Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-01-03
From the South Side (val Democrat
THE GREAT DISUNION VOTE AT THE
NORTH.

The smoke has nearly cleared away from the
field and while it is evident that Mr.. Buchanan
is elected by clear majority of the Electoral
Colleges. ;t ought not to be disguised from our
readers that the signs of the times nauspiciOus
for any settlement of the vexed question which
constituted the great issue of the late contest.
Conspcuously prominent amongst the phenom-
ena connected with the result is the startling and
significant fact that one hundred and twenty-five
of the Northern electoral votes have been recorded
for dissolution of the Union. We mean what
we say. Every vote polled for Fremont was vote
registered in favor of severing the present Union
of States. Fremont the image of this idea.
He was the representative man of dsunion, blood
and carnage. The nominee of sectional Con-
vention, in which the South was never asked to
participate, and In which she could not have par
tcipated without total sacrifice of her honor and
selrespect, he cordially endorsed its platform of
dogmas, which, carried into practice, would have
degraded her people to n condition of the most
bject servitude.
To this Government, under such circumstances,
the Southern people would never have submitted.
large majority of them, in the event of his
election were ripe and ready for revolution, and
free people like ours, with arms in their hands
could not have easily been conquered. If any of
| those men who voted for Fremont did it under q
belief that the Southern States would have
acquiesced in his Administration, they labored
under most egregious error. His election would
shores of the Potomac to the Rio Grande
| In stating these things, do it for the benef
of those men at the North, if there be any, wht
though they voted for Fremont, still desired tC
preserve the Union Of these States and never die
II get of people run greater risk than those who
love the Union. and yet thought his election woulC
not endanger it.
| From the stand point at which we view the
result. we cannot see in it aught else than simple
sruce for four years. Would to God it other
wise. Would that the spirit of judicial blindness
now thr0ttling and obscuring the Northern mind
could be removed, and it could be brought to look
calmly at the chasm into which its rapidly drifting
But when we scan the past, when scrutinize the
actual present, we confess there is little left to
hope for in the future.
We have no doubt that Mr.. Buchanan, in his ad-
ministration of the Government will do ali in his
power to allay the fercely raging flames of section
al strife He has narrowly ESCAPED destruction
from them himself, and reaches his present exalt-
ed position with his garments scorched. But un-
less history lies, unes the book of the past affords
text for the philosopher to write of the future,
this fire is not likely to be extinguished.
Alone of all the bonds that once knit the two
sections together but one remains-the balance
have been gradually gnawned in twain by the
angry tooth of fanaticism. This single igament
is the Democratic party at the North-stll power
! ful, but we fear. slowly yielding to the same
baleful influence.
~ 10 tniS Sic"e purify tudl hde, III
rescued from sectionalsm New Jersey, Indiana,
Pennsylvania, and California-that has given the
South an armistce for four years-that is now
the last ray of hope for preservation of the
Union of these States.
| How long it will be able to sustain itself against
the odds that assal it, cannot undertake to pre-
dict, but on it's shoulders all hopes of peace
and good understanding between the sections, and
with its downfall perishes our present form o.
Government.
At all events the South has lease of protection
from invasion for four years. and her people will
! be guilty of fatuity unequalled in the worlds
history, if they did not in the meanwhile sedulous
ly employ all their energies in preparing to meet
the impending issue, which, after that period. is
likely, aye, almost certain, to stare them full in
face TAe political zodiac indicates that four
years hence we to have presented to us .he
solemn question of degradation or revolution. Lei
us get ready to make the answer of freemen.
HIGH Price OF SLAvEs.-At Lexington, Ga
Dec. 2, 81 slaves were sold for Si4,026 One ne
gro girl brought Sl575 and another with her chilG
Il $780, fellow" % years old, l500 and foul
other girls more then $1,000 each.