Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-10-07
THEY LOVE DARKNESS.

Newspapers which tell the truth are the terror
OF shareholders and their cowardly Northern abet-
tors. 1t seems from the paragraphs below, that
the days of newspaper burning, and pictorial"
terrors have not yet ceased. In the early days of
anti-slavcry, abolitionists made some decided i'm
preston by their pictorial representations of the
" peculiar" blessings of slavery "A practice which
in these latter days. We are sorry to say, has gone
quite out of fashion.
Such a suppression as that referred to below, is
strong episcopal evidence that it would not be
amiss to revive this old fashioned means of agita- |
ton.
They recently held a most spirited anti-slaverv
meeting in Worcester, Mass. In the Libcrator's
account of the meeting, we find the following state
ments made by the former editor of this paper,
Oliver Johnson:
"Oliver johnson, of New York, alluded to the
means the Southern people are looking to to sup.
press the circulation of truth. lie had lately sent
several copies of the New York Tribune and the
Boston Courier to a lady in Virginia. A few days
since, he received a request to send no more, as it
would not be safe for her to receive them. Those
papers were burnt as soon as they came to the post
Office!
M johnson held up to the audience a beauti-
full German picture of the Savior distributing
blessings to the poor and needy, and among the
number a slave imploringly holding up his chained
hands, asking for liberty. The Episcopal Diocese
of New Jersey had lately Autographed the picture
for distribution, ~M the stare left Quit! A muir
muir of shame went up from the audience as Mr..
johnson related this act of ecclesiastical mean
ness.
Mr.. PILLsBURY's LETTER.-The letter from Mr..
Pillsbury, which we copy from the Liberator, makes
Developments that will be new to some of our
readers. Anti-slavery in England has its serious
difficulties to encounter. And the genuine, self
sacrificing kind, seems to be there, as here, a rare
article. And our anti-slavery trimmcrs and secta-
rians have wrought the same evil there they have
done at home. While doing the mischief, with
Yankee shrewdness, some of them seem to have
made it "pay."
Mr.. Pillsbury's prudence, fidelity and thorough
acquaintance with the whole question, its history
and its principles, will, we have no doubt, do much
to correct misrepresentation, and increase a devoted
and abiding interest in the cause.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS has accepted an invitation
to attend a series OF anti-slavery meetings in Hi
nois. Mr.. Douglass says of this proposed visit:
Ebony and ivory are thought to look better
standing together than when separated. A white
Douglas, canvassing the State for Slavery, has sug-
gested the idea of having black Douglass canvass
the State for freedom. 1t is evident that Illinois.
for some time to come, must be battle-ground be-
tween liberty and slavery"
q. q. BURLEIGH has received from some one.
probably in in Hiram, Parkman or Garretsyillo. n
counterfeit $40 note on the Ohio State bank, Tole.
do branch, in exchange for books sold. lie homes
that 1t was given ignorantly, and by some honest
man. Ii so, he is requested to forward his name
and p~ost-ofhce address to the editor of the Bugle.
The note was a ragged and blurred one.
PROGRESSIVE FRIENDs.-The Ohio Yearly Meet
ing of Progressive Friends was in session on Satur-
day, Sunday and Monday last. The attendance
was not large. But the meeting was composed of
Intelligent, earnest and thorough reformers. Their
proceedings will appear in our next.
Who GAVE HIN HIS OFFICE ?-The editor of the
Pittsburgh Union is u. S. Slave Commissioner for
that district. The Dispatch thus points to the
hole of the pit from whence he was digged. 1t
says:
Attic not appointed by President Pierce, he
holds the office by appointment of one of the United
States J~udges-tho one that warented to hang
that troublesome fellow" Gilderslevc, but couldnit
do it.
THEODORE PARKER's theological works have been
translated into German. They are published with
strong Communications, and the expression of ear
nest hope for their general diffusion and usefulness
in Germany.