Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-01-02

W.su,scroy. Fridnv. Dee lstb.

WAsuiNGroy. Friday Dee 18th, 1857.
! The declaration empiiatIcaly made 10y Sena-
tor Douglas in bis reply to Senator Green, that
the scheme Of forcing the LecomptUn Constitution
on the people OF Kansas is u scheme of dsuniun
and civil war, is significant enough even in the
sense in which it is commonly understood, name
ly, that the scheme, ii carried out. will lead to
UlUUdshed al to civil as natural and hardly
to be averted consequence. But the SeratOr had
deeper meaning IN the remark. The conviction
prevails amung the Northern members who are
most Competent to iOrm u Judgment of tho true
state of the case tha; the Lecumpiou Constitution
is not pressed mere parliamentary or partisan
men sures 10y the Southern gentlemen who devised
It, and who ARE now ciutrollng aud directing il
openly or cecretly. The President undoubtedly
so regards IT, iIo looks upon it simply n Con.
gressiunnl question which way be put through
Congress with more or less difficulty but to which,
when passed, Kansas aud the North will submit.
or whicn they will offer no other resistance than
speeches and votes.
Tie President is deceived, and is unwittinely
lending himself to the purposes OF men who ARE
playing deep and dangerous game. The South.
ern authors of this Lreompton scheme care no,h
ing for Kansas, which they kuuw Is lost 10 them.
They ure aiming At II dissolution o the Union and
the formation of a pure SHVehulling Republic
They expect through civil war to drive the Free
States cut of the COhfcLerncy, with tSe exception
OF PtnnSy lyanu, aud perhaps New.Jer,ey. lndi-
ana ana lhIhoIs, "hlcn viii be Ericluu>y perIiilt-
ted to remain, it they wish TO- aud will make re.
sFecttul application for permission to stay, giving
satisfactory assurances of good behavior in :he
mtuIe. Any Free State. in fact which will hum
bic itself 10 make application for admission into
tho new Union viii bc welcomed. with the clear
understanding that the Federal Constitution i To-
be so interpreted as To extend Slavery the lreticnl
Iy if not practicnlly. oger the -hule conIederacv
The South dues not object to II few Free States
IN the Union. 1t she could have constant ma.
J"lity III the Federal c"uHciis she would not care
now strong the Free-State minority might be-
There reasons OF Stae and OF party which
make 1t polite Hrl convenient 70 havo Il certain
amount OF conflicting elements in IL c0ntederncy
Just ns in Legislative" body it is desirable not to
nave too great IL majority. Sectional aud party
di cipne can bG letter maintained Ia the face OF |
an opposition than when there is no cuuuterncting
force Whatever The leaders OF the slaycholdiug
arIstocracy are determined To keep i'll pOssessiOn
nt this Go, erument with its mutitudinous Offices
and Yroiuse revenues. Ii the Union remains :
II l., they clearly that in 1860 the scepter "l
depart from them into the hands of the ReI.ub bli.
can party. That catastrophe they are resolved
to avert ven by force OF it need be. To
this end, aud with this view. they are pressing
the Lecompton scheme upon the President They |
- pect and hope that its enforcement in Kansas !
will be resisted. and shat civil war will be the
result. They expect through such a war to divide
aud conquer tue Free States, and to drive the most
JUHOSlOuS u tueHl out uI tIc Union. WIN the
'es or ut the worst with the South alone they
'aculate upon forming confederrcy in which
he savohoiding class shall have the unquestioned
supremacy with nothing to check .he extension
IT its dominion over Mckee, Central America and
lie West Indies.
Mr.. Douglas from his long and intimate asso.
aton with these men. perfectly understands
heir plans and motives, ana this explains the
n'phatic hint he threw ont in his recent speech.
hat the LecOmpton scheme was scheGe of dis !
lniUn. Mr.. Buchanan has been so long abroad
hat he cumprebends neither the designs Of the
lavehOlders nor the state Of public opinion 10 the
'ree States lie underrato9 the difficulty and "
niger OF the Kansas question, and THINKS it vii!
nd, IT'S all other controversies have ended in the ,
ARTISAN conflicts Of the past, with which he was
nmar befure he went to Europe. lie is des.
ous Of reel, con, ANA clings to the obsolete idea
hat the only road 10 the Presidency lies through T.
be Slave Stutes. The Southern advisers who sur
uund him, and who alone have his ear. know
elter They perfectly aware that their ex.
luSve power over the Union, at present con.
tituted, is gone forever, and that nothing can re
iure it hut some new arrangement which shall l.
xcudo the Anti.Sayery States They lunl to
he LecCmutUu scheme rs the basis on which to v
egin the movements that are to result they hone "
n new conformation Of tho country lay which .
hey can regain and secure that supremacy. the .
Jss of which they anticipate in 1860, unless they :
an avert it by q coup detat.