Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-12-25
Letter from New Hampshire.
CoNconp. N. II. Dec. 10Th, 49,

ment were better deserved. My connexion
with the Buglc, is the connecting link between
me and you, and all my Western friends, while
away here in tho bleak region of wintry New
England. would not sever it for any price.
The experiences of tho Field Hands in the
Anti.Slavery service are somewhat worth re-
cording could we describe them as they arc
But you know 1t is often said, we cannot de-
scribe "SLAvERV As IT $50 II might with
equal force be added, no moro can we describe
1nti- Slaeery as IL is.
Ono thing has of late struck me most forcibly,
and that s,thc effect which the late election has
had on large numbers Of our most earnest, and
hitherto unoompromising abolitionists. In
many places, almost all went to the polls.-
This would be the less lOmentablc, were it not
that it has sot so many of them to dcplorng
our extreme, and, las they now say), impracti-
cable positions and doctrines on tho one hand,
and to apologizing for the church aud ministry
on the other. And some have even returned
to the old communions, where the body and
blood of slaves are swallowed indirectly at least,
in the sacramonts And think our newspaper
Subscription Lists and Treasury Contributions
must suffer materially as a further consequence.
While far the greater part of the priesthood of
the nation are exalting the name of Daniel
Webster to glory and honor co-cqual with Ga
bIiel, if not with the Almighty himself, it seems
most inappropriate that our standard should
droop, or the force of our protests and rcbukcs
be abatcd.
Do you think the audacity of our clergy was
ever equnllcd, 1t strikes one almost dumb
with admiration. While Daniel Wcbstcrs po-
litical proiigocies are written in our govern
mental history on almost every page, he having
been on every side of every great question, VIC
arc solcmnly exhorted to regard him as pat
tern politician, worthy Of all acccptation and
all imitation.
While not one single new measure, doctrine
or policy ever adopted by the government, good
or bad, owes its origin to him, as statesman,
as the chiefest among ten thousand, if not the
ono altogether lovely.
While his private and personal vices and de-
baucheries have been notorious for years, told
of by the indifferent, proclaimed and condcmcd
by his foes, apologzcd for by his friends, and
believed in by almost every body, we are now
most confidently assured, that in mcckncss, no
was a Moses lin purity, Joseph i'm rapt
devotion, an Isaiah i'm christian zeal and
knowledge, another paul the Apostle and
in heavenly amiabilty and sweetness of spirit,
a rival of John, "Me disciple irhom Jesus lored."
Was there ever such blasphemy against the
Holy Ghost, as are many, nay mutitudrs of the
sermons and pulpit panegyrics that arc now
stunning the nation, in glorifcation and dcif.
cation OF that most wrctchcd man! Can these
Reverend revilers of all truth and goodness
expect the community will stultify itself down
to so pIepostcrous, so glaring and monstrous
absurdties as these They may expect all this
But when the people do crawl down to such
degradation, they may be sure they arc of those
TO whom "God hath sent strong deipsion to be-
lieve lie, that they all may be damned
Blu; the mul,itudes of clear seeing, and true
hearted men and women in the North, East and
West, cannot be thus blindly led. They scorn
such dishonesty, and dcSpisc those who practice
it.
Daniel Webster was the sclf-styled, and ev-
erywhorc proclaimed =" SaUior of the Union. -
And his means and condition of Salvation, were
the execution of the Compromises, especially
the Fugitive Law, "to the fullest extent--to the
fullest orient" But is the Law executed. Ask
the Rescucrs of Shadrach in Boston. Not n
man of them is harmed. OF Jerry at Sy facuse.
They even surrender themselves for trial, and
bid the government defiance While at the
Same time, the blood of Chrstiana cries una.
venged, the slave is safe in Canada, and the
Kidnapper and his son are both rotting in dis.
honorable graves, and not a hair of any man,
head who sent them there, has perished Call
you this salvationi II SO, it must be by faith,
1t is surely not of works, that any man can
boast-of works under the Webster Covenant.
In the West, and near where we held Con-
Vontion, lives Wing, Webster Wing, and
most jealous declaimer in favor of the Com
promiscs-a conductor on the underground
railToad' with four slaves in charge, thought
one Saturday night to test his position. He
represented himself as slave catcher, and ap
piled to him for assistance, the good whig
declined. Nor could he be fattered nor bribed
AT length he offered him fvo hundred dollars
in cash, If he would see him and his four slaves
safe across the Ohio into Virginia. With gen.
uino whig devotion, and in true Democratic
dialect he said to him, 20 60 to hell with your
five hundred dollars"
Then the man told him who and what he
was. This altered the case. The doors were
thrown open, both of house and heart. The
"train" was securely concealed and safely kept
over Sunday; and on Sunday night, in true
"Senator Bird" style and spirit. that Judas of
a Wing, betrayed his Southern master, and de.
livarad tho slavaa into thn boo1a -