required the giving up of fugitive
slaves, he would never have allowed Margaret Gar
ner and her children to 30 back to slavery,
The opinion has been expressed here that sepr
aration of the North ard South would be--un!oss
demanded bv moral consideratons-a great disas-
ter to the North. 10 not believe this. believe it
would be a blessing to the North if the South
cut loose from it, financially and q matter Of
phys prosperity and if prayer of mine could
accomplish such separation that prayer should
not be wanting. ! believe it would relieve the
North of heavy pocuniary burdens; it would save
our national honor it would prevent the return
upon u.s. from time to time, of crushing commercial
difficulties. So if had moral objection, to a
union with the south should still be desirous on
ether grounds, that dissolution should take place.
for, so long as we are in union with Shareholders,
we shall meet these manifestations of the divine
iispeasure rs Gods laws are irreversable and
resribution always follows transgress on.
The idea that in separating from the South we
desert the slave and leave him, without hope Of
T. l.. !. r r..
possible from the truth. 1t is not true that few
men in the West Indies able to hold FIVE times
their number in slavery. 1t was British bayonets
that did it, and it was not so much moral motives
and arguments, as the consideration that they
could not spare the bayOnets necessary to guard
securely, that induced tie British Government to
abolish the system, within its colonies. Nor is i.
true that Slavery stands strong in Brazil on the
contrary, precarous is the system there that the
Government of that country is legisating with o
view to its partial, If not total abolition. John
Quincy Adams declared years ago, that the princi-
pal use Of the United States military was to pro-
tect the slave interests of the country. Mr. Gid
dings has since shown the same to be true. And
leading statesmen all over the South, have again and
again admitted and declared, that dissolution of
the Union would result in the downfall Of slavery
True southern often threaten disunion to fright
en- eNorth into doing their bidding and it answers
their purpose. But the very fact that they mako
that threat thus available. and design so to use
it, s the best possible proof that nothing but the
strongest conviction that slavery could not exist
without northern aid, could induce them to
weaken the power of their threats by declaring it.
Mr.. Pryne, then, will see why it is VIC consider
their tesminy good in the one case and not in tho
other.
Six millions of whites, it is said, could continue
| to hold three and half millions of slaves in
bondage. believe it could not by any possibility be
done. Should separation take place the Canada
would be the boundary of the slave states The
underground railroad would appear above ground,
the force necessary to prevent the slaves gaining
their freedom by running way,--supposing them
to make no violent resistance, would be so large
and so expensive that slave labor would not pay,
and must soon be abandoned.
Then there is the danger of insurrection.--
Twenty five years ago Nat Turner. whose name
will sometime be placed with the of Washs
ington, headed an insurrecon in the state of Vr-
ginia. 1t was but a.local affair. few slaves join
ed him and few whites were killed. Yet so great
was the CONSERVATION of Virginia that she had to
call on the General Government for aid, and, with
the consciousness that she had the strength Of the
North to back her, she still almost frightened
into an act Of emancipation at the very next ses-
sion of her legislature Suppose there had been
no North that which almost emancipation
would have been entirely SUCH
; In measuring the comparative strength of the
whites and the slaves,yOu must take several things
into consideration. Remember that but small
4 lro into kot
in favor of keeping the slaves in subecon. Their
interests are far more with freedom than with slav
cry And remember also that there are times
when the rude husbandmen, with only such
as they can find scattered about them will put to
shame, in their achievements, the well trained
military bands, with all the aid that arsenals and
discipline can give them. And again; We do not
propose as Mr.. Pryne asserts, in coming out Of
the Union to desert the slaves. Is the fact that
am resolycd-from my love of freedom and just
ice-to withdraw from the STAKEHOLDER the aid
which enables him to hold his victim secure, to be
n taken evidence that am likely to desert the
t slaves cause want to be separated from the
e master just because want to aid the slave. And
: we can act efficiently when thus separated
: from the South. Even our political power can be
z made effective. If any believes that political
power can ELECT nothing, excePt Dy legislation In
, the country to be Effected will ask him if he
}, heard of great nation, which held some millions
1t of slaves making the declaration that if slavery
IS was abolished in Cuba it would be regarded by
d that nation as cause Of against the country
n abolishing it? And on what grouudy because
If that great nation looked upon the proximity Of
it free State, even so near within few hundred
miles of her southern Coast, as dangerous to her
, institutions! Khat then might be said of free
E. republic at the NORTH bordering on the south for
e many hundred miles, and with an an'i,sla-
70 very sentiment SO strong that it would have no