Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-01-14
ARE THESE UNITED STATES Z

Through the last twenty-five wears We bovc In d
daily talk about saving the Union Of the States. on
Que side' aud threats of s~eveting IL Oh the other.
w" WINE THIS talk has been going on, has not
'he dissolution been going on also ? and while we
ale inrocently proposing to save it a while longer,
mas 1t not really disappeared? IL it exists, how
much is there of the attraction of cohesion left Mt
WORK Ia ltf Bay does nos instantly pass into
night; heat is not instantly chilled, and friends do
not forget each other in a moment. Neither will
'his Union DO broken in sunder at a blow; but the
%iraternal cord that once bound it may be eaten
away by the worm which has been nourished with
in. 1t may DO well Tor us to look how far that
insiduous gnawing has progressed, and ask our
selves 1t there really exists between the slavehold-
ing and non-slaveholding States, a union of any
binding force--a union that has any existence
except in the forms Of Government. Is there any
moral sympathy between US? Do the people Of
the Southern States regard those of the North,
with any fraternal feeling or do those of the
North really possess any heartfelt. attachment for
the South Are we not to-day actually at war ?
Does not war exist by the act Of the South p
Are not the citizens of the free States on better
terms with any foreign nation - not exceptin the
fegec lslands-than we are with the Southern
States? Can we not go into any foreign country
with moro personal freedom and safety that we
can cross the Ohio River or Mason and Dixon's
line? Gould We have not gone into Mexico in
1916, with more safety, at any time and place,
where a battle was not actually raging, than va
can go into a slave State now ? Is not this a state
Of war
The Legislature of South Carolina is now con
sidering the question Of appropriating 5000, 900 to
arm and equip the fighting men of that State with
no other enemy in view than the citizens Of the
Northern States Of the Union. Virginia is arming
her citizen soldiery all over the State, and her
Governor has gravely threatened to invade Ohio,
If he should deem it necessary. Tho manufa cture
of powder, arms and munitions of war is strongly
urged upon the State Of North Carolina by her
presses. In short those States are active in the
preparation for Il conflict.
Then the citizens Of the Free States nre proscri.
bed in all the South; and such is tho spirit abroad
there that the greatest enemy, 10 their view, is a
man of a free State. No man from the North is
SAFE, let his conduct be what it may; and he is ex-
posed to insult and injury at every step-he has
no rig t there. that they feel bound to respect"
The AShtabula Sentinel asks q very important
question in the above article, and the facts there
in stated conclusiyely respond in tho negative.
Now, in the name of common sense, what is the
use OF pretending to be united, when we are not ?
Why should this nation persist in living a stupen-
dous lie, and thus practically teach the world that
falseh0od is to DO esteemed more highly than
truth? BY what right do the American people
use false pretences in their intercourse with other
nations Such conduct is neither manly, nor
just, nor honorable. If We are the Dis-united
States in fact, the sooner we become SO in form,
and acknowledge our true position, the better will
it be for all cohcerled.