Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-06-14


and decrcpitude; aud that unless he could
enter the White House the next term, he
must wait, nt least, until the great Julian
Period should bring the world round again.
! lie parlcycd with Southern tcmptcrs, and
fell.
Nor did he outrage our feeling only. He
sacrificed our pecuniary interests, our very
means of subsistence. Massachusetts, would
be prospering under an improved system of
! protection for olr domestic industry, to-day,
| but for Mr.. Wcbster's apostacy, which strlpt
us of all our power and of all our unity, aud
| inhamcd the spirit of Southern aggrandizc-
lnent to demand every thing aud yield moth
ing. Could the issue bc now formed, and
the case tried, whether Daniel Wobster's
course in 1850 did not deprive the working
men Of the country of tariff for the pro-
lection of their labor, not an intelligent and
impartial Judge could be found that would
not bring him in guilty. This result every
unbiased man at Washington, saw, last sum
MGR; while hc was caioing the men of the
| North with the deuson that, il they would
surrender liberty, they should have their re-
ward in a tariff.
Fclow-citizens, | will trespass upon your
attention hut for moment longer. wish
TO advance ono idea for the consideration of
all sober, moral, and religious men. We
have assumed the falsity OF distinction be-
tween muu's public and his private lile.-
We have supposed that the same individual
might be n bad man and good citizen I;
might be patriot aud an inebriatc, faithful
officer and a dcbauchec, at the same time
might serve his country during office hours
and the powers of darkness the rest of the
twenty-four. But say, as of old, no man
can serve God and Manmon.
We have been too prone TO Judge of men
by their professions and their connections
We seem to have forgotten that the tree is to
he known 10y it's fruit, and a man 10y his life.
II we are to take the Phariscc's rule, aud to
determine n mans pieiy by his creed, and
the number aud length of his prayers, then
picty will be tho cheapest thing in the mar
kCt; aud as worthless as it is cheap.
In choosing teachers TO he the guides aud
eXcmplars of our children, we demand high
moral worth.
Ia selecting our religious guides, we feel
almost justified in being cautiously aud NOR
hidly critical we hardly udmit that we can
he strict to fault aud the man who fails
to carry personal purity and cXcnIplHrincss
into the pastoral life, is driven from it with
indignation and contempt
How long have all good citizens in Massa-
chuselts labored in the glorious cause OF
Temperance. They have devoted timc eX-
pended talent lavished money incurred OBJ
loqul but as their reward, they have pluck
cd the guilty from perditon rescued the
young, just losing their balance over the pre-
cipico of ruin saved the widow and inth-
crlcss from unultciahlc woe, aud driven de-
nous of discord from domestic Edeus. Now
why, after all our tolls and sacrifices TO up
b.,fI ff,..,..,,I ti,f, ol
ancC, and to make its name as honorable as
tits blessed; why should we demolisli all our
work by cleyating man TO a high political
station, or by upholding him when in it,
who, in the face OF the nation aud of the
world, will become so drunken that he can
not articuiate his mother tongue Is this
an example you desire to set before the in
gGnuous and aspiring youth of the land; ay,
before your own children!
We have had men in the Presidential
chair, not without faults and blomishes OF
character; hut Hitherto we may proudly say,
that we never have had one there who
drowned his reason in his cups. God grant
that we never may. Think of this muguif
cent Ship OF State ireightod with twenty
three millions of souls, aud laden to the Soup
pers with the wealth of all the worlds hopes,
with pilot q: the helm, drank!
We are mn industrious and frugal people.
The aptitude is born with us. A true Mas
sachusetts boy seems to take TO ingenious
labor and to labor.saying contriyances from
lis birth,-like duck, almost impatient TO
he hatched, that it may get into the water
DR.. Franklin has stamped family like
ness upon us all. Ills economical wisdom
is domestcated among us. Take a sound
and pure specimen of Massachusetts, farmer
or mechanic, and analyZe him, and you will
find that, of his whole composition, from
six TO ten ounces in the pound is made up
of Dr. Franklin. Now why should we root
out this uXuriant, fruitbearing virtue? Why
welcome and court aud feed the prodigali
ties and sensualiiies of the Old World, 10
corrupt the pristine virtues of the new?-
Can he be a republican after the severe SIM
pliciiy aud grandeur OF the old Roman type
can he be an exemplary citizen, who must
have his thirty, forty, or even fifty thousand
dollars year to squander upon what must
not call "to ears poite," his vices and pas
slons, but more genteely, chs Instes and
ieelings;" While millions of honest la
borers thank God If by incessant toll they
can earn their daily bread for their families,
and the bread of knowledge for their chill
dren? Can they be good citizens or, at least,
aIe Nhoy Hot gIlo'ously ueIuueu, VINO VIII
give such purses to such man for being the
advocate and agent Of their special interests,
while there are hundreds of suffering men
and women and more suffering children at
their own doors2 DO you want your chill
dren to grow up infiamed by such examples
of excess and wantonness? know that all
this is defended on the ground that some
thing must be done for great mans family.
.Ah, that family The progeny and coslness
of the vices, what California shall be able to
support? know, too, that it is also said we
must have great talents in the public councils,
at whatever price. Well, if this be your
philosophy, don't do the work by halves, but
import Lucifer at once?
Now, fellow citizens, you know that all
the men who are guilty of these great dere-
IicIions from civil and social dntY. nre The