Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-08-26
CONSISTENCY"

CONSISTENCY"
In ma,tjclc headed consistency in the last Salem
VonctrAt, speaking of the tricks of the bunker
Democracy, We find the following,
Another class yct-ur rather II combination Of
an ;hc>c tla>ScS-iS huSiiy engaged in circulating
thc report that the independent democracy are al
Ge5 With GARRISON and his coadjutors who burn
tle Constitution of our country and trample the
Declaration If Independence in the dust, and WIN
lator fr the overthrow of Church and State.
These editors are grossly ignorant, or %wilfully falls
ify our position
The charge of the Democrat against others comes
too near being true Of itself, relative to the para
graph quoted above. That Mr.. Garrison burned
the Constitution, is true. But that either be or
his coadiutors have ever " ~trnmpled the Declaration
of independence in the dust, = is not true. Or
the contrary, they have most zealously laborcd to
elevate the principles of that Declaration, in the
estimation of the people, and to bring them to a
practical adoption of its principles. They are
oppressed 10 the American Constitution, because it
is at war with the Declaration of Independence,
and utilities the holy principles of liberty which
it declares to he self-cvident. What could have
have generated such an idea, as they have uttered,
in the minds of the editors of tic Democrat, we
are unable to conceive.
tits equally untrue that they are laboring for the
overthrow Of Church and State. They are labor
ing for the overthrow of Il pro-siarery Government
and Il pro-siarcry Church. And we have always
understood that the Democrat was engaged in the
same good work. That the only reason it did not
adopt our means for this common end, was, that
those we adopt are =" impracticabte, " or too slow in
their operation, while theirs is an easier, more ex-
; relitious, more certain, and in every respect a more
p excellent way to the same end. We trust we have
not been mistaken in this estimate of the Demo
, Gratis purpose.
Wchopc our n~cigibors wills SGT their readers right
in regard to this little paragraph. For they should
rcmember that others may suffer from erroneous
statements, as we'll as themselves and their party.
RECOVERED THEIR FREEDoN.--In Madison county,
y Va, suit was instituted by some friends in behalf
d of three free-born colored boys who were held as
r slaves. The trial has resulted in their favor, and
e they htvc been bound out by the court till
i they are q years Of age.
d CALIroRyrA.-The question of thc- diyision Of
q the State i, still a~Sitatiug the people of California
. The purpose, as our readers know, is to make &
IS slave State of the southern portion. Most likely
|. the measure will be carried, finally.
A FoREIGH PIRATE.-A man called Donald ha;
after examination, been committed for trial by the
L. S. Commissioner at Philadelphia, charged witt
being engaged in the foreign slave trade. The
y evidence shows that he took on board the Gre,
u Eagle, of which he was one Of the captains, 81,
# hundred Africans on the coast of Africa, and land
ed them near Iayanna. Marshal Wyncoop, tn,
III home pirate, who tried to kidndp the heroic Bill
Thomas, was very busy fishing up evidence to con
m vict his brother of the foreign service. If Donal,
rs had like Wyncoop gone to Pennsylvania for hi
~ merchandise, he might have been rewarded witt
le an Office from the president, instead of rs no,
: running a chance for an admission ticket to
v hanging, from one Of the presidents judges
III However there is little likelihood that he wi
ever be permitted to perform at the tragedy
= There is so strong an affinity between the foreig
2 and domestic slave trade, despite the legal differ
l., cnce, that the president, who is the especial patro
of the former, does not like to hang the merchant
m engaged in the latter. So that if Captain Bondl
should chance to be sentenced to the gallows, III
,r president will most likely grant him Il pardon, G
ey at 'least a commutation.
rs TnE Manchester CoNFERENcE.-An importal
-; Anti-Slavery Conference was held in Manchcste