Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-11-24
From The Pa. Freeman.
The QuakerS and the Election.

We understand that the Orthodox Quakers
generally, and a great proportion Of the mem
bers Of the Hicksite division, voted for Brig
adler General Zachary Taylor, Of the United
States arm the chief hero Of the Mexican
war, the officer by whose advice the United
States army was ordered from Corpus Christi
to the Rio Grande; and the war with Mexi-
CO begun-by whose advice and urgent re-
quest, bloodhounds were imported into Flo
rida to hunt the Indians the Louisiana slave
holder and slave-buyer; The chosen insuu-
ment Of the shareholders to preserve and ex-
tend slavery ; as their candidate for the pre-
sidency. These peaceful followers of George
Fox and William Penn, the men who canon
ize John Woolman, Edward Burroughs, An.
thessEBenezet and Warner Mihiin, have pub
licly declared themselves fifty represented by
the warrior Of Buena Vista, and Louisiana
STAKEHOLDER, whose only experience is in the
discipline Of the slave plantation, and the art
OF human slaughter, and whose only %laufels
are stained with human blood. Yet these
men have testimonies" against slavery and
wal and military pre- parations, and the bear
ing Of arms, and SO rigid are they, that a MEM
Der Of their society lays himself liable TO dis
cipline and expulsion, for either performing
military service or paying a military fine,
though non.payment would subject him 10
great pecuniary loss. No excuses of policy
or apparent advantage will justify, in their
eyes, either Of these violations of principle.
Are they too blind to see how they are thus
sowing iares in their own wheat-feld, encou-
raging the martial spirit and admiration for
the achievements Of the warrior, and thus more
than neutralizing all their pacific lessons, and
making slaveholding a reputable business in
esaaI &c n. A1tA.a nrtpn and fhto
ing the slaveholde r, and offering a bounty
for others to initiate his tyranny
While they exalt the Shareholder and
slave-buyer to highest political honors, and
bestow the richest rewards upon military en-
PLOTS, of what worth are all their sermons
and Z" testimonies" and "queries !" Men
get their impressions of truth and virtue more
from practical examples than from theoretical
instructions, and no words OF peace or free
dom can prevent the fatal influence of this
practical commentator of war and slavery.
1t is worse than destroying with one hand
what is reared by the other; it not only
sweeps away the good their own hands had
constructed. but tears up the very foundation
on which others might build. 1t disIurbs all
faith in moral principle.
1t is not alone that the warrior and tyrant
is successful, and secures the highest pima
Gle Of political ambition, but his supporters
will of course, attempt a defense of their own
action, in which they must apologize for the
blacklist crimes of the age, and eulogize their
perpetrator as a paragon Of virtue and manly
excellence. We cannot imagine action and
teaching more directly demorallzing 10 those
who practice and TO those who witness it,
While the wise and accomplished statesman,
and the true patriot and philan'hropist, are
left in obscurity, the bloody warrior and pet
ty despot, is elevated to supreme power, and
covered sith fulsome praise. While the adj
vocates of political reforms, for freedom and
brotherly love, are spurned and repulsed, the
man-slayer and man-enslaver, is welcomed
and gloriied.
From avowed fighters and pro-slavery men,
we expect nothing better, but the evil in this
case is greatly aggravated by the moral stand
ing, responsibility, and high professions of
those who engage in it. They may rejoice
for their success as Wings, but they may
mourn for their shameful defeat as Friends.
They may secure a financial policy which
will increase their wealth, and give an lmpe-
tus to the greedy scramble of trade, but it is
at a fearful cost TO morality and pure religion,
by a sad violence TO our hearts. II would be-
easy for any one 10 see how the election Of a
notorious counterfeiter or burglar, (whose
only fame was from success in his crimes,)
to the Presidency, must demoralize the ma
ton, and promote not only the peculiar crimes
lie had prsctised, but all forms Of vice and