Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-09-01
PARKMAN, Aug. 9Th, 1s4s.

FRIENDS, EDiToRs.-ln relation to the
Democratic nomination, the New York OBJ
server holds the following language.
1.-THE democratic convention to nominate a
President and a Vice President, has closed
It's session. The nominees, Generals Cass
and Butler, are men of irreproachable char
acter, and take occasion to express the graf
ifcation which all religious men must feel
when such men are put up for office"
1t seems to me that the above paragraph
is very expressive as showing the standard
for an "irreproachable character" which
religious men y" have set up in this country
and the qualification Of these same
religious men," that in selecting candid
ates for civil officers this standard is respect.
ed. We have been accused of falsehood-
Of infdelity and all this, because we used
strong terms denunciatory Of the church, as
a war loving. and slavery sustaining organ
i%zation; but | ask now if it is necessary to
60 to come-outers for proof OF the truth of
these positions, is not the internal evil
dence " satisfactory. Out of your own
mouths will condemn YOU"
Let it be remembered that in thus endorsing
the characters Of Generals Cass and Butler
the Observer does notspeak for him self alone
but for all "religious men " !. e. as embodied
in the churches Of the land, for without are
dogs and sorcerers-infdels ofcourse. Now
let us see what a man may be and be anoth-
er thing at the same time, TO wit, sire
proachable" in d" character" according to the
popular religion of the day. LIST. He may be
the application Of dough-facedness-may
be slavefy's suplest lick-spittle-may oppose
the annexation of Texas and then favor it
may favor the Wilmot Proviso and then aver
that Congress has no Constitutional power to
prohibit slavery in the territories-may be-
tray humanity for the sake of Office all this,
and more, he may DO. He may be the great
war spirit of the day. This is emphatically
true of Gen. Cass. To see men engaged in
fatal combat, or, at least, to know that they
are so engaged, seems to be his highest am
bition-his ~loftiest observation-disclosures ex.
cepting the White House. How unsparing
were his efforts to get the country into wal
with England over the Oregon matter! blu
wheri it was found that the chance for spread
irg the national blight in that direction wal
not so fair as in ATTITUDES a little more equa
t%orial, he suddenly tackled about, and RAISED
the war-cry in that direction. Nor was i
long till his "irreproachable" Efforts, will
those of his co.. "irreproachables," brough
, from the fields Of Buena Vista, and Yer
I. Cruz, and Monterey to his "irreproachable
ears the charming accents he so much longe,
r for-the notes so consoling to his "irre
] proachable" soul-the voice of''Rachel weep
{ ing for her children, who would not be CON
forted BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT !" But
few brief days since and Almonte, and Ferd
nand, and Isadore played so gently at m
feet, or read their little primers, and then 6
n swee,ly said their little prayers, and kisse
n me, as they said "good night! Now, {
thou fatal she'll! why did'st thou not tai
s. their mother, too! o, agony! o, my babe;
e o Ferdinand, my cherished SON." an
God" he gasps-he tries to speak J.
Y I" Mother!" She caresses him 10 her brea
has time TO plant one kiss on the q%uiverir
lips of the dying boyle is dead ! "IRRr
PRoAcHABLE CHARACTER"
II "Aim WELL" says Cass, "those nigh
o engines Of war-see that all take effect,
j. Boom 90 the hellish engines-the earth trel
rs bles-Crash crash q! crash See there tho
~ mansions fall o, Heavens! what's tina
a females HEAD! List to those maniac erie
:" They SAVIOR much of orphan sound. Ay
~ see the little group as, lowering round II
Go fatal spot, they mourn their parents lost
!" themselves but orphans now! And how
they recount the merits of those dear paren
-, and, directing their swollen eyes to the
NC thors of their ruin, as they can spare a bre;
>. from expressing the grief that overpow'
.. them, do they lisp, "irreproachable -
'0i No. no! this is left for the religious |
d' ~pocrites of this cruel and abominably wi,
" ed land.
The sin of Indus is that of Gen Cas-:
,er ILL ..h;. ILL.,
-, ings of orphans and widows are going up
God as a witness of the awful guilt of t
man; and yet the organ of a popular religi'
body comes out, and, for, all religious mel
endorses as "ireProachable" bis charac'