Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-04-03

I'N' D|'NS Ssp'J itDll3 J,-&t
Scattering, 80 Scai., OIL
Total, 50,5I3 Total, 4l.9g3
The vote appears to be about 20 per cent.
larger than that Of last year. The editor Of
the Emancipator estimates the Wing vote
as having increased 10 per cent, the Demo-
cratic II per cent, and enthusiastically claims
that Liberty party has increased 50 per cent.
This may be pohtcai h2nes,y, but to us it
seems very much like moral dishonesty. for
the editor Of the Emancipator cannot be so
Ignorant as not to know that the votes report
ed as cast for Berry arc no index whatever
Of the strength of Liberty party. He would
have his readers suppose that the mighty ag-
itation effected by the lahors of John p. Hale
and his friends, and which has lone more 10
break down the slave power ia New Hamp-
shire than AL the efforts Of Liberty party,
has resulted solely in an increase of Liberty
party votes, and a strengthening of that or
ganization. He we'll knows that a consider
able portion Of those who voted for Berry,
threw their entire strength against Liberty
party in baIloting for candidates for other
than the Gubernatorial Office. An increase
Of so per cent, torsooth {! The editor cannot
so easily brush tie Independent Democrats
out Of existence, and though he may put
them down in the columns Of the Emanci-
pator as noncntities, they will not Sc stay put"
We may Judge somewhat of the strength Of
the Independents, from a report of the Con-
gressional vote, which in 2l0 towns gives TO
Hale 1860. We infer from this. one Of
three things: either that John p. Hale is a
Liberty party man, that Liberty party has
been swallowed up by the Independent Dem
o%crats, or else that i! is in a most meagra mi
nority. We have every reason to believe
the frs; is not SO, the second would probably
be no cause of eXultation to the Enancipa-
tor, and the third that print would consider
any thing bat consolatory. Drowning men
will catch at straws; and as all things are
fair in politics, i! may be perfectly justiiable
by the code OF Liberty party, and by its ne
c%s5siiis', to play at such Il game. We appre-
bend the official returns, instead OF showing
| what the Emancipator with much effort at
tempts TO prove, and giving Liberty party an
increase Of 80 per cent. will show perhaps
as great a decrease and Of the twenty-eight
Independents returned 10 the Legislature.
but fow will fight under the banner of that
party.
The editor tries TO be cheerful, and at
tempts TO be witty, but it is done with such
a woe-begone countenance, that his efforts
pain US. The Boston Atlas, speaking of the
election, says;
Nobiy have the Wings and their allies
fought this great battle in behalf Of freedom
and the rights OF man-and their success has
been as glorious as it was unexpected.
To this the Emancipator I%eioins:
"T'he Wings and their allies =" We scorn
the term. We are not the allies of the Wing
party. in New Hampshire or elsewhere, nor
of any other party which, like il, is the ever
supple tool or ally" of tho slave power.
Does the editor imagine he can make any
one believe the Atlas thought of Liberty par.
ty, with its arrogant pretensionsl Why did
not MS lhJutSNJ dllOH MN W shpposs IL oAFt-
II possi5h that the Atlas might have meant
the "Ind;pendont Democrats" whose lead
er had 1850 votes.
We quole another paragraph from the At
las, together with the response of the Enan-
cipator.
We rejoice at his result, but VIC do MOI
claim it as exclusively a Wing victory. Ii
one sense it is a Wing victory, it is true, 10
tho Wings Of New Hampshire have contrib
. uted their whole energy and all their powers
70 accomplish it.. But we should not forge
that Of themselves the Wings could have
. accomplished nothing of any moment. w,
do not inrget-we never shall forget, that /
is to lhe h~igh-InindcI Observation-Disclosures
2 in the true sense Of the word-In9epsRder
/ DeA.ocrais they call themselves, and so de
, serve 20 be called-to the liberal and homes
, opponents Of human slaYery--to the lively
thousand independent voters, who, togethe
G with the sixteen thousand Wings, compris
V what our beaten opponents attempt TO stia
G Matte as the allied army" that We ow
this victory.
The Emancipator replies:
This is indeed very gracious. We are il
fnitely indebted to the Alta, for its Sign
Sc grace and favor, in now calling the IiberI
~ partv 1.-THE LIBERAL AND HOMES
of opponents OFHUMAN SLAVERY.
1t is a merited appellation-just as well me
tied as it was in 1914, when we voted again
W ,he :. Great Embodiment" OF slayery-sr
ed not a Whit more So. We will preserve tn