Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-07-26
Letter from Parker PilISbury,

denco with The Buglo has been so long discon.
tinued as to make me feel almost a stranger
and the moro so as a change has taken place in
the Editorial department. And on that sub
ject permit mo to say, that the regrets which
the friends of tho paper in New England felt at
the resignation of Oliver johnson, are greatly
alleviated by the promptncss with which YOU
assumed the place, and tho magnificent man
ner with which you fill it. 1t is no flattcry to
you, nor by any means a detraction from the
splendid ability of your predecessor, to say
that the Bdglc in point of talent as well as f.
deity and truthfulness, is entitled to rank
among the first Newspapers in tho nation.-
For myself have so regarded it, from the be-
ginning.
1t is usually expected that distant CORES
pondent will be able to make a letter interesting
and useful to tho readers of the paper for which
he writes. hardly dare hope to do so. But l
may say we have had our annual mockcry of
God and Liberty on the fourth Of July, attend
cd with moro than the usual number of serious
and fatal accidents. The putrid orations and
and delirium trcmcns-toasts and twaddle, have
been Illuminated again for the seventy fifth
time, and tho census shows an increase of
a hundred thousand slaves within the past
year.
The friends of true liberty in Massachusetts
met as usual in the Eden Grove at Arlington,
and observed the day in a rational and proper
manner; not by telling God and ono another
lies, on how free we arc how great, how repub-
lican how Christian, but by acknowledging the
the monstrous and many expressions and out
RACES which arc done daily in the name of lib
crty and religion, and seeking how they might
rid themselves of all participation in such guilt
and wickcdncss.
The crowds that assemble at our various an
nvcrsarics and festivals the present year arc a
most encouraging indication of the favorable
signs of the times. Tho soul and sinews of
Wing and Webstorism have been tried and
tested as never before. In desperation they
cried out, "arc yo come to I. lent us before
tho Sine of the approaching nomination for
the Presidcncyi And you have heard Of their
last rcsort,-which was to nominate their pen
stoned, pampcrcd, pitiful paupcr, Daniel Web
ster, by subscription, and to boost him before
the nation on the strength of the signatures of
merchants clerks, street and shop boys, who
never before displayed such patriotic zeal, OK
ccpt by mobing anti-slavery meetings out of
Fanueil Hall. They call it Spontaneous SUBJ
scrption'" A Kcntuckian said in q flaming
speech " We have .Jclier citizens, we have elect
cd old Tip, dam me if we didn't do it by spon-
taneous combustion" Whether "spontdneous
subscription" will bc thus triumphant, is yet a
problem. Too many of the Spontanieties have
to be dragged and driven to the altar to afford
much ground of hope while the sm6lness of
tho number obtained in any way, is driving even
the most sanguinc to the depths of despair
And then the declarations of so many States
in favor of General Scott, and the growing ia
vor with which his namo seems almost every
where to be met, joined to the fact, (sure pres
age Of success,) that he has sense enough to
stay quietly at home, instead of strolling the
country, and fighting windmill battles to secure
that most unfortunate and unsaved of all Dull
cineas, " The Union," all these circumstances
together, arc inducing many of those who have
hitherto adhered to the Webster cause with
desperate tenacity, to abandon it as a dismastcd,
dismantled and scuttlcd ship, already entering
the very throat of the deep.
The Boston Atlas from whom every thing
might have been expected, has openly espoused
the cause of General Scott. The Boston Bee,
as yet an unwinged maggot in the wary old
hornet honey comb of Whigism, pales at the
prospect; the Belshazzars of all the other or
gnns arc reading the handwriting on the wall,
with knees shifting together, and then Lucifcr
Is seen falling like lightning from heaven.
Never has political madness so foamed and
ragged; never has it before spent itself so in
gloriously. The Wing party has worn lying
and hypocrisy all threadaro while the "god-
like" has spent the meanness, and used up the
creeping, crawling servility of ages. The South
seemed to say to him, as was once said to his
elder brother, "on thy belly shalt thou co.
and down on to his belly he wallowcd, and
mapping his progress from the capital to Dun
kirk and Buffalo, and back again, through Ro-
chester Syracuse and Albany.
1t is said he is Secretary of State, but the ru-
NOR wants confirmation. Men of loose tongue
have called him great,-but the declaration be-
longs to the Hydrologic fables of Bachus and
Priapus as well. He has been called Patri-
OF, but it was by men whose Dictionaries are to
the schools unknown. He himself says he has
made sacrifces,-so he has. He has sold and
sacrificed his soul and self, his honor and char
acter and he holds it as a merit to have done SO.
He asks reward for that which strict justice
would doom to purgatorial fires. He has De-
bauched the body, committed suicide of the
soul, beggared himself to utter bankruptcy OF
every holy principle and divine sentiment. and
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