Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-11-20
Letter from Parker Pillsbury.
conconp. n. IL. Nov. 7lh, 1852.

months, arc to me tho most Of them, of the pleas
antcst character 4 few OF those who ono year
befjrc, were full Of life and promise, had dis
appeared. But even for these, VIC do not
mourn as those without hope. When such die,
as were Rachel Myers, and Josephine UrifIing,
it is for ourselves only that we need mourn
and even such mourning, is out Of place, as it
is understood in tho world. If We mourn for
such as our young friends were, it is because
We are dead, and ret they. They belonged to
those over whom death had no power.
The nation is now jhbiart at tho success Of
the late election. Only small number are
doomed to disappointment, so near unanimous
has been tho vote. The successful candidate
seems least clatcd at his sudden distinction
lie discountcnanccs and openly disupproves of
immodcratc demonstrations of JOY on tho part
Of his friends. lie alone sooms mindful of the
disappointment Of his opponents; and he tells
his cxuting friends, that "he hour Of triumph
should be Me hour IF mdgaanimdy." The no
blcst sentiment perhaps of all his life.
The Free Democracy have also had some sig
nal trumphs Of late. Probably the election of
Mr. Giddings to the next Congress- has given
the supporters of his party as much cause of
| congratulation aud rejoicing. as any event since
the formation Of the party. Six weeks before,
| l lccturcd in Jefferson and some other places in
his District, and his prospects seemed dark in.
decd. The temptation to throw my influence
wholly in his favor, in the true spirit and posi-
ton of the political partzlu, was very great
But the fact that almost every house and hail
controlled by Free Soil men, was boltcd and
barred against me, leads no TO hope that / did
not sworve from my integrity. We eau do bet
ter things than to send good or bad men to
Congress, to swear fcalty to tyrant- and flcl.
ity to a union with Shareholders"
A popularity of mine is, (as was once told
me by a Physiosnomist and Ncurologist,) to
be sad, often, ut what mo st others would rejoice.
l confess that in our government, no triumph
of any party, or party candidate, brings any Joy
to me. have too often expressed my admira-
ton of Mr.. Giddings, to warrant any further
declaration OF it here. lie is far too good a
man to do the work assigned him. No wonder
all Congress laughed, and all the nation too
when he administered the oa,hs 10 a slave.
holding speaker, at the opening of the last scs-
sion.
And almost everybody too, who looked only
at immediate results, was glad of tho election
of Charles Sumner. For ono, did not rejoice,
1t seemed to me his elevation was his fall. Ny
mind is not yet changed. Now he is the boas-
ted champion of the doctrine, "Frecdom Ma
tional, Slavery Sectional" My curse and the
curse of every honest heart, on such n scnti-
mcnt, even were 1t true, as it is not in this
country. lie admits and declares that slavery
is in the constitution; and only demands that
it be confined within its prescribed limits. lie
glorifes Washington. and makes him, so he
says, his model. lie wishes the government
restored, as it was in his hands, and admins
tered as he administered it. And yet, WISH
ington was a slave holder and slave hunter
lie signed the Fugitive Slave Law of 1893, and
under ii, hunted poor woman clear to New
Hampshire. And he would have laid hands
upon her there, only that "Ae tearca the people,!
PEOPLE lived in New Hampshire then.
When Daniel Webster abandoned his ground
9Th of March 1855, became the chosen cham
pion Of the Compromises, including the Fugi-
tive Slave law, the ahan lonmcnt of tho Viii
mot Proviso, aud whatever else the South de-
mandcd, many Of his i"rnIr friends forsook
him, and protiaimci him f.llcn forever. And
how deeply they dcplorcd his fall
But Daniel Webster fell Ike the rent and
sliivcrcd oak, long since dead, and d;srobed of
former glory. Like tho old "girLlngs in
your own Ohio, lie stood only in peeled and ma
kcd deIormity. But the fall OF Charles Sum
nor was as when the lightning smites and blasts
the vigorous, healthy young pride Of the forest,
and consisns it to inslorious and prernaturc de-
cay and death Men admire his speech in
Consrcss-I too, felt its powcr--S,ill it was
poison as the sacraments of Gree. Slavery is
as desperately wicked e "Sccii3paL" as it could
be "RatioaaA" The more infamous and infer
nal it is sectional, the more desperately wicked
is that union with SHAREHOLDERS which alone Sc
cured its existence, and so makes it indirectly
national. And that indirect connexion with il,
is enough to cover the Union and all who vol
unfairly support it, with everlasting infnmy.
After ALL MI Sumner himself proves in his
speech, that slavery is constitutional and ma
tional lie specifics the clauses. True he de-
plores them, but he swoars to support them,
and hitherto has kept the oath. And the inau-
enco and example of one such senator as
Charles Sumner, is moro fatal to the cause Of
freedom, ;han as many senator Foote'S as could
stand in the National Capital.
And now the slave and his uncompromising
friends have gone into mourning, over the
downward tendencies of Gerrit Smith. No
sooner did he show signs Of detection, than the
enemy pursued him with a brDe. The devil