Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-09-25
Politics..

DEMocRATIc MEETING Our Salem Town
Hall Is kept piping hot with political meetings
We can't attend to them all, but two or three
we will notice. On Tuesday afternoon We
dropt in to hear the Democrats. Our congress-
man, Mr.. Cable, was speaking. He impressed
us as man oe genera! truth, fairness and can
dor, and he made quite as good an exhibition
of these capital qualities as one could expect,
from a man determined to elect Franklin Pierce
by means Of democratic, anti slavery votes.-
These qualities seem to us to have little to do
in such job. And the man who is possessed
of them had better lot it alone. They will be
troublesome. Mr.. Cable found them so when
pressed with a few plain questions. He gave
us to understand that the land reform and the
labor questions were the great questions at
issue in the campaign, and that their success
rested on the Democratic party. The sla-
very question he passed over as lightly as pos
sible, and so do VIC the meeting, only adding,
that its numbers were small, and its enthus.-
asm smaller. And If General Picrce's election
depends upon Salem, he may as well make
his arrangements for continuing his residence in
Concord for the next four years.
VINO MEErINo:-In the evening the Hall was
filled with men and women TO listen to Mr.. Til
den's speech in support of General Scott. The
speech was an able one. He looked the diff
culties of his position fairly and fully in the
face, and met them with a boldness which star
tied some Of his hearers. We cannot conceive
of better argument for his purpose than Mr..
Tilden made, and yet it was failure SO far as
any justification of his position is concerned
lie did most unanswcrably demonstrate the
wickedness of wings and democrats in their
support of slavery. He also showed that those
who take the 7th article of the Pittsburgh plat
form as their exponent, arc in position, SO far
as the rendition Of slaves is concerned, in the
like condemnation. He took the generally
conceded Interpretation OF tho constitution as
the right ono, and affirmed that il hedged up
the way Of anti slavery men, whether democrats
wings, or freesoilers, compelling them to re-
turn the fugitive, or at least to consent thereto,
That tho only way of escape, was to override
the constitution by an anti-slavery interpreta-
ton as do Mr.. Gerrt Smith and his friends, OF
admitting its pro-slavery character, condemn its
wickedness and repudiate its authority, like
the disunionists. lie, however, was not pre-
pared to do either. He was hopeless Of any
efficient action against the slave power. The
fugitive slave law could never be made an issue.
The stakeholder never expected its enforce
ment, and would eventually cease TO demand
it. And besides, in principle, and to the slave it
was no worse than the constitution, and so far
as the moral character of the act was concern
ed, wings might as well support the law, as
freesoilers the constitution. In a word, Mr..
Tildcn on this point, succeeded in justifying
tho position of the Whig party, provided, the
demonstration that others occupied the same
position, can be any such justification.
Thus hopeless of any radical action against
slave holding or slave catching, Mr.. Tildcn
contended that we should meet the slave pow
er its great practical issue, viz. slave extern
sion. On this point he informed US Gen. Scott
was more reliable for freedom than General
Pierce. The former having shown himself in
] time past, possessed Of some anti-slayery sym