Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-02-14
COUNTY OHIO.

ing US with the fostering remains of this corrupt
political, social and literary state. | belive sud
den. conclusive, definite disunon, resulting in the
abolition of slavery speedily, in the disruption of
the Northern mind from all connection with it,
all vassaage to it, immedateiy would be a better,
healthier, and more wholesome cure than to let
the Republican party, even il it could ever gain
the power exert this gradual influence through
the power, of the government for thirty or sixty
years
We are talking about the best way of getting
rid of grea. national evil Mr.. Wilson's way
is to out down the Union as fixed fact and
then educate politics up to a certain level. In that
way wo have got to live, like Snbad, with Cush.
ing, and Choate, and Ililliard and IIailett, and
men like them, on our shoulders for the next
thirty or forty years,-with the Deweys and Pres
ident Lords, and all that class of men,-with the
llunker School Committees approving George
billiards school.books, from which no young man
even with a million power microscope, would dis
cern that Whittier ever wrote an anti-savery line,
all this timid servility of the press,-all this
lack of virtue and manhood all this corruption
of the pulpit,-al this fossil hunkerism, ali this
selling OF the soul for mess pottage to linger
working in the body polite for thirty or forty
years. and we gradually 20 eliminate the dis
ease What an awful future! What miserable
chronic disease! What wreck of a noble ma.
tion the American Republic is to be for fifty
years.
to save piece of parchment that Elbridge Gerry
had instict enough to think did not deserve saving
as long ago as 1889 lie would leave New York
united to New Orleans, with tho hope (sure to be
baulked) of getting freer and freer from year to
year. l want to place her. at once, in the same
Liverpool. (Applause.) You can do it, the mo-
ment you break the political tie. What will that
do ? l will tell you. The New York pulpit is to-
day one end of a magnetic telegraph, of which
the New Orleans cotton market is the other. The
New York stock market is one end Of the magnet
ic telegraph. and tho Charleston Mercury is the
other. New York statcsmanship + w hig even in
the lips of Seward. it is sealed, or half sealed, by
considerations that take their rise in the cane
breaks and cotton fields of fifteen States. Break
np this Union, and the ideas of South Carolina
will have no more influence on Seward than those
of Palmerston. The wishes Of New Orleans will
have more influence on Chief Justice Shaw than
the wishes Of London. The threats and party tao
tics Of Brooks Soule, Blair and Benton will have
no more influence on the Tribune than the thun-
ders of the London Times or the hopes of the
Chartists. Bancroft. will no longer write history
with eye fixed on Democratic success, nor
Webster invent laws of God to please Mr.. Sena.
tor Douglas We shall still have common Ian
guage, n common faith and common race, the same
common social liie,--we shall intermarry Just the
same, we shall have steamers running just AS Of
ten and just US rapidly as now but what cares
DR.. Dewey, in New York, for the opinion of Liv.
erpoo? Nothing! What cares he for the opin-
ion Of Washington? Everything Break the
link, and New York springs up like the fountain
relieved from mountnin load, and assumes her
place among decent cities. (Applause.) We
special praise of the English courts, pull
pit or press, by these comparisons our only wish
is to show that however close the commercial re-
latons might continue to be between North and
South, and in spite Of that common faith and com
mon tongue and common history which would con
time to hold these thirty States together, still.
in the Of this country and England, welded
still by the same ties, the more surrounding of a
politicol union would leave, each half free,
as that of l77G did, from very large share of
the corrupt influence of he other
That is what mean by pisunion. I mean to
take Massachusetts, and leave her exactly as she
is, commercially She shall manufacture for the
South just rs Lancashire does. know what an
influence the South has on the manufactures and
clergy Of England that is irresistible in the ma
ture of things. We have only human nature to
work with, aud cannot raise it up to the level Of
angels. We shall never get beyond the sphere OF
human seliishness but can lift this human nn-
ture up to Il higher level, if we can but remove
the weight Of this political relation which now
rests upon it. What | would do with Massachu-
sets is this-I would make her, in relation to
South Carolina, just what England is. | would
to God that could float her of, and anchor her
in mid ocean cloud applause,) Where shall
dijunon commence? Why, If it cannot com.
mence any where else, would commence it
round Plymouth Rock (chcers) begin again,
and see if we cannot do as Much in 2G3 years as
our fathers did-create great nation out of this
wilderness. Would to God we had only the diff
cultes of an empty wilderness to deal with.
What mean by Disunion is simply that break
ing Of the political arrangements and connections
you cannot break the others-whch would
would leave us our Websers and Everotts-raw
material, out of which, as DIR. johnson said of
IF you caught them very young, you
might make something daughter and applause)
that if, if you caught them young, and subjected
them to Wholesome influences, kept them out of
the fatal malestrOm of national temptation. Hen
ry Wilson was Il much more decent man when he |
was not tall enough to look over the fences of
Massachusetts, than when he got so high that he |
could see us far as Washington then his head
turned slightly. and now he values Washington
far more than he did when his ambition WAS
content with the little commonwealth of Massa
chusetts.
Then if you ask mo What influence this would
have on slavery, | answer, it would have in tie
first place, the influence of political economy
that, taking from the government the support of
Northern sympathy and countenance, the South
would have to set about getting government.-I
Government is an expensive luxury. You must
sct taxes to supportit. Where will you levy your
taxes? They must rest on productions Pruduc-
tous are the result of skilled labor You must ed
lcate your laborer, if you would have the means
FOR carrying on a government. DesDotisms are
cheap free governments are dear uxury-the
is complicated and expensive If the
South wants even Il theoretical Republic. she must
pay for t-she must have basis for taxation.--
How will she pay for itY Why Massachusetts,
with million workmen, men, women, and chill
lrsn,-the little feet that can Just toddle bring
ng chips from the wood-pilo, ,-Massachuset on
y pays her own board and lodging and lays by
about three per cent. a year. And South Carroll |
No. with one half idlers, and the other half slaves,
loing only half the work of free man,-only
me quarter of the population actually at work
now much do you suppose she lays up? Lays up
loss! (Laughter,) By all the laws of political
economy she lays up bankruptcy,-of course she
loes T! Put her ont and let her see how sheltered
'he has been from the laws Of trade by the Union.
The free labor Of the North pays her plantation
patrol, we pay for her government, we pay for
her postage, and for every thing else. Lunch
ler out, and let her see if she make the years
ends meet And when she tries, she must edu-
late her labor in order to get the basis for taxa