Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-01-25
Prum Parker PilIsbury.
PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire,
Jan, 18th, 1851,

PoRTsMouTIi, New Hampshire,
Jan. 18th, 1851.
DEAR FRIEND JOHNSON Bird of perpetual
passage as my calling makes me, do not often
see the Buglc with any regularity. But in the
last one saw, an expression editorial like this
occurred, in reference to my sprinklings in your
columns" Ohrer asks for more" The quota
ton was apt indeed, but tho bloatcd bcadle
could not have been more astoundcd at poor
Oliver Twists demand for ono more spoonful Of
SOUP, than was your hun bic correspondent at
your Importantly. had feared all along tha,
YOU would be wcaried with my much speaking.
To send you any thing like news. 1t were nc
cessary that bc able to outrun the lightning.
Tho tclcgraphc wires are becoming tho speak
ing trumpets Of no, only States but Nations,
and the time is to conc, when we shDll have
morning re ,or,s from the British Parliament
and French House of Assembly, with as much
precision and regularity as we now have our
daily news from the Congress of the United
States. Indeed if your neighbor there in Penn
sylvana, Mr.. Wise, succeeds, as probably he
will, IL aerial navigation, VIC shall yet have a
British Daily Mail, as regularly as we now bavc
between New York and Philadelphia. As COM
munication is a; present, The East can send the
West no news by letter. II any thing mror-
tant transpircs, somebody immediately climbs
up to the tclcgraphic wires, and, as If with the
trump of an archangcl, he proclaims it all down
the Atlantic Coast, over the Alieghanics, down
the Ohio river, and up along the shores of the
northern lakes. over to Iowa and Minnesota
down the Mississippi to New Orleans, and "thc
Lord knows where" quicker than the most
industrious old gossip can carry the tidings Of
some country courtsip to one half her nearest
ncighbors. So that never write TO you, think
ing to tell you any news of the least possible
importance.
The most interesting Anti Slavery fact at
present, is, tho wonderful success of tho Ladies'
Annual Fair in Faneuil Hill. Almost thirty.
five hundred dollars, were at least fifteen hun
drcd more than the most sanguinc thought
could be received. Every art and device were
used to prevent the people from attending, uut
to no purpose The sales were lurgo and tho
success complete.
Before you receive this, you will have heard
that Massachusetts, is again under the rule of
Democratic Governor. Never did party or
Prince resign the sceptre of authority with
more scowling reluctance, than tho old Whig
dynasty of the Bay State. It seems as though
the Heads of the party fancicd their right to
rule was Divine, and to be continued from ever
lasting to everlasting. One would think from
their wailings and gnashing of teeth that hence
forth there is an end to prosperity and peace
hero and everywhere, that they, being no longer
in power, the world had better now postpone
indefinitely, or adjourn sine die. and either cal
| a COM cntion TO organize anew, or 60 into Q
pctriiaction. to be hereafter, in the distant com
ing ages, picked up by some curious geologst, as
we now gather the fossil remains of existence:
that ceased, no mortal can tell us when. Should
Charles Summer be elected to the Senate of tho
United States, think you will sec the tota
conAagration of the whig party, not by th'
hand or torch of the inccndiary, but by sponta
neous combustion. Should that catastrophe, (sC
dcvoutly to be wishcd,) happen. be sure, yo'
shall have all the particulars at my very earlics
opportunity.
Excuse my haste and want Of interest thi
time, and hope for better when next you hea
from
Yours and your readers most devoutly,
PARKER PILLSBURY.
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