Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-11-28

we shall see the finger of scorn pointed at
the United States with the taunt, "Behold
the Republican hypocrites-the Texan slave
holders!' would fain have it to reply, mot
NEIL come from old Massachusetts" Uni
versai and enthusiastic .4PphuSe.)
| hope much may yet be done to avert the
disgraceful catastrophe. The idea of Annex
alton has come suddenly upon the great body
of our people, like the sharp, quick crack of
the avalanche to the Swiss peasant, ona mid
summers day: while to those who have long
watched the formation and the decline of par
ties, and the progress of political intrigue, it
has been the subject of long years of appre-
hension, till, at length, they could only hope
that the mighty fragment might, ~atleast, ava
ken the North by the shock of its Gcsrent.-
We have seen the North, meanwhile, enga-
ged in driving Manchester from the market of
Canton,-in sending ice to Calcutta, and
granite to Louisiana,-while the green and
gilded snake of Slavery has glided upwards,
till from the top of the Capitol it hangs 'his-
sing at the nobler man below We have
seen the allegory of the muck-rake of Bun
yam, made a reality by men of our W times,
who suffer the temptation of the sticks and
straws beneath their feet, to divert stheireyes
from the freeman's crown that hangs above
their heads. We have seen men spell-bound
by the mean magic of place and gain, even
while over the mirror of the present, steals
the giant shadow of the coming despotism!-
(APplagse.) =,
time, a throng of rne men, and defeat the
project of Annexation in its latest stage
The throng present at this moment, so dense
ly filling the floor of this hall, in spite of all
A. g.. e Al. ...-,, ,rithopt oi,n, ,r,,,;-,
that our hope shall not go out in night. |
trust the river-gods of the Connecticut, the
sons of our Hawleys, our Ellsworths, and
Sedgwicks, will speedily be heard responding
to the call now made on them. And when
that spirit which first anchored in Plymouth
Bay, the stern old heart of Puritanism, its
cold high purpose, its remorseless determine
ton, its iron will, girdS itself for the conflict
with the hot zeal of the fiery South-let who
will, tremble, | shall cheerfully abide the re-
suit. Overwhelming applause.)
1t is to aggregate that spirit into one uni
ted and Ineligible voice,-to gather togeth-
er the isolated opposition of our land, and let
it know how strong it is, that we are here to-
night. Our work is the work of freedom:--
God bless it!-and help us to nurture our
children to carry it on!
The history of the past does not iscourage
me. There has nothing happened that thought
full men might not have foreseen. When, in
the compromise of 1889, the South chose
power, and the North bartered right for the
certainty of gain, how easy to anticipate the
overbearing insolence which would soon mark
one party and the trucking and shufling pol
icy, the ''bated BREATH of the other. The
Roman girl, at the foot of the Tarpeian, ask
ed the enemies bracelets, as the reward of
her treachery-why should we be surprised,
that, like her, the virtue of the North lies
smothered beneath the very reward it cravedl
True, no partial efforts can save us now
The slave power is and always has been,
mighty in the land. 1t has scattered to the
winds the mightiestl parties-it has laid
low the fairest reputations--it has thrown
down the bulwarks of Saxon liberty, ''cov-
cred with the hoar of innumerable ages,''--
and now it looks on this last triumph as a
check-mate.
God grant that it may o~verleap itself-and
that this effort to rally all honest men to the
conflict, may be crowned with complete sue
cess. cloud and universal applause,)
THIRTEEN DAYS LATER FROM THE CRY
OF MExIco.-We copy the following from
the New Orleans Picayune of the 9th inst:
La Voz del Pueblo IAN opposition journal
of the city of MeXico) furnishes the founda-
ton of the report that negotiations are likely
to be resumed between the United States and
Mexico. 1t states that in a secret session of
the two chambers of Congress, on the 18th
of October, the Minister of Foreign Affairs
communicated to them that the Consul of
the United States, resident at Mexico, had
transmitted to him dispatches from the Cab
met at Washington, the tenor of which was
as follows:-That, desiring to avoid HOSTILE
ties between two Republics which ought to
be firmly united by sympathy and a thousand
ties of mutual interest, the Government al
Washington was disposed to submit the af
fair of Texas to negotiation; and that, in or
der to arrive at a determination of the matter
at once reasonable and honorable to both par.
ties, it would send an envoy extraordinary
should the Mexican Government be disposed
to receive him.
The Government of Mexico replied tha'
the relations between the two countries being
broken, it could not receive the envoy in
public character, but would admit him as thu
simple private bearer Of the message in ques
ton. upon the condition that, first of all, the
o.. S. Government should withdraw its squad
ron from the waters of Vera Cruz. Themin
lister added, that, without prejudice to thesC
informal communications, the Mexican Gov
eminent would continue to take measures t.
protect the nation from a cOup-de-main on tn,
part Of the United States.
n. CAROLINA-BALTIMORE.
James Cannings Fuller, well known b,