Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-11-18
POLITICS AND THEIR MORALITY.

Nothing can occur more blighting to morality
thsn our annual elections. Then falsehuod, bril-
berry and corruption Of every form run riot. Men
who hold themselves to be honorable men on other
occasions, give themselves up unblushingly and
unrestrained during the canvass for Office, to all
manner of deception and %iniquity. Truth hon
or, and confidence are for the time thrown away.
The Tribune draws the following picture of the
revolving crimes Of the late elections in New York
City. But the Tribune does not tell the whole.
The opposing party doubtless did not vie with the
Seymourites in the extent of their fraud and false
hood. But they, we dare say will not claim to be
immaculate and if they should no one would be-
lieve them. Similar scenes, only on a smaller
scale were transporting at the same time all over
the country.
The Tribune says:
There has never before been an election in this
State wherein Fraud and Corruption were so
widespread and prevailing as in that just closed.
In the first place, the enormous contributions Of
the Distillcrs, Brewers and Liquor Dealers, with
out distinction of party. cannot have amounted to
less than Two Hundred Thousand Dollars. Cur
rent report names that sum as raised in this City,
and Twelve Thousand at Buffalo, with correspond
ing liberality among other members Of the trade
in other cities and villages. With this large aggre-
gate, neutral and Bronson presses were bought
up, new ones started, and money and rum freely
distributed wherever anything would be gained
by such tactics. The last week was the most
drunken which this City has ever known, and
the ludrid fires thus kindled in the brains of
thousands will hurry many prematurely to their
final account, 1t will be long ere our City re-
covers from the terrible debauch of election week
in November, 1854.
A great many have been drugged and bribed
into voting for Seymour whose sober reflections
81 ,Inhll thnNr ava. nrn p nlr,nt NIL non
denim the deed but, with all the lavish and skill
full expenditure in his behalf, he has less than
one-third of the vote cast in the State. And that
{ vote has been, at least so far as this City is con-
cerned, obtained in good part from dens in which
the best recipient OF so much power would 5lush
to be seen-from the haunts of dissipation, OF
lcwdness and of crime. The Five Points, the
Hook, Thomas-st., and all the foul purlieus Of
our City, have not only voted almost unanimously
for Seymour, as was to be expected, but they
have piled up an aggregate vote almost or quite
/ beyond example. Any man acquainted with the
Election Districts Of our City must be morally ccr-
tain that Seymour has at least Two Thousand
votes more than he had legal voters TO cast them.
But in the morally putrid Election Districts there
were hardly any but Soymouritcs, and they could
not only vote as often as they pleased, but could
count out as many ballots as they chose, whether
they were ever legally deposited or not. The con-
sequence is a horrible majority for Seymour.
GERRIT SMITu.-The American Jubilee, Edited
by William Goodcll has a kind but able criticism of
Gcrrit Smiths Congressional course, approving of
it IN the main, but dissenting from and condemn
ing Mr.. Smiths views on Cuban annexation. To
this Mr.. S. replies in a circular which he has for
warded us, and will be found on our first page.
Mr.. Smith seems to feel himself misrepresented,
wronged, and assailed by almost every class of
men in the Country-abolitionists and pro-slavery
men, and cha rges the fact mainly to WAig infu-
eRce, which we think he quite overratcs. We are
sorry to see Mr.. Smith so sensitive. A conscious
ness of the rectitude of our purpose, in a good
cause should be ever sufficient to sustain us under
the weight of friendly cri icism. Such was Mr..
Goodells, and such too was that ofthe western
abolitionists to which Mr.. Smith also refers.
ANTI-SLAvERY FAcTs.-We publish to day the
circular of the American Anti-Slavery Society, to
which we referred last week. The tracts the So
ciety will produce, will no doubt be the very best
which talent and good judgment stimulated by the
present stirring crisis of the cause of freedom can
produce. We hope our friends and cooper
ators, east, west and everywhere will respond with
promptness to the appeal and furnish the Commit
tee with the needful material aid" We want
the works at once. And we are sure nothing but
the lack of means will prevent our having them
speedily.
RESURRECTION, PERHAPs.-Francis Granger of n.
York comes out as the representative of the Ma
tional Wings and announces the commencement
of an effort to re-organize the Wing party, on the
basis of the Baltimore platform, strengthened by
an anti-Nebraska plank. Some paper out West
dominates Stephen A. Douglass rs a candidate for
the next Presidency and calls upon the National"
Wings to adopt him as their candidate. The
Southern Wings speak right out against Mr.. Gran
gers patriotic movement, perhaps if Douglass is
put at the head of the resurrection party, it may
give it currency down South. Mr.. Granger might
as we'll try the experiment, it would not be likely
to damage the prospects Of the new party.