Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-08-14
Letter from Parker PillSbury.

DEAR MARTUs 1T gives me great pleasure
to greet you again on the soil of your own State.
A rather rough passage across the Lake last
evening, leaves me in not the most favorable
condition for writing; albeit it gives me an ex-
cellcnt text Gor letter.
Much Of the conversation on board our boat,
was upon the lutc disaster to the Henry Clay,
powerful boat on the Hudson river. OF course,
every body almost, was ready to pass sentence
Of death upon both owners and officers. And
sec in the last BuglO, that you call the loss of
life in that frightful casualty, murder so docs
almost every body. see not how any body
can be brought to trial as every man almost,
has so prejudged the case, as to be entirely dis
qualified to sit upon the jury.
And also call it murder. Cool. deliberate
downright murdcr--wantng in nothing, except
the malice pr,pease.
But this age is not fit to try the case Instead
Of it, the age itself should first be brought to
trial. We have bu'chered, hung, tortured and
onslavcd men so long, that now human life is of
no value to US whatever One murder used "to
make a villoin'' millions hero and hero
made king or a president. Now, one murder
isn't seen by the naked eye-and mulutudcs
torn in pieces by Railroad collisions, or broi!cd
to death in burning steamboats,, make-well,
they make an item for ;he Morning Newspapers
Rccklessness the most bloody, charactcrizcs
the age. The god we pray to, is SPEED. On
its terrible altar, we immediate whole hecatombs
of human beings, at single sacrifice Ate
such offering the newspapers profess to be shock
cd. But forthwith, out comes Comet & Co, OF
Chain Lightning s Sons. with their "Ne,o DIS.
patch Li'e," or Photographic Express" to carry
any where and every where, on sea or land, 'aR
he ,cay cithom charge" and "Mrou7h 5y day.
hgM" Elitors get free tickcts, and blow their
windy puiis for the "cnterprising proprictors,"
who arc "detormined not to be beat" who have
thus "dnnihiated time and distance" and ''fur.
nishcd the travelling public with means of loco.
motion, worthy the progressive spirit of the
age"
Old and safe lines are starved out and every
body almost takes to the new. The multitude
applaud, the newspapers head an article "TmR
QrIcKEsr YET !! and praise whatever happens
to succeed in the "neck or nothing" undertake
ing.
The results arc well known. Only the new
lines can do "a Hring business" as 1t Is called
killing business accompanies the enterprise.
Every where there will be supply, if the de-
mand exist. No matter in what department of
human existence or human affahs. The age
demands speed. 1t will have it. 1t gets it, but
it must pay the price. 1t does pay it.
Let such an age go hang itself. 1t surely
should not wrcak its vengeance on a few poor
steamboat captains, made Williams by its own
hands. They work for pay. They bring to
market what sells best. The buyer and con-
sumer are as guilty sure, as nc who only comes
into market with his wares. Steamboats, are
not all that race. Everything is "rdeiag." We
must have it so-no matter how many lives are
sacrificed.
But did not think to consume so much time
on this subject. The steamer Henry Clay has
destroyed herself in tho general destruction of
hundred human lives. Another Henry Clay
has also just disappeared whose career was far
more destructive one to human happiness, and
human hopes. lie has left a Will enslaving
multitudes yet to be born, and prolonging the
unpiticd servitude of many now in chains
Marius, we must write codicil in that bloody
Testament. Sooner than that, must those
slaves be free. So help us heaven.
hope the campaign before us, will be ono
whose results shall reach, and carry JOY to the
rcmotcst victim of American oppression.
Never before saw our country so dark q day.
Desperation marks our every footstep. We
have become great and powerful, and are using
our power to subscrvc mos, fearful ends. Like
some dissolutc and abandoned youth, who has
succeeded to an immense estate, we seem bent
on destroying ourselves, and as many others as
can be involved in the ruin.
Men are talking of "saving the Union" A
greater salvation than that is demanded to day.
The salvation of man, by the vindication and
promulgation of Truth, Honor and Justice
Let us become such saviours, with a holy zeal,
and lofty devotion, and the God of heaven shall
smile on our labors. lie shall crown them with
his blessing, and with abundant success.
Yours in fatigue and hurry,
PARKER PILLSBURY.
CLEVELAND, 9th August, 1852.
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