Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-01-26
Gbe Anti- 9laperp Buale.
Prom the Chicago Tribune.
SOUTHERN ATROCITIES UPON NORTH
ERN MEN.

The people Of the North have not been in the
habit OF calculating the value of the Union. Love
for the Republic represented in the confederacy
Of all the States. has been; and is to-day, senti-
msnt which oil the of the North rightfully
claim to share. They do not ask themselves, Is
this confederation profitable in pecuniary sensef
Il the msiutanance of this partnership the best
thing that we can dot Have we not hopes Of
profit and qualification elsewhere that we may pur-
suei Does not our continuance in this Union
make us in part responsible for the guilt and sin
Of human slavery; and is it not our duty to with
draw and leave the institution to it's fatef No
discussion of these things in the North has been
permitted, save by an inconsderable faction The
Union sentiment has overrden everything eSe
The Union as our fathers made 1.-THE representa-
tivs Of our national pride and power; the Union
as the hope Of the friends Of free institutions and
pelf.goyernment the world over the Union rs
compact to which we have agreed and which pub.
lie policy and common Justice will not permit us
20 dissever-ihis Union has been the watch word of
Gll political parties, and in some way OF another,
the hope OF all patriots. The devotion to it has
been idolatrous. The desire to preserve it intact
and hand il down to them who shall come after us
has many times stihed the voice Of justice. over
ridden the dictates Of humanity aud nulliied the
bene6cent purposes for which it originally
formed. During all the years in which returning
despotism, or, as Mr. Lincoln has it, "reappear.
ing tyranny" has been making its stealthy advan-
Ses sappng one after another the guatantys ofl
personal freedom, and, one after another the prin-
eip,es upon which all rational liberty rests; in
which the purpose if not frame work of our gov.
srnment has been radically changed from DEM
ocracy, the protector and benefactor of the many,
TO an Oligarchy. the insOlen. guardian of the In-
sstests of the few--during oil this time in oil the
political charges and the vicsstudes Of parties,
there has been no murmur against the Union
Men have seen and watched the approach of the
dangers, but have hoped thet, whatever might oc.
cur, the Union would remain untouched. No par-
~ in the moment of triumph has had the har-
dihood if it had the desire, to assail il. It has
been the symbol of political faith which nothing
bot treason has questioned
The inquiry has been started-How long under
.he provocstions which daily come upon the North
from half dozen States of the South, will this
devotion lastH How long shall the people of these
infested places remain in an attitude of antago-
nism to the fundamental idea upon which the gov.
erument is built-the majority shall rule; bow
long shall we be compelled to note the daily viola
,ions of the Constitution as we'll as of common |
deceucy and common sense in the treatment of
Northern men in the South; how long shall these
manifold lynchings, hangngs, maimings, whip
pings and tarripg- and d-featherings of white men
for suspected political opinions, continue in the
Cotton States; how many more men will be bar.
relied up alive and rolled into the Mississippi Riv
or, for having voted for Lincoln; how many mOre
a. euiltlsss as babes of all just cause of offence
must be maltreateG In their persons and injured
in their estates, because they happen to be of
Northern faith; how long will mob with demo-
MAC passions usurp the functions Of legislatures,
Judges, exscutioners, and keep up a reign Of
ksrror in the South; how long must the mails he
eosed against Northern letters and papers, or, the
mails being open. how long will the system of
sos,ofice espionage, which no European despOtism
dare practice, be in operation, before this devotion
40 the Union will be overcome and an irrepressbe
desire for separation take its placei We are
Ysadv TO answer now. Unless citizens Of this I
Republic can be citizens everywhere within its c
iimi,s, and be protected fully and oheerfully in
the rights which belong to them as free men, and q
which are guaranteed in the CONSTITUTIONS; unless
this wholly barbarous business Of beating, burn
ing, hanging, drowning American citizens who are
Innocent of offences known to the lawsi unless, in
4 word, the mon of the North are placed on an t
Sauslity IN tbs StAles With mtn Of the South, end