Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-11-24
AUGUSTA. Carroll Co., Nov. 10. ,4s.

DEhH 4 HIkNDS -
attended a Wing meeting In Augusta the
evening after seeing you, Of which a brief
account may serve to call thought to "the
sum Of all villanies, '-American Slaverv-
Messrs. Eckley and Trip, both LAWYER.
from Carrollion, were there to address the
people. Mr.. Trip frs, addressed the audi
ence. He told them a Presiden, was to be
elected, and duty to themselves and the coun.
try demanded they should make a wise 90.
lection. He eulogized Gen. Taylor, and, as
a matter Of course, condemned Csss and Van
Buren,. He stated that when Gen. Cass was
Governor o! Michigan he voted for a law su-
thorizing that persons convicted Of certain
crimes should be sold for the term OF three
months to the highest bidder. Yes, said he,
this law was carried into effect. A white
man was sold and bought by a black man..
Yes, a white man sold to a black man, and
that with the consent Of General Cass -
Most horrible for General Cass TO consent to
sell a man for three months, who was con.
victed Of crime, but most viduous for Gen.
Taylor to buy and sell men, women and chill.
dren by the hundred for a life time, who had
not been charged with crime! o shame
where is thy blush ! Iasked il i, was worse
for a black man to buy a white man than for
a white man to buy a black man! Az .
matter to be expected, he avoided a direct
answer.
After giving Gen. Taylor all the glory Of
an honest man, he gave way to Mr.. Eckley.
! then arose and stated that / had penciled
a few questions during the meeting, which
] would like to read. 1, was agreed that I
should read them towards the close of thu
meeting. Mr.. Eckley then spoke in the most
eloquent strain Of our glorious republic as
being a government of the people. What a
%humbug! 1t isa government Of the people,
pOmen and negroes ereepfed. II would truly
have been amusing to hear Mr.. Eckley call
upon the people to rally around General Tay-
lor as the only means of stopping the extern
sion of slavery. had it not been leading hon.
est men. blindfolded.
He pointed forward TO a time when the
blightiag curse of slavery may have spread
over all the newly-acquired territory, the OK
%istence of which, said he, may cause our
grand children to see a dissolution Of this
Union. l expressed a hope that we might
see it much sooner; which idea seemed most
horrible to them.
Towards the close Of the meeting l crowd
ed in the following questions: Has any man
a moral right to hire himself out 10 rob and.
murder human beings, without regard to their
guilt or innocence, at the bidding and for the
benefit of his employers!
After making a short appeal to the moral
feelings Of the audience, | asked a vote upon
it. l believe the vote was unanimous against
any such right. Then / asked is not Gen.
Zachary Taylor a robber and a murderer in
the broadcast sense Of the termsl which, as
might be expected, was followed by a sumul-
tuous shout, No! no! no! And are not his
employers, the American people, a nation Of
robbers and mnrGerers in the broadcast sense
Of the terms Another shout of No! mo-!
, Thus ended the scene. 1t will not require
3 a large amount Of discernmen, to see that all
I was admitted in the vote upon the first ques-
a ton.
My objee, in writing, is to call upon my
f Wing friends to calmly reconsider their vote.
q Many Of them, / believe, are too honest TO
support slavery or war, were they not KEEP.
in ignorance by designing priests and pelisi-
cal demagogues, whose interest i, is to de-
s ceivs. And ] will here state a few facts
o A few years ago this government trsatsd
I with the Seminole and Creek Indians fol
3 their possessions in Florida, then cheated
e them GU, Of their money. ($25o, o0o) and
divided it among slaveholasfs; after which,
they ordered General Taylor to go and driv,
them from their possessions al the canon'i
mouth. He went, and what did he dot
Mt Only think Of it! he violated a positive com
h. mand Of the New Testament, that says
~ Light shall have no fellowship with dark
ness" Yes. he compelled his CAriaia,
,v soldiers to enter into fellowship with heathe,
"a soldiers, for the express psJpose Of tracking
is up and manning a few poor Indians and ne
4 groes who had fled from the ruthless hand o
nj American Democratic Christian murdereys
a, and taken refuge in the swsmps. And VIII
If were those heather! Cuban dogs! Sine
n, then the eagle eye of the slave power ha
ID been turned towards Mexico. Il saw Their
in a vast field over which slavery might be e1
ba tended. To bring about this, q war Of s1
!, termination and conquest must be wsged.-
~ Gen. Taylor was the man to do the work.
b He went down, bombarded towns and G.
,;oa sharahu rnuKdaKinU innaoant man. We
- men and children by the hundred. Ths'
- might be volume Of facts written to prov
the above positions true, but my article