Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-01-14
WHOLE NO. 744.
and the insane folly Of those who would disturb
Monroonrnr. December q. 1859.

MONTGOMERY, december ~, loo%
Ny Dear Republican
! Tomorrow will be Christmas, and people here
! ave been very buey oil the week getting ready
for it. For myself, shall come to Tuskegee to
spend the foly-days, and shall bring the eggs
with me, otherwise am satisfied that shall get
no nog for there is always lamentatde dearth OF
eggs just about Christmas time about your svwn.
Well, old John Brown and bis comrades in
murder and rebellion are all hung; fitting end
to all such knaves and traitors; but they will have
been hung in vain; the blood shed at llarper's
Ferry will have watered the ground 70 no par-
pose, If it do not wake up the Southern people to
sense of the true sentiipent Of the North in Sela
ton to our peculiar institution We ought "
this time to BE convinced that the people Of the
free States are thoroughly inbuea with hostility
to slavery. They are born with it, they suck il
in from their mothers breasts, they are taught Is
at school they grow up to manhood with it per-
vading their whole being. 1t is useless-nay, IL
is wicked to try to conceal from own eyes the
condition of northern sentiment There is, as
Seward has said, On 'irrepressible conflict wagsa
by the North against slavery. 1t has been grow
ing in magnitude for quarter of century. Its
proportions are, to day more colossal than they
ever were before and they will undoubtedly keep
on growing until the conflict is precipitated upon
us in a more terrible shape than that i, appeared
in at Harpers Ferry. The raid of Brown and its
fatal result, instead Of quelng the spirit Of aboli
tiunism has, in fact, emboldened it, 1t is stgoBger,
and more oren, and more daring than it ever wac
before. IL is 80 all over the East, and North, and
West Brown, instead Of being looked upon as o
murderer and thief, is regarded as q hero and .
saint, and his memory will be cherished aud vene-
rated by millions of abotioDists yet bern Su ch
arethe facts Of the at the present moment
The Union meetings that have been held in Bos-
ton aud Philadelphia are but sops thrown TO our
merchants to keep their trade. Boston and Phil
adelphia are just as much abolition cities as thOy
were before. The tru, h is, the free States are
against us, and they likely to be Less so.
The Union is no longer uLion Of sentiment, OF
feeling, or afec ion. We have in fact, nothing in
common, and If we remain together it can only be
by the giving up on the part Of the South ef all
her rights under the constitution and submitting
20 freesoii domination. And it is not manly to
attempt to hide from ourselves our fate. Whom
We boldly look evils in the face half their terrovs
vanish. To dissolve the Union would unquestiou-'
ably be bad, bu; not so bad to submit to be sub
Jecss and serfs-to exchange places with our own
slaves. Politicians and partzans may talk sboot
preserving the Union by the election of this man
or that one to the Presidency. Bat it is an absur
dity. They may indeed put off the catastrophe
for year or two; but it Wonld be as if old Brown
had begged to have the rope put loessly about his
neck,and to be let down easy. 1t might have pro-
onged the struggle for brief space, but the result
was inevitable. Our necks ore now in the halter,
but unlike old Brown, we have knives in eur
hands and can cut the rope And if we do no,
we deserve the fate that awaits US. Politicians
and partzans Rave been holding the same talk
Tor dozen years. They were going to throttle
the enemy; they were going to unhead the hydra;
they were going to kill abotionsm. But aboli-
tlohsm breathes freer than it over did before;
1t has more heads upon its shoulders; and it is
further than ever from being killed. If not where
are the evidences Of returning ot justice
the part Of the North Are they in the ring Of the
thousand bells that were tolled all through abol-
liOndom when old Brown died? In the guns that
we've fred 70 commemorate his fate? In the free
soil triumph that was obtained in Boston imme-
irtely upon the heel of the great Union meeting
there? No. There is 'irrepressib!e conflict
waged by abolitonism against slavery. Abolition
SIN is fanaticism, and fanaticism never voluntari-
y yields. You may kill it if yop strike boldly.
out if you tamper with it,it may kill you. When
Paris was on the eye of revolution, and the
roops Of the Convention were drawn of by their
rather than sacrifice the lives Of tho
,i,izens, single discharge of grape from the bat
cries Of Napoleon put down the insuri ee,on, and
restored peace and quiet to ha distracted country.
It was terrible remedy, but the disease deman-
led it.