Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-07-31
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nance it, without incurring the deepest guilt;
that not a single blow struck ia srsi a war
would receive the sanction Of Heayen-cvc-
~ step taken in advance would sink us in a
lower abyss Of crime, and thatbuto one honest
way Of settling the difficulty r~emained-ihat
was, for the Executive to back oua. MY couise
excited so much feeling ia Cincinnati, that I
was admonished by the Mayor and many
kind friends to be on my guard aad at one
time the project of afresting my career By.
personal violence was seriously agitated at a
private gathering of lawless persons.
While S. 5. Foster and others were SCI
eureiy connecting a resolution, d~enouncins me
for supporting the Mexican war, the patriots
in Cincinnati were proposing to mob nae for
opposing il, and interfering with the business
Of volunteering.
The resolution asserts that / bestowed elhe
highest eulogy upon General Taylor aud his
army for 'stheir singularly successful slaugh-
ter of the MeXicans- IT asserts. what is to-
tally false, as the accompanying communica-,
lion from four well-known members of YOU.
own executive committee, t%estiies. aerer
torote a line bestowing such eulogy. Before
my resumption of editorial duties on my re-
turn from ST. Louis, %several reports of the
battles Of the Rio Grande appeared ia my
Daily paper of Monday, the 25th CT May,
with captions in iaring capitals, announcing
in glowing terms the success Of General Tay-
Tor, and the slaughter of the Mexicans.-
Those reports were transferred, in type, from
the Gazette paper, to the columns of the Her
aid, the barbarous headings being inadyer-
tontly retained but for this | was not res
ponsible, and the next day, on the resumption
of editorial duty, when some Of my friends,
knowing my sentiments, laughed at the blum
der, my remark was, "The people will soon
know whese | stand"
As 10 the sword of explanation Ill is
false, that 1 advocated the defense and protee-
ton of General Taylor il a m~1rauding expe-
difion. Believing at that time, that he was
on Texan territory, / felt some sympathy for
him and his army, who, without any knowl-
edge of the merits Of the controversy, had
been placed IN dangerous position by an I'M
principled administration. My sword OF ex-
PLANTATION" was designed to express this
sympathy, and to remove an impression that
had got abroad, that was personally hostile
to General Taylor. ! merely meant TO say
that ] would be unwilling to do any thing to
hazard his safety, but certainly l did not
mean, and could not mean, to advocate his de-
! fenSe in any marauding expedition.
1t is quite possible, that the paragraph was
not penned with much precision for it did
not constitute a part Of ;he series Of articles
| was then writing against the war nor did
it once seem TO me that any one could mlsun-
derstand my position. 1t was written hasti-
ly, and at the last moment, and had no 9TH
er object than the one specified above. 1t is
simple dishonesty, nothing less, 70. any per-
son, a reader of my paper, to pretend to find
in that incidental, hastily penned paragraph,
my position in relation 10 tho Mexican war,
when ] occupied three weeks in fully pre-
sen,iug all my vicws concerning that war,
aad when every article written during these
three weeks on the subject, was totally re-
pugnant 70 :he construction put upon that
"word of explanation" BY S. S. Foster
must trouble you to insert, ifyou will, (and
/ deem it an act of naked j%ustice.) the follow
ing of the numerous articles | have written
on the subject-articles written before | had
received intimation from any quarter that ga
word of explanation" was about to be tor
tured to my injury. They present position:
which at greater length I have argued in n.
ny other articles. With them, however,
am willing to submit my course to the judg
ment of the readers Of your paper, and to thu
supporters of the Ohio American Anii-Slave
ry Socie;y.
GAMALIEL BAILEY, Jr.