Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-01-05
A SOUTHERN sPLURGE.
Reported for the Missouri Democrat.
PALMETTO House, CHARLESTON, Mo-,

the West" held forth here last night In a six hour
philippe of the highest frenzy. lie far transcend,
Wise, Keitt, Rhett & Co. in blood and thunder elo
quence. The suhjoined threat to the incoming
administration, is q part of the peroration of this
sublimated m%ad-man's insane rawlings. Assuming
a highly dramatic attitude, he said
1t is well for him (Lincoln) that there is d pop
uIar movement in the South opposed to his ascen-
siou to the chair Of State. /; wil! save his head
For rest assured, my countrymen, that if The
South shall prove herself SO demoralized aud
degenerate, so lost to honor and to shame, as
not 10 resist to the cery death this browning outrage
upon her honor and her rights, moro than one
American Bru.us would emerge from the mora
degeneracy Of the times and the effeminacy Of the
age, to wipe out the foul stains of his country
pollution, and wrest her proud escutcheon, at the
dagger's point, from the "Vandal grasp of the ser.
vile dospot." More than one Mutius Scmvala
would enter the desecrated temple of liberty, and
strike the vile miscrennt dead, dead, dead, in his
tracks at the very altar, if needs be-" If no other
arm could be fonnd to consecrate itself to the
high deed"-Mis drm-neUer raised against NOR
tai man "sdre in Selt-defence'-his arm
with innocence aud unstained with the '''frst
blushv of crime, would leap to the high reSolUe,
and plunge tile brace dagger 10 the innermoSt depths
Of the craUen heart of the %perjured knave. Hav-
ing done this, | should feel that | had committed
no criue. l should deem that l deserved we'll Of
my country aud all mankind. For l shall have
saved from dishonor that glorious "Old Arm
Chair" over which the raven wing Of Black Re-
publicanism has never lowered, and in which gull.
ty shame has never sat-that chair, consecrn,ed by
the virtues of a Washington; immortalized by the
intellect of a Jefferson, and Illustrated by the valor
and herojsm of a jackson. Having saved my
country from this deep and damning disgrace, if
perchance l might escape halter or the bullet of
the lurking foe, l would live on in the calm seren-
iy of a conscience void Of offence, assured that !
lad acted well my part in the great drama of life.
But if l should iall-if the scaffold or the dun, con
should betide me, l would die in the full assur-
ance that posterity would vindicatc the integrity
of my motives, and rescue my name through all
time from oblivion. No, my countrymen,I would
never die.
He dies not, who falls in a great cause,
The block may drink his gore, bis head may sod
den in the sun;
His limbs be strung to city walls and castle gates;
Oub bhii hlS SiOi d spiAit WIZ al hDIOhu'
Long years may elapse and others share as dark @
doom,
They but augment the all increasing thought that
overwhelms all things,
And conducts the world at last to freedom.
What were we, had not Brutus lived. He died in
giving
Liberty to Rome;
Yet left a deethless lesson on the page of Time
A name which shall be an honor ana a lesson
Which shall multiply itself throughout all time.
When wicked men grow mighty-and q State
turns servile,
He and his high friend were called 1.-THE last of
Romans"
Defended of Roman sires.
Caesar had his Brutus-Charles the Second his
Cromwell" and Abraham Lincoln will have his
assassin whenever be attempts to stain with his
foul touch the consecrated Chair. Events will
have eliminated, and the Southern storm will
have gathered such force and violence before the
4th Of March, that Mr.. Lincoln and his friends
will see toe utter madness of attempting such an
insane act as an Inauguration in the city Of Wash
ington. The entire South will be drawn off in
deadly array, and he will be confronted at the
Susquehanna.
But the Union shrieker, and tho hating patriot,
and the miserable submissionist are locking for
ward to an amicable adjustment Of the existing
difficulty. Vain hope Delusive dream!
"You lean on a reed that soon will part
And send its shivers to your heart"
The hour is at hand. 1t is now proper to break
the enamel, aud throw off all disguise. tell you,
citizens of Charleston, what l told you immediate
ly after the nomination, that no compromise aOil
be accepted By the South. She has been already
drenched, dragged, surJeited, aud poisoned with
compromises. They have ever been a 'Jfaud and
cheat upon her honor aud her purse. Besides
this, the quarrel is Uital. 1t reaches far over 30
ciety, government and morals. Compromises can
not reach it, and trucking submission will only
aggravate it. AL the troubles that slower upon
our House. are the fruitful offspring of compro-
misses. The South hates, and she will spurn them.
We have not toiled and worked and laborod up
to this golden moment, for twelve long years,
amid the taunts and jeers and curses of trucking
submissionists at home, and braggart Abolitionists
abroad, to end it with a compromise. We did not
commence the good work for this; we had other
and loftier ends in view We HAVE BROUGHT THE
EVENT TO ITS BIRTH, AND 1T MUST AND WILL BRING
FORTH ABUNDANT FRUIT; THE HARVEST is now AT
HAND AND THE REAPERs ARE READY. The body
polite is deeply, vitality diseased, into death. The
disease is incurable, md requires a sterner reme-
dy than palliativss. The sharp knife of the sur
geon mus, be applied. Nothing else will do. The