Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-12-03

Abolition sentiments and tho greater prosperity Of
Free States. Emboldened by cec tinual success
in aggression, they made use of tho pfetcnse Of
"Squatter Sovereignty" to break tho league into
which they had formerly cal oiled the servile repre-
senta,ives of our blinded people, by which all the
territory Of the United States outh of "S6o 30/'
was guaranteed to Slavery, and all north of it to
Freedom. Thus Kansas became the battle ground
Of the an!agonistic elements in our Government.
Rufhans hired by the Slave Power were sent thith.
er temporarily, to do the voting and drive from
the polls the legal voters, who were often murder
ed in the process. Names copied from the direc.
tories of cities in other States were returned by
thousands as legal voters in Kansas, in order to
establish q Constitution abhorred by her people.
This was their disqualification of Squatter Sever
eighty. A Massachusetts, Senator, distinguished
for candor, courtesy, ard stainless integrity, was
half murdered BY shareholders, merely for having
the manliness to state these facts to the assembled
Congress of the nation. Peaceful emigrants from
the North, who went to Kansas for no other pur-
pose than to till the soil, cree, mills, and establish
manufactures, schools, and churches, we're rob
bed, outraged, and murdered. For many months
a war more forocious than the warfare of wild In.
dams was carried on against a people almost un-
resisting because they relied upon The Central
Government for aid. And oil this while, the
power Of the United States, welded by the Slave
Oligarchy, was on the side Ct the aggressors.
They literally tied the stones and lot loose the
mad dogs. This was the state of things when the
hero Of Osawatomie and his brave sons went to
the rescue. 1t was he who first turned the tide
of Border-Rufian triumph, by showing them that
blows were to be taken as well as given.
You may believe it or not, Gov. Wise, but it is
certainly the truth that, because shareholders SO
recklessly sowed the wind in Kansas, they reaped
the whirlwind at Harper's Ferry.
The people of The North had o very strong at
tachment to the Union; but, by your desperate
measures you have weakened It beyond all power
Of restoration. They are not your enemies, as you
suppose, but they cannot consent to be your tools
for airy ignoble task you may choose to propose.
You must not judge of US by the crawling sinuoi-
tiles of an Everett; or by our magnificent hound
whom you trained to hunt your poor c~ripples
and then sent him s%neaking into a corner to die
not with shame for the base purpose to which his
strength had been applied, but with vexation be-
cause you withheld from him the promised bone.
wv " e"eu . luese must you JuuRe tue iree, en-
hghtened yeomanry of New England. A majority
OF them would rejoice to have the Slave States
fulfill their oft-repeatod threat of withdrawal from
the Union. 1t has ceased to be a bugbear, for we
begin to despair of being able, by any other pro-
cess, to give the world the example of a real re
public. The moral sense of these States is out.
ragged by being accomplices in sustaining an in
%stitution vicious in all its aspects; and it is now
generally understood that we purchase our dis
grace at great pecuniary expense. If you would
only make the offer of a separation in serious ear
nest, you would hear the hearty response of mil
lions, "Go, gentlemen, and
"Stand not upon the order Of your going,
But 60 at once !"
Yours with all due respect,
L. MARIA CHILD.