Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-03-09

think of aud the fifty thousand mothers, Who,
with sickening senses, watch Tor footsteps thnt are
not Won't to tirTy long in their coming, add soon
hud themselvc left to tread the pathway Of lie
llone-add all the horrors Of cities sacked aud
lands laid was,c-and then weigh them all against
some young girl sent to tho auction-block, some
man like that taken from our Court House and
carried back into Georgia multiply this individual
agony into four millions multiply that into cen
turios and that into oil the rotations of father
and child, husband and wife heap on all the
deep moral degradation both Of the oppressor and
the oppressed, and tell me if Waterloo or Their
mopyl@ can claim one tear from The eye even Of
the tendorest spirit Of mercy. compared with this
daily system OF hell amid the most civilized and
Christian people on the face of the earth
No, | confess l am not a NONRESIDENT. The
reason why | have advised the slave to be guided
by a policy Of peace is because he has had, hith-
erto, no chance. If be had one-if be had as good
a chance as those who went up to Lexington years
ago, | should call him the basest recreant that ev-
er deserted wife and child, if he did not vindicate
his liberty by his own right hand.
Mr.. Richard Dana, Jr., says in such q contest
bis sympatbies would be with his own race. |
JULIUS NINE Woulu DC Win tue rlRut' L leol
bound to add my doubt whether a slave insurrec.
ton would be a bloody one. In all revolutions,
except the French, the people have always shown
themselves merciful. Witness Switzerland, St.
Domingo, Hungary, Italy. Tyranny scurs more
than suffering. The conservative hates the aboli-
ZIONIST more than we do him. The South hates
the North. The master speaks ten bitter words of
The slave'where the slave speaks FIVE of the mas
ter. \ -
Suppose we welcome disunion, ~marfully avow
our real sentiment, elderly and equality" and
draw the line at the Potomac. We do not want
the border States. Let them 60, be welcome to
the forts, take the capital with them. Applause
and hisses.) What to US is a dollhouse city, emp
ty streets, and useless marble 2 Where Macgreg-
or sits is the head Of the table. Active brains,
free lips and cunning hands make empires. Paper
capitals are vain. or course, we must assume o
right to buy out Maryland and Delaware. Then,
by running our line at the Potomac, we close the
irrepressible conflict, and have homogeneous insti-
tutions. Then we part friends. The Union thus
ended, the South no longer hates the North. Gu
ba she cannot have. France, England and our
selves forbid. IL she spread over Central Ameri-
ca, that will bring no cause Of war to a Northern
confederacy. We are no fllibusters. Her near
ness to us there cannot harm us. Let Kansas
witness that while Union fettered her, and our ma
tional banner chung to tho flagstaff heavy with
blood, we still made good George Cummings boast,
"Where that banner is planted, foreign dominion
shall not come" With a government heartily on
his siGe, and that flag floating in the blessings of
twenty million of freemen, the loneliest settler in
the shadow of the Rocky Mountains will sleep fear
less.
Why, then, should there not be peace between
two such confederaciesP There must be. Let
me show yea shs,ss-
! lst. The laws Of trade will bind US together as
they now do all other lands. This side of the
ocean, at least, We are not living in feudal times,
when princes made war for ambition. We live in
days when men of common sense go about their
daily business, while frightened kings are dying
along the highways. Leave neighborhood and
trade alone, and we shall be at peace. Obseiv We,
only Nortberners are lynched at the South now.
Spaniards, French, Scotch are safe. When Eng
lish Captain Vaughan is tarred and feathered, ,he
Mayor offers a reward, and the grand jury indict.
After a fair, sensible disunion, such as l have de-.
scribed, a Boston man will be as we'll of as Cap
tain Vaughan.
At any rate, disunion could not make the two
sections any more at war than they are now.
Any change in this respect would be al improve
ment. II the North and Mexico had touched
boundaries, would they ever have quarrelled 2
Nothing but Southern fllibusterism, which can
never point North, ever embroiled us with Mexico.
To us in future the South will DO another Mexico
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US.
The South cannot make war on any one. Sup
pose the fifteen States hang together a year
which is almost an impossibility-lst, they have
given bonds in two thousand million of dollars
the value of their slaves Ito keep the leace.
ID. They will have enough to do to attend to
the irrepressible conflict at homo. Virginia Ken
lucky, Missouri, will re their Massachusetts
Winter Davis, Blair and Cassius Clay, their Sew
ard and Garrison.
Sd. The Gulf States will monopolize all the Off
ces. A man must have Gulf principles to belong
to a healthy party. Uuder such a lead, disfrAn-
chised Virginia, in opposition, will not have much
heart to attack Pennsylvania.
4gh. The census shows that the border States
are pushing their slaves south. Fear of their
free Northern neighbors will quicken the process,
and so widen the breach between gulf and boarder
States by making one constantly more and the
other less slave States. Free trade in sugar bank
rupts Louisiana. Free trade in men bankrupts
Vii GINA. Free trade generally let's two-thirds of
the direct taxation rest On the numerous, richer,
and more comfortable whites of the border States;
hence further secession. Such a cespO,ism, with
every third man black and q foe, will mako no
wars.
Why should it attack us2 We are not a can
non Numbering at it's gates. We are not an ava
lanch overhangiDg it's sunny wales. Our influsnce'
that of freedom, lie only the air, penetrating every
where, like eat,permeating all space. The South
cannot stand isolated on a glass cricket. The sun
will heat her, and electricity cOnvulse. She must
outwit them before she eau get rid OF ideas. A
feVered child in July might as we'll strike at the
sun, as the South attack us for that, the only an
noyanee we can give hsr,--the sight and influence