Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-02-28
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The Charleston Mercury, after reviewing the
late Senatorial elections in tue North, thus sums
up the case
This, then, is the state Of the case. The House
of Representatives, composed Of a large majority
from the North, is hopelessly against us. The
President elect, a Northern man, has owed his suc-
cess almost exclusively to Southern votes. The
Senate-the great conservative body Of the Con-
federacy-is now assailed, and assaulted with such
force that we'have every reason to believe that the
majority, in favor Of moderate and peaceful meas.
ures, will soon be undermined and lost. What
have We leh7 What can we do for ourselves but
prepare to separate from n Confederacy that has
proved itself nothing but q union of opposites-in
fact, an attempt to reconcile what is irreconcilable2
And the oitener the attempt is made to conciliate
these two sections, the broader and more g'aring
appears the chasm that separates them. Iii these
very attempts at compromise that light up the gulf
between us; for it is not n difference Of opinion, or
conviction, but an unfOrgiving strife OF sentiment.
How are we to reconcile this? How are we to
hope that those who hold us in enmity, who are
taught to do so from their very infancy, and who
have no means of correcting their prejudices, are
ever to be rcconciled to us, and to acknowledge a
common faith and brotherhood in the interests Of
our political union?
The EFFECT OF SLAVERY UPON THE Poor WHITES
OF THE SouTn.-TteI Hon. Cassius NJ. Clay deliver
ed a lecture before the Young Mems Central Re
publican Union, in the Broadway Tabernacle last
evening. His subject was, "The Effect of Slavery
upon the Poor Whites of the South" After brief
y introducing the subject he went on to reason,
by analogy and facts, presenting many favourable
and .orcible comparisons. well sustained by unde-
niable statistics, showing that the tendency Of sla-
very had ever been and ever would continue to be,
opposed to progressive science. lie reviewed the
conduct OF public men in the various States of the
Union since the Revolution in l776, which he char
acterized as but the beginning of that great revo-
luton which is now going on, and which was like.
~ soon to iraugurate n new and more liberal sys-
TEN OF politics, and teach men, of whatever class
their sense of duty to the Republic, and their real
dignity as the citizens of a nation gloriously free.
lie urged upon the young men of the age to work
increasingly in this great movement, as they owed
1t to their successors, in virtue of the boon they
themselves had received at the hands of their faith.
ers. Mr.. Clay finished his lecture with a graceful
and telling peroration, showing that the develop
ment OF all true science was attested by its pro-
gresslve power and its Influence over the minds
and morals of the universal people.
This address was in no way inferior to any pre-
vious effort of Mr.Clay, but was one Of those mag
niticent displays of substantial eloquence which
ieave the impression Of greatness and goodness on
the minds Of an attentive and appreciative audi.
ence. There were over 1000 persons present.
Tribune.
The Carolinian mentions the names of no less
than q dozen celebrities who arc ambitious to sue.
coed Mr.. Brooks as the representative Of the "9G"
District.
MINISTERS HUNG AND WHIPPED TO DEATu.-Not
here in Boston, nor anywhere in New England, of
course. Some ministers here have been guilty of
preaching truth and humanity in spite of the false
hood and TYRANNY advocated nv noliticians hut
they have not been whipped yet, nor hing. But
all through the South some scores of men nave
been siezed, some slaves and some free, and with
out any of the judicious restraints and cautions
interposed between an Infatuated populace and the
objects of their Indignation, lest the innocent
should suffer, without trial by jury, without the
privilege of counsel, without recource to law,
these, innocent and guilty together, have been
whipped till they died, or barbarously hung to a
tree by a cord. So little respect has been shown
for the image of God in man. And it is surprising
to see how many of these victims are preachers
These preachers it is fair to be presumed-so
slight is the prevalence of heresy in the South
are Baptists and Methodists, with now and then
a Presbyterian. Men ordained by the churches,
or at least permitted authoritively to expcund the
Scriptures and exhort their fellow black men to a
holy life. And now siezed in a moment, charged
with intent to kill that they might themselves be
free, they are hurried into eternity. And what
have the churches to say? Not word. Dumb
as dead dogs. Order must be preserved" "Obey
the powers that be-" Powers that be! What a
perversion of Scripture! What n t~oadyism to tyr.
amy! What a perversiOn of logic for Satan
Well may we wonder that n Just God should allow
such tyranny, and tremble when we think of the
future before such a country, unless 1t repent Of
its sin and bring forth fruit meet for repentance. -
ZiOn'S Herald.