Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-07-14

ed the members of Liberty party in this conn
ty, who approved Of, and endorsed their pro-
eeedings. A Business Committee was APP
pointed, who reported a series of resolutions,
among which was the following:
B,,oiped. That John P. Hale, John NJ.
Niles, j.. r. Giddings, David Wilmot, John
G.. Palfrey. Gerrit Smith, John Van Buren,,
| Preston King, Martin Van Buren,, and others
who have battled m~anfully against the ag-
pressions Of the slave power, merit and re-
ceive our most cordial sympathy any one
of whom would receive our hearty support If
nominated by the Buffalo Convention.
This resolution, the minutes inform u.s.
was adopted with much unanimity." And
now let us see whether the Liberty party
members Of that Convention have not, BY
voting for it, shamefully forsaken their prin-
ciples and betrayed the anti-slavery cause.
How stand the men the resolution names?
The views of John P. Hale have already
been referred TO. The anti slavery Of John
NJ. Niles is Of but recent date, and not very
extensively developed. Joshua R. Giddings
does as much against slavery as any one can
do under the Constitution. David Wilmot,
it is true, originated the Proviso which bears
his name, but has declared he would march
south to suppress a slave Instruction. John
G.. Palfrey has probably more anti-slavery
than a majority of the Liberty party. Gerrit
Smith is as good a man as they could get,
but would feel insulted bya nomination from
J e,,ob n oror,or T,bn Eon n,.a. ,.,a1, H.,
the compromises of the Constitution, giving
up fugitives and crushing insurgents. Pres
ton King, we believe, belongs in the same
category. Martin Van Buren,, the probable
nominee of the Buffalo Convention, has not
recalled the pledge he gave to veto any bill
for the abolition of slavery in the District Of
Columbia, and in his recent letter to the
Landowners Convention at Utica, we find
the following sentiment:
"Whilst the candidate of my friends for
the Presidency, | distinctly announced my
opinion in favor of the power of Congress to
abolish slavery in the District of Columbia,
although ! was, for reasons which were then,
and are still satisfactory to my mind, decided
ly opposed to its exercise there"
But Liberty party in Columbiana county
stands pledged to go for any one of these
that the Convention may nominate; and We
understand that H. l.. Preston has been en-
gagged to canvass the county, and is awaiting
the action of the Convention in order to know
phose claim to the Presidency he is to advo-
cate. This movement on the part of both
employers and employed, is a striking illus
tratlon of the phrase, "going it blind
Well may the slave exclaim, Save me
from such friends"
Among the names of the Committee who
reported the foregoing resolution, are those of
John Frost, editor of the Aurora, and Jacob
Heaton, of this place. We should think
John Frost would feel rather queer to see the
name of Martin Van Buren, flying at the
masthead of his little sheet; and we
know the anti-slavery heart Of Jacob IIeaton
too well, TO think that he can stump il,
with a clear conscience, for such a nominee.
The fact that Liberty party in this county
has committed suicide, is no reason that
its former friends should choose to be bu-
ried with it. Those of them who have
anti-slavery enough TO live a life sepa-
rate from the party, had better forget the
things that are behind, and press forward 10
the mark of the prize of the high calling
which becometh abolitionists.
The editor of the Aurora, in noticing the
proceedings of the Hanover Convention,
says:
Wings, Democrats, Liberty men. Ma
tlonal Reformers, Dissolutioniats, all seemed
TO heartily concur in what was DONE"
If by Dissolutionists, he means those who
are opposed to giving supper. to the U. S.
Constitution, his declaration involves a con-
tradlclion of terms. AS well might he talk
OF Christians approving of Mahomedanism,
or Protestants contending for the supremacy
OF the Pope. A Protestant can become a
Catholic, a Christian may become a Maho-
medan, and a Disunionist forsake his princi-
pies; but in so dong they forfeit all claim
to their previous character, and it is a mis-
homer to designate them by the names they
once bore.
We are inclined to think the editor scarce
ly knew what he was saying for after af-
hrmlng that sail seemed heartily to concur
In what was DONE" in the second sentence
following, he contradicts himself by de-
claring, "The Liberty men present, at least
some of them, Uere disappointed, because it
appeared like compromising some important
: principles, &C." most hearty concurrence,
l truly
This is a specimen brick of Liberty party,
and by it, we can judge of the material of
which the party is composed /; and from the