Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-02-16
ANTI-sLAvERY BUGLE, SALEM, o.

CSBLE, W, ".
in his warfare; he even tells when and where
he is going to strike. He asks a fair field
and no favor and abolitionists cannot but
feel that in John G.. Calhoun they have
"a foeman worthy of their STEEL"
We should like this iron-browed, i%rOn-ner-
ed, iron-hearted advocate Of slavery-who
towers above his associates as Goliah Of
Gath did above the army Of the Philistines
TO meet some anti-slavery champion, Wen
dell Phillips for instance, whose mild and
pleasant countenance and calm blue eye are
radiant with the light Of Truth, and to test
by single combat which is mightier, Philis-
Tia or the livirg God.
There is much in the address respecting
the constitutional guarantees given 10 slavery,
It's assertion that without them the system
could not have lived, and its opinion respect
ing the obligation Of the North faithfully TO
TO perform her part Of the compact so long as
She remains a party to it,, that cannot
be honestly and intelllgently gainsaid.-
1t our fathers did right in forming the COM
pact, and we do right in renewing it year
after year, in The name of honesty and fair
dealing don't let us be such rogues as TO re-
fuse TO do what our ancestors promised for
us, ard we promise ourselves o DO. But if
1t was wrong TO form such a compact, if it
Is WTpnn npV IN anI,rga - ,,J n,onfeo
anew to fulfil its terms, let US be men enough
TO say so, ard repudiate the whole concern at
W ha,ever cos, to ourselves.
Henry CLAY will again resume his seat
In the United State Senate. When be reiir-
ed to private life he probably did not expect
to be sighted by his Wing friends in the
Presidential nomination; but having been so
%scurvily treated, and his hopes of the Presl-
dency forever blasted, it would seem he is
content TO appear once more upon the stage
OF public action 10 play an inferior part
Lewis Cdss too, will be in the Senate, and
we should like 10 witness the meeting there
between there two defeated Presidential as
p%irants, for Clay was as truely defeated by
Taylor as was Cass, and his defeat was far
more complete and humiliating.
GRAHAM's MAGAzINE.-By some mis-
chance we did not receive the January num-
Der Of this work until recently, when it came
accompanied by the number for February. 1t
is too late now 10 express a seasondJh opin-
ion Of the merits Of the former, but not loo
late 10 avow our admiration of the beauty OF
its embellishments, consisting Of four exqui.
site plates, any one of which, would, ten
years since, have given reputation to the
magazine SO fortunate as to secure it.
The number for this month also contain.
four Illustrations, "a Valentine" "Hom,
Treasures" "The Mirror of Life" and
portrait Of Mrs. Davidson, mother of the ce
LIBERATED youthful poets, Lucretia and MART
Davidson.
Among the writers for this number, ar,
those whose names are a guarantee that th,
~aticles they furnish are worthy Of being rank
ed with the best Of cur magazine literature
We have as yet read but few Of them, buI
these sustain the reputation Of the work.
IIoLDEN's DOLLAR MAGAZINE for Februa.
ry, contains an engraving of Oregon City
portraits of h. W. Emmerson and Rev. L
II. Chaplin, and other wood cuts g TOO numer,
GUS to mention" The literary portion of il
strikes US as being better than usual. Hol
den, it appears, is off for California hi
magazine, however, is TO be continued, ant
its readers are promised letters from the val
ley Of the Sacramento. We would rathe
read letters from there, than 60 there to writ
them, dig gold, or do anything of the kind.
In the review contained in his number 70
this month, the following passage in his no
tice Of the poems of Anne G. Lynch, i
truth well expressed, though no exception
need have been made to the beauty Of oil,
women, for this has already been the them
of the poets song.
"The romantic school Of poetry with Mrs
Hemans for its head, has passed away. or i
fast passing good luck TO it and the phi
lanlhropic school has succeeded, and is nov
in the ascendent. There is at least an affec
ton of sincerity, a show Of goodness in III
new school, even though it be but a show
which is infinitely preferable to the aGfecta
lions which it has displaced. All the trum
perry Of the middle ages, the knights in armor
the foolery Of the crusades, the languishinI
maidens, the dying troubadors, the beseigc
Z castles, and the captive warriors, have give
place to songs about pauper funerals, distres
, sed shirt makers, the virtues Of cold wateI
e the charms of peace, the delights Of virtue
the happiness OF living quietly at home, an
the beauty Of old arm chairs, old mills, oil
Bibles and old everything but old women.-
Poetry to be popular now, must he good i
sentiment let it be ever 50 bad in ~construC
ton; it must be v%irtuous, even though it
ungrammatical. There ia TO be no moi
cakes and ale in verse, and the flown
l. howl and all the products Of the wine pres
or the brewery must never again be set
rhyme. The song Of the shirt is the la
le shift Of the muses., and wo be to the POI
1t who makes an appeal to the public and 70
a gets 10 say a word for the poor"