Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-04-04
from the New York Evening Post.
The DUTY OF KEEPING QUIET.


awaken tho inextipgushabe laughter Of our New
York audiences, he personated M Irishman-- =
Corkonian, we think-who, IN giving an accoun
| of bis I'D ventures in Naples thus describes thu |
manner in which he treated fellow who applied
to him for charity:
"ls 1t charity my bov, that you whnt2 says T.
coaxing him towards me with my fore finger 1t
is, says he. Take it, says |, tapping him on the
head with the soft end of my shillaleh. Murther,
says he Lie STILL ye blackguard, says l."
The concluding exhortation of Paddy to his
Neapolltan pupil seems to be taken text by
the organs OF tho slavehodng party-the south
ern newspapers of the day-irom Washington 10
New orleans. The cry Of the Washington Union
and all who follow its lead is, Lie still, ye black
guard"
tbs wonderful how little the real state Of the
case IS understood by those who raise such an out
cry ABOUT the late proceedings giving the charac-
ter oil nationality to what until now has been con-
sldered the local institution of slavery. The peo
pie OF the free States fancy themselves aggrieved.
Let them read the Charleston Mercury and the
Richmond Enquirer, and they will find that the
boot is on the other leg. The only difficulty in the
case IS that the people Of the free States will
be easy. 1t the North would only be quiet, there
!, would be no trouble whatever. The North is cun,
stanty getting foul Of the rights Of the South; the
: Richmond Enquirer tells in it's yesterdays
issue, using these explicit words:
"lf the people of the North would cease to hurl
thunderbolts at us from their pulpils to illuminate
hrebrands into our society through their press, to
attempt to intercept us in your territory, to deiraud
ana TO force us out OF our rights; If, in other
words, they would render into Cesar the thing
that are Cmsar's," concede to as equality in the
Union, offer no illegal and un ust obstruction to
the extension OF our institutions if they would let
ns alone and leave slavery to the States, ard to
the same protection and privileges enjoyed by all
property under the constitution, the agitation of
IN ,l,o
The trouble would cease simultaneously with the
cause that produced it,"
After this explanation, the North surely ought
to be satisfied. Lie still, ye back-guard," ia
most consOling adjuration to one who il knocked
to the ground with club. There is nothing like
it for curiDg broken head.
Here is set of people owning aaves, who get
together and call themselves the SOath. They
make no account of the mass of tho people, the
non nslavehoding population OF Maryland, Vir-
ginia. North Carolina, Kentucky, Missouri, so for
nothing in their computation; Shareholders ano
the South in their vocabulary, arc sy synonOmOus.-
The owners OF our cotton, wUUllen and other mills
might as well call themselves the North. and re.
sent reduction Of the duties imported wares
for the benefit of the consumer as attack on
northern rights Yet the moment we question the
preensons put forth, 30 impudenty and offensive
u ly, by the Shareholders. we are :oid that are
getting up agitation, disturbing the harmony
U between the North and the South, and that it is
= our der to keep still The slayehelF haye .
= right to assert their pretensons-but shave ne
right to resist or even question them. AitNs Lave
d to do is TO be perfectly quiet.
Two or three examples will show how for the
people are in the wrong. The Shareholders brough
! forward in Congress scheme to repeal the Mis-
souri, Compromise; the representatives of the free
o States opposed it, 1t is clear as the light o.
day that if no opposition had been offered tlier,
! would have been no agitation. All the controver
sy, the angry words. the illblood between the con
y tending parties, arose from the resistance made
~ The North was indiscreet enough to maintain wha
It thought its rights; it was knocked down; it rails
. ed an uprOar; and was addressed in the words
which serve the southern journals as the text Of
. so many homiies, Lie still, ye blackguards."-
The shareholders went armed INTO Kansas, seized
u u on the polls, usurped the legislative power sho
y and scalped tie settlers, forced their tvrannca
" edcts upon the territory, and leGalized slavery
u We complained az lin at being knocked down in
~ i, this unceremUniuus manner, and again heart
u the comforting words, Lie st ye black guards.
J. The saveholding judges have jus. decided tina
the colored citizens of the free States are not cti
zens at all, and have nU rights under the c0nstitu
and have declared their opinion that power un
der the constitution, not even that of the people
the territories, can prevent slavery from Coin,
wherever the jurisdiction Of tAe United States ex
>. tends-a decision subverting doctrines long bel,
!, sacred and rights long acknowledged. We or,
out at the enormous innovation and again We ar
L
q moment plot is ripening 10 consummate the out
" RACES committed in Kansas, by forcing slave con
It stitntlon on the people against their will. W
shall be beaten there also; and if we protes
against the wrong thus dons ir defiance of tn
u laws Of God and man. we shall again be told Iii
y still, ye blackguards," and shall be admonishe
70 that II we only let the slaveholders have thei
~ own way, things will 80 on smoothly.
IA 1t was rather amusing the other day to see Pad
dy's exhortation translated into cabinet English
and employed to adorn Mr.. Buchanan's inaugura
Y, address. In that pleasant document, it will b
a recolected the expected blow from the Su2ren,
u Court of the United States alluded to- and th
vi people were admonished to take il quietly.
As to the Richmond Enqairer-the print whc
u so vehemently denounces the refusal of the nor
~ slaveholding party TO submit to tho pretensions
:" the slavehoders-we must do it the justice to sa
that it seems to doubt whether Mr.. Buchanan
o. advice will be obeyed This is one of those cas-,
y in which II is not easy to lie still. PROSTATE
u htude, with a bruise an your head and an eneu,
. standing over you, brandishing club which ma
70 the next moment ahght on your shoulders is rat
'o er unpleasant. conviction of this truth. dout
Us less) prompts the Richmond Enquirer to give d
- terance 10 the iorebodings which we here copy:
Sc That our institutions as Republican poop
n. are Immediately and mminently endangered /
the insane, suicidal agitation of this ohsorbir
subject, is painfully palpable to every man. wor
,d an and child in the nation. But it is idle on Il
part OF southern people to talk Of putting an 81
IS to it now. The dogs OF war have been let Loo
-, too long to be driven back to the kennel in da
10 or month. or year.
\. -.
ol- Subsequent to the election of Mr.. Buchanan
and previous to the recent decision of the Supren
ed Court, there seemed to be some hing like bow
he promise in the political sky. The angry wate
Il raved less loudly, the clouds looked lighter an
ot sunshine seemed to be smiling the shadows ava,
NJ Aboiitonism had been baffed and beaten in de
perate assault upon the citadel defending the COL
nd stitution and the Union, the sovereignty of th
'w States, and the rights of the South; and there
as high hope that its most furious onset might be il
ds last except in feeble bands, the scattered
Dr. OF routed host. But. since then. there is,
ID evidence of an organization contem plated, and
ou may be begun upon broader basis than ever. f
u' the purpose Of placing the seeptre in the hands