Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-07-02
Fran lie Blue HENS Chicken, (DeA.)
THE NORTH AND SOUTH.


by a list of appointments made by the
President since the adjournment of Congress,
it appears that forty-one Captains are from
the slave States, to fifteen from the free
twenty-three firSt-lientenants from slave states
to eight from the free; fifiy-seven second
lieutenants from slave states, TO thirty-two
from the Free"
We clip the above from the Westchester
Register and Examiner, and we commend ii
to the consideration of the freemen Of the
North and the Blue Hens Chickens Of Del
aware. The population of the free States is
much greater than that of the slave States,
and yet the appointments are nearly three to
one from the slave States.
Are the people of the slave States all Office
seekers. or is the government partial TO slave.
ry? Where is the man with a patriotic heart
in his bosom who will not 90 for liberty
for the Wllmol proviso-to prevent the eX-
tension Of the curse and blight of slavery I
Let every Delawarean who loves liberty give
praise to Hon. John NJ. Clayton and Hon.
John w. Houston for voting against the ex-
tension of this direful curse. We will not
disturb domestic institutions, but we 90 a.
gdinst the extension of the blight Of slavery
as we would against the extension Of the cho-
lera or plague. The former is much the
worst, because the more lasting evil.
Backsiding.-'Fhe National Era, speaking
of the probability of many papers which have
been strong antl.slavery. falling into the cur
rent and finally supporting Gen. Taylor, re-
marks oil the True Democrat as follows -
"There is one paper which, we predict,
will not fall into the general current-we
mean the True Democrat, a daily Wing pa
per published at Cleveland, Ohio. The edi-
tor has committed himself too far to draw
back, even though he might wish to DO so.
But he has betrayed no such desire. lie
gives no uncertain sound on this question:
lie does not suspend his future course upon
any contingencies, nor talk of a "necessity -
being created for supporting General Taylor,
as does the Tribune. "BuIs" and ifs
are discarded. and he Iesolutely strikes his
stand-no more voting for slavery, its sup.
porters, or apologists."
The editor is right. We have washed our
hands of slavery, AMI will never stain them.
Our eyes are not to be blinded by the dazzle
of military glory, to the cause of truth and
freedom. Whether Gen. Taylor comes az
as the peopc'S candidate, that is, the siare.
hOLderS' or comes forth as the nominee ever
of a National Wing Convention, if such an
one can be so lost to principle as to nominate
him, it will make no difference with u.s.
We shall keep Oh the even tenor of our way.
and keep our eyes fixed upon the mark Of the
high calling of Liberty Justice and the Con
stitution.-Truc Democrat.
More CRUELTY.-A fresh story is roinn
the rounds, of savage murders ia Mexico, By
Americans. from which a common savag,
would turn pale with horror-a hundred pris
oners shut up in a house and murdered in de
tnil as they attempted to es ape, except five
or six who discovered themselves to be fe
males TO save their lives! The letter write
appears TO claim credit for laboring a whoE
d0y and greatly .tatiguing himself in killing
MeXicans and burning houses! He says they
put all the weak and infirm, who could no
escape, into one house Ito starve and die,
which they left standing and burnt all the res
for many miieSt
Dreadful will be the rptribuiion, when the
! avenger of blood shall pass over this land
Vain then will be our boast of power ant
t wealth and Numbers, as the poor Indian long
since found his boast, that they were tho
many for God to kiH."-HarerhW Gazete.
a Boy Carried orer Niagara FaHs.-We
learn from Col. John Fisk that a melancholy
: accident occurred at Niagara Falls on Sun
day last. A fine lad of the name of Johr
Murphy, aged about Is years, in the employ
3 OF Judge Porter, in crossing to Chippewa il
a canoe, was drawn into the rapids on thC
Canada side, and into the Great Horse
Shoe Fall" When he was first discovered
hi was beyond the reach of all earthly as.
> %sistance and, although the little fellow die
all that courage and strength could do, hold
ing his eight canoe for nearly twenty min
= utes, almost stationary, and when tired ma
turo gave up contending longer, with tn,
5 wind and current both against him, the littl,
fellow plunged overheard and with the cour
r age and perseverance of a man, for some tint
breasted the current. But, alas too late
! though within one hundred yards of tn
shore, he was in the embrace of the rushin!
cataract, which never releases its victims!
\ The broken fragments Of his frail bari
1 were all that We're found of the little mariner
, A widowed mother and three children mourn
Z the loss Of a son and brother, and man
2 strangers lament the fate Of a noble and eX