Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-01-18
The North STAR

We have on our exchange list two papers
bearing this name. One of them, az our read
srs will Of course infer, is that established by
Frederick Douglass, (thc eloquent Fugitive
from Southern bondagc,( at Rochester, n. y.
The other is a much older paper, and is pub
lishcd at Danvillc, Caledonia County, VT, with
IN few miles of the home Of our childhood
and youth, Of which its familiar physiognomy
lsvcr fails to remind us. This was the first pa
per for which we were over q subscriber. We
paid for it IN adrancc, from the product Of q
potato. patch, which father allowed us to
cultivate on our own hook. We arc sorry to
odd that the potatoes did not produce money
until after they were converted into ,chiskcy!
THE Temperance cause had not then shed its
light upon the country, and it was common
practice in that region to raise potatoes Tor dis
tillation. There were in our native town,
(Peacham,) } about that time moro than twenty
dstillories Of potatoes! No'o intoxicating
drinks are not sold in the town nt ALL The Pc
Yusal of the Star stimulated thirst for reading,
and awakened in us the desire to become
printer 1t was during our apprenticeship lin
another oflicc) that we first tried our hand at
authorship. and it was The North star that gave
TO the world our first STORY. Never shall VIC
forget tho hopes and fears which agitated ouI
mind after that story had been dispatched to the
Editor, nor the pride VIC felt when it made its
appearance in print. No Fourth of July ora.
Cor, We venture to say ever contemplated the
.nlnndid rcaults of bs ocni,,a ,vi,b s,oator eoIc
satisfaction than that with which VIC conncd
ever again and again the successive columns oi
that story. 1t was wonderful production in
It's day, but upon our soul we can neither re-
member its title nor the anonymous signature
under which it appeared Tho Star was an
tributions TO its columns had relation to that
controversy, in which, as a moral question, we
wero deeply interested. The physiognomy OF
she Star. which has undergone less change
than that Of most papers. has always been as
familiar to Ut as that OF our father, and with
Hected, it has been our care to secure an cx-
change with paper so intimately associated
With all our boyhoods "reminiscences and the
sacred memories of HONE. 1t reminds us OF
friends of early years, from whom VIC have
been widely separated by tho cvcr-chonging vi.
sissitudes of life, and some too, who long since
took their flight to the spirit land 1t waits Ia
us'plcasant odors from our native mountains
and the sweet music Of the laughing stream.
that burst from their craggy sidcs-strcams oil
whose green margin VIC so often played, and
from whose cool and sparkling eddies we so of.
ten drew the luscious trout.
"The hills are dearest which our childish fcot
Have climbed the earliestj and the streams
most sweet
Are ever those NJ which our young lips drank
STOPPED to their waters o'er the grassy bank. :
The Star is paper of more modest preten
dons than many others whose merits arc les
than its own. 1t is published in the midst of
Woodworking rural population, and in elm,
"a -" where luxury is Tolls reward
And man must 6ght the tempest for his bread.
The Editors-father and son-probably per
form the larger part Of the manual labor of thei
establishment, and content themselves with .
frugal living and very moderate gans-ifindecd
they can gain anything pccuniarily from n busi,
meas SO precarious. The paper is of course DO.
htical, and therefore contains much that does
not approve itself to our judgment; but its
miscellaneous selections always exhibit good
taste and nice appreciation of the wants of il,
readers, 1t began its .torsy.GjsA volume with
the new year, and madc its appearance with I
new head and in an enlarged form. May il liv,
thousand years