Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-12-24
Communications.
NEW ENGLAND CORRESPONDENCE.
CoScoRD, New Hampshire, |
Doc l2ih 1879


DEAR FRIESD MARIUs Perhaps you have noticed
the eulogy Of Edward Everett, United States SEN
ator from Massachusetts,, upon the late Vice Pres.
ident, pronounced in the Senate one day last week.
There is one passage however, which is worth
passing remark 1t is this:
"Thero is ON ancient maxim sir founded nt once
in justice and right feeling, which bids us say
nothing but what is good Of the dead. can obey
this rule, in reference to the late Vice President
without violating the most scrupulous dictates Of
sincerity--I can say nothing but what is good Of
him for | have mover seen or heard anything but
good of him, for thirty years that | have known
him, personally and by reputation"
The reading of this passage has recalled to my
mind the part the Vice President took in n debate
in tho Senate, relative to the taking Of the las,
census Mr.. Seward of New York, had made a
motion, accompanied by some remarks, which
Southern Senators had considered as affront W
the "peculiar institution" The Hon. gentleman
from Alabama, VIM. II. King, came forthwith W
the rescue. lie seemed fully to admit tho force o.
Mr.. Stewards implied charge, and then defended
the subject in this manner:
"Does the Senator from New York mean to say
that all the women of his State are so highly in
tellecual, so bright in their perceptions, acute
in their understanding that they could give tho
exact number of children that they have had if ID
were required Of thcmg" would like
to be informed whether all the women in his state.
the state of New York. are so intelligent and have
lived in such way, as to justify belief that thoy
could give true information this question: IL
required of them. Go into New York city, or into
any portion Of the sta.e and you will find persons
who could not give it."
Mr. Everett could hardly have overlooked 90
important part of Senatorial proceedings, as the
debate the Census Bill. IIe may therefore be
considered as endorsing these sentiments for he
ayows distinctly, that in the last thirty years Of
his personal acquaintance with their author, no
"has seen and heard nothing but good Of him."
And then the cool admission Of Senator King.
is too instructive to be forgotten. 1t evident
enough from it that the slave system has so finished
its work of ruin upon the slave mothers intellect
and heart, that she does not even know the number
of her children. And this is a system to be pro-
longed. To be the great object Of governmental
patronage and protoction-to be sancti6cd by the
greatest religious bodies in the land, every one Of
thcm in the name Of the Father, and the Son, and
Of the Holy Ghost.
! Senators from the South, drunk on tho blood Of
slavery, admit in Congressional debate, that
slavery thus murders the souls as well as bodies Of
its victms--and they see no outrage, no sacrilege
no murder of Gods own spirit, in what they do
They do not deny it. They admit, and then just
ify it. And Northern Senators, aspirants to the
Presidency. endorse this acted blasphemy against
the Holy Ghost, if any such sin there be--and
Edward Everett, Of Massachusetts, has never
seen or heard any thing but good" of ono who
has done the deed and then unbushingly defended
it, to the nation and the world. lie is the man
; too, who declared himself ready to buckle on his
knapsack, to exterminate any who should dare
intcrpose to rescue humanity from such awful pro.
fanation. How well he has earned the Presidency!
But how sadly and certainly is he doomed to dis
appointment
There is nothing transpring at present, hero
abouts, of absorbing interest, except the discus
sions upon the Presidents Mcssage-"Who wrote
it," is asked by every body, and "to what favored
Editors was it first sent" is q grave question
|, among the newspaper fraternity. The first cnqui-
ry grows serious The real adamantines are great
ly alarmed at the Free Soil proclivities Of the
President. His appointments are giving great
offence, and the message neither promises or
! prophecies anything better. Garrisonians, and
G Free Soil men in very important Offices, three hum
dred women acting as Post Masters, in compliance
with the progressive spirit of the age, one uhifs
! whig in North Carolina, removed from n Light
G House. to make room for colOred man, whose
complexion has always deprived him of the right
, of suffrage these are few of the reasons WHY
there is so much alarm in the Democratic encamp-
Y ment.
r And there is little revival Of whgism in some
quarters which fans up the already kindlcd excite
ment The night-mare being removed from tho
breast of the party in Massachusetts,, by the death
b Of Daniel Webster, it has risen like a refreshed
, giant, and scattered its motley foes, like chaf
before the whirl-wnd-and the smallness of the
: Democratic triumph in Vermont the Legislature
being compelled to adjourn without choosing
Senator and with fair prospect that the next
election will restore again the now fallen fortunes
of the Wing party, this too adds fuel to the flame
and gives hope to the hearts of tho despondipg,zs
= year will show what we never yet saw,
and that Of which at present, we do not even
dream.
. am making my preparations, with n view Of
sailing from Boston, in the steamer of the 4th Of
/, January. Perhaps may not find time to write
you again before my departure. If not, let me
wish you and your readers the highest prosperity
and success, in your glorious struggle. hope to
= report myself favorably in the columns of the
f Buge, in my absencc-and to return in good time
!, to renew with them and YOU the battle, and 70
share with you the triumphs.
Yours in the fullness of Faith,
PARKER PILLSBURY.
ESCAPE OF SLAVES IN New York SrEAMERs-The
papers in Norfolk raising dust in consequent