Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-11-05

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EAotEyitLt, Oct. 20, 1863
DEAR SIR: You have probably learned before
this the result of our recent scramble for Office
in this county. You may not, however, be aware
of the special pains taken to defeat a part OF the
Free Soil ticket. The following are some OF the
facts knowledge of which, am sure, will detraet
nothing from the agreeablencss Of your reflections
on the final complete triumph Of the party In the
FIRST place, let me premise that it bitter pill
to many bunker Free Soilor, that two such out
spoken, radical aye Garrisonian sort Of improctic-
ables, as were nominated for the Offices Of Sheriff
and Treasurer should be in any way promoted or
encouraged to hopcifor any public favors. 1t was,
in their estimation, giving over the party to come
outerism, infdelty and other kindred and horrible
errors and evils, vastly cndangering its prosperity
and peace. But regular nomination and public
announcement, of course precluded all open oppos
ton, and their troubled hearts could only find
action and relief in private murmurs, petty scandal
and long drawn sighs. Not so, however, with the
champions ofhunker faith and fogysm in the other
parties. No seal was on their lips. No scruples of
prjRcip'e prevented brothcrly union of effort and
with the control of three weekly papers circulating
extensively in the county cabinet Of lawyers for
counsel, Swiss guard of post masters, and Hos
sian troop of rank and file to follow in their lock-
step, they certainly could count on a decidedly
successful onslaught that part of the Free Soil
ticket which was, in "cycrybody's" estimation, so
extremely unpopular" Accordingly the action
commenced and charges of demagoguoism, i'm
modesty, youth, incompctency, &C., were so freely
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and received with such apparent credulty that
the election Of those doomed ones was pronounced
by their fugleman at the county scat "a moral
Iimpossibility" The forces were consequently put
to the right about and other and nobler achieve
ments proflered them. Our much esteemed and
honorable candidate for recollection to the State
Senate was to feel the annihiating prowess Of the
allied powers. But ah they found foeman
worthy of their steel A speedy, decided, and
signal defeat and disgrace awaited their chosen
leader and champion, and now what disastrous
reaction might they not reasonably fear affecting
perhaps reversing their former brilliant victory I?
What can be done? Can the arts Of strategy be
employed to secure the spoils of yaor2 That's it !
Eureka Stratagem, bribery, bargain and sale
these were charged upon Adams and Clay years
ago, and why should smaller men staggor at meas
urcs of which such WORTHLESS had been suspectedP ?
The candidates for Sheriff and treasurer the $50
called Democratic ticket can be induced-no mat
ter how-to decline; the Wing nominees can
promise to divide the printing patronage between
their organ and the pulling, dwelling, ricketty
foundlng called the Ashtabua Democrat. The
Democratic votes can be printed for the insertion of
their names, runners can be sent through the county
just before election day. to notify the untcrriGcd'
that they are sod at a price, and done-fnis-no
use talking-therc's an end to the aspirations of
those simple minded ono idea radicals who rode
the Liberty Party hobby through thick and thin,
from its starting to its absorption in the Free Soil
hosts, and for the sake of office. But hold. Isn't
/ there Divinity that shapes our ends? Shall m
justice and wrong surely triumph? Look at the
sequel. Some how-perhaps no one can say how
or why-but it was, that those blanks in the
Democratic ticket did not all get filed 90 to order"
and the election returns said to demonstrate the
proposition that bold, inscriptions, indefatgablc
attempts of political partisans, even when to hon
orablc warfare they add the appliances of wealth
and patronage, and fraud and strategy do, some
| times fail
One other circumstance / will not omit although
| am not inclined to think that much Importance
attaches thereto, viz: the fact that during the can
vass, hireling priest in one of strongest anti
slavery towns, edited his hearers with the an
nouncement that the Free Soil party is an inRde
party-lod and controlled by nidels and exhorted
them on that ground to abstain from its support
And it is said that this ghostly adviser has exerted
such heavenly influence on the minds of some of
the selfsylcd pillars of the church, as to induce
them to resort for reposc and political communion
! to the endearing embraces of that model politico-
religious organization whose standard ofholy living
is so strkngly exemplifed in the godly lives of
such men as Taylor, Fillmore, Scott Clay, Webster
and Wade. Perhaps it is we'll enough for the
amusement of the curious and the benefit of pos
terty to record this along with the fact that not
ten years have elapsed since it was made by that
same class of priests an important objection to
anti-savery political action, that it was carrying
Religion into politics." Verify, time works wonders
and verify also there is such thing as progress
ing backwards"
There are other incidents connected with the
recent canvass which l had intended to mention,
but my missivo already exceeds the customary
length, and | must close, defering other matters
until another day. In the meantime, believe me,
my friend, Yours and the Slaves,
A. NV