Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-08-03
This and That.


The difference between an honest man of
elevated thought, free from party bias, and
mere partizan, with only one idea, and that
of lilIiputian dimensions, was never more
fully exemplified than in the following ex-
trncts from notices of the death of our chief
magistrate, the first of which we take from
the OBERLIN EVANGELIST, and the other
from the ANTI-SLAvERY BuGLE, the organ of
Abby Kelley Fosterism in Ohic.--Eiyria
Courier.
From tho Oberlin Evangelist
OF his preparation in the eye of God and as
tested already in tho spirit world wo have no
certain means Of judging. That in public civil
life ho has sought what he deemed the best good
Of his country, We know Of no reason to qucs-
ton. In many things his upright and decided
course has won for him our appreciation and
our growing confidence. His relations 10 slavo-
ry and to the South gave him an influence to
restrain the extreme wing of the pro-slavery
party which we fear no living man will rise up
in his stead to wicld. 1t may be that we shall
crc long see that VIC have but too much reason
to dcplore his death. But our trust for our
country is, and shall be, in tho living God. II
we please Him, He will save us, II VIC incur
his frown it were vain for us TO repose in strong
men to avert the judgments We deserve,
From the Ant-Slavcry Buglo.
A Tclsgraphic dispatch from Hon. ]. Cable,
Nj. c., from this district, to w. ID. Morgan OF
New Lisbon, dated Washington, July 10th, says;
President Taylor is dead lie expired last
| CIucsday) night at eleven o'clock" Previous
advices represented him to be extremely i'll oI
Cholera Morbus, 10 which disease he has fallen
victim. Whether the Second Washington
like the first, has provided by his will for the
emancipation of his slaves, or whether they arc
al. -
the hands Of new masters, remains 10 be seen
Ills fulsome eulogists probably will not trouble
themselves about so small matter as the free
dom or slavery of 800 'niggers
The difference between our commentary
upon the death of Gen. Taylor, and that of the
Oberlin Evangelist, in spite of the Courier'i
sneer, is one of which ace are not ashamed
In the Couriers vocabulary IAN honest man o
elevated thought appears to be one who has
knack of smothering wholesome but unpopu
lar truth in puddle of cant while it brand
as man Of one idea him who prefers Lib
eriy as mans chief good and refuses 10 shou
the praises of a Barabbas who despoils hi
fellow-men of their inalienable rights, an,
dies leaving them in chains It's of no us
TO talk TO us of the honesty of Gen. Taylor
while we know that he was guilty of wha
Wesley has truly declared TO be the 'sum G
all villainy.' 1t requires but feeble capaci
ty to utter the panot-cry of one idea th
most diminutive 'Lilliput that ever perche
himself on an editorial chair can accomplis
the feat; but it takes soul of manly pro
portions to comprehend the great princpl
: of Human Freedom.
Ifthe Editor of the Courier had lived Il
the days of Jesus, and heard from his Lip
the injunction, Seek first the kingdom {
God and its righteousness, and all othe
things shall be added he would doubles
have exclaimed, "What mere partizan' I
think that every thing essential to huma
happiness is wrapped up in one idea'!"