Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-11-20


bitterness tha; has characterized our long warfare.
Me great body Of tie Southern people do net seek
disim'0n aud will not seek it primary object
however promptly they may accept it as an alter
native, rather than than submit to unconstitution'
al aeridgements OF their rights. | confess that
for many years of my life, ] believed that our only
safety was in the dissolution of the Union, and
Openly asowcd it. | should entertain, and with
out hesitation express the same sentiments, but
that the victories we have achieved and those |
think we about to achieve, have nspred me
with the hope may say the belief, that we can
fully sustain ourselves in the Union aud control
its action in all great affairs, 1t may well be
asked how can entertain such views and expec.
tations when within these few years the South has
lost her equality the Senate and the Free States
have at length a decided majority in both Houses
OF Congress, ~hilo this unfortunate Kansas con-
test had swept into their political graves so many
of our ancient friends in those States, that it may
be doubted whether they have at this moment of.
ter the recent elections the finale Of the disastrous
Kansas abortion-a majority in any single one Of
them and there seems to be at present no pros
pect of cur extending the area Of Slavery in any
quarter
Wemght expand the area of Slavery by Ncquir
ing CuLa, where slavery is already established
MIR. Calhoun, from whose matured opinions, wheth.
er on constitutional principles or Southern policy
it will rarely be found safe to depart, said that
Cuba forbidden fruit" to us unless pucked
in an exigency Of war There is no reasonable
ground 70 suppose that can acquire it in any
other Way;,and the that will open to US such an
occasion will be great and general and bring about
results that the keenest intellect cannot now antic
ipate. But If we had Cuba, We could not make
more than two or three Slave States there ,chtci!
wouid not restore Tie equilibrium Of the North and
SOH;h: while with the African Slave trade closed
and her only resort for slaves to this continent she
would, besides crushing out our whole sugar cul
ture by her competition afford in few years a mar
ket for all the slaves in Missouri, Kentucky and
Mary land She is notwithstanding the exorbit
ant taxes imposed on her. capable now Of absorb,
ing the annual increase of all the slaves on this
continent and consumes it is said twenty thirty
thousand year by her system of labor. SdveS
decrease there largely. In time, under the system
practiced, every slave in America might be extir,
minated in Cuba were the Indians However
the idle African may procreate it the tropics it yet
remains TO be proven and the facts are against the
conclusion, that he can in those regions, work and
thrive, 1t is said that Cuba is to BE "Atricanized"
ratncr than that the United States should take her
That threat, which at one time was somew hat
alarming, is longer any cause of disqAietude to
the South after experience of the Airicanizng Of
st. Domingo and Jamaica. What have we lost Sy
that? 4 think we reaped some benefit; and if tie
u /r.I ] u,
tire ,coad grOC up in Louisiana aud 1tras, ,iyai, 9
that Of cotton ond dlrating from so much iaJor
That cotton woUtd rarely be tetow its present prize.
You must no: suppose, FOR moment, that | am
opposed to "the extension of the area Cf African
SLAYER :" On the contrary, ! believe that God
created negroes for no Other purpose than to be
the Aewers Of wood and the drawers of wat er"
that is, to be the slaves Of The white race and
wish to them in that capacity Oh every spot on
the surface Of the globe where their labor is ueces
sary or beneficial. Nor do doubt that such will
be the final result. Much less would oppose the
acquisition of territory that would place the Slave
States on numerical equality, and more, with
the Free States in the Union. But this review and
scrutiny or the resources of the South shows, |
think pretty conclusively that bave not DOW the
surplus population nor suitable territory. within
our present reach, to create any number Of Slave
Staes that to attempt it by costly, yet impractic'
able and abortige enterprises, will be to waste
our strength ~ no purpose AID that tie idea 81
recororing tie equality in rating Of The Free aH3
Stcre States, whether tie floors Of Congress or
eiSewhere rs Customary. We had better, then,
think, at once make up our minds according to the
facts, and giving up all bootless efforts look every
consequence If our position ull in the face. For
one, can do so without dismay-withuut the
slightest trepdaton. Why, the South, numbering
twelve millions Of people possesses already an i'm.
pefial domain that can wei support q hundred mil
lions more. What does SHE need TO seek beyond
her borders or what has she TO fear? With such
a ssa coast aud barbors such rivers, mountains
aud plains; 50 foil of all the precious metals so
fertile in soil, GENIAL i'll cline producing in such
turai staples OF the world ! capable of manutac
turIns to any extent; and possessing the best
cIal and industrial systems that have ever yet been
organizec-she might have sunk into sloth from
excess OF pro perity, had she not been kept the
alert by the fierce assaults OF an envious world =
assaults which, at one time Alarming, it has been
IN fact scarcely more than wholesome exercise to
repel an exercise whicE has made us the most
Virtuous and one Of the most enlightened and mos
powerful people who now flourish on the globe
The South has long been undertaking and doing
great injustice to himself. She has been lament
ing her weakness, and croaking about the dangers
that beset her, when she might glory in her
and hurl defiance at her enemies,