Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-08-10
NO. 4S.
EDITORIAL BREyITIES.

NO. no.
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.
The Southern Press expresses its scorn o
all compromisers in strong terms. 1t says :
"n We arc compelled to admire, we shall ad
mire those who demand the boldest, and de-
mand the most-thosc who commit the deed
and describe it in plain and proper tcrms-sh'
exclusion of slavery-rathcr than thos who
protesting and pretending non-intervcntion, get
the votes of the North by arguing that SUCH
non-inteTvention would get tho territory fol
the North, and finding now that it may fail, at
tempt to pass law to buy out the South with
her own money, and to ratify tho usurpation Of
territory by California, and still pretend that
this is non-intervcntion, and they are consist
ent."
Gen. Dix, in his Herkimer Speech, states
that the Ordinance of 1887, as first introduced
by Jefferson in 1884, cOmprehended The territory
chen belonging 10 South Carolina and Georgia.
aop toyniig the States Of alabama and MIS-
sissiRpi. 1t failed at that time by one VOTE
When renewed in 1897, it was restricted TO the
territory Northwest of the Ohio, leaving tho
country west of Virginia, Georgia and North
Carolina, and South Of the Ohio to be overrun
with slavery. In that point of view it would
scm that the Ordinance was itself a compro-
misc.
The General Association of Massachusetts,
and the Old School General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church, two very numerous &C.
clesiastical bodies, which have for many years
preserved friendly relations for their mutual i'm
provemcnt, by interchanging delegates to their
respective annual meetings, have dissolved
those relations, and discontinued the practice of
sending delegates on account of differences ON
tho subject of slavery.
correspondent of the Liborator says, that
at a small meeting of the American Peace So
ciety, during Anniversary week, all the Metho-
dist and nearly all tho Unitarian members of
the Executive Committee wero voted out, in
oluding DIR. Claiming, Hon. Amasa Walker,
Messrs. blanchard, Jackson, Holland, Wells,
Rice, Bridge, and Boyden tho vote was eleven
to nine. Several Vice Presidents have sent in
thor resignation.
A gentleman by the namo of Palmer is tray-
cling on the Reserve to collect funds for the
relief of himself and other citizens of South
Bend, Ind, against whom verdict was lately
rendered in the U. S. Circuit Court at India
nopis for assisting the escape of certain fugitive
slaves. Tho amount Of the verdict was $2,-
S56-cxpenses $4,000 more--in all $3.50
'He that dcparteth from evil mskoth himself
prey
Robert Morris, Esq, of Boston was admit
tod to practice in the United States Circuit Court.
The recommendation of Morris by the Boston
Bar was unanimous. Mr.. NJ. is the first black
man admitted to the Bar in tho United States,
and the FIRST lawyer of the prescribed race ad-
mittcd to Federal Court.
The Southern Press says: q" If a slavehold-
or is unfit to be allowed to live in the remote
and lonely valleys of New Mexico, or on the
shores of the Pacific, he ought not to bo allow
cd to participate in the government of the mod
el Republic-surely not to be elevated to its
Chief Magistraey, with power of appoint
and the day is coming whom honest men will no
moro think of forming an aliace with slave
holders than with Malay pirates.
A company of colored soldiers, bearing tho
American flag and preceded by band of mu-
sic, made their their appearance in Broadway
New York, few days since. We imagine
Thomas Van Rensselaer, could tell why tho
company was organized, and tho object for
which it appeared in Now York's great thor
oughfare. We arc sorry our colored friends
cannot be persuaded to let that sort Of folly be
entirely monpolized by the whites.
The Independent Democrat says that tho
most desperate efforts were made to get the N.
II. Legislature to endorse the Compromise plan,
but they wholly failed In spite of all the cf-
forts of the doughfaces, resolves were passed
condemning the plan, and insisting upon the
Wilmot Proviso in all territorial bills.
John Van Buren,, in his Fourth of July ora
ton in Binghampton, N. Y, Z" asserted in full,
(says the Eve. Post,) with moderation but dis
tinctness, the great absorbing, popular senti-
ment of Freedom to future States, cithOHt Com
pyomiss"
Mr.. Benton has made a new speech on the
Texan boundary. Col. Schouler, who is in
Washington. speaks in the highest terms of it.
He also comments upon the significant fact that
Mr.. Webster is the only Northern Wing who
voted for an amendment, declaring that New
Mexico SHALL NOT Prohibit THE EXISTENCE OF
SLAVERY.
The Sout- ern Press refers to the movements
now going on among the mechanical laborers
of the North to protect themselves against tho