Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-07-28

wing, II you uOn vote lot Oen' taylor, we
shall have Gen. Cass for President, and then
there will be a deal of democratic mischief.
So men are controlled By a mere handful Of
men, who, oftener than otherwise, are seek
ers Of Office. One hundfsd and twenty thou
sand voters Of Massachusetts must pin their
faith upon the sleeves Of less than twenty
thousand.
This is not all. A great many officers are
left to the appointment OF the Executive, very
unwisely as it seems to me, and so it hap
pens that only a few men control the forces
of the nation. And so it likewise happens
that they put men into office who will do
their work. The South wants Cass or Tay-
lor-the one a man thoroughly sold to slave
~, who even wishes 10 extend it over new
territory the other one Of the greatest slave
holders Of the land, and, according to the
newspapers, just investing $4,000 in his
brother men.
The men who make the President must
also be paid for making him. During the
last four years FORTY-ONE members Of
the Baltimore Convention have been appoint
ed to office, and the sum Of money which
they have received Is more than $3.50, 900.
1t will be the same thing at the next cleo
ton. Those who sigh and groan for the
DuUlIC RObu htON Nhuh hit NV
Nothing for nothing, is their rule. Thus
men are appointed to the office who do not
represent ideas. put it 10 you Of the De-
mocratic party if General Cass represents a
single Democratic idea. | put it to you of
the Wing party if General Taylor represents
a single Wing principle. Ii seems 10 me, if
they do not, if they are only selected because
available-then it seems 10 me an insult is
offered to the people which it would take a
great deal of charity to putup with. doubt
not that Cass and Taylor are as good as Clay
and Calhoun, as Benton and Webster, but
are they as good as the people Do they
represent American ideas That is the ques-
ton | put to you.
Party spirit cor:upts the nation, and yet
it has shown one thing worth considering
How very small an amount of political talent
and Of virtue it requires to satisfy the party
and satisfy it fully.
Well, such is the problem before the ma
ton, and such are the tlr g great obstacles
in the way Of its solution.
These are great dangers and point to great
duties. There is one condition to the enjoy
ment of our rights, and that is that we do
our duties. We want a stern justice which
will not compromise truth or right, which
will not excnse wong by lheorizing on
crime. "The fault, dear brother, is not in
our stars, but in ourselves" The dangers
are great, but there is no cause of despair.
Such are the energies of the nation that even
a wicked administration will not ruin u.s.
If we will learn by the experience of the
past, these 200, 600, 900 dollars and 10000
lives are not dollars and lives wasted. Be
true, not to my conscience and party, but to
your own conscience, and TO the last.
See what encouragement there is in our
days. See how the nations of the old world
awake from their stupor. Italy is in motion
from the Alps 10 the Gulf of laramie. All
Germany is astir with revolution from the
Gulf of Venice to the Baltic Sea. Belgium
rises from her lethargy. France, from the
Rhine TO the Atlantic, is filled with noble
thoughts-full of danger indeed God send
her and her sister nations a good deliverance
but all these revolutions, this expulsion of
tyrants, all this has not cost half as many
lives as we have thrown away in Mexico
Men demand peace, not war. They will
have freedom. Slavery is getting abolished.
The despots treinble. The %lesuits of the
church flee one day, and the %jesuits OF the
state flee the next. Shall America be the
last nation that confdes her glory to Jesuits
Democratic America, Christian America
l will not believe it. Never. What a mag
nifcent spectacle is this of a great nation =
Two hundred and fifty years ago there were
only a few white men sprinkled around here,
engaging the forests with their axes, while
the wilderness with motherly arms shut them
in. Now we have twenty millions whiten-
ing the sea with our sails, paving the roads
with iron bars and talking with the light
ming.
What a sight this would be if there were
no national crime, no war, no slavery, no
party strife, but twenty millions of men, all
freemen, all virtuous, al Christian men,
Then might our fathers who sowed the seed
here turn away their eyes FROM the splendors
of heaven to look down upon thu conduct OF
their children. Three-score and Twelve years
ago to-day-we may judge how men looked
and preached In Boston. They preached
politics from the pulpits in those days.
Here was the oppressor, we were in arms
praying to God for the ~right--only two mil
lions and a half, no more-poor, hopeful, va
liant, brave. Now we are the oppressors
and the American Eagle, which for two year
past has flown over PROSTATE Mexico, come
back with its talons dripping with blood
bearing in its beak the most precious thin
in Mexico. We have established SLAYER,
there. While the Emperor of Russia abate
its force, while the Bey of Tunis sweeps
from The northern shore Of Africa, Christian
democratic America extends il down the con
tinent, through Mexico and California, an
seeks to extend it even 10 the isthtHus. BE
fore this century ends we shall be a hundre
millions of men. Our annual earnings wi
amount to 10, 900, 900, 900 dollars. We sha
have all the northern continent, perhaps mos
of the islands of the south. We shall be
great nation-aye, a great nation, but tn
aim of a nation is to produce men, good men
lust men, righteous men. Shall we do that
Human institutions, statutes, wealth, all al
worthless, when we do not produce them.
know we shall /; we must. Those obstacle
in our way are not paramount. How sha
we remove the monstrous evils of our day