Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-02-05
Curiosity.
To tie Editors Of tile .9nii-SLavsry BugLe.
SULLIVAN, JAM, 18th, 1917.


SULLIVAN, jan, 18th, 1917.
We have deposited with the Post Master
in this place the amount of money due you
for the Bugle up to this date, which is sub
jeet to your order.
We wish our papers discontinued. We
are sbolitionists, but not Of the Giddings
School and are not disposed to acknowledge
him as a leader.
The above letter, signed by five subscri-
bers, was received a short time since and
as it is a curiosity in its way, we place it on
record. We have, had subscribers discon-
tinue their papers for almost every kind Of
cause, and some perchance for none, but
never before did any tell US to stop their pa
per because the Bugle was a Giddings organ,
and the Disunionists Of the Giddings school.
1t SEEMS, however, men can find more rea-
sons for discontinrance than we ever dream
ed of; and now that the Grst tremendous
feeling of this shock has passed of, we are
fortified for all else that may come, and are
even prepared to have it discontinued because
it favors Liberty party-a charge which
would have as much foundation, in fact, as
the one above alleged. We have been search
ing the files of our paper to discover the
shadow of the idea which so frightened our
five former subscribers, and think we have
found it in an article published during our
absence on the Reserve; not, however, an
editorial, but an article copied from the Lib
orator, in which Giddings is praised for the
course he pursues in Congress. We suspect
our five discontinuers will hardly be able to
find a paper to suit them unless they publish
one themselves. Wonder if they can find
five Wings who will subscribe for the Bugle
for the same reason they discontinued it.
SLAVE INsURRECTIoN.-A gentleman in
this city, yesterday received a letter from
Memphis, which says that a negro insurrec-
tion was planned in that neighborhood, and
just discovered. Considerable excitement
had taken place, and the city guard was con-
siderably increased. On the night of the
proposed insurrection a house was set on fire.
Several negroes had been arrested and confess
sed the fact of the intended nsurrection.-
N. o. JeGerSOnidn, 3lSt all.
Some seventy odd years since King George
Sd, of England, had a similar difficulty with
some of his rebellious subjects, though he
was not so successful in suppressing the out
break as the King Georges of Memphis APP
pear to have been. There were a good many
houses burned at that time, and some hard
fighting done at Lexington, Bunker Hill, and
many other places. The people of this coun-
~,oorollr olr,iro a., oonJ,ot sc ,Lo -
surgents of 70, while they would about as
generally approve of doing to the Memphis
insurgents of 'lG what King George would
have gladly done to Washington and Marion
could he but have caught them and found
rope to suit his purpose. If these Memphis
tyrants hang a single one of the insurgents,
they will be guilty of a more damnable act
than the British Government would, had 1t
strangled Washington upon the g%allows, for,
according to the testimony Of slaveholding
revolutionists themselves, the condition of
the slave is fraught with inconceivably great
er misery, and with far more g%rievous wrong
than the fathers of '76 ever experienced at
the hands of Great Britain.
The BLACK LAws.-From the intelligence
which may be found in another column, it
will be seen that a bill for the repeal of these
infamous laws has been lost in the Senate.
Want of time and space will not now permit
US to refer TO this matter as we desire.
The LIBERTY PARTY VOTE in Mass. has
increased LAG since the election Of '45-so
says the Emancipator.