Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-07-04


shall be maintained. The people OF the
South are well aware, that popular sentiment. at
the North is against them. But they are wlilihS
to remain in the Union as long as tho Federal ex'
ecutiye will protect them in their Ugh The state
of Ohio. if we understand her position, is now In
omen rebellion defying the laws Of the country, and
asserting her own sovereignty above that oil the
Constitution Of the United Satates..
The only question to be determined by the ad'
ministration, is whether coercion should be used
or not to enforce the Federal laws in Ohio. Our
own opinion is that not a moment should be lost in
reducing rebellion, whether it appears in one Sec
ton of the country or in another. And we have no
doubt that the administration in power will see
that the Federal laws are enforced, If the statutes
of the States are to be paramount to the Constitu-
tion o. the United States, the sooner the Union is
formally dissolved the better. But so long as there
is n Union we insist that neither the States, sep.
arately and individually, nor the Federal Govern
inent, shall transcend the powers prescribed by
the compact of confederation.
State sovereignty is supreme within the State. But
the Federal laws extend throughout the country,
from one State to another. Tho General Govern.
ment owes it's origin to the States. 1t belongs to
she States and, in fact, it is the agent and repre-
sentative Of the States.
There is a common Constitution belonging to the
whole country. which prescribes the boundaries
both of federal and municipal legislation, and it is
to that we must look for law and order.
The State of Ohio throws down the gauntlet, and
the General Government must tuhe ~ up, Tue
Southern States demand it. We have confidence
in the Administration, and we are far from speak
ing il in any other than u spirit OF suggestion and
predication, when we say wsseTrectt the authorities
of Ohio to be met by tho GeHtral Government.
The issue is openly made, apd upon a question
which, above all others, involves the very destiny
of the Republic.
If the State of Ohio is allowed to reverse the
operations of the Constitution of the United States,
the Union is of no avail, and the South is openly
insulted. And if the fugitive slave lay is to be
carried into execution, the Governor of Ohio and
his subalterns must be taught a lesson very
soon.
Our confidence in the administration assures us
that the Federal Government will not be unrepre-
scented in this conflict of sovereignty.
THE ENQUIRER COUNSELS MODERATION
AND DISCRIMINATION,
The South is evidently deeply impressed with
the Importance Of success and therefore wisely
counsels the restraint of Southern impetuoslty and
wrath, lest it should blow the blessed Union into
fragments.
"The breach between the two sections cannot be
widened without an irreconcllaole separation.
The stream is swollen to its brink, and another
drop would have all the effect Of a deluge in dash
ing its waters over everything around it. Let us
then heap no opproSrium upon those OF the North,
who are neither against us nor with us. Let us
continue to defend our interests from assault and
our nOnOT from uSpeTSlOu Dul, WHHe ucPlOodtiHS
and denouncing abolitionism in all its shapes and
phases, let us remember, that there are Northern
men who are defending the South and lighting the
flames of fanaticism heroically and that without
their aid, all hope for the Union would vanish.
The struggle for ascendancy is strictly sectional, it
is true; but the South must not forget her friends
and allies who are quartered in the camp of the
enemy.
As the existence of the Union is d~esirablei it
becomes the aggrieved, as.well as the aggressor,
tho South us well as the North, to act with due
consideration of consequences.
The South has borne enough. almost more than
enough, already. But if we would perpetuate the
confederacy, we must make no indiscriminate war
upon friends as well as foes at the North. Let our
ultimatum be understood, and let us recede not a
step. The Union is dear, but Southern rights and
and independence and honor ale dearer still"
Among the news items we find the following
jubilant notice of the unparalleled" rise of land
from 40 cents to 1915 per acre,
SALES OF LAND NEAR THE NORTHWEST VIRGINIA
RAILRoAD.-Messrs. White and Parviance, of Bal.
tomore, have Just made another sale of II part OF
their large tract, bought of the trustees of the
North American Land Com pany, and about forty
miles from Parkersbnrg. The sale was OF seven
hundred and sxty-nine acres, at three dollars and
se7enty-five cents per acre, a larIe advance on
their sale of contiguous parcels made a few weeks
since. The present purchaser is Mr.. A. j. Wilson,
surveyor of Richie county, Va. The rise in value
of land in this region within a few years from
forty cents per acre to So rs is almost unparalleled
And also the following melancholy evidence that
Shareholders do not appreciate the literary labors
of their friends, however grateful and patronizing
they may be to their political allies, the Northern
Democrats:
SAD ATrEMPT TO COMMIT Professor ID.
Barton Ross, author Of the Southern Speaker"
and other class hooks, attempted to commit suicide
in Petersburg, Va, on Thursday, by taking chloro-
form and s~tabbing himself in the region of the
heart with a heavy clasp knife. lie was not dead
at 2 o'clock on Friday morning, though little hope
is entertained of his recovery. The wound was
inflicted while shut up in his room at Pewelps
Hotel and when found he was lyins on the floor in
n pool of blood. On the bed were discovered let
tiers addressed to his friends and wife, indicating
disappointment and depression of spirits, and inti'
mating and attributing the intention of taking his
life to reverse of fortune, and the non'appreciatlon
of his efforts in the furtherance of Southern lit
erature.