Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-02-09
From the Cincinnati Commercial.
THE DANGER OF CIyIh WAR-THE ALTER.
NATIVE

If i! be possible for the dsafscsed States to sep
arate themselves from the Union peaceably, VS.
are in favor OF giving them full permission and all
needful assistance to go. We must meet the facts,
the ''accomp plished facts" face to face The revo-
luton is "bloodess as yet" though madmen have
fired upon a ship at Charleston and attempted 10
fire upon a steamboat at Ycksburg. At Charles
ton. seventeen caunJn balls aimed with deadly
intent, at o vessel in the service Of the General
Government passed harmlessly into the waves.
Greatly perplexcd by his ignorance Of the circum-
stancee, and 'sorely temped" to open his battery,
the comm andaut at Fort Sumter said to his gun
ners, patience" instead of FIRE, "vr the "haughty
echo" as the Charleston Mercury calls it, of ths
batteries Of South Carolina, would have been
drowned in the thunder of the eolumbiads Of the
Union. On tho banks of the Mississippi river, on
dark and rainy night steamboat from this
city did not respect Shot fred across her bow,
three hundred yards aboue the landing, as her Off
GERS were utterly ignorant Of its purport, and
twen.y-fou- pound gun, loaded with ohain-shof,
was aimed at her, and the match applied. The
primng flashed without discharging the gun, or
there would have been wholesale murder by the
order and act Of the authorities OF the State Of
Mississippi. The officers of the boat are gentle
men well known here there were women and
children among the passengers there were citi-
zens Of Kentucky on board. Fit had not been
for the dampness of the powder III The totch hole;
the secession of Mississippi would have been sig
naizod by the murder of citizens Of Ohio and Ken
tucky at Vicksburg, by authority of the State.
Thus far the shedding of blood has been won
derfully escaped. But there is danger, niOal dis
al nd hat mill he abad
The lurid clouds of war lower over three cities
Pensacola, Charleston, and Washington. We
would not have right to surprise, if at any hour
Intelligence were received, that Forts Pickens and
Sumter are attacked. And forbOdngs respecting
he Federal City, are indulge by those who are
most familiar with is! conspiracy to take the
ty and hold it long enough at ieast to destroy
be public buildings, is kno,on to exist There ID
10 doubt about it. The knights Of the Golden
)ircle, and other Southern politic-military organ
cations, which are secret and oath bound, are et
he bottom Of it. Nothing but the presehce OF
len. SCoTT, with some hundreds of United States
roops and several batteries of flying artillery,
7ill prevent attack, 1t is certain that il Major
ANDERSON had not removed to Fort Sumter, and
y that act broken up the Traitor Cabinet, Wash:
lgtou City would have been seized by mob; and
ie inauguration of Mr.. LINCOLN in that place
revented. We are no alarmisis, as our readers
i'll bear witness, but We feel would not be
stifed in saying, even now, that all apptehen:
ons Of trouble at Washington before inaugura-
on day, may be dismissed
If there is an attack upon Fort Sumter or Pick
Is; or upon the Federal City, all hope Of ths pre-;
rvatiOn or speedy restoration of the Federal
Mon, and avoiding civil war, will be suddenly
tinguished. The property of the Goyetnteht-=
Q seat of the Government itself-can not be sur
ndered, but must be defended. If the States
e to be separated into Northern and Southern
or otherwise divided, lie work n1uhs
done by Convention Of the States, "decentlI
d in order" While we must not recognize the
light Of secession" we must recognize. at some
ne and in some form, the facts Of revolntion.--
by should we try to disguise from ourselsefi
al the shock of the explosion CT the mine fred
South Caroliha, is felt on the banks of the Ohio.
d that the foundations Of the Common wealth Of
entucky are shaken as by an earthquake? Al
'l fred the temple Of Ephesus which was the
'nder of the world. South Carolina, the fool
d madman, has fred into ihe temple of the
liOnj aud we cannot quenoh the cODaagratiOn iH
,od. How then shall II be qrenchedi BIZ fe.
gnizing the right Of every madman to burn bis
IN house-which lie, the right Of secession;9--
lat would plunge us into the FIRE forever. The
yht of secession is the license Of anatShy. and 10
corporate it into our form Of government. in or
mic law or in treaties, would be to deliver our ~
Ives up to eternal confusion. a
But if one State Oannot withdraw ffOm the
lion, Convention Of The people Of all the StateS
D take the general welfare into consideration,
!. thoy seem to coveL 1t is vain to talk OF eoet-
g the people of the States from the Potomac 10
Rio Grande, aud the Ohio to tho Gulf The
neral Assemblies of New York, and Ohio. BY
lost unanimous votes, rendered the General Gov