Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-12-12

tailed exposition TO the meeting, of the divi-
slons in the ranks of Abolitionists at the East,
the causes, in their estimation which led to
them, and the results of them. The audience
grew FESTIVE under this unlucky infliction,
and numbers went out. The mistake the
speakers made was, in %supposing people in
the West could be Interested in listening to
a detailed account of controversies between
certain Eastern individuals, of whom the
great mass tout here" had never heard. And
here we would make a general remark. The
West Is a world within itself. Eastern peo-
pie, especially New Englanders, who have
never crossed the mountains, overlook this
Tact. Old England considers this nation vet
In its minority; and New England regards
the West as in a state of pupilage, with its
meek, modest eyes turned up to observe her
illustrious deeds, and worship her great men.
She is at a loss to understand how what she
says or does, should not constitute the great
topics of talk and meditation in the VEST
If the speakers to whom we have referred
could live in the West long enough, they
would learn that the strife between certain
antI-slavery gentlemen in Boston, is of the
least possible concern to us; that here, We ahe
very much ben! upon thinking our own
thoughts, speaking our own words. and going
our own ways; in a word that Western Peo-
pie have come to the conclusion that they
constitute the body of the American Nation,
while the lingering States along the seaboard,
though very useful in their way, constitute
rather the 0PpcndqseS."
Now this is what we call contemplate
bombast. We would not disparage the West
in order to eXalt the East, nor would we speak
contemptuously of the East in hopes to give
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game that is played off by brainless Fourth
of July orators, and ignorant Britons. The
one can see nothing good in England or in
Englishmen, but g~lorifies as excellent be-
ca; the other sneers at the Yankee, calls him
mean, and mercenary, and ignorant, lauds
"%little Vic'' to the skies, and swears that her
government is the best on earth. This sense
less bombast has done much to foster jell-
ousy and suspicion between these nations
whose interests are so nearly allied. We
have no respect for such aspirit on which ev-
er side of the Atlantic it may be found; and,
if we mistake not, the feeling which dictated
the sentiment we have quoted, is akin to that
Of which we have been speaking.
The East is a great and glorious portion
of Gods creation, great in herself, and not as
San appendage to the West as the DR.. very
modestly asserts. The mighty West is also
great and glorious, though we have no war
rant as yet for asserting that it CONSTITUTES
the body of the American Nation" Look
at New England and trace her progress from
the year the May Flower first touched her
rock-bound coast up to the present hour. By
patient labor, and indomitable perseverance,
her rugged soil has been subdued, her rivers
have been taught to obey and toll for man,
her whitens every sea, her fire
steeds thunder DER her plains, and the busy
ham of machinery ascends from almost eve
ry village. She has made her granite an ar
ticle of profitable commerce, her ice is US
ed az a luxury in the tropical zone, and the
timber Of her forests is sought after in the
market. Her children are to be found in ev-
cry cline, upon every soil, they are scatter
ed over the p~rairies Of the far West, and their
habitations are seen upon the banks of the
Ohio, the Miami and the Sciota. Some OF
the first poets of America claim her as their
birth place, some Of the greatest statesmen Of
the present time point eXultingly to her as
the land Of their nativity and men whose
lives have done honor to themselves and theil
race, tho have labored with a worldwide
benevolcnce for the regeneration of mankind
there breathed their first breath, are there toll
ing to enstamp the principles of reform upon
the spirit of the age.
Yet great as is New England, the Yves
may perhaps become still greater, and he
rapid growth is full of promise. Her inland
seas are no longer an unbroken waste of wa
ter, whose shores are uninhabited save by thu
beasts Of the forest; her mighty rivers are NJ
longer unknown and unvisited save by thu
rowing Indian in his light canoe, and the ad'
venturous trader in his fiat boat. Her prai
ries are no longer solitary in their beauty, he
forests are no longer interminable and track
less, and her beautiful valleys have ceased t.
be known onlylby the description of the Yves
tern traveller. A few years of industry ant
toll, has, like the magic stroke of the wiz
yards wand, changed the aspect Of the entire
West. Handsome and thriving cities have
grown up in ter midst, villages have beel
built upon her ~prairies, commercial towns do
the shores of her lakes, and the constant pas
sage of the numerous steamers upon her riv
ers and inland seas, laden with the products
of Lor .oiI ,oJ ,bo finite sc bor ;aJ,c.-,