Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-05-20
SOUTHERN PAY.

The New Orleans Crescent pays Douglas for his
treachery in such coin as toades and services have
ever right to expect from their masters. seryil.
ity is always duly appreciated by those It serves,
and may rest assured of its full share of kicks and
cuffs from that quarter, whatever else il may re-
ceiye in payment:
TnE TRAGEDY OF DoroLAs.-Dear readerl we
had but time to tell thee day before Yesterday.
that he OF the Bleeding Heart, the Black Douglas,
Young Norval, whose father Ia frugal swain) fed
his hoek on the Grampian hills of Vermont, but
who hath himself married Southern dame for
her negroes, and so become Northern man with
Southern principles" is down, much like "a thou.
sand OF bricks" upon the parsons, for daring to
express their opinion, as Ministers of the Gospel,
against the Nebraska bill. On that subject, he
seems determined to give them no "bencfit of
clergy" lie hath sat down, as fierce for a ducllo
as SIR Lucius OTrigger when he was penning a
eheiienge Tor bob Acres, and hath writ them q
defiance, Of rather the most LEARNED length and
laundering sound" that has ever been indited
since the days when Napoleon the great marched
with printing press to the conquest Of Russia.
dinging pacific proclamations before him and
bloody bulletins behind:
If the man is small, his spirit is large. Little
dogs are always the most quarresome. Certainly.
since the days Of stark old Bel-the-cat and stal.
wart James, of Scottish story, the stature of the
Douglases hath shrunk considerably; but if their
persons are short, their letters are ong-the late
missive being OF just eight newspaper columns.
Thus the race is still formidable; in peace if not
IN war; with pen, If not sword to parsons, if not
warriors.
AS apostles of old sent homietic epistlcs to the
churches or as bishops address pastoral letters
to their dioceses, or as parsons rebuke the sins
OF their congregations, so doth the diminutiye
OF giants admSnish the Chicago clergy. lie
scolds them as If they were his parishoners. not
he one of theirs. He let's them know that spin.
texts as they are, he can draw out longer and
slacker-twisted yarn than any of them, and that
II they beat their drums ecclesastic against him.
he Will pound them back again; all which is, no
doubt. highly commendablc. We like to sec pco-
pie stick up for their rights. The Young Giant
stands the great representative Of Stump states.
manship: he should make the Stump respected.
therefore; should maintain its dignity. The Stump
IS a great institution, the chief Of insttutiops-
almost the only institution left u.s. From that
horse-block' this high-yaultng politician of Bun
combe expects to leap into the Presidential saddle
IL needs must, therefore, be, with him the Stump
against the pulpit and Buncombe against The
Bible "e""'' '"0
His great effort, then, is to prove that, in ven.
turing to take part in political question: and mix
with worldly matters the clergy Of the North have
quilted their sacred calling, to mingle in Satan's-
politics. lie proceeds to show that, by doing this,
they manifest design TO usurp the direction of
pubic affairs, and to establish over us an ecclesi
astlcal tyranny. He, Of course, uprears his vast
bulk, to save the country from a danger SO dread
ful. 'Tis only Tom Thumb that can subyert the
giants: tits only his valor that can do battle with
the black coats.
Now. we have already intimated that little peo-
pie are prone to be oyer-valiant. The greatness
Of their spirit overswels their discretion. little
pot is soon hot; and the less il has in IT, the soon
or it boils over
Seriously now, Master Douglas never makes
grand political move that is not a masterly mis-
take. He never loads his gun but 10 miss his
game and be kicked over Does he think 10 make
us "a raw head and bloody bones" Of the parsonsY
Bah that's humbug too gross for even the
greatest TOOL IN this nation, unless his hap should
be 10 be an inhdel also. Who breads an assault
upon our liberties by the gentlemen in white. cra-
vats Who apprehends that they will come to
washington, drive Congress out of the Canitol
ana ~, aethrone m1 Mr.. Pierce2 Let them undertake
n' Iheyii be met by sable legion of the South,
quite as bellicose Wen set Robt. j. Brecken'
r,dge and Parson Brownlow ut them. These two
alone a Will whip the whole parson power of the
N1rth, provided only the Young Giant Of the West
Will Keep up small fire in the rear"
10 De serious over such politics exceeds all our
powers OF solemnity; and we relapse at once into
gayety' IN spite of every effort 10 be grave. Once
more, however, we will try to be sober and say a
few words in earnest.
Inc hIst shall be to the reader; and in this
wise: 10 you suppose, respected friend that
Senator Douglass patriotic fears of the parson
power would ever have taken the alarm, if SO be
that same power had only enlisted ON his side ,
iou 10 not suppose 30. Well: 'tis remarkable
Out having the honor to know aud understand the