Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-09-11

OF Mexico, with or without foreign aid. We
agree with him that in principle there would
be no difference. The combined fleets of
Mexico and France would have as good a
right 10 make a descent upon our coast as that
of Mexico alone. Has she not a right to do
as America did in her extremity May she
not justly Gall upon the descendants and
countrymen of La Fayette, and form a league
offensive and defensive with the government
of France Who will deny her right so to
do? If powerless to defend herself, may she
not invite any or all of her allies to come to
her assistance, and violate no code of nation
al honor in SO doing-they making her quar-
rel their ownl Let those who deny it, point
the finger of scorn at the American people,
because they once asked and obtained the as
s~istante of France. The armed intervention
OF another power as the ally of Mexico,
would no more change the character of the
contest, than did the presence and aid of the
Count De Grasse and his French troops
make the revolutionary struggle on the part
OF our fathers a war of aggression. If France,
as the friend and agent of Mexico, does what
Mexico has a right herself to do, and in or
der 10 secure the very existence of that ma
lion, and TO conquer peace for her, brings
Mexico's wa: upon the soil of Carolina,
could any true opponent of the present war
raise a hand to slaughter the agents and de-
tenders of Mexico DR.. Bailey afirms that
they could. Here is an extract from one of
his dnti-tcar articles
"But, suppose that England and France
should attempt an armed intervention, and
land their armies upon our SOFIA new con-
dition Of things would be presented. We
should be the inUaded, instead of the invadcrs
our liberties, our existence as a nation
would be threatened by the aggression. In
that contingency, the citizen, who, believing
in the rightfulness of self-detense, would not
spring to beat back the invaders, would prove
himself a vile traitor, and should be expelled
from a country, which, granting him protec-
ton, was repudidted in the hour of her
need"
Such sentiments are well calculated to
cherish that morbid patriotism which is as
narrow as a sectional spirit can make it,
True, they are not suffered to stand out in
bold relief so that their real character may
be clearly seen, but they are none the less
Objectionable or less dangerous on that &C.
count.
Mark the closing sentence of the paragraph;
to us it looks exceedingly like an endorse
ment Of Lynch law. The DIR. is not SO ig-
norant as TO suppose that either the National
or State governments have the right to expel
any one from the country. If, then, there is
any one, who, believing in the right of self
defense, is so Z" vile a traitor y" as to differ in
opinion with the DR.. in the sentiment OF
his quoted paragraph, we should like to know
what means are 10 be resorted 10 in order to
says the Dr., should be done.
We said that this sentiment looked exceed
ingly like an endorsement of Lynch law
Suppose, by way Of experiment, W. change
the subject matter of the sentence, altering
slightly its language but retaining its spirit
ain that contingency Ia slave insurrection)
the citizen, who, believing it right TO fight
under any Stances, would not hasten
TO reduce the slaves to subsection, would
prove himself a vile traitor, and should be
expelled from a country, which, granting him
protection, was repudiated In the hour OF hel
need"
If such an article had appeared III the Gin
cinnati Advertiser, or in any other paper a;
pro-slavery, we question whether there ex
lists a Liberty party man who would not de
clare it to be mobocratic in spirit and tenden
cy. Does its appearance in the Cincinnati
Herald, with such change only as is necessa
ry to make it apply to a different class of per
, sons, affect in the slightest degree its mobo
cratic character. We think not if we ar
f wrong, we should like to be shown wherein
At this very time there are men upon the so
of Ohio who believe in the rightfulness
: self-defense, and yet would refuse to tigl
: any invading force which came by Mexico
r request TO redress her wrongs, and these me
DIR. Bailey declares should be expelled fro
the country. High authority, is it not! +
the executors of Lynch law to quote! Son
of the citizens of Mercer county have recen
q ly resolved in a public meeting to expel ce
tain men from that county because their cor
n ~plexions differ from that of DR.. Bailey
8 Which is the worse, to eXpel for a differenC
of complexion, or difference of opinion III
n respectable mobocrats Of Mercer threatc
a the former, and DIR. Bailey recommends t
latter.
Our Cincinnati friends, G.. DoNALDsd
> HIRAM S. GILMORE, WV. DONALDSON, al
# john o. WArTLEs, in their commitment
addressed to us under date of July 4th, al
which was published in the LIST no. of o
Is present volume, referring to Df. Balley's a
ticles upon the war, speak of his " word
Or explanation as being "a single error
s. Judgment" leaving US and our readers to i
OF fer that they endorsed all else he had writt