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


Is said that the Committee Of the lower House
of Congress, to whom the subject had been re-
ferrcd, have agreed to report a bill providing
for the establishment Of line Of war and mail
steamers, to run regularly between the United
States and the American Colonies on the Coast
Of Africa.
A benevolent association in Baltimore having
received from England present of books, ask
ed Congress to remit the duties upon them, but
tue favor was not granted from a fear on the
peit of the sloveholding members that ono of
the books might be found to contain something
opposed to their cherished institution Brave
fellows. these Southcrncrs, to get frightened at
the ghost of an argument
Thc-Whigs Of Vermont, in a resolution adopt
ed at thor recent State Convention, distinctly
recognize the obligations imposed by the Con-
stitution in reference to fugitive slaves ! and
then gravcly insist upon haJeas corpus and trial
by jury, as if they were of any value to a slave,
or ono proved to be such according to tho Con-
stitution! What mockcryl 1t is thus that
Northern politicians seek to cover their vii
lainy in supporting our present national com
pact.
One Of the South Carolina Members of Con-
gress has admitted to correspondent of The
Tribune that while Dotys resolution was under
consideration, some members (Southcrn of
coursc) went to the Hall armed for several days.
1t is thus that shareholders reveal their true
character as criminals of the deepest dye.
David Wilmot recently declared that he would
cheerfully vote for any man whose principles
werc in accordance with his own, whether he
was the owner Of slaves or not. 1t would seem
to be legitimate inference either that owning
slaves is not contrary to Mr.. Wilmot's 'princi-
PIES or that he judges mon by their professions
rather than their practice.
'Long John Wentworth of Chicago declines
reelection to Congress. His opponents inti-
mato that Congressional grapes have become
sour only because, tall as he is, he can no long
er reach them He has proved himself poll
tical shufiler, at one time making show of re-
gard for freedom, and anon betraying tho cause.
J. Stanley Grimes, having made certain state
ments in the Tribune tending to show that the
mysterious rappings are the result of trick
and contrivancc, has been totally used up and
extingushed by Z. w. Capron and Vim. Fish
bough. The rappings have not yet been traced
to any natural cause, and remain as great a
puzzle as ever.
Tho Southern Press solemnly declares that
the Union can be preserved only by a division
of our territorial acquisitions between the
North and South-in other words, by consign-
ing all South of certain line to the unfathom-
able horrors of Slavery. We doubt whether
even the dougkfaces will dare to yield that.
Horace Sumner, younger brother of Charles
Sumner of Boston, the well-known advocate of
Peace, was lost in the wreck of the brig Eliza
beth from Lcghorn, in company with Margaret
Fuller Ossoi and husband. He was young
man of fine attainments and great promise.
The Lowell American says the latest vote of
Mr.. Webster, on tho Compromise, was, in COM
pany with the shareholders and his doughy
brethren, in favor of giving up 10000 square
miles of New Mexican free territory to the slave
laws Of Texas. He was the only northern
whig who voted that way.
A travelling correspondent of the True De-
mocrat thinks that if the garden of our first pa
rents had been placed in the valley of the Mo
hawk, they would havo been content, and moth
CT Eve would not have taken the apple!
David Wilmot, in a recent speech, said he be-
iieved tho interests of the South controlled the
Republic, and welded its destinies. He was
opposed to slavery because it was senselcss,
heartless, unfeeling, and regardless of the rights
of humanity.
The Texas bondholders, who expected to
finger the $lO,OOO,OOO bribe to Texas, which
forms part of Clay's Omnibus scheme, are in
atorrible panic now that the plan is knocked in
tho head. "Theres many slip" SO.
Mr.. Kenyon, baptist clergyman of Lake
County, preached three anti-slavory discourses
in Rayenna on Sunday. July 2lst. Tho Star
speaks highly of them.
Abbot Lawrence, it is said, owes his confir-
nation, as Minister to Great Britain, to the per-
sonal exertions of Mr.. Webster. What's in
the wind, that Plate and Herod have SO sud-
denly become friendsi
A now town, called Eureka, is expected To be
come the capital Of California