Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-10-23

NNH'N ~ W. 'hp'oBiiSJ III occupying ~
columns of the Bugle in self-defense /; but
when it is shown that in that very defense
he denounces as vile traitors, a portion of tho
Society of which he complains-for many Of
them hold the views which he says are trail
torous-and says they should be expelled
from the country, he barely stoops to notice
it, and throwing himself upon his dignity,
says:
"We cannot enter the arena with such OPP
ponents. Discussion we love-but il is the
discussion of important questions, with cam
did adversaries, for the sake of truth. We
shall not stop at this late day, to vindicate
the orthodoxy of our abolitionism, or the f.
deity of our general course to the cause of
Freedom, against any assailants. If our life
cannot speak for itself, then have we lived 10
little purpose, and no words of ours could
command a confidence that our acts had fail
ed to secure.
But, should discussion be sought with us
at any time, tor tie sake IF the Truth, by
Truth-loving, fair-dealing opponents, they
shall have 1t TO their hearts content"
We can scarcely persuade ourselves but
what DR.. Bailey knows that the dignity he
assumes upon this occasion is mock dignity,
"'p 'iht iN uNol9hS II u ulNtIl inc dtientlOn
Of the people from the detestable sentiments
to which he gave utterance. 1t is not an
important question" whether DR.. Bailey is
jnstihable in denouncing as vile traitors those
who would not unite with him in beating
back the invading allies of Mexico! 1t is
not an "importlnt question" Wheeler he shall
proclaim Of unolfending men that such refu-
sal ought TO subject them TO expulsion from
the land Of their birth and consequent sepa-
ration from their families and friendsl but il
is exceedingly important whether DR.. Bailey
shall be known as a supporter or opponent Of
the Mexican war, so exceedingly important
that he thinks it best to ask us to publish five
columns upon the question If the DR.. de-
ceives others, we think he can hardly deceive
himself. IT'S an old way of getting out of
a difficulty; and it is much easier to insinuate
false charges against an opponent, than to ex-
tricate yourself, honoraJly, from a false and
wicked position.
In an editorial article which appeared in
the Weekly Herald between two and three
months since, entitled 'Personal Matters
we think DR.. Bailey did great injustice to the
Western Anti-Slavery Society. Soon after
its appearance one of its Elk. Com. sent him
an article for publication, in which the course
of that body was defended. That reply the
DR.. has not inserted, which we think he most
certainly would have done had he been az
anxious to do, as TO receive Justice. Those
who wish to see it. will find it in this weeks
paper, among the communications.
The course pursued by the conductors Ct
the Democratic Standard and Wing of 70, is
no more commendable; they follow in tho
footsteps of their illustrious predecessor, of
the Herald. That paper lately published an
article from the Cleveland American, impugn-
ing the veracity of Samuel Brooke, and in
stead of inserting his denial of it as publish
ed in the columns of this paper and addressed
individually to its editors, it puts in a short
notice that " he desires US to contradict it,"
makes it an opportunity to utter a false charge
against the Disunionists, and then says, 1--WE
have no controversy with the Bugle, and do
not intend to have any"
This, we suppose, is Liberty party fair
ness. 1t misrepresents Disunionists, and
when called upon to give the other side, de-
clines upon the ground of being opposed 10
controversy with them. That it is opposed
to such controversy is very true, as we can
testify with a clear conscience.
THE New Yoax STATE CONVENTION ad-
journed on the 9Th inst. The proposed con-
%stltution prohibits forever the granting of
Bank charters abolishes all feudal tenures
in the State except those which have hereto
fore been legally acquired declares that no
lease for agricultural land shall be given for
more than twelve years; secures to married
women the property they held before mar
rage and that acquired aiterward by gift or
devise from any except their husbands; and
leaves the elective franchise as it is in the
present constitution.
When it was proposed many years ago in
a convention of which DR.. Franklin was a
member, that none but property holders
should vote, he presented this case. A man
has a ~jackass to-day, and votes tomorrow
the animal dies, and the mans right to a
vote dies with it. 1t is the jackass that votes,
and not the man.
The convention proposes that no man who
has a colored skin shall be allowed to vote
unless he owns several jackasses, or other
property to the amount of $3.50; and this, we
suppose, is modern democracy.
No CAUSE FOR SURPRISE. The editor of
the Cleveland American tries to make him
self merry with the idea which we recently
advanced, that an increase in the votes Of
Liberty party, ''would by no means be an