Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-03-30


But 1t is not our judgment that DAVIS has such i
command OF the military situation respecting
Washington, as he apparently prosumes. lie
sbt have more trouble than he anticipates in
passing through North Carolina and Virginia. In
spite Of the contingent disinion talk that has pre-
vailed in the adherng Southern States, there is,
ia each of them, strong, genuine, Union feeling;
and II might not be passive If the Federal Gov
ernment acts with wisdom and vigor, the contem-
plated experiment Of the Secessioniss, OF forcing
the Border States to 60 with the Coniederates Of
the Union, in n war, would be an extremely haz-
ardous t) the enemies Of the Government
The Potomac would furnish the most certain com
munication between the North and Washington,
and war steamers stationed in tho river, could
keep open the navigation, and prevent al army
approaching by way Of Richmond, from reaching
the Capital without circuitous march Of some
sixty miles from Aqua Creek, the terminus Of the
direct Southern road. The Alexandria road fur
nishes the Southern all rail approach to Washing
ton; and if the Southern army were met South Of
the Potomac, the meeting would take place near
Alexandria.
But, the Montgomery conspirators do not look
alone to the South; they iud great encouragement;
in the North. When Davis declared his purpose,
as in speeches from Vieksburg to Montgomery,
that :f come. it should be carried into the
North and suggested the destruction Of Northern
cities, thereby promising by implication that they
should be sacked aud burnt-does any one suppose
that he depended upon the strength Of the seces-
sionsts alone! lie certainly did not. He believes,
and he has right to do so, from the tone Of such
papers as the Cincinnati Enquirer, that he would
find MS many tories in ihe North, as the British
found in South Carolina in ths Revolutionary war.
When there are newspapers and persons Of mora
or less prominence all over the North, crying
aloud and sparing not, that every demand made
by the secessionsts must be yielded, the effect is
to increase the extent of those demands, and the
insolepce of The spirit in which they are made.-
Tive up Fort Sumpter, Fort Hill, Fort Pickens,
Forts Jefferson and Taylor. theu Fort Monroe
give up tho Tsrrtories,-gise up the Capital Of
the country-submit. surrender to revelation with
out o struggle, in order to prevent the loss of a
drop Of blood Finally, pay the revoluiionists for
their trJnblo in suhjogating us, and reconstruct
the Union upon the dsunion basis. This ia the log
c --ihese the results of the policy Of the ''SuB-
MIssIoNIsTs" of the North.
| If we are to regard the President Of the Con-
federate States as having the disposition to march
upon Washington and drive the authorities Of the
Constitutional Government out Of the city--and
to understand that he has the means to make such
an expedition an exceedingly dangerous One-it is
time to consider whether any opportunity that
would warrant him, as he looks at it, in making
the movement, is likely to be offered. We will
find that the Opportunity" must be associated
with clamOr about 'scoercion." The question
then arises: When will the Administration en-
ploy coercon?--that is to say, when will there be
any thing done towards the preservation Of the
Government, at whi5h the enemies Of the Govern
men. viii shrek that they are coerceds The Fed
eral Government has just increased and complica
ted custom-house taxation. II has adopted very
high tarif-one odious to the importing interest
The Confederate STATES have lowered their Tariff
Some of The articles taxed highest at northern
ports are free in the Eouthern ports. There are
no means for collecting revenue on the line be-
tween States that have seeded from those that
have adhered to the Union. If the Federal Gov
ernment does not assert lite supremacy on the
southern coast, the southern ports IF order ~ere
so far restored in The South as TO give a sense Of
security,) become the great importing ports. OF
course people would not import goods at New York
and pay a heavy tax on them, when they could i'm
port them at New Orleans and pay very light
tax. Permit the freedom Of southern ports, and
enforce the laws" in the north-and there will
be no Federal revenue. The Government will be
bankrupt and utterly without credit. 1t would be
difficult to ''collect the revenue" on ships, be-
cause the importer has right to warehouse his
goods; and they cannot he warehoused in a float
ing custom house. The Government must, there
fore surrender to secession--there will be fnan
cial necessities more pressing even than nilitar.
ones-and the ofRcers of the Government, higl
and low, must cvaeuate their positions (starve'
cut like Major Anderson and let King Mob reigr
l-or the coast of the Confederate States must b
blockaded, or their ports Of entry abolished.
blockade or abolition Of ports of entry would b.
in southern parlance eoerciOn! The reply which
Davis proposes to make, 10 an attack Upon Wash
lingtOn.
IL is possible that we may yet avoid this rugget
ISSUE but we eannot do IL by refusing to face th'
facts. A firm stand for the Government BY al
good citizens of the sdherng States---a resOldt'
ldenunciation Of q raid upoa Washington by al
Who call themselves Union men In the South--tht
decided expression Of public opinion in the North
lin favor Of standing by the Government al ail haz
ards and to the litter end-placiBg the army and
nayv in a condition to be available in case Of an
emereency-these things would improve peace
. prospects, Then, while matters DRIFT quietly, we
shall see what will be the verdict Of the people Of
! the seeded States upon their permanent oonsti
-Etu,ion aud Provisional Government IL will inter
est us to know what success they will have In rais
Ling money; and whether the Conventions viii con
suit the people, and what the people will have &
Law whether they are oral not cOnsulted. IL
: .ho 'uean,ime State after State will call io'
III National Convention, and people will look to Il
9 An extra session Of Congress may De caiieu Int