Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-07-29
THE ANTI-SLAvERY BUGLE.
THE ANTI.sLAvERY STANDARD.

This paper appears with its promised improve
ments in parton new clear type and improved
paper. Tits q beautiful sheet the size of the Bugle
and choicely filed. We wish its startling facts
and important and able discussions could be spread
before a hundred thousand subscribers every week.
The paper promises tho aid of some of the best
writers of the country to give value to its columns.
Who they are we are not permitted to know, as the
Standard has adopted anew style in this particular
What it is, and reasons therefor, we give in its own
language:
The arrangements by which this result is to be
secured are not yet perfected. 1t must suffice for
the present to say that, besides the editorial force
now employed, We expect to have the aid of some
of the best writers in the country. We do not
mention names. After mature reflection, it has
been deemed best that the paper should be hereaf-
ter, like m ost English and the best American daily
journals, imperSonal. The names of the editors
even no longers appear in the imprint. We arc
convinced, both from observation and ex perience,
that the moral power of u newspaper is, on the
whole diminished rather than increased by the
practice of appending to each article the nlme or
tho initials of the author. In many eases the
system operates injurioulsy upon the writer's free
dom, and il in some instances it adds to the intrin-
sic force of an argument or on appeal, VIC believe
it oftener detracts therefrom, 1t is essential to
the highest grade of power in u public journal that
it should have an INDIVIDUALITY Of its own, distinct
from the personal relations and responsibilities of
its editors and writer's.
We copy the following notices Of the press, they
pay a merited tribute to the Freeman, and show the
estimate in which the Standard is held.
I'VE miss from our table, this week, the Pennsy'-
rama freeman, the former organ of the Abolition
lists of this State. BY n judicious business arrange
..o,t Il h,o haon pnttod vtil tho NyUD1.r111 tho
National organ of the same party. This paper is
issued simultaneously in New York and in this city,
at the Anti-Slavery Office, on Fifth above Arch.
We observe that it has a special department for
Pennsylvania affairs, and an able Philadelphia cor
respondent. Thus all the efficiency of the late
State organ is preserved, while the heavy expense
and trouble of sustaining a local paper is avoided.
One widely circulated and ably edited paper is
certainly better than two or three weak ones,
numbers, in such q case, being an element of weak
ness and not of strength. With the Standard we
have not the good fortune always to agree. but il
represents with rare ability the opinions of which
it is the organ. "-PhH. Register.
THE Pennsylvania Freeman, the Abolition paper
of this city, has been united with the National Anti
Slarerv Standard, of New York, and the latter is
now to be the organ not only of the American bu'
the Pennsylvania Anti-Slnvery Society, and is to be
issued from New York and Pennsylvania simultan
eously. 1t is to have, in addition to its usual cH
torial force, a corresponding editor" in this city
The paper is conducted with decided ability. ant
to those who do not object to its ultarism will b.
}. quite acceptable. "-Phu ledger.
"The Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society seem'
to have come to the conclusion that their cause ha'
progressed sufficiently to justify them in dispen
sing with the maintenance of q special newspaper
organ; so they have discontinued the Pennsylvania
freeman, and are now supplying their subscriber
with the National Anti-Siare,y Standard in 1T
stead. The Standard is issued in New York ant
Philadelphia on the same day; 1t has a CORES
ponding editor in this city, and it is said, can b'
made to accomplish all the purposes of the discon
J tinued Freeman and some others besides. If THU
be so, the move of the Arti-Slavery Society was
good one; if one paper can be made to serve tn
purpose Of two, why be at the expense and trouble
|. Of supporting two? The Standard is an exponen
of Abolitio nism in its most radical form, edited b,
Il Quincy, Gay and Oliver johnson, and its co lumn
a reflect the sentiments of Garrison, Wendell Phi
! / lips, and other leaders of that ultra school. Thos
of our citizens who hold to, or sympathize with, tn
sentiments of this school-in which number W
are not included-will find the paper one yer.
much to their minds, for it is edited with an abilit.
that puts it above the comon run of papers. an
with q boldncss and fearlessness of consequence
that is characteristic. Star.
"The Pennsylvania Freeman has been MERGE
into the Anti .Siarery Standard, and its pubicatio
discontinued. We are sorry to part company wit
the Freeman. 1t has been an ably and, generally
| fairly conducted paper. Differing from it both i
|. its politics and its theology, we yet recognise it a
an efficient anti-slavery instrumentality. 1t is eS
pected that the Standard will be improved by til
e union. Free Presbyterian.
The Anti-. Slarery Standard and Pennsylcani
Freeman are henceforth to be literally one, as the
e have hitherto been one spiritually y; and thus uniteC
p the promise is that the National Sandard-whic
name is to be rctained-will be a paper of a yer
high order, both as to its spirit and its abilit.
We have heard that two or three distinguish
e writer's are to be added to its present superior ed
h torial corps, and wo are looking anxiously for I'll
forthcoming number, which will be to us a spec
mon of the sheet with which we are hereafter
S be weekly visited. When it shall reach US, "
E shall take pleasure in noticing it, aad in publishir
g its Prospectus.
e meanwhile, we part with our old friend, II
freeman, with reluctance; for 1t has been pre-em
nently worthy of its name, and of the enterpri'
to which il has been devoted and its death, o
'e rather, it's translation, is as honorable to it as i
life has been. 1t has nobly offered itself q saci
flee to the common cause of Universal Freedom
and we shall hope to hear often from its excellel
editors, and many of its correspondents, in Il
n columns of the Standard 1t has done it VOL
n faithfully and will always be remembered wi
&c much satisfaction, and with gratitude, by all Il
lie early friends Of the slave. Farewell to that
success to the Sandard."-w II. r.-Practic
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