Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-12-03

But for the rest of u.s. what monstrous bill of
fare" she has decreed and provided It has often
enough been described She herself holds 1t before
us ever and always and all this time she is prac-
tcing or apologizing for slavery. She lugs along
her big Bible and finds it's justification there
Patriarcha practice, the silent and approving seal
Of Jesus, and Paul sending back fugitive, she de-
clares such proofs in its favor, that he who re-
iccts them will incur damnation. To her, the BIZ
BILE is Gods certificate and license for making mer
chandise of his own children This the church is
actually doing in more than half the nation, and in
the rest she is recognized and honorcd all the while
as the Mount Zion Of God and the world mean
WHILE the outside world, has SO far condemned the
Internal system, as that, even in Barnums speraR-
nuated halEpay representation of Uncle Toms Cab
in, it is unhcstatngly declared to be " all Of the de-
ril" How true it is that" blindness in part is hap
poued to Israel" until every body else is gathered
in.
But how my pen runs on Pardon me. 1t is q
way we have here in the East 1t isa yankee
Notion" thus to speak when so impellcd as have
been by seeing the church leaving to the Theatre
the work of preaching the gospel of deiyerance to
the captive" and of law liberty, and good will to
man.
But, by the way speaking of Yankee Notions
do your readers know anything Of the store of them
which our old friend Samuel Brooke and his part
ncr, Mr.. Whitney, have opened in Cleveland ?
Though a birthright member of that singular race
of beings called everywhere Yankees, and pretty
well read in their Natural History yet must con
fess ] had no idea how notion" al they are until
visited that store, if store it properly be de
nominated 1t is situated on Bank street. one o.
the finest streets in the city, and is too of tn,
mercantile palaces with which the place abounds
It is eighty or hundred feet in depth, with pro
portionate width and did not count the stories it il
in height But know we mounted loft after loft
and each one opened new edition and display o
Yankee Notions" No Yankee in the six State,
allotted to that tribe of the American Israel has, o
can have, any idea of the extent and number O
his productions, until he visits and explores tha
museum and cabinet of them, kept by Brooke 6
Whitney. ] asked if they could tell me how many
different kinds Of articles they kept and the clerk
all smiled at my g,ec',ResS. They thought it woulC
have been quite as sensible to asked farmer how
, many leaves there were in his woods. | asked i
, anything was ever called for which they had no
D that they sometimes got out of articles" But h
y said also that nothing in the line Of manufactured
goods was ever called for, which did not 60 on t
? the memorandum book to be purchased forthwith
unless a supply was already on hand. On the car,
, of the firm only buttons, combs, brushes cutlery
, jcwelry, silver and plated ware, clocks, watches
D. soaps, perfumery, suspenders, gun caps, carpe
r bags, combrick muslins ribbons, laces, edgings
+ gloves, hosiery and handkerchiefs are named. Bu
A there are three &c,. which cover a multitude
!, other things that no man can number or eve
name.
The business of the establishment is conducte
on such principles as that every month adds ne
patrons to the already extended list. The trade
- the firm now reaches to nearly all the States we
Of Ohio, and the owners arc realizing the reward
Of perscvering and honorable attention to Il
business in which they have so extensively embar
ed.
Yours and your readers
PARKER pIIISRTRY