Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-07-16
COMMUNICATIONS.
SHORT CREEK, June 10, 1917.

FRIENDS EDITORS -
Harrison Co. has not yet responded to
Captain Polk, and Gov. Bebb's call for pi-
rates and cut-throats TO 60 to Mexico to muir
dor women and children, and dispossess the
people of their country for the objectionable
sin Of freeing their slaves. True, when the
call was first made, the rowdies Of Cadiz
who displayed so much military zeal in get
ting up a mob TO stone Abby Kelley, cut
quite a flourish, and succeeded in entrapping
a few minors, and others that cared very lit
tie where they were if they got plenty of the
''good creature" But when they went TO
Cincinnati, these patriots were all rejected
and sent home. l have not yet learned whe-
ther it was on the account of their being too
puerile, or because they had not their Bibles
by them. 1t was remarked by some of the
citizens Of Cadiz, that they could spare more
such without any Inconvenience. But the
most dastardly act was the manner in which
they ensnared them. They made such a dis
play of patriotism that they succeeded in
throwing their damning coil around some of
the unsuspccting ones, and after they had
got them secured by oath, they made them
60 like the unsuspecting OK TO the slaughter,
while they stayed at home 10 take care OF
their own pecunlary business, and the affairs
of government.
Harrison Co. is beginning to arouse from
her state of lethargy. She is beginning to
feel. that incubus, slavery, which is taxing
us with a war every few years for its perpet-
uation and projections. The treasury of the
u. S. has been robbed of between thirty and
forty millions of dollars, to say nothing OF
the sacrifice of lives and debasement of mo-
rails, and all to recapture a few fugitive slaves
that had found an asylum for their lacerated
bodies and broken spirits, among the saw
ages of Florida. And now we are plung-
ed into another war of which the pages of
history cannot furnish a parallel so black and
damning in its character. They have COM
meneed their plumber, and time only can tell
where it will end. They come with their
mendaci,y and ask the intelligent people of
the 4NOIlu, 10 dSSlSl tueW IN llelG uldOOllcdl
work. | say let them fight and bleed, l
crave none Of their spoils, nor honor. sup
pose they expect the same blessing that the
Goths did, whose religious teachers told them
that sail who gave themselves to warlike ac-
tions and enterprises, to the conquest of their
neighbofs and the slaughter of their enemies,
and died in battle, or of violent deaths upon
bold adventure or resolutions, went immedi-
ately to the vast hall or palace of Odin, their
God of War, who e~ternally kept open house
for all such guests, where they were enter
tanned at infinite tables, in perpetual feasts
and miIth, carousing in bowls made of the
skulls of enemies they had slain according
to the number of whom, every one in those
mansions of pleasure was the most honored
and the best entertained"
When so many will offer up their souls
and bodies on the field Of battle, their BODY
to be COMMON food for wolves and ~vultures.
for conquest and military fame, why should
we fear to die for the sake of truth Yes
! say let them h.andish their glittering steel
and gnash their teeth, but we will stand firm
and mistaken at our post.
The fisnde or peace AMI % the espresso,