Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-01-19
SALEM, CoLUMBTANA CO.. OHIO, JANUARY 10, 1850.

tory. Some years ago the Wings nominated
for President Northern General. They re-
lied upon the magic of a military title They
attributed General Jackson's triumph in great
part to that; so they concluded thnt General
Harrison was the available man for the Pres
idency; and then they look up for Vice Pres
ident Southern man, whose party attach
ments were doubtful, and this was consider
cd rs confirming his availability. This was
believed to lie an admirable political move.
Aud, as politics go, il certainly did bid pretty
fair for the party. But ia a short month ai-
ter his election Gen. Harrison died. of the
Presidency, as il has been said and the adj
mlnstrntion passed into the hands of one in
whom the party that elected him could have
no confidence. Here the whole plan went to
wreck. All! but, you say, Providence, by
tiie death of General Harrison, interfered.-
Providence Is very apt TO interfere in such
way; and wise men ought TO have kept
Providence in view. Put your trust in ever
lasting principles, and you need never fear
that any possible event of Providence will
work in any way except to help them.
So, again, the Democratic Party thought the
Mexican war capital move, aud the gold
of California, which, however, unknown at
tue time, did not enter into the original con-
siderotion, would seem TO show that il was
a capital move. But if it had been foresecn
that the war would produce u President for
the opposite party, and that the territory
that might he acquired, rich rs il might be,
might be free also, rs well as rich,
would not the Southern portion OF
the Democracy at least, have thought
twice before they plunged the country into
that abyss OF blood and wrong?
nr N q, ool,
the last Presidential election. We were
promised all imaginable good il General
Taylor were only made President And
thousands seemed honestly to believe that
something very like Millennium was at
hand. Now l do not undertake to know,
but the ardor of the party that elected the
present incumbent seems to be somehow
cooled. They see that they have not car
ried the country as they anticipated. There
appears to be among them n dim misgiving
that mistake has been made.
And so it is with all mere political plans
and parties. Mr.. Carlyle tells us, in his
History of the French Revolution, that du-
ring that period of anarchy and blood, the
people were fondly hoping every day to
wake up the next morning and witness the
Millennium, but every day they were vexed
aud maddened ut finding their pockets pick
ed Of their Millennium. Their case was by
no means singular. 1t is apt to be no in
political matters. The politicians, like the
monkey in the fable, take the oyster ant
, give the shells TO the country.
In conclusion, whether the great princi
Piles of our social order are carried out sool
or late, the work of carrying them out mus
needs be salutary to all concerned. The he
roic ages of history, are those in whicl
great principles have contended for the si
premacy. Whether you do good to other,
or not, by advocating the Right, you do an
unutterable good to yourselves. There il
nothing better for any human soul than tC
become interested in great vital truths, il
truths which are truths. Let one give him
self to the service OF Freedom, nay, let him
only 80 much as touch, in faith, the hem o.
of her garment, and it will send an invig
orating virtue through his whole frame, anC
he will begin to experience the new birth
the saving, sanctifying process Of regenera-
ton.