Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-10-29
From The Louisville Examiner.
Correspondence and Correspondents

duu Itdu NllCAi ONtl ChC " OhNs 80 wv a.
ways a pleasant task. But it may be made
30, if you will only learn from them the char
acters fthe writers. The cautious, sauguine.
bold, impulsive, tunid-cdn be guessed, at
once, without Combe's book, or Fowler's
chronological bust.
This whole day, though not with this view,
We have been reading and answering letters,
and we do not know that we can employ its
close better than In giving a running notice
Of their contents.
The first we take up is from a North Ala
bamian. His parents were South Carolinl-
ans; but moved to the West, where he was
mainly reared. He says:
81 was principally raised in North Alaba-
ma, but had 10 leave there on account OF Slave
~. / could not live there without patlicipa-
hing in it some way, and that | determined
not to do. | am attached to the country; it
has a mild aud gentle climate; produces the
best fruits and vegetables; but the curse of
slavery upon it, has ruined it.. | feel as 1t
should like to go back and live there; if this
curse could be removed; but | have no hope
of it in my day."
"Let him CO.. say one class. Not so,
friends! What drove that man away, drives
thousands. 1t may not inpoverish you; but
it does impoverish the state; check lis growth,
its power; stop the building of railways; lin
it the comforts and the happiness of the ma
ny; unnerve and debase labor. "Let him
stay" adds another. So say we. Stay here,
stay, and battle against the evil-stay and
root it out.
But listen again to a Southron:
"'The last year | lived there alabama in
1857 [ attended two meetings in my county
to ferret out anti-slavery publications; [aboli-
ton papersl dared not take any part. |
could say what | pleased in private without
running any risk: and any who knew the
middle class men would have been aslonish-
ed at the extent of the emancipating feeling.
In fact believe it is more extensively felt at
the South than We generally suppose"
Well-we say, stay at home; and talk as
you please in private. Rouse the middle
cIass.-They have the stuff in them to do
If resolved, they can carry the day. And
why should they not speak QUIZ This IL
dared not take any part" is what makes the
masses powerless, aud the few absolute. If
in private, men say what they please, they
can soon act in public. Stay, then at the
South, and work.
Let us hear now from Western Virginia.
friend writes us:
81 have the opinion ofsome of the citizens
Of Wood county. that if they had somebody
TO take the lead, an emancipation representa-.
tive could be elected from that county. So
Of counties round it,"
'Somebody to take the lead!' Do we
wait for that in private affairs! When our in
terests demand it do we stop to enquire what
we should say or dol This idea about wait
ing to take the lead is a most pernicious one.
Let the good man utter himself, and other
good men will respond, and leadership will
soon be settled. The hour then will produce
its man.
But another correspondent says:
81 have perused the several numbers ofthe
Examiner as they have been received. and
am well pleased with the manner in which il
has been conducted so far. | hope it may
prove a valuable auxiliary in the great aud
good work of terminating American slavery
One thing is perfectly obvious to every man
who reflects on the past history of our coun.
try and carefully surveys the present position
of our national affairs. Slavery must soon
be checked in its progress, or the union OF
these states mu t be dissolved, and with the
dissolution of the Union, in all probability
will terminate all our fair hopes OF pros peTlty
and freedoml God grant that the onward
tide of this tremendous evil, which has hith
erto surmounted and swept away every bar
rier, may not be permitted to undermine anC
overthrow our constitution, our Unlon, our lib
critics! Switt's spider, when he saw the house
wife's broom, said that Heaven and Eartf
were coming together, but the coming togeth
er of Heaven and Earth, was but the comlnI
down of his cohweb."
Never fear friend about disunion. We o
the mld-slave states will save that. Weldon
mean that the perpetualists shall have every
thing their own way, and If they make tn
effort TO dissolve the Government, these state
will prevent it. The Missouridns all so de
clare. Nav, as to that, Judge Nicholas dec
~Iaration will hold good Of all of them. The
will never acquiesce in the idea that negr
slavery is to be entailed upon them, and thel
poslerity, in perpeluity and never tolerate tn
idea of disunion for this end. Their cours
may create a great out-cry; but the cob-weI
oniV will be swept away. Look up, then
friend, and labor on. A better day is coming
yet -
Old North Carolina we had well nigI
overlooked her. Hear one OF her in'ellIgen
sons. Referring to the fact that had MAD
the identical suggestion We had, as regard
county action, he says:
al made the identical suggestion whicl
Won state is now about being acted upon Il
Western Virginia, and have insisted that no
only counties, nut towns, cities and town
shiDs. should have the privilege of abolish
inc slavery. | at the same time pointed on
many ways in which local emancipation
would be accomplished, provided the tunda
mental law Of the state guaranteed the tutur
exemption of such places from slavery"
Many benevolent persons both in the Mort
and South would be induced to bequeaih the
property to a county or township for the PnI
pose Of Kidding it Of slavery, who would ne'
hr think OF giving it to a state tor such a pu