Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-01-12

face and betrays the Duty he went to serve.
Yet he does not lose his place, for every
doughfaced representative has a ~doughfaced
constituency 10 back him.
at is a great mischief that comes from
lacking First Principles, and the worst part
Of it comes of lacking first principles in Mo-
rails. Thereby our eyes are holden, SO that
we see not the great social evils all about us.
We attempt TO justify Slavery, even 10 do it
in the mans of Jesus Christ. The Wing
party Of the North loves Slavery the Demo-
cratic party does not even seek to conceal its
affection therefor. A great politician declares
the Mexican war wicked, and then urges
men to go and fight it; he thinks a famous
general not fit to be nominated for President,
but then invites men 10 elect him. Politics
are national morals, the morals of Thomas
and Jeremiah multiplied by millions. But il
Is not decided yet that Honesty is the best
Policy for a Politician; it is thought that the
Best Policy is honesty, at least as near it as
The times will allow. Many politicians seem
undecided how 10 turn, and SO sit on the
fence between Honesty and Dishonesty. Mr..
Facing-boih.ways is a popular politician in
America just now, sitting on the fence be-
tween Honesty and Dishonesty, and like the
blank leaf between the Old and New Tesla
ments, belonging to neither dispensation. 1t
is a little amusing 10 a trifer to hear a mans
fitness for the Presidency defended on the
ground that he has no definite convictions or
ideas!
"There was once man who said he always
told lie when it would serve his special
turn. IT'S a pity he went 10 his own place
long ago. He seemed born for a party politi-
clan in America. He would have had a large
party, for he made a great many converts be-
fore he died. and left a numerous kindred bu-
sy in the editing Of newspapers, writing adj
dresses for the people, and passing '~resolu-
iions.'
Z" 1t must strike a stranger as a little odd
that a republic should have a STAKEHOLDER for
President fve-sixths of the time, and most of
the important Offices be monopolized by 9TH
er sla veholders-a little surprising that all
the pulpits and most Of the presses should be
in favor of Slavery, at least not against it,
Such is the fact. Every body knows the
Of the American government for
years past, and Of the American parties
in politics. Like master, like man. used
10 be true proverb in old England, and Like
like ruler, is a true prover5 in Amer
ca-true now. Did a decided people ever
d%oughfaces ; a people that loved God
nd man choose Representatives that cared
or neither Truth nor Justicel Now and
hen, for dust gets in the brightest eyes; but
lid they ever choose such men continually !
people are always fairly represented /;
'ur Representatives do actually represent US,
md in more senses than they are paid for
Congress and the Cabinet are only two Their
hung up in the capitol, to show
he temperature of the national morals.
But annie this general uncertainty, there
ire two capital maxims which prevail amongst
our hucksters of Politics: To love your par
better than your country, and Yourself
better than your party. There are, it is true,
real statesmen amongst us, men who love
] Justice and do the Right, but they seem lost
in the mob of vulgar politicians and the dust
of party editors.
Since the nation loves Freedom above all
things, the name Democracy is a ~favorite
name. No party could live a tw%elvemonth
that should declare itself anti-democratic.-
Saint and sinner, statesman and politician,
alike love the name. So it comes to pass
that there are two things which bear that
name; each has its type and its motto. The
motto of one is, you are as good as |, and
let US help one another That represents the
Democracy of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence, and of the New Testament; its type
is a Free School, where children of all ranks
meet under the guidance of intelligent and
Christian men, 10 be educated in mind, and
heart, and soul. The other has for its mot
TO, Il am as good as you, so get out of my
way Its type is the Bar-room of a tavern
dirty, offensive, stained with tobacco, and
full Of drunken, noisy, quarrelsome 'rowdies,
just returned from the Mexican war, and rea.
dy for a Buffalo Hunt for privateering, OF
to go and plumber any one who is better of
than themselves, especially if also better -
That is not exactly the Democracy of the
Declaration, or of the New Testament; Blu.
ONO matter whom"