Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-01-12
~sEVENTY-sIX AMI SIXTY.

Dragging is not a mark of courage, nor is it an
evidence Of greatness to under estimate an oppo-
nent. And yet he North is doing both these
things at the present time, and talk as fippantly
of coeEcing South Carolina and other seeding
States as though it was a piece of work to be com
menced and finished some morning before break
fast.
While we are not ~forgetiul of the fact that there
exists in the south an element that would operate
~fea,fully against her in any contest into which
she might enter, and while we believe that withou.
northern aid she could not long maintain slavery
in its present form, yet by extra vigilance and
stronger guards we are not sure but she might
MAINTAIN it for a while, and proven. it from becom-
ing an active element 10 q warfare against her.
The weakness of the South, the folly of her an-
tagonistic position, the emptiness Of her eAche-
quer &C., &c, are freely commented upon ia every
knot of northern takers. We suppose that just
such talk about the American ColoDists was prev
slent in England some four score years ago. NJ
merically the South is far stronger than our faith
ers were. 1t is true they have but q small COM
merce, but our fathers had less. They do but
little manufacturing, but not SO little as our faith
ers did. In agricultural products they far o%utstrip
the colonists. They have far more wealth than
had the fathers; and though their bonds may be
without sale to-day on Wall ST., they can never
be at o greater discount than was continental cur
rency. The South is far better prepared than
were the fathers with arsenals, forts, military
equipments, and a knowledge of the art of war.
The opposition to secession is fast losing ground
in the cotton States, and should war ~ensue-which
4 n q cNrnGanA lit rnnGf ho unuaA aoatpef n
united people who will not be perplexed and
thwarted as were the fathers by the presence and
machinarion of the Tories. There were a few in
England who, if not fully sympathising with the
American COionists, at least condemned the course
of government toward them, and the South will
have many in the North, who, if not in full sym
patty with their action, will utterly withhold all
approval or aid Of any coorcive measure underta-
ken against her. The fathers denied the world
recognized doctrine of the divine right Of Kings
to rule, and the South plants herself upon the
acknowledged democratic right OF State sovereign
ty. The usuage of nations gave to England the
right to rule her colonies, but Christendom can
never be made to comprehend that sovereign and
independent States can righsfully be coerced into
remaining in a confederacy from which they wish
TO be Withdrawn.
And whatever the United States may think of
herself to-day, she has not the power at command
to enforce obedience that Britain had in the days
OF George III. In such q contest she would risk
far more, and gam far less than England did; for
even if the South could be reduced to obedience,
it would be the obedience of a vassnl needing con-
slant coercion, or threats of coercion. An entire
triumph over the South would place The North in
a worse condition than was that of the man who
won an elephant at a rattle, and was too poor to
buy fodder for it's keep, was incompetent 10 gov
ern it, unable to sell it, could find no one who
would accept IT as a gift, and didn't dare to turn
it loose, knowing he would be held answerable for
the damage it would do.