Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-05-05

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errors. Even the most humble Northern mechan-
ics and laborers would have serious, and probably
dangerous objections to that process of conviction
The Georgian said You can't get anything
into the heads of such people. You have to put
IL through their backs. We think a damn sight
more Of our ~niggers, sir than We do Of those
cattle. We want 10 be an agricultural people,
and don't want their services. We con attend to
our own business, and make our own prospe rity.
lie stated that there never had been such an i'm
migration Of Northern mechanics to the South as
just now. About a hundred Internal Yankee
sboemakers had appeared in Millidgeville. The
South wanted to continue to BIO an agricultural
country. The proper course was, to simplify la
Dor, and depend upon slaves. 1t was against her
interest to have an infusion Of Northern labor,
and have northern manufactures introduced. ]
inquired why it would not be the better plan to
teach slaves to spin cotton. The reply was; because
it was more profitable to grow than to spin cotton.
1t the same time the South could bankrupt the
North by Withdrawing her trade. The South
could besgar New York city by Withdrawing her
trade. l did not undertake to make application
to the South, in this connection, of the immutable
laws Of political economy which are written in
letters Of light in all history. l did not under
t take even to chow that the South, in beggaring
the North, might suffer some slight inconvenience
= | had a full hand, but passed. l read the
Charleston Courier, containing the proceedings Of
the South Carolina Convention, at Columbia, and
d called attention to the platform. The point was,
an express declaration that the people of a ter
{ ritory cannot, while in a territorial condition, get
o rid of slavery. And yet, down here, this is con-
o sidered excessively modest. My friend thought
g the platform good as far as it went, but it was
= miserabiy deficient and wanting in spirit. 1t did
: not declare the remedy for the continuance Of
: northern aggression. What might that remedy
2 be? What why The dissolution of the Union!
t How would that help the matter? Would not it
e simply remove the bond Of security for the fugi-
tive slave to the Ohio, instead of placing it beyond
1t the lakes ? Certainly it would not. The North
e would at once enter into treaty to return oil run
l away niggers. The North would line the Ohio
8 with police to keep of the negroes. The North
would only be too glad to send back the fugitives.
A change would come over the spirit of her
dreams, satisfied on this point, | steered into q
g new field, remarking, Well, you will have to get
a up another platform with a double meaning.
"No', said Alabama, 'Ill be damned if We do
i But you can't help it, said 1. Don't you see the
= Douglas delegates don't agree with you. and can't
r and won't agree with you ? Do you not know that
e il they went home to make a fight on the platform
you insist they shall place themselves upon, they
b would be beaten in every Northern State and eve
e ry Northern Township, and that the majority
% against them in all the Northern States would only
lie be counted by tens of thousands
No, he did not know any such thing. Mayor
Wood was a sound man. and had carried the city
a Of New York. lie was as sound as any Southern
man. Connecticut would have been carried b.,
the Democracy if there had not been so much pan
it dering to Douglasism. The way to fight a battle
to was to ight in on principle. If the North was
h. not willing to stand squarcly up for the COnssitu
n ton with the South, it was high time the fac
e: were known. This campaign was the test cam
e. paign. 1t must be fought on principle. Their
must he no Douglass dodges-no double construc
at tions-no janus faced lying resolu.ions-no doubl
all tongued and doubly damned triHing with the pee
OF Pile. The people were entitled to a fair fight, an
i'd must have it. What was the Democratic part
in, for, if it was not for the viDdication of the grea
I'D constitutional principles upon which our govern
I'D mental fabric rests stated that l had for som
Of time strongly suspected that the Democratic part
EN- was an organization for the purpose of obtAinin
he federal ofices-in other words. q political coIpuri
q tion-like a great lottery company, for the distr
I'd. button Of the spoils. l thought that ] could safel
mt speak for the party in the North, in that respec
ion He repudiated with indignation-obviously 81
eat cere, too-all idea of the spoils. lie was for So
it. thern principles ard if the Democratic party wi
ust not for them it was against them /; ana il it was
10 I,.o;la nort, lbo eocnar 10 ~ dastrouad and en-
to the devil, the better. AS for the popular 50
- ereignty doctrine, it was as bad as Sewardism
op. was the real practical Black Republicanism dc
a trine it was the veritable short cut-as Go
no Wise said in his Donuelly letter-'to all the en-
BIZ Of Black Republicanism.'
dea If The Republican party leaders had half sent
D Of they would adopt the Squatter Sovereignty pit
of form at Chicago. 1t was the Chicago. not t
sec. Charleston card. / thought so too, bot the di
cate Guilty was, the Republican leaders hadn't half sen
arp and couldD't see their game. His confidence
ing their political sugacity was far greater than mil
the The chances Of Mr., Douglas for the Chsrlest
able nomination, were next in order. ! spoke Of I
be. grea: pressure that would be brought to bear FRI
rsa- the North, for Douglas. / told him that in p
ties, portion 20 their numbers, the Douglas men VIZ
orih the most noisy in the world, and that he mi
tors expect 10 be deafeDed. He said the nomination
Ken Douglas was not a possibility. He put the case
lave this way Tho North has had two Presiden
The South is willing, so far as sue is concern
and that she shall have another one. But the Sol
I Of will not allow the Northern man, who, of all m
Ken claiming to belong to Ihs Democratic party,
.lth, most obnoxious, to be the candidate. The So,
the has to perform the principal part in the election
the the President; and her feelings must be respect
But The nomination of Douglas would be an insult
Nor. her, which she must resent by defeating him
add all hazards. And here our conversation subsiG
reel into observations concerning cypress swaups,
not inky Edisto rivera ditch fifty yards wide, FL
outb with black water-the lofty cypress trees, the }
b in low pines, the live oaks. the Spanish moss max
n a the wilderness venerable, the white sand. the
was clay. 80, &c.