Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-05-15
Letter from the Editor.



To tho Readers Of the Bagic:
This No. will comploto year since I under
took the conduct of the Duglc and now for the
first time l am to be absent during the issue of
a number. This may make little difference to
you, but feel now as though it made much to
me. had no thought of occupying this post
thus long, when l undertook it, else / should
have shrunk from it altogether, for l had no
thought that l could or should become an cdi-
tor. Much as l have failed to do What you have
wished or desired, can most truly say, that
have done all l promised to do. That prom
iso was that al would do the best could till
you could get somebody 20 do better" And
to repeat this promise is all that l can say for
year, with new attachments to you all. The
thought that from week to week / was holding
converse with those " seven thousand" who
would not bow the knee to Baal-with those
whose ambition it is to be frmost and truost
in the work of progress and reform, this thought
has made my labor light and the time seem pass
ing short. 1t has been a year marked with the
desperate struggles of the slave power. And
mark ed too, by its discomhturcs in some points,
whore :he hope of triumph was especially cher
ished. We will all hope and labor that for the
year to come it may be yet moro signally de-
fcatcd
have just picked up paper, the New York
Journal of Commerce, which contains the fol-
lowiny nro,ious ,norscl f cor, fort for tho sloyo
holders. The journal is, If remember right
rather remarkable for its picty. It's orthodoxy
will need no other voucher than the paragraph
itself. 1t is whole creed, the " confession of
faith, and the "thirty nine articles of slave
holding, condensed in q line. 1t gives the Edi-
tors views of God--of man and his duty. 1t
gives us distinctly to understand what is ortho-
lox tcaching-nost properly rebukcs all here
Teal teachers and teachings as they deserve
fully sustains the immaouatencss and suprcm-
lcy of human laws, those which sustain slave
catching in particular. This as We all know is
tho important point TO be pressed and sustained
just now, as is manifest from tho luminous cx-
positions, of the Deweys Lords, Stuarts and
Coxcs, as well from the example of their most
worthy disciples and fellow laborcrs, the Curti-
ses, Bustecds, Clyncs, Martins and McCrcarys
"Tho shooting of negro arrested as q fusi-
tive slave at Columbia, Pa, by one of the olt-
GERS engaged in the arrest, is an event deeply to
be regretted. II is an event, however, which
in an important sense, is charyeaJLe upon those
rho hare taught The faJitire 10 'aetead his H5e,1y
as he to1uh defend his life, and that of his teite
and children against the assassin" The slave,
in tho case before u.s. was acting out these in
structions, by resisting tho officers of the law to
the utmost. lie has found the truth of the dec
laration, that such func,ionarics "bcar not the
sword in vain" The officer will of course be
tried, but to what extent the circumstances will
be taken in justification, we will not undertake
to say"
Look at the audacious insult this Editor Of
fers to God and man. This human being who
was shot, who came from the hands of his
Creator, fashioned with a heart of humanity,
would never have known that he should have
defended himself, his wife and children had it
not have been for the institutions of the AJoH.
tioMists.
How consumato a liar must this Editor be.
to utter this, and how bosottcd fool to think
of making the people believe it.
But enough of this have had delightful
journey thus far on my way to Rochester,
Next week hope to report that things have
there been said and done for the slave.
THE EDITOR.