Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-07-31

'nded, was a sin Tor which ne may plead ig-
ORANGE, and we wish the plea to have due
II, as we had heretofore supposed,
le DR.. knew that Taylor and the American
my were on a marauding expedition, his
word of explanation" seemed very much
Ike telling a band of robbers "Sirs, | regret
cry much that you should have been guilty
+ burglary, but nov that the watch SCALED
nd you are in danger of being captured,
Heaven forbid that | should by word or act
prevent your companions from going to your
assistance and def ense. We think that all
who are diversed of selfish patriotism, and
have not undue reverence for DR.. Bailey, cam
not but see it in this light. But then the
DR.. thought that Taylor was on Texan terri
tory. Here rises an important question, had
this nation a right to that territory supposing
it to be a part of Texas2 If not, the suppo-
sition that the army was on Texan territory
avails nothing. If so, why did the DIR. write
his anti-war articles? Taylor's army was an
g army of occupation necessary for the de-
tense of that territory, and the Dr's. motto is
" Millions for defense, but not a cent for ag-
gresSion."
We are not at all surprised that the Dr's.
course should be rebuked both by the ADOLF
~tionists and by the patriots. His denuncia-
tons of the war provoked the rage of the
latter, and if we have not been misinformed,
his Sword of explanation" was written as a
peace offering. What wonder that the aboli-
tionists should be moved to Indignation by
the public announcement of the withdrawal
of his opposition to the business of volunteer
ing so long as Taylor was in jeopardy. Per-
haps some of our readers have seen a history
of a fabulous war between the beasts and the
birds, and how the bat who first fought on
one side and then on the other, was Justly
regarded with distrust by both.
DR.. Baily thus spoke of General Taylor in
his sword of explanation"
"If we thought him in danger, and that
volunteers from this section were really need
ed to save him, we should certainly postpone
the articles we are now writing. Heaven
forbid that word or act of ours should have
the remotest tendency to leopard the safety of
that noble officer and his brave army"
This we think fully ~justifes the first part
of the resolution adopted by the Western A.
S. Society, establishing the charge it
made as true to the letter, for here is the pro-
lection and defense of General Taylor advo-
Gated and twenty-four columns written against
the war no more disproves this charge than
would twenty-four thousand American ora
tons in favor of liberty prove that we are not
a siaveholding nation. There is nothing in
his antl-war articles, so far as we can see,
which politically considered, initiates against
the sentiments put forth in his sword of ex-
planation," and, we do not see how anything
short OF retraction can save him. As well
Cassius NJ. Clay point to what he has
written against the wal as a proof that he did
not mean to enlist. Cassius denounced the
war, and then volunteered his services to
fight it, that he might save his country. DR..
Bailey also denounced it, and then prayed
Heaven to forbid that he should do or say any,
Thing to prevent as many Ohioans from VOL
as was necessary to save General
and we think it hardly becomes him
10 accuse those of "dishonesiy" who under
his language in its obvious meaning.
In relation to his high eulogies upon Tay-
and his army, we think he has laid him.
self open to the charge made against him.
What higher eulogy could he pronounce than
% call that officer noble and his army byope ?
And here let us observe that these terms were
applied with a view to what they had done
Is an "Army of Occupation and if we
not, after intelligence had been re-
,eived of the battles of the sth and 9th of
Nay where hundreds of Mexicans were
slaughtered. Aye! and in view of this re-
'ult he declared, We exceedingly rejoice
hat General Taylor by a decisive blow has
'xtricated his army from the perilous posi-
ion in which it was placed and this too,
Ifter the DR.. had had sufficient opportunity to
earn that Texas had no right to the country
the Nueces and the Rio Grande.-
Bailey admits that certain articles appear
I'd in his paper, transferred from the columns
If another daily, with captions inglaring cap
tails, announcing in glowing terms the tri-
lmph of Taylor and the slaughter of the
'ioxicans, which heading, he says, was mad
retained. Some of his friends lauph-
ID at him for the blunder, and as he made
10 explanation, was it any wonder that
hose who had not implicit confidence in him
should construe it to his disadvantage
So much for the charges preferred in the
esolution. As he has plead "not guilty " to
hem, he would of course demur to the infer
nee contained in the concluding part. We
re willing that our readers shall decide
Fhether the Western A. S. Society was not
lstiied in the form of censure it adopted,