Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-05-25
The New York Riot.

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Our First Page is occupied by an article from
the National Anti-Slavcry Standard, in which
the causes Of the late outrage upon Freedom of
Speech in New York, and tho circumstances
connected Herewith, are lucidly set forth. The
article is long, but will repay careful pcrusal.
The extracts it cmbodics from tho New York
Herald and the Globe will show the means by
which the Subtcrranean Rowdyism of the City
was summoned to this fresh attack upon the
pioneers of Freedom.
In the Standard Of the latest date We find at
full length the comments of the principal jour
nails of Now York upon this mobocratic out
break. For these our scanty limits afford no
room. 1t must suffice to say, that, generally,
coDd .mnation of the mob is more than neutral
lied by atuse of Abotionists. In the words of
the Standard "Thc opinion, it is true, is not
ALWAYS boldly avowed, but is nevertheless ap-
parent that the riot is not so much to be regret
ted for what it did as for what it may lead to.
If the wild beast that has been let loose on the
community would rest satiated with this gorge,
'and quietly permit itself to be chained up again
till just such another meal offers, clearly our
wise conscrvators of public morals would think
the matter not SO much ono to be regretted
But the brute's lorbcaranee cannot be implicit
'ly relied on, and there is no knowing what it
'muy next take fancy to devour. Under such
circumstances VIC, the press, doubt the expo
'dicncy of permitting it to be at large"
! 1t is true, doubtless, as the Standard thinks,
that tho Press is a fair index of Public Opinion.
The men whose influence gives tone to society
in the great Commercial Emporium of the coun-
try hate and loathe the Anti Slavery movement,
because it dsturbs the peace of trade, the peace
of politics, and the interests of religion and
conscious of their inability to put it down by
reason and argument they are willing, in their
desperation, to palliate if not encourage the ap-
plication of brute force to attain so desirable an
end.
We had hoped that the day Of mobs, so Ear at
least the subject of Slavery is concerned, had
gone by; but in this we have been disappointed.
Tho debates and intrigues ut Washington since
the opening of the present Congress-obove all
the trcachcry Of Webster and the compromising
spirit of other Northern Representatives, have
had the effect to emboldcn those whose only
weapon Is violence, whose best arguments are
shouts and yells The chief responsibility of
the New York mob, therefore, docs not rest up
on the doludcd creatures who were the immedi-
ate agents in breaking up the meetings of the
Anti-Slavcry Society, but upon the leading pol
iticians and divines of the North, whose truck
ling and subservicnt spirit encouraged them in
their deeds of villainy.
! 1t is slanderously affirmed of the Abolition
lists that they court pcrsecution-that nothing
pleases them so well as a row. Those who
bring against them this accusation either do not
understand or rocklessly misreprescnt their
spirit and purpose. We desire above all things
patient and candid hearing for our principles
and the arguments by which they arc supported.
We make our appeal to the reason and con-
science Of our fellow -citizens-not their animal,
but their moral and spiritual instincts. If, in
the prosecution of our work, wo are called,
like the Reformers in all past ages, to encounter
baptism of violence, we shall yet rejoice that
the very means intended to intimidate and des-
troy us are certain TO be overruled for the fur
| eANA"hNO VI ONf NoeoS' Ahhe SUM Wa w N4AS
result of this new outbreak Of violence We en-
tertain not the slightest doubt. 1t will arrest
the attention of the whole country-it will
stimulate inquiry and awaken thousands to con-
slider the high claims of our enterprise-it will
arouse sympathics hitherto dormant to health
ful actvity-and thus servo to hasten the day
of the slaves redemption. In the striking Ian
guage of the Standard "Men in the habit Of
calculating other consequences than those COM
ing from the crop pof cotton, men who love JUS
tice, men who believe in higher gospel than
that preached by the Journal Of Commerce
and practised by the Board of Brokers, all arc
moved to ask why il is that public discussion
q of such thing as Chattel- Slavery is forbidden
in Now York by a mob, supported by the
Mayor, and approved of the citizens at large
The conclusion which they come to has brought
new faces into the Anti Slavery Office, faces
bright and cleaning with newborn zeal
and in many family circle new thought has
entered which will not fail to grow, in due
time, into act"