Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-02-09
From the Cincinnati Commercial.
THE REVOLUTION-THE PREVALENCE
OF DISUEIONISM-CAN WE PART IN
PEACE?

The unanimity Of the people of the North for
the preservation Of the Federal Union, which has
been one Of the most remarkable features of the
sectional controversies that have characterized our
political history, exists no longer. A revolution
in the public sentiment Of the free labor States
has been accomplished in sixty days. 1t is not
this day the settled opinion Of the people of the
North, that our Federal Union must be preserved
a. all hazards, and at whatever cost of blood and
treasure. So long as The disunion sentiment Of
the South was active and potent only in the Calf
States, and had to contend with a powerful Union
sentiment even on cotton soil, the people Of the
North were as one man for 'ths Union, the Con-
%stitution and the enforcement of the law" But
the almost universal endorsement even 10 the Bor-
der States, of inadmidsible demands upon the
North, coupling them with menaces of disunion,
which we too well know to be earnest and the
passage Of resolutions by Virginia and Kentucky,
pledging those States to resist all Executive efforts
to preserve the integrity and honor of the Union
these things have not fired the Northern heart, but
have chilled it. We say to the gentlemen Of the
border slave States, that they mistake us, if they
suppose We hold union with disuuionisls to be
more desirable than the preservation of our man
hood. Gentlemen, your doctrine Of contingent
disrnion, as thrust upon us, is worse than disun-
ion per Sc. Political capital enough has been
made out Of the Union sentiment Of the North.
1t cannot be speculated in any further. If the
union of the sections can only be preserved by the
submission of the majority to the minority section;
if the Union is to be forever contingent upon the
political subjuga:ion Of the whole country to the
master class Of the SOath if the Constitution is
to be first interpreted and then amended at the
call Of the politicians Of q misunderstanding to
their abstract theories and insane passions-all
that ie excellent about the Union is at an end,
and the sooner we recognize the fact tie better.
Gentlemen of Virginia and Kentucky, there will
be no coercion. Set aside all fears on that point.
We could and would readily sacrifice men and
money by thousands and millions, to put Town
factions, to vindicate tho Government against
mobs but we do not want to conquer a people,
and we will not try TO do il. The magnificent out
lines of the American Republic have been contem.
plated By us with pride-but We would not sac
rifce its people to preserve its symmetry. We
would stand by the Union still, if you would per-
NIT US. We would observe every stipulation Of
the compact our fathers made, wherein you have
guarantees that it were lunacy for you to sacrifice,
il you would do the same. But if you will have
it so-the Union must be dissolved.
The Ctitteuden Compromise is an impossibility.
and those who insist upon it as the only escape from
disunion. are aunihiiAting the last hope Of saving
the Union. The Republican party is on the eve
of becoming the Administration party. The ne
cessity that it shsald take an affirmative and con-
~ciliatory position is recognized by all statesman
like leader, and reasoning masses. The nearly
two million votes cast for its candidate for the Pres
idsncy, meant precisely this: That HE General Coz
eynment shouta no longer be The implement Of The
sJarery prSpogdndists, and employed 10 increase
their political power. This lie simply what the cleo