Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-08-12
THE A%URoRA--ITs SPIRIT.

THE AURORA-ITS SPIRIT.
Our little New Lisbon ~neighbor the Aurora was
las week spirited enough to be IA good deal bigger
than tits. 1t has the following on the Subject of
INcENDiARIEs:
Some of the patriotic papers are greatly dis
tressed because W. i. Garrison saw proper to burn
q copy of Loring's decision, the fugitive slave law,
and the constitution of the L. States, on the 4th of
July, at birmingham, Mass, before u large audi
ence. This is sacreligious, they pretend to think
but it is only u matter of taste-and tbnrs's no ac-
counting for that. But these same devout patriots
had nothing to say against the robbing of the
Charleston post Office and burning the letters and
papers in the streets in order to destroy abolition
documents Nor did the same sort of q perfor-
mances in Virginia disturb them. Nor did the
burning of the negro at st. Louis raise their in
dignation and numerous other heartless pro-sla-
very burnings were rather admired by them but
when Mr.. Garrison burns a few scraps Of paper,
hang him up! is the word. Pierce could order
Greytown to be burnt for insulting BOrland, or
burn Boston, if need be to return Burns to slavery,
and, yes! oh yes that is all right. Glorious con-
sistency!
And the following is Mr.. Frosts opinion in re-
gard to what some of the incendiaries are doing;
The PENNSYLVANIA freeman has recently become
merged or associated with the Anti-Slavery Stan
dard, the national organ of the non-voting Adolf
tionists of this country. However mistaken politi-
clans may regard the policy of these people, they
are doing more, we may safely say, than any other
organization of the same number, in behalf OF the
cause of the slave and more especially is such n
party, so true to the slave, needed, when there is
so much bogus or hollow.hcartcd profession of
friendship by politicians in favor of the right, The
Standard is an ably conducted and highly useful
paper.
TIE AURORA'S OPINION OF FUSION.
TIE rIGnr-that is to say, the political fight,
that is to come off at the October election. in this
country, so far as | can see at the present time, is
to be a mere scramble for the offices about the court
house. Talk with the leading and the bunker
wings here, and they fairly exult in the prospect of
such a cOnsumation. They now say that the Free
soilcrs have gone over to them, and that is all that
they needed to insure a glorious victory. The
Buckeye, the big organ of this movement, uses the
following language in reference to the nominating
convention on the second day of court:
Then, firm in the belief that the day of redemp-
ton from the thraldom of Corruption is at hand ::
that the blackness of darkness which has hung
over old Columbiana county these many years is to
be d%ispelled let us go to work unitedly y, earnestly.
and strong in the determination to CONQUER, and
success is certain
Which does that sound the most like, whigisln,
patent democracy, or Freesoilism? That is just
the way in which wings and democrats have been
talking in this country for the last 20 years. This
extract expresses the position of the wings in this
county precisely. True, II sort of anti-slavery
article appears in that class of papers occasionally,
for mere gloss more from policy than principle;
to gull the unsuspecting there is no hcaItin them.
What proportion of the wing fusionists are ready
to give the colOred man the same political, social,
and religious privileges that white men exercise?
Try them on that at the next fusion convention,
and see how they will stand. A portion may be
what Liberty men regard as right on this subject
and just so we can say of the democracy. Where
in, then, do these parties differ on the slavery ques-
ton Not much, that is very certain. But it
may be said that the '~locofocos' stick to Pierce's
administration They probably don't like it so cor
daily as is imagined and in their adhesion to
party, however, they are but following the example
Of the friends of the Fillmore administration
that same administration which enacted, aye, and
c0,yied ont, the infamous fugitive slave law, an inf.
n%itely blackcr act than the repeal of the Missouri
compromise, bad as the latter may be-. Pierce
sent Burns back to slavery by the point of the
bayonet and perjury, from Boston Fillmore sen
Sims back to oppression by the same means, from
the same place land if Scott had been elected
president he would have sent Burns back Just as
Pierce did, and those very same wing fnsionists
who curse him would laud Scott for the act.
To confirm what is above stated in reference to
the wing nature of the movement, see, in part,
what the Palladium, which las always been oppos-
ed to the fusion movement, says now
The Freesoil papers, so far as we have any
knowledge, have yielded an unsolicited and willing
acquiesccnce in support of the state nominees.
Thus we have accomplished what we ever desired,
a consolidation of the wrangling and warning Gle
ments of the wing party, which, by the action Of
this convention, is hushrd into q%uietude and har-
monious action pervades the once broken line,
which taken as a whole, used to deal death and
destruction to the monster locofocOlsm,' dc.
Now where is the difference between the Buck
eye and Palladium? Here harmonious action is
proclaimed bet ween the 'wrangling and warning
clements of the WING PARTY Is not that plain
enough? 1t means that the Freesoil party is dead,
Are Nreesoilers ready for this? Fusion convcn-
tons may and will meet and pass a few milk and
water resolutions, hereafter, merely rs a show OF
opposition to slavery, but their chief end will be to
oppose ''the monster locofOcoism.' And suppose
the fusion triumphs, before one year it will annihi-
late itself; for there is not harmony in its elements,
nor can there be.
So far as the mere squabble for offices is concern.
ed-and that is the nub of the fight now-I don't
think it makes the toss of a copper's difference to
the principles of Liberty which side beats.-I
know that some good friends will think | have no
business to say these things; but that is the way
in which they appear to me, and in the exercise OF
the freedom of the press / choose to print them.
As to whether fusionism or the true friends of Lib
erty is right, am very willing to let that be decid'
ed blythe test of time.
CONGRESS adjourned on Monday last. 1t has
seemed that every preceding Congress had gone to
the lowest depths of slavish servility and wicked
ness in sustaining the Southern institution. But
we are compelled to believe in progress. The
present has outstripped its predecessors, as the
principal fruits of its eight months labors testify.
The Leader enumerates the %virtuous doings of this
Democratic Congress:
LIST. They violated an old National compact OF
their fathers, for the express and avowed purpose
of wrestling free soil from free men and delivering
it over to slaveholding nabobs, to be cursed for flu
ture ages with human chattelism.
ID. They induced, by bribery, many members Of
Congress to betray their constituents and sell their