Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-02-19
Anti-9laperp Bu9le.
SALEM, OHIO, FEBRUARYl9. 1859.
THE UNION, THE SThENGTH AND SUP
PORT OF SLAVERY.

We are disunionists, because we believe the OK.
isting Union Of the States to be the main prop and
support Of the system oil slavery, without which it
would speedily totter and fall and perish. A slave
holding State maintains a wronged, outraged and
deadly foe in is own bosom. II is ever liable to
become the victim Of internal strife and civil war.
Its power for defence against foreign assault is
1t is liable to become tho prey of every
invader. The slaveholding states of this c0Dfeder'
acy are no exception to this general rule. They
have only mainted their power and even their safe.
ty and existence, by their close alliance with and
reliance upon their confederates, the non.slave-
owning States. Therefore are these, States with
~propriety and justice called slave.holding States,
though they neither own or work slaves within
their borders. That the existence of slavery is in,
compatible with the safety, peace and prosperity
of any State, is manifest to every rejecting mind
at the first view of the subject. And disunion Alb
olitionists, are by no means singular in this opin-
ion. The shareholders themselves have a thorough
conviction and a wholesome regard for this truth
or rather fact. Hence, however, they may buster
and threaten, they stick by the Union as their ON
ly hope of existence. They know well that such it
is and knowing this, could not be very easily driv-
on out of the Union even if the North should try
the experiment.
The Republicans. too, are equally sensible Of
this truth, though they practice the inconsistency
of cursing slavery and lauding the Union on which
its vitality and existence depends.
The last National Era, in an admirable article
on the effects Of the reopening Of the African Slave
Trade upon the perpetuity of slavery says:
oTbe idea of the Gulf States seeding from the
Union. and forming q Southern Confsderacy, with
a tier Of slave States shielding them from the
Northern free States, is about as absurd as any
thing connected with this notable scheme Of reviv'
ling the slave trade. Such a Cunfederacy would
be an aggregation Of weakness, supposing tina, it'
formation were possible. A slaveholding Repub
lilo in this age, with no free States to lean upon fol
! support, is a shallow %corceit, which could only
originate in the brain Of the petted and pampsret
oligarchs who have ruled the country for thirt,
years by dint Of bluster and gasconads. And th,
idea that such a Republic could carry on th
slave trade, in defiance of the civilized world
is tho climax Of folly and presum ption 7! /
the whole South were turned loose to-day, an,
, permitted peaceably to organize a ssparat
lGoverpment, IL would not dare to violate tn
treaties into which, as a part Of the Union,
3 has entered for the suppression of the slave trade
At present, under the shelter Of the powerful North
, it sets laws and treaties at defiance but thrown o
' its responsibility, IL would crouch at the feet of tn
British lion, and show an slacrity in the enforc,
0 ment Of the anti.slave trade statutes which il no,
. ~trsmples under foot,