Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-03-12
Che Anti-5laperp Buele,
SALEM, OHIO, MARCH IL, 1859.
Observation-Disclosures.

Quite a number Of persons, both men and VIC.
men, who believe that the political strength Of sla-
very it derived from the American Union, have
been laboring for years to create q public senti'
ment opposed to its longer continuance. Imagine
then how like a thunderbolt from a clear sky,
comes to them the announcement from the lips of
the Hon. Eli Thayor, one Of the Republican Con-
gressmen of Massachusetts,, that The Union is
and pU be ~
The declaration that the Union is 20 might DO
borne, seeing that the fac, is constantly being demr
o~nstrated by the continued existence of slavery in
the South, and of slave'catching in the North, to
say nothing about the gentle reminders occasionr
ally given in tho shape of Kansas outrages and
bred Scott decisions. But to be told that 'tho
Union wH be % is not only a disparagement cast
upon the efforts OF radical abolitionists, but it leaves
them in as bad n condition as was Othello, when
he found his occupation gone. II the Union ,oiU
be-and Mr.. Thayer asserts it very positively-the
Disunionists might as well rest from their labors
now, as at any other time, and initiate the wisdom
Of that coon, who, when he saw Captain Scott af-
ter him, at once came down.
ut is not a thing to be advocated and argued
for" says Mr.. Thayer. Herein we think all per-
sons who are intelligent, as well as humane viii
be likely to agree with him for its foundation
was in despotism, and it owes its existence to the
continued violation of human rights. 1t was there'
fore wise in Mr.. Thayer, to declare that tho Union
was not "to be advocated and argued for" Every
body knows that that is not the way to sustain il.
Appeals to an unenlightened patriotism, to q blind
reverence for great names, with an intermixture of
a few star s~pangled banner phrases, and a general
sky,rocket style of defamation, is the most ap,
proved method of doing brown this glorious Union.
1T is a thing fixed, settled, and determined"
says Mr.. Thayer. This seemed, when we first
read it, to be a three'fold clincher, and mado US
feel very badly. Then we remembered that on a
certain occasion a colored preacher told his congre'
cation that no matter how great was their Attic
ton, there was always one place where they could
find sympathy. "Where where % was the eager
query. in the dictionary" CAM the solemn 70.
Spouse. So we, too, went to the dictionary, and
found that Webster defined fred, to moan settled,
and settled, to mean determined 80 the sentance
is not SO formidable after oil, and only means that
somebody, or somebodies, are determined that tho
Union shall stand. So were the fathers determined
that. the National Union Immediately precee ding
the present one should stand, and solemnly and
formally established" Articles Of Confederation and
Perpetual Union" between the States, which per.
petual union lasted about ten years, for the fathers
more sensible than the sons-when they found
the Union was not an efficient means to gain tho
end they had in view, dissolved it, and formed an
other, which we are sorry to say has been even q
greater failure.
Mr., Thayer appears to have q very low appreoiS
alton of the doctrine of State Rights. Morning,
noon, and night he bows in alteration to the Union
thrice blessed thrice hallowed thrice glori-
Gus !! IIearken to the Massachusetts oracle
Far transcending in Importance the temporary
convenience of one State or OF all the States. it is NJ
trust which we hold, not for our p~osterity only,
but for the world !"
1t may be a trust which Mr.. Thayer and othe-
of that ilk holds for "our" posterity, but the chill.
dren of the slaves. and their childrcn's child#ep,
will, we opine, because of that very holding, rise
up and call him-not blessed, but something very
unlike it. Fired with a consciousness of the lead,
ings of manifest destiny, having before his pro.
phetic eye the acceptance of an offer which Jesus
spurned when taken by the Tempter into q high
mountain, from whence he could behold all the
Kingdoms of the earth, Mr.. Thayer feels he must
not hold the Union in trust for "our posterity only
but for the tco,ld !" The world think of it! Great
is Buncombe
Mr.. Thayer further says,
"That trust we are bound to deliver unimpaircd
to succeeding generations, and we WILL SO deliver
it,"
Perhaps it would SAVIOR somewhat of imperti'
hence to ask Mr.. Thayer the question when, where,
! and how, he, and those for whom he speaks were
thus bound and yet it would be a great ~satisfac.
ton to some of us to know and if he could also
state what penalty is to be inflicted in case it is not
done, it would also be an item of desirable infor-
nation. Although he may be go determined to-
continue bound that nothing less than small Dap
type can express his unchangable Will to so deliv.
er the trust, yet there may possibly be others, who,
not having the bump Of frmness so fully developed
5 as has Mr.. Thayer, may, in the hour of trial, let
their sense OF Justice and their feelings Of human.
ity get the upper hand of their political bonds, and
0 consequently cave in.
Thus much for Mr.. Thayer on the Union. Our
6 quotations are from a late speech of his, and are
: given as we find them in the newspapers 1; we shall
Q give in.conclusion, however, a sentanoe which pre-
f faced, in the original, the parts we have quoted,
but which seems from its fitness moro appropriate
to follow
81 have no great respect TOR assurances of tho
? permanency OF this Union"
0 Neither have we, Mr.. Thayer. It is mere Bun.
3 cOmbe eloquence.
THREE CENT PosTAGE.-The bill originating in
the Senate, providing for an increase in the ratios
of postage, and which passed that body, was do.
! feated in the House, as it was expected it would
be. Two cents on a letter is no great amount, bus