Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-07-03
Letter from Parker Pillsbury.

htaih lluln nut lnCNOIhOle blCkutos lIlNH
be my apology. We have again seen our little
daughter brought down to the very verge o
the grave. Typhoid fever has been prcyng
upon her, with all its wonted malgnty. Fol
several days. she was bcreft of reason, and VIC
Of hope. Even now her sky Is clouded al
though streaks of sunlight begin to appear.
had appropriated the months of June and
July to rest, and arccruiting up Of my energies,
preparatory to leaving for the West, by the first
of August. The severe campaign in Ohio,
succeeded by long and dismal winter, into
which crowded a great amount Of labor. ac-
companied by unusual exposure, rendered n
respite necessary. But the time for rest, with
me, has not come yet. Should you see me in
Ohio by the time proposed, you will have to
take me, for better, for ,oo:se.
We are all just now tossing in whirl-wind
Of excitement here in Concord, on account of
an occurrence which has bcfalen one of our
-neighbors. lie is a lawyer of respectable talent
| and fair character as the world counts fairness.
| His name is Pierce. A Convention met some
where South the athor day, and nominated him
so the papers say, for the presidency. l don't
think he cares a great deal about it himself,
any way. But some Of the people here, hav' mt
known since whether they were oil heel or head.
should think they bad all been nominated,
elected, inaugurated, tonanted in the White
house, paid the hundred thousand, and sent
home again. They remind me Of the little
urchins who swelled up so toad belled, when
their daddy was elected corporal and to whom
their mother said, to mortify their consequence,
"hold yonr tongues boys, only your father and
is corporals, you ant no more nor YOU was
before"
Some of the wings say, SHAME, to have so
obscure n man nominated. He would disgrace
the presidential chair" assure them, he were
indeed mean, to dishonor the chair Of State,
after the like Of John Tyler ard Millard Fill
moro have sat in it. Others Of them think, or
profess to think him drmkard and, so unfit
for the Office tell them as to that, if our last
presidents have been sober and temperate, l
should like for once, and for little variety, to
appeal from the presidents sober, to the presi-
dent, drunk. But then Daniel Webster can
probably drink moro glasses Of genuine cogniac.
than Frank Pierce can of " Sherbct of Shiraz;"
though there is no whig, of course, who would
not call him temperance man, and recommend
to tis rising sons, The example and life OF "the
godlikc," as models of the strictcst imitation.
When the wings tell me how small man
Pierce is, sometimes say, Eyes pretty small,
and l think tho Democrats, probably, have
taken him, in order to show the world, with
how mean man they can lick all the rest of
the parties togcter.
As to all these considerations, do rot suppose
any better man than Franklin Pierce will be
selected by either of the great political parties.
lie is esteemed the very prince of good fellows,
generous, open hearted, respected by every one
who knows him intimately; and, tried by every
worldly standard but that of anti-slavery, very
few would rank higher than himself. Some of
our most eminent orthodox clergymen pro-
nouncc him man of the "dcepcst religious
fccling;" and, though he docs not belong to
any of our churches, it is not probably, because
they would not be found to open to him, would
he but knock at their outer door, and were he the
hypocritc that Henry Clay and Daniel Webster
are, think he would join one, as his best
trump card, towards making his presidential
" calling and election sure"
1t is for none Of these Hifing reasons that
abolitionists should oppose the election of
Franklin Pierce. Standing on the Baltimore
Democratic Platform, or ratl or the platform
i,, nd ho ,t,,holI - IL .,.oulI hn +
our duty to encounter him, were he the brightest
,craph who ever sung the songs of heaven
complain not of him that he is bad, that he is
! drunkard, or any thing else. l would to God
he were worse. am sorry that half so good
a man as he, is in such place. No mortai man
should be so dishonorcd-so dcbascd. Talk
Of the personal pccadillos Of one who has to be
SO swallowed in the unfathomcd and unbot-
toned abyss Of wholesale infamy, it is mourn
full that all our presidential candidates are not
hring spisties of Total Depraeity, seven tipes
sublimed. Instead of saying man is not good /
enough for the presidency, lc: us rather say (no |
matter who he is,) It's pity that so good a man |
is found for such place. Unless ho be some |
hoofed and horned demon, hoarse with screech- |
ing his blasphcmcs against God, and thunder
Scared all over, where he had been hit and
wounded in fighting against him unless he be .
some pensioned, premiumd fcnd, whom COM
non Inicrnals have baptized "the godlike," for }
ong ard signal serviscs IN their behaf-for
saving to them their " Union where
- Devil with devil damned, firm concord holds;"
unless he be all this. or more, let us never say
he is not good enough, and far too good, to be
the president of these so.called United States
Of America.
There is ono thing to redeem us after all. We