Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-11-27

would not, abandon for the sake Of peace with
you. Our Institutions are as close to our hearts,
and as necessary to our being and we'll being, as
yours are to you. We do hot soy to you, Touch
them not at the peril Of our resistance" We only
shy, Respect them" But, besides this, we ask
you to consider them for il is neither a favor nor
q concession that we ask from you. What we de.
mand is your necessity, your %interes, as much as
our own. If we thought otherwise, we would
break the bond that uDi,es us. We would not be
bound to a system Of ruin for all the recollections
of the Union, and oil the prophecies Of grandeur
that rest upon it,"
Mr.. Stewards friends are very busy showing
that his antislavery declarations at Rochester
we're only 'glittering generalities," such as Clay
and Webster used occasionally to indulge IN, for
the Amusement of themselves or their auditors.
Mr.. Gushing has made his "though,ful' bid in
favor of fllibustering in general, aud the stealing
of Cuba q nd South America in particular.
In the south aspirants are numerous. With
Senator Hammonds bold strike for the Union our
readers are acquainted. While Hon. r. Barnwell
Rhett makes an opposing bid: he advocates re.
sistance to the Occupations" Of the General Gov
eminent, and insimates that il is his most ardent
aspiration to 1.-Two to witness q secession of the
South.
Mr.. Speaker Orr is out with his opening bid.
lie is for the Union.
Jefferson Davis who went down east last Sum-
mer to conciliate tho Yankee Democrats, was
found to be astonishingly amiable. he fairly
took their hearts. But since he has returned to
Mississippi, HE chivalry has returned. Richard
is himself again. In q recent speech at theCapital
of shat state he defends himself, and lays down his
programme for Southern action as follows;
"Another charge preferred against him was that
be had MAIDS a speech, at Bangor, in Maine, in
which be had avowcd the odious doctrine of squat.
ter sovereignty; and an extract from the alleged
speech, torn from it's context, has been produced
to sustain the charge. He has never made II
speech at Bangor of any kind, nor had he ever q.
any time uttered any sentiment which could fair.
ly be construed into a recognition by him Of the
doctrine that q Territorial Legislature could affect
in any way the status of slavery-a doctrine worse
even than the Wilmot Proviso, and against which
he had warred ever since it had been broached.
Mr.. Douglas, in his recent canvas for the United
States Senate in Illinois, had seized upon this al.
legged passage from q speech never made, and had
claimed that his own sentiments delivered in his
speech at Freeport were identical with those pro.
mulged in that paragraph. Mr.. Douglas we'll
knew that his (Mr. Davis') deliberately expressed
opinion on this subject in the Senate OF the United
States. expressed in debate with Mr.. Douglas him.
self, in which he had forced Mr.. Douglas to aban
don the doctrine as untenable, were the very re-
verse of those attributed to him now and that in
his Portland speech he had SO expressed himself.
lie thought the very reverse of Mr.. Douglas. lie
considered Mr.. Douglas opinions as o Objectionable
as those of his adversary, Mr.. Lincoln. They
we're equally destructive of the rights Of the South,
both at war with the Constitution ; and with his
friend, the editor Of the Mississippian, he would
have been glad if they had made a Kilkenny fight
of il, and neither had been left to proclaim a vic
tory"
"Col. Davis then proceeded to give his opinion
of the future prospects of the country. lie de-
elared his firm conviction of the fidelity of the pres
ent Chief Magistrate to the Constitution to be un'
impaired that he would never recede one inch
from his present stand, but on the contrary would,
if need required, take q step forward. That the
clear indications were that the Black Republicans
would have the majority in the next Congress, and
would thus control the legislation of the States !;
that in his opinion their policy would be to have
such a multiplicity of candidates for the Presiden.
cy as to prevent q choice by the people, and thus
they would secure, by an election by the House,
one Of their own men. That if this should be so,
or i" they should elect a President by q vote of the
people, the question would be presented, what
should the South do For his part he had but
one answer to give. When that happened when
the Presidency and the Houses of Legislation were
controlled by the enemies of the South, he was for
asserting the independence of Mississippi he was
for immediate withdrawal from the Union.
"Already that arch,enemy of the South, VIM. Ii.
Seward, has proclaimed war upon the institution
of slavery itself. In his recent speech at Roches.
ter, he had declared that there was a direct ire
concilable antagonism between free and slave Ia
Dor. This was not true. In the South we are an
agricultural people, and our soil and productions
were suited alone for slave labor. and that no such
antagonisni existed but with such sentiments
avowed by the most powerful leader Of tho enc.
mics of the South, and their probable success, it
behooved the South to take instant and active
measures to put themselves in a state Of prepare
ton. lie advised them to turn their old muskets
into Minnie rifles, prepare po WIDER, shot, she'll,
ammunition of all kinds, and Notifications, so as to
be ready against any emergency. Get skilled arti.
fcers who could cast cannon, make guns and man.
%facture all the necessary implements of warfare;
that this was but the part of prudent caution"
Senator Brown of Mississippi has also made his
speech. 1t is frank and 10 the point. lie said
"That Slavery 10 a blessing to the master is
shown by simply contrasting q southern gentle,
man with a Northern abolitionist. One is courage
Gus. high-bred and manly. The other is cowardly'
low flung and sneaking."
AS to land pi%rating listen to the courageous,
high-bred and manly" declarations of this gentle.
mans wants. He says
II want Cuba, and l know that sooner or later