Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-09-09
coLUMB1ANA COUNTY ONO SATURDAY SEPTEMBER
COMPLIMENTS.


Dr. Theodore Clapp, Of Ncw Orleans and Dr. s.
II. Cox, Of New York style the Abolitonists in
idels' The Richmond Enquirer and Caleb Cusl-
ing consider them traitors The Boston Daily
1dcatiser in 1926, thought the time had not come,
md Rersi lr0Ud come to giatc the slave question:
! thinks we have put back emancipation These
testimonies are our especial jewels. These we
bind upon our brows. These are letters pat
| tent of nobility. These we take abroad with US
when crossing the ocean, as lettcrs OF recommends
tion, to guard against being mistaken for common
Americans with a Bible of whips and Govern
ment of chains. The only harm DIR. Coz ever
came near doing to the Anti-Slayery movement was
about twenty years ago, when he,pretended to join
it. Caleb Cushing at Washington is n foe Of no
mean weight; but MOTTO be named neverthe eess, with
the injury that threatened when Whittier tried TO
pursuade ant-slavery men to allow him to be their
candidate for Congress.
There are other men whose good word is as great
u compliment as these mems abuse DR.. Cham
ming, twenty years ago, thanked the Aboliionists
because they had saved for him the liberty OF free
speech and free printing. The Ne'c York FRANCE
list ten vers ago warned its readers that the
fall philanthropic movements falling into the
hands of these whom n blind and doting Church
stigmatised unbelevers; and ominously quoted
the gospel test, by their fruits ye shall know them.
And now the conservative North American Re
rie1c caps the climax of euogy in language like
this - tl-
When therefore, in 1888, Mr.. Garrison estab-
lishcd the American Anti-Slayery Society, and an
nounced as his watch-word, Immedates and Tn
conditional Emancipation" he came into conflict
with doctrine settled and considered essential to
the stability of the Union, and also with the com
merCial interests OF the North, who had bec"mC
dependent upon the prosperity of the South. In
consequence, an excitement was produced wholly
disproportinate to the importance of the exciting
cause. In maintaining their positions, the Aboli
tionsts were guilty of many unnecessary
- II. /,
they were subjected, and the tenacity with which
they held to their convictions, won for them some
admirers ohtside of their ranks, who regarded them
as the indicators of that liberty under which
'iree-born men,
Having to advise the public, may speak free"
One noticeable effect Of the Abolition agitation
has been the promotion of the freedom of individ-
ua inquiry. Most tie nec theories contemplating
radicat chnges ia Politics. religion, and social tye,
Chirh qgitate as at tie present iiHe hare appeared
IN tie cakc Of tie 1Rii-Slaccry reform; and mast
be con teSSed MQt in this country hare since
ored IS masses, and been less prone 10 take their
opinions at second hand, upon the authority Of
Others .r.... -..
This from the North 4merican the index os
the timid scholarship of New England which
never dares to recognise native genius till its fame
has travelled to England and been echoed back ::
which wears the imprimGtur OF the Bank vaults OF
1 State street. as truly as any Italian does that OF
/ the Pope which wOulu blush to klndle over any
movement for liberty nearer our day than that OF
! PhociOn or Brutus, and is not wholly sure tha
| llampdcn and Sydney were quite justifcable in
their anatical ZEAL whose editor, like the charac
ter in the old play, never ties his neckcloh without
a special warrant from regularly commissioned
Justice of the Peace Surely, the world moves.
The N6fM Ao,erican has reached, it 1854 the
spot Charming occupied in 1885. In trfumphe! the
world does novel When the mercury sinks into
the bulb of the thermometer the weather is indeed
cold. When the North American's sptctacles dis
cover the AntSlavery movement, (nOne so blind
those who won't see, then, truly, it must have
grown to goodly size.
These testimonies are of rare worth as relating
to the past for the North .imericdn must be con
slider as belonged to the Daib Adrertiser species,
fossil specimens-s speaking of day gone by
When free speech was i'll peril, 1t was some honor
to have defended it, While sneaked about
rather fragments of men than whole men, and
trusted the Clergyman and tho squire to do their
lthinking-in such days, it was good service to be
odd enough to think for ones selt-traitors enough
to differ from the majority. But ust now there
is another lssue-Shall we cling to the Union re-
turn slaves and make money or be honest men
and disunionists2 How great fire little mat
! ter kinaleth From Seward, who thinks Disunion
utter folly down to the Free-Soiler who dares not
! say .fnti-Sidcey without wiping his lips with an
emphatic But for the Constitution, and to the Whg
Convention which trembles to speak of State rights
till it has distinctly pointed to the collar OF sub
mission which it is proud TO wear-in all these
there is such constant nlusion to Dsunion as shows
the secret fear. 1t is the trader the eve Of
bankruptcy who is most sensitive to any remark
about his credit. Thank you, gentlemen for the
compliment of your fears. When Mr.. Seward gets
over them, he will perhaps once more dare to men
tion the fugitive slave caase-a point he has never
come within beat-ofdrum of since some Southern
Senator asked him what he and his Higher Law
creed meant to do with regard to this Constitution
al clause. When Vathek entered The Hall Of Eb
lis, he saw each man of the throng holding his
hand over one spot of pain in his heart-of which,
however, none spoke After moment his com
panious, having bowed to Eblis, with cry of pain
PLACED each his right hand over his heart, and was
dumb. The anti-slavery man who wears support
to the Constitution, seeks after to cover ono
spot itself a paug, and deems the world Blind be-
caused lie is dumb.---w P.--Ltberatoyy1 r