Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-04-11

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as The crushed and bowed bondmen raise to her
their manacled limbs, their letters viii fall eft,
never to be replaced. In full confidence thai
God ia just, and that freedom, not slavery is our
inheritance, your committee would say to the me-
morialists, and all others,
swat a little longer, there Ia a good time coming"
1t is the part of wisdom to preserve all that is
good in QUE laws, constitution, and government
1t is the mission Of duty to eradicate therefrom, at
once, all that is wrong. 1t 10 true that those ~ho
bow in id%Olatrous Worship at the altar Of slavery,
have nearly anoihilated the semblance Of freedom
in our form Of government. All is not, however,
lost. 1t is said that the darkest honr of the night
is the hour that precedes tho dawn Of day. 1t
must be that the decision of the bred Scott case
was made amid the deep. deep darkness. Of that
mystic hour. Now, light dawns-the people move
their voice is heard. Democrats reel and stagger
beneath their buthen. This court are revsmping
their iniquity in order to strip il of its more glar-
ing monstrocities. Evon now there is hope. The
slave power, rampant in the embrace of democra.
cy, feels now that it 10 in = death graphs with free
dom. 1t knows that if the struggle 10 even pro,
tracted, the issue is not doubtful. Courage then
men of the North. Do nothing rashly, but all
things firmly.
Amid these accumulated and accommodating
causes for disloyalty to the Federal Union, the
great heart of the free North beats, with but one
pulsation, and that is for the Union now and the
Union, forever. With us Union and Liberty are
one and inseperable. Without the latter. the form
er would be unbeara5le. 1t may be regretted,
but cannot be disguised, that those who seek the
overthrow ct our Government are largely on the
increase. 1t is the part Of moral cowardice to
to shut our eyes TO the fact that the disunion SEN
timent is gaining strength every day. 1t may be
well for us, TO know the danger. that we NAV in
season avert the catas1rophe. In the free State.
there are something less than half a dozen papers
opposed to the Union. These papers are conduct
aN Inv nfIn nnrnpaf man III. Ill 4
are scattered over nearly. if not all the
States. 1t may number in all thousands it
must be very few thousands. They are gem
orally peice men, and would no. fight, even for
the priceless boon OF liberty. They will not vote
or In any manner participate in the political af,
fairs of the government. Many of them have thus
themselves from the movements of the
day, from an unutterable ~lonthing of slavery
This Is the extent and power OF the disunion feel.
ing and sentiment at the MOTH. These are the
men engaged in the crusade. Surely disunionisn
could not assume a more harmless type. If it
does no good it will do little or no harm,
In the South however, the eaue sen timent. AS.
assumes another aspect. With our southern brethren
1t is a sentiment for which they act, and vote and
propose to hight. 1t has over fifty presses more or less
boiu IN the PRONUNCIATION vt u fierce, sentiment of
opposition to the federal Union. 1t has swept over
counties, congressional districts, and entire States.
W hole delegations in Congress are steeped to the
lips in dissolution. The men engaged in this cru
sade have not the talents or moral courage Of
their brother disunionists of the North, but thew
them more than q hundred times
They make up the legislatures Of many States !;
thev I'LL the halls of Congress with their chauyi-
ons they force themselves into presidential cabi.
nets. They are made governors, and foreign min
issers, and have, since their origin, dictated in the
once sacred name of democracy, to the nation
those measures Of tyrants that have earned for us
the scorn of the civilized world.
This is a gloomy feature, but not overcolored,-
This. q few facts will demonstrates. Recently, the
Charleston Mercury, the paper of South Carolina,
said:
GLORIOUS and grand rises up the idea ola South.
ern Confederacy." 1t may DO those, par.egceuence
Union-savers Of the North who work in The came
political tread-mill with the Mercury, can see
something glorious and grand in the ";Aea, but
others outside of "healthy political organisatiops'
have fortunately no such vision. The Souatter
Sovereign, another southern organ, both of de-
mocracy and disunion, says:
1--WE freely confess the hope that this Congress
will be the last. We 90 for dissolution of the I'm
ion speedily and final"
The arrival of the traitor who wrote this at the
Cincinnati Convention, WAS ~joyfully heralded by
the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Richmond (Virginia) holds forth as fol
lows:
Tho most eficacious legislation for tho evils
which ifilict the South, would be an act making
it lawful to tar aud feather anv man who shall
utter or publish words OF eulogy upon the Union"
IS some liberty-loving repul lican does not stray
off into Virginia. there will never be occasion for
the threatened infection. That sentiment comes
from n state where was born, lived and died the
Father of his country" This is southern chival-
ry, and southern opinion boldly expressed.
Governor Wise, whose election was herulded rs
a most signal democratic triumph, by every paper
in the interest of TINT marty bntb Nnrtb and
South, during the past campaign, said:
81 tell you that Virginia has armories for more
than one hundred thousand men in twenty four
hours by the watch and | tell you that she has
men enough to take up arms rather than be subiu.
gated to black re2ublicanism."
Further on he says:
I'VE must have peace in earnest, or war in earn.
est"
There is something horrid in the coolness with
which this terrible threat is uttered. bid a demo-
&c paper north or south condemn this utterapceF
Not one! BY many. its author Was put forward
for a place in Mr.. Buchanan's cabinet. If Ere
mont was elected, one hundred thousand Vigin-
ians would be in arms in twenty.four hours. said
MIR. Wise. This is o fair type of southern de.
mocraey.
Mr.. Slldell, a United States democratic senator
in the same campaign, said
81 do not hesitate to declare, that if Fremont
be elected, the Union cannot and ought not to be
preserved"
The Union ought not to be preserved, if slavery
does not triumph, says a distinguished democrat.
and a warm friend of Mr.. Buchanan. In the
month of a republican, this sentiment would be
treason
August %, 1856, the Charleston Mercury said,
in speaking of South Carolina
There is not a single public man in her limits.
not one of her present representatives or senator's
in Congress, who is not pledged to the lips in ia.
vpr Of dissolution"
Here we have a whole State composed of disun.
ionists. This state cast its electoral vote for Mr..
Buchanan. 1t has ever been democratic.
During the same campaign, the New Orleans
Delta, a leading organ Of the democracy said
at is already arranged in the event Of Fremont,
election. or a tnilure to elect by the people, to call
the Legislature of Virginia, South Carolina and
Georgia, to concert measures to withdraw from the
Union before Fremont oan get possession of the
army and navy and the purre-strings of govern
ment. Gov. Wise is actively at work already ia
the matter. The south can rely on the president