Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-10-16
R1scurivE CoMsirrEE meets November 7th
Horace Greedy.

This distinguished Manufacturer of
Newspapers as lie termed himself spent
'he last Saturday evening, in an ntiempt to
manufacture wings out of our Salem polite.
tans. What his success may have been VIC
cannot say, ihougl we should hardly think
TO have been very considerable. For jus,
about that near election, oil the political tim
Der Is found to have " set" which is hard
10 take ont. Nevertheless MIR. Greedy labor
ed as earnestly as though he hoped for sue
cess. His topic was the turiff, which of
course was well presented. 1t could not
have been otherwise, with his ability aud
intimate acquaintance with tho facts, con-
nectcd herewith.
Mr. Greeley's description Of tho American
people as compromising naiion," who
would nlways prefer to get thing by halves,
rather than oil ut once" was quite character
istic Of his speech, so far as the question Of
freedom was concerned, except that he man
ifested disposition to be satisfied with
much smaller fraction of the article. At
least very much less than the half of his
speech was devoted thereto, aud as it SEEM
ed TO us, with very much less than half the
spirit Of freeman. Ills unworthy fling ut
Mr.. Giddings, which was received 10y the
pro-slavery part of his audience with vocif
ferrous JOY, proved him more partisan, than
a freeman whom the truth had made free.
lie was for practical issues. Thought it
best to submit to the south in the matter of
fugitive slave catching, and some other par
ticulars which he enumerated, as il was only
thus that whig success could be purchased.
Like his predecessors upon tho stump, lie
assured us that General Scoit's election
would prevent slavery extension. lie also
initiated them in refruiniug from any pre-
seRtaiion of evidence confrmntory Of this
singular opinion. We confess ourselves
disappointed in this part of Mr.. Greelcy's
speech. And yet il was our own fault TINT
We were. Why should we have expected
that The man who sets out with so bald
proposition, us that Scott will favor freedom,
should have any considerable use for facts
We were so unreasonable MS TO look for
them from Mr.. Greeley. We crave his par
don for the offence. lie did indeed make
some show Of presenting facts, but they were
nniinportant to the iso'le, or hypothetical
ones. Facts, Tint ,ro,id aaue been facts, had
they only occurred, ]. o. if Henry Clay had
been elected in ISI4--or General Taylor
had not been removed by visitation Of Prov
idence. While the facts that nre facts,
which make up the important history Of
wing rule, especially for the last three years,
were not mentioned. Another palpable
omission was that he did no, refer to the
promised and prophesied facts of tho Balti-
more platform. Indeed, he failed TO expec-
torNte upon that remarkable document, .
vsrfbrmsnc0 OF course, which every body
expected and un omission quito unpardona-
bic in ON snti-slayery community.
II was piliabie indeed to see Mr. Greeley,
with his intimate acquaintance with Our true
national position, aboring for resurrection
of the dead and buried issues between wing
gerry and Democracy neglec,ing and
depreciaring the living, present one, between
freedom and slavery.