Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-04-23
COMMUNICATIONS.
Gov. BriggS---WeSieTn Liberty Party
Annual Meeting.

DAXvERs, Mass, April 8, 1917.
DEAR FRIENDs:-
To-day is Governor Briggs's Fast Day.
| don't know Of any person who should las
il he should not. if fasting would do any goot
in the way Of atoning for sin, or proPitla'lns
the Divine favor and forgiveness. A minis
ter told me the other evening | ought not 10
be suffered 10 spe1k against the Governor as
| did-one OF the very best men in the church
or commonwealth. | told him no might be
one of the best men in the church, but mat l
feared this was paying him a very doubtful
compliment after all.
Governor Briggs has been doing his Ut
most TO raise men to murder the Mexican
people; conniving at tho most internal mea-
sures to enlist them appealing to their "pa'
trioiism and humanity " getting them drunk
telling the most devlish lies to them about
the pay the soldiers receive brlbing rutfllans
with a fee, for all the poor fools they can in
veigle, drunk or sober, into the fangs OF the
government forcing some away, at the point
of the bayonet, who, on getting sober, repent
ed their folly, or who, not having received
the bounty, had to leave homo almost naked,
and their families more destitute still. All
this has the Governor been doing, or conniv-
ing at, besides volunteering to commission
the myrmidons they call officers" and then
in his Fast Day Proclamation, with most un-
blushing effrontery, he says:
Covering ourselves pih humility a, with
a garment, let us deuOutiy entreat God 10 put
an end 10 HE toar no,o ecisting Jetwcen our
oun and a sis!er Republic, and pray that The
time may come When His Word shall go forth
that the sw0rd shall eSase 10 hiH."
No wonder h. thinks it time to do some
thing to procure the favor of Infinite Justice.
To 90 one day, all hands of US, without our
dinners to please God, and to get him to UNI
do the mischief we are so greodily doing
To get him to set up a grand blacksmith's
shop, and beat the swords and bayonets we
are forging to murder with, into ploughshares
and ~pruning-hooks. Let George N. Briggs
and his clan go without their dinners if they
think it will do any good. 1shall do no such
thing, that is if can get anything to eat
which will not he easily done a great while
if he, and such as he, sit at the helm of go
vernment much longer. Men sin like de
mons, and then think 10 escape repentance o
punishment by abstaining a day now ant
then from their regular meals-a marvellou
God have they, truly.
l see the Cincinnati Herald, with its usu
al fairness, refuses to publish Stephen S
Fosters letter. For one / am glad of it,
1t reveals the character of Western LIBERT
Party-LIBERTY Party :! When Fredc
ric Douglass, William A. White and other
returned a year or two ago from the Yves
they told us the party was not as base an
corrupt as it was here in New England
We believed or rather hoped it was true.-
They had been kindly greeted by the part,
and had even received aid and cooperate
to some extent, from its most active supper
ers. And they believed the party acted
all sincerity, and so reported. Consequer
1y when the Fosters and others began to u
mask them, and to hold up their hypocri'
and depravity, even some of our friends he
deemed us unnecessarily severe. But tn
are revealing themselves. Let them refu
a few more communications, and they a
welcome to all the respect they can commal
in New England.
l hope TO see a delegation from Ohio
the annual meeting in New York, next mont
That ought to be the largest and most enth
siastic meeting ever held by our Society,"
The screaming horrors of the Mexican butte
ery-the streaming blood of ten thousand i
nocent men slain-the wailing Of orphan
the weeping Of widows, the violation of W
mans virtue, the smoking towns, the gauI
famine, and all the desolations of Mexic
miugls with the woes of the slave, aud viii
together like a tempest up to heaven deman
Ing vengeance. Such is our crisis. God e.
poets every man to do his duty in it.
Yours az ever,
PARKER PiLLSBuRY.