Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-06-06
THE NORTH AND TIE S0UTH-THF
DEFENCE.

The'Nat. Era of last week in an article stating thu
policy and persistent purpose of the south, ant
illustrating by a reference to the incessant labor,
Of southern politicians and the southern press
draws a contrast between the North and tn,
South, which Enthusiastically indicates the reason o
southern supremacy and of our subjugation.-
The shareholders have their present object befor,
them, their policy decided on, their plans well di
TESTED and they labor with a will and without
ceasing. They are radical and incorporating,
never yielding an important measure or sacrifc
ing a principle for individual success, while the
~prvfesssd friends of freedom in the north exhibi,
the very opposite Of all this in their policy meas.
ures and labors.
The Era well says;
Such is Southern Politics. We might null
tiply quotations from Southern newspapers, but it
is needless. They are instant in season and out
of season. in educating Southern mind in the
;rced of Sec,ionalism and Slavery. They were
not more earnest during the canvass last fall than
they are now, although another Presidential can.
vass is nearly four years distant. Slavery is the
one thing, thought of, talked OF, acted upon. The
South has no literature Of Science to employ its
faculties Arts, Manufacture, Trade, are never dis
cussed as great independent Interests but as mere
ly subsidiary to the one, overshadowing interest
u AORlo SlaNCly. IL "a i'hO VI Odu
ships between the Chesapeake and Europe is
talked Of, the main object is TO draw trade from
the free States. and deliver the slaseholding States
from their dependence on the free North. Ii imam.
uiactures are insisted upon, it is for the SAKE
of making Slavery profitable and perpetual. All
conventions in the South, called to consider the
best means of developing its resources, resolve
themselves into political conferences as the most
effective means 10 guard and extend 'Slaveholding
institutions !"
The discussion of the subject is conducted in a
purely sectional spirit. Nothing can exceed the
bitterness and contempt with which the North is
spoken of. Its people are denounced in sweeping
terms, as debased by the grossest vices, harboring
the must malignant purposes, unrelenting enc
mics Of the Southland the effect on the rising
generation of Southern men is deplorable. They
learn to associate Slavery with the highest glory
Of the South, to regard all of its opponents as
personal enemies, and look upon the North and
West as an alien and a hostile country.
How different the state of things in the free
States No one institution unites them in a COM
pact political body, with one purpose and one po-
policy. Their social and industrial systems,
being in general accordance with natural laws are
left to the guardianship of those laws, with no ex-
traordinary guarantees against disturbing forces.
The question between Slavery and Freedom is not
ever present as it is in the South. A few philan-
~thropists never lose sight of it: a few men Of
thought, versed in the operation of fundamental
Principles, feel that it is the great question sa-
gacious politicians labor to impress this fact upon
the public mind but the masses of the People,
with opportunities and stimulants to the accumu-
latlon OF material wealth never surpassed, exempt
from any immediate annoyance or danger from
Slavery. In ordinary times are apt to grow indiher-
ent upon the subject. Their newspapers adapt
themselves to the popular wants and tastes. Quos-
tons affecting local and material interests, are
chiefly discussed arts, manufactures, trade. ag-
r~iculture, inventions, aud discoveries, engross the
Public literary and scientific journals innumera.
BILE cultivate versatility, and exclude the ascenden.
cy Of any one idea.
The weakness Of the South, growing out of tho
system Of Slavery, ia its political strength, as
the strength of the North, growing out of its
system Of Free Labor, is its political weakness.
The former concentrates all its energies on one
interest the latter diifuses its energies among
many. One aware that the current is against 1t,
is constantly putting forth its mightiest efforts to
stem it the other knowing that lite course lies
with the current, J., often content merely to drift.
At present. while the Southern press is educa-
ting the Southern People to love slaveholding in
situations, and hate the free States, the Northern
and Western press generally pays no attention to
the discussion of the questions at issue between
the two sections. With a few exceptions. it does
not understand the philosophy OF these questions.
and, unless when excited by practical and hagrant
aggression of Slavery, shows little interest ~ the
subject. The education of the Public Mind Of the
Free States in the Principles Of Freedom isI