Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-02-02


bosoncss of our youths idols, sending bankrupt
statesmen to dishonored graves.
We stand to-day just as Hancock and Adams
and Jefferson stood, when stamp act and tea tax,
Patrick Henry's eloquence, and the massacre Of
March 9Th, Otis's blood, and Bunker Hill, had
borne them to July, 1776. Suppose ct that moment
John Adams had cried out, NOW let the people
everywhere forget Independence and remember
only God save the Kingr" (Laughter.1 The
toll Of a whole generation, thirty years, has been
spent in examining this question OF The rights and
place Of the negro-the whole earliest thought OF
a nation given to told par.iee have been wreck
ed upon t. new ones grown out Of TIT stiles all
other questions-tho interests of the nation neces-
sarily suffer because men refuse to think Of any
thing else--it struggles Up through all tompromi-
ses, asserting its right to beheard, no green withes
of eloquence and cunning, trade, pulpit, Congress
or C llege, succeed in binding this Sampson-the
business of the seabosrd begs it may be settled.
no matter hcw-the whole South is determined to
have it met, proclaiming that 1t docs not secede
because of Personal Liberty laws or a Republican
President, but because of the otate Of Northern
feeling of which these are signs. 1t is not North
ern laws or officers they fear, but Northern con
science. Why, then, should not the North accept
the issue and try to settle the Question forever ?
You may run the Missouri line to the Pacific but
Garrison etill lives-and while be does, South Car
DINA hates and fears Massachusetts (applause.)
No resolves can still our brains or stiAe our hearts
Till you do, the STAKEHOLDER feels that New En-
gland is his natural foe. There can, therefore, be
no real peace till we settle the slave question, If
thirty years of debate have not fitted US to meet
it, when shall we be able2
But tho mos; honest Republicans say a State
has no right to secede. We will show frst that
we have a government, ard then, not Before, settle
disputed questions. Suppose q State has no right
to secede, Of what consequence is that2 A Union
is made up of willing States, not of conquered
provinces. There are some rights, quite perfect,
yet wholly incapable of being enforced. A hus-
band or wife who can only keep the other partner
within the bond by locking the doors and
standing armed before them, had better submit to
2eaceabie separation (applause.) A firm, where
one partner refuses to act, has q full right to his
services, but how compel them South Carolina
may be punished for her fault in going out of the
Union, but that does not keep her in it. Why not
recognize soberly the nature and necessity Of our
position Why not, like statesmen, remember
that homogeneous nations, like France, tend to
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, like ours, tend in
evitably to dismemberment France is the slow,
still deposit of ages on central granite only the
globes convnlsion can rive it We are the rich
mud of the Nississippi-eeery food shifts it from
one eide to the other of the channel. Nations
like Austria, victim States, held under lock and
key of despotism-or, like ourselves, a herd Of
States, hunting for their food t~ogether-must ex-
pect that any quarrel may lead to disunion. Be-
sides, Inter arhia silent legeS-armies care no.
thing for constables. This is not a case at law,
but Revolution.
Let us not, however, too anxiously gFieve over
the Union IT 1887. Real Unions are not made
they grow. This was made, like an artificial wa
%terfall or q Connecticut nutmeg. 1t was not an
oak which to-day a tempest Skaters. L, was a
wall hastily built, in hard times, of round boul-
Gers-the cement has crunbled, and the smooth
stones, obeying the law of gravity, tumble here
and there. Why should we seek to stop them,
merely to show that we have o right and can g.?
That were only a waste of means aud temper.
Let us build, like the Pyramids, a fabric which
every natural law guarantees or, better still.
plant q Union whose life survives tho ages, and
quietly gives birth to its successor.
\ Il n K \ n
Take your distorted Union, your nigh tmare
monster, out of tho light and range of those laws
of trade and competition then, without any sac-
rifce on your part, slavery will 60 to pieces God
made it a law of his universe, that viilany should
always be loss and if you will only net attempt,
with your puny efforts, to stand betwixt the inevi-
table laws of Gods kingdom, as you are doing to-
day, and have done for sixty years; by the vigor
that the industry of sixteen States has been able
to infuse into the sluggish veins of the South,
slavery will drop to pieces by the very influence
of the competition Of the nineteenth century,
That is what we mean by disunion
That is my coercion. Northern pul2its cannon
aiding The Southern conscience Northern compe-
titiOn emptying its pockets; educated slaves ava
king its fears civilization and Christianity beck
oning the South into their sisterhOod. Soon every
breeze that sweeps over Carolina will bring to our
ears the music Of repentance-and even she will
carve on her Palmetto" We hold this truth to be
sell-evident- that ali men are created equal"
All hail then, dieunion beautiful on the
mountains are the feet Of him that bringeth good
tidings, that publisheth peace, that saith Unto
Zion, thy God reigneth." The sOds of Bunker
Hill shall be greener, now that their great pu--
pose is accomplished. Sleep in peace, Martyr of
Harper's Ferry Your life was NOT given in vain.
Rejoice, spirits Of Fayette and Kosciusko !
The only stain on your swords is passing away.
Soon throughout all America, there shall be Meth
err power nor wish to hold a slave.
OBERLIN WILL OBEY THE FUGITIVE LAw.-The
people of the South considered the Western Re-
serve as the walled city of Abolitionism, and
Oberlin its very citadel, filed with law-defying IA
natics, The case of The slave girl Lucy may do
somewhat towards correcting this erroneous i'm
preston. The Oberlin News. speaking the senti-
ments of the people of that town, in it's issue Of
the 29d, says of tho late fugitive slave case in
Cleveland.