Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-03-20


ued Mr.. II resides in the harmony of her social
system. No other people enjoy q civil freedom so
perfect and secure. Elsewhere thore is, in Il
greater or less degree, q want of harmony between
Governments ard the People. In the South this
reluuon OF The two is such ms to insure n happy,
cohtented, aud harmonious state. In every civil.
Izeu community there must hc II mental class,
which requires for its allotted place in society a
low ordcr'Ot intellect. Its requisites are physical
vigor, dociliiy, aud fidelity. IL connection with
these must be found another class, possessing
'nteiigence, culture and refinement. The people
OF the south have mcnials whom they call
slaves" The people Of the North ba,e the same
class who are slaves in fact, il not in name. Day
!aOorers are every where slaves, by whatever
name they may pass in the civil community. The
slaves OF the South are hired for life, and know
ne''ner DeSgary nor starvation. The slaves of
the North are hired by the dav. with none 20 care
lor them or insure them against the approach
oil want. The slaves of the South are back and
OF al inferior race, which has been elevated toy
slavery, aud is insensible to q feeling Uf degraia'
ton. The slaves Of the North are white, AID, as
the brethren and natural equals of their masters,
feel CALLED by a sense OF dependence. The slaves
Of the South do not vote. The slaves Of the
North are the 1epositaries Of political power, and
viii make themselves felt aud feared so soon as
they learn the tremendous secret of the ballot
box.
Transient causes have heretofore swollen the
lioSPtIll Ivy ol tUc NOrIN. IlDrIpS OF UhrDHr'kn
immigrants from the Old World have filed the
West. In population there has been progress,
but 1t Is a progress towards anarchy on tue one
hand or "vigllence committees" on the other.
heretofore the people Of the South have employ
ed the people of the North as factors to fetch and
carry for them. Ii the South should take its
business out Of the hands Of the North it would
reduce the latter to poverty. Heretofore Southern
statesmen have controlled the policy Of the Gov.
eminent. 1t was shareholders who took our coun,
try in its infancy and who have governed her
during sixty out of the seventy years which have
filled our national existence. They have kent the
national honor untarnished, and If now destined
to see the sceptre pass into the hands of the
North, they will at least enjoy the satisfaction of
pointing to its present unexampled prosperity as
a proof OF their wise and conservative statesman
ship. What the North shall make Of all this
prosperity remains to be seen.
Mr.. DOolittle deprecated, in this debate, a
style OF discussion which seemed addressed rather
to the apprehensions Of the Senate than its reason.
lie could not be brought to believe that nnv one
seriously contemplated "A dissolution of the Union
as among the possible consequences of any action
or inaction Of Congress with reference to the
admission of Kansas under the Lccompton Consti.
tuition. Reared under a political instruction
which had taught HIM to reverence the Union next
to his God, he could never listen to serious threats
of its destruction with other than sentiments Of
profound emotion. Ia that Uui0n, under God.
our nation lives and moves and has its being. and
he could not believe that, outside of South Carroll
ma. there was any respectable number of Ameri.
can citizens Who were, at heart, disluyal to the
Federal UDvernmcnt; and nhrrever such disloyal
ty existed IL would always he ;"Uni TO result from
some peculiar and unfortunate mental orgauiza.
sion. The great mass of the eOple, who take n
common-sense view of pnbliG affairs, were stead
fast in their fidelity to the Constitution. IL was
not in the power Of the Senate or of the House of
Representatives, or of both combined, to dissolve
this Confedcracy. Politicians could not do it,
and political parties would perish in the attempt,
Tor the sufficient reason that the people would
neither dissolve it themselves nor suffer it to be
dissolved. Which Of the three political organiza-
tions in the country could he expected to aid in
bringing about such a catastrophe? Is il the
American ?" Surely not, with its declared prin'
ciples and it's small numerical strength. Is it the
! democratic ?" Surely not, with its bcasted
r nationality and fidelity &c the South. Is it the
Republican ?" Surely not, when its only aim il
r to bring back the Government to the policy Of
! those who were its founders.
Mr.. Doolittle then reviewed the principles and
defended the uIpose of the Republican party. Of
which the former, as he contended, were neither
exclusive nor sectional. while the latter imported
no danger or hostility to the institution Of slavery
wherever it existed under the shield of State suve
reignty. The Republicans were eminently &
State-rights party.
The Union cannot be dissolved while the name
anu memory Vi washington renamed u common
national possession. and 81 it would remain for
ever. Where would the line of partition bt
drawn? On which side of Mt. Vernon would i
run? The North would never resign its nationa
partnership in the ashes of the Pater Patria.-
Would the South give them up?
Nor was the bond Of common interest les'
strong than that of common memories and senti
ments. While the North furnished the waters o
the Mississippi is would never suffer a foreigr
Government to hold the mouth of that might
stream. AS well eek to dam up its current mid
way in its course as seek to rend asunder tn
bonds which make us one people.