Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-03-30
From the "A. S. Sdnddrs.
The Taylor Dynasty.

HAS ~ VII hhAoN
Is crown which our Republican rulers
are permitted to wear. But, though an
undoubted change has taken place in the
person Of our chief magistrate, and a
presumed one in his political principles,
the Dynasty remains the same, and one
Shareholder has quietly taken the place
Of another in the Presidential chair
Whatever doubts there may be with re.
gard to some articles Of the Constitution
il seems TO be generally understood that
there exists somewhere in that august in
strument a provision settling the order oil
C ession in the Southern line. 1t is an
instrument on which the politicians cum
ming finger can play what stop he please
only it must be a slaveholding tune.
As far as the North is concerned, Gen.
eral Taylor comes into office as the
avowed opponent of the extension Of
Slavery. The assertions of the Wing
press upon this point were unanimous
throughout the Free States, and here and
there a fortunate gentleman carried in
his pocket a letter from the candidate
Professionally defining his position as
President. These letters the intelligent
voters Of the country were not permitted
10 see, and we have very great doubts
whether they will ever form part of any
collection which some future Sparks may
make Of the writings Of the second father
of his country. 1t was enough that they
entirely satisfied the Anti-SIavery re-
quirements of such original (highly orig
inaI) Aboli,ionists as Mr.. Lawrence. 1t
has been an honor TO that gentleman, and
a benefit to the community that his pock-
Ell has not generally been so retenlive or
SO tightly buuoned as on this particular
occasion.
But General Taylor is the representa-
tive of the Wing party, aud that party
has hitherto been the A~nti-Slavery party
of the country. II has battled for the
Right of Petition, and has elected such
men as John Quincy Adams, Giddings.
and Palfrey. This was to a certain X
tent true as long as the Wings stood in
need Of An,i.Slavery aid, and thought
that aid worth bidding for. At that time
not Garrison, himself, could have been
more bitter in denouncing the unholy al
lance between Northern Democracy and
Southern Patriarchalism. But this was
the jealousy of disappointed rivalry
The South, tickle in every thing but de-
voiion to itself, and the Wing party, des-
titute OF every principle but that Of self
preservation, have struck up a match
The Wings. compulsory renegades from
Anti Slavery doctrines which they v
sincerely believed in, assail the consist.
a men in their late party with all that
clustering rancour with which renegades
endeavor 10 bewilder themselves out of
the feeling Of their W self-contempt.-
Having caught their fish, they toss re-
gardlessly overheard the bait no longer
fresh. They would make an auto de fe
of Mr.. Giddings and Mr.. Palfrey if they
had the power and the opportunity. 1t
would be laughable were it not disgusting
to read the diatribes of some of The edi"
torial %rncoa 1t is common 10 call
such personages Benedict Arnolds and
Judases. But the memory even OF trai-
tors should be treated with justice. Ar.
mold was a nan Of ability, and Judas
had so much right feeling left in him as
10 60 and hang himself. We can only
say that if the Wing party paid thirty
pieces Of silver (even of the smallest de-
n%omination) for some of these gentry,
they paid a most unconscionable price.
In speaking Of parties, it is only just
to make a distinction between the leaders
and the led. We believe that the major
ity of The Wing party, at the North,
have never been dissatisfied with any,
thing but the meagreness Of the Anti
Slavery diet allowed them by their pro-
viders. But the masses Of "a party are
necessarily passive, and not active politi-
clans. They are accustomed TO order
and subordinaiion, and 10 have Their
work cut out for them by the compare
lively few who make politics their pro-
fession. Discipline is as necessary as ir
an army. They obey orders withou
asking any questions. The officers o
this great voting militia are men who en-
bark in politics as in any other trade
In The ordinary transactions of life they
have moral as high as the cis-penitentia
ny degree, enough, that is, 10 keep them
out of States Prison. But in politics they
make no scruple 10 lie, 10 bear false wit
ness, 10 Jorge, TO obtain votes under false
p~retences. If successful, they enjoy q
four years quiet to plumber and TO be
forgoiien in. AT the end of that time,
the people are ready TO be swindled and
they to swindle again.
The Wing managers have 10Y fairly
gone over TO the South, and The party has
inslinclively followed. We hare gained
a great victory, say the managers, but
over whom and for what, the party ha,
as liule idea as the boy Pelerkin in South
ey's ballad. Over the principles ihey
have prolessed for the last ten years, VIZ
should be inclined to say. The chill
who goes for the first lime to the whal
and sees the troops Of urchins busy viii
their sticks at the bungs of the molasse
hogsheads, says to himseli-aOhy, this
stealing! But presently the impulse