Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-08-17
EDITORIAL BREVITIES,

lno W dsninBton OoiIespOHuenS Vi hie SOW-
nal Of Commerce says: "Mr. Rhctt's disunion
speech came like bomb shell into the midst Of
the Southern members, and produced o consid-
cradle scattering. Few or none are willing to
second his efforts, and most Of them thought he
damaged the chivalry of the South, and turn
ed resistance into ridiculc." The majority Of
tho Southern members understand well enough
that disunion would be the death of Slavery,
and It is therefore no wonder that they did not
relish Rhctts speech.
Il. p, Whipple, in his grafton before tho
Literary Society of tho Wesleyan University,
described the Yankee as tho wonderful, keen,
calculating, restless and protcan -inindod man,
who, fall where ho may, falls cat-liko on his
feet, and looks about him with an air that seems
to say: Gentlemen, behold the smartest man
in all creation, who, among other things, can
beat you at tho art of being yourselves" lie
is neither Irish nor English, nor French nor
German, but bit Of them all, and ready to ab-
sorb thom all.
The Salem Quarterly Meeting Of Friends,
held at New Lisbon on Seventh day last, was
unable to agree upon persons suitable to act as
Representatives to tho Yearly Meeting, and will
consequently not be officially represented in
that body. The question that divided the sem
timent of the meeting is intimately related to
the Reforms of the day.
Mr.. Underwood of Kentucky, in q recent
speech in the Senate, had the good sense to de-
clare, that the agitation of the subject of Slo-
very as q moral question would never be end
cd until tho tongues of men were silenccd or
their minds paralized. The politicians of tho
country may as well receive this as fixed
fact and cease to urge plans of compromise
with view to stop agitation.
Hon. s. A. Eliot, formerly Mayor of Bos-
ton, and the author of the famous congratula-
tory letter to Webster from his 'retaincrs,' has
been nominated by the Wings as candidate
for Congress, to fill the vacancy caused by the
transfer of the dodgcr Winthrop to the Cabinet.
Tho New York Day Book asserts that sla-
orally contcnted citizen of the ncgro-whilc
freedom simply makes him loafer and a
thief The father of lies could not invent a
bigger Wrapper than that, nor more stupid
one.
CoUST MnAsosLnd his commission have
settled the details of a plan for the defence of
Cuba. It involves an increased expenditure of
$50, 100000, which is to be raised by loan and
this is to be paid by increasing the Cuba taxes
80 per cent.
---rrcrry Clay while making speech in Phila-
delphia, the other day, to a mass of his friends
assembled in the street, was interrupted by the
driver of an omnibus who tried to force his vehic-
Gle through the crowd but was prevented. Mr..
Clay exclaimed, THAT omnibus left at Wash
ington didn't get through!' whereupon there
was vocifcrous cheering and laughter.
The First of August was celebrated at Prov
idence, as We learn from the Mirror by fine
looking procession, attended with music and APP
propriate banners, pagaded the streets on horse
back in carriages, and on foot. The whole af.
fair passed off pleasantly.
The Lowell American mentions the fact tha
Rev. DIR. Sprague of Albany, in an address a
Dartmouth College, pronounced eulogy OF
Daniel Webster, and adds: alt is Just sucl
men as Daniel Webster whom the Rev. DR.
condemns toperditon, in gross, every Sabbath
day." True.
The Fountain "a Temperance papor) say
that for twenty years previous to his death
Gen. Taylor was strict tetotallcr He causcC
Temperance Societies to be formed and Ten
perance papers to DO distributed among tn,
Soldiers. We are glad to hear it.
| The editor Of the Freeman's Journal, (Bish
op Hughes's papcr,) says, that of every on'
hundred Roman Catholic children educated il
the public schools of the United States, nine
ty-eight may be set down as clear and Ger
tain gain to the devil What a religion mus
that be which cannot live under the influenc
of Free Schoolsl
Calvin Fairbank (the man who was impris
oned in tho Kentucky Psnitentiary for adm
the escape of Lewis Hayden from Slavery say
in the Iiberator that while he was lecturin
recently at Spencer, Mass, company of row
dies, mostly Sons of Temperance disturbo
the meeting by rude noises and threw at hiI
about four quarts of beans
NonTH CARoIINA, long Wing State, hi
elected Democratic Governor and Logislatur
Reason: tho shareholders Cor the noisicst pa
of them,) have more confidence in the fdelit
of the Democratic party to the peculiar institr
ton than in that ofthe Wings under the prese
administration.
John Van Buren, in a letter to Bingham
ton, N. ", says -" At moment when nortl
ern men are guilty of the most startling treacl
cry to the caasc of freedom, tho steadfastno
of Governor Seward deserves high praise"
; buchanan IL Is said ia In h;oL oioo .....1 .