Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-09-30
WHAT SHALL THEY READ?

The National lntelligencer is troubled, becaus,
Putnam's Magazine has seen proper to break thu
ice with a very moderate anti-slavcry article. /
advises Southerncrs TO keep their fresides unpol
luted by matter 20 offensive to Southern sensibil
tiles. In reply, the Tribune very appropriately
asks;
Where, in heavens name then, arc your Southern
families to get their reading from? They canno,
take n single one OF the foreign Quarterlics, French,
German or English, for not one of these considers
Slavery sacred! They cannot open the debates in
Parliament, nor those of Congress, nor even read
the decisions of the judicial tribunals! The first
class poets of their own country are IF course
tabooed-for Emerson, Lowell and Whittier arc
Abolitiouists-whil Bryant, Lnngfellow, Dana,
and others, are Free Sellers. Ninctenths Of the
literature of mankind is opposed to Slavery. Even
the books of science arc shut off-thoSe, we mean,
which treat of political and moral principles, be,
cause these condemn Slavery, and the only resourse
for the South is the mathematical and abstract
sciences. Pretty fircsidc reading that would be
Or perhaps the South will hereafter raise its own
poets, philosophers, and e~ssayists, rs it has hereto
fore raised cotton. Can it not make these useful
and entertaining individuals out of its slaves
They did 80 in ancient times, and why not now
1GSOp the tabelist, was q slave, and so was Roscius
the actor, if We remember rightly, in common with
n large number Of doctors, readers, musicians and
others Of Rome. Indeed, i: is sometimes said that
We need not resort to ancient times to find clergy
men, physicians, lawyers and literary men, who
are slaves in soul Mt least if not in body. Could
not these be transplanted to n more genial soil ?
it is true, they are not among the best specimens of
their class, but they arc good enough to fill the va
cancies of The South. The expense of the transfer
would surely be less than the ''pccuniary muni6-
ccnce" by which the South now ~sustains the refrac.
tory literature of the North.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, meets at Salem on Sun
day the first instant, at 10 o'clock, A. NJ.
CHOLERA IN PITrsBuRG.-Thc scourgc has not
yet disappeared from Pittsburgh, though it has
greatly abated. On Tuesday last there were So
deaths. The whole number of deaths from the
thirteenth to the Goth inst, inclusive has been 1855.
This includes those in Pittsburgh, Allegheny and
vicinity.
U. S. Senator Cooper, of Pennsylvania has chal-
lenged a Philadelphia Editor to fight a duel. lie
very wisely declined. Will Pennsylvania enforce
her law against this high functionary. We shall
sec. The penalty is $500 fine, one years imprion-
ment and dcprival of office.
The Washington Administration is trying to
raise a new issue to sustain its tottering popularity.
A meeting was held in Washington on the 10Th
inst, at which an attempt was made to inauguratt
opposition to the Know-No things, as an an Admin
~iStration measure. The resolutions were voted
down by a majority of the meeting, though they
were declared to be adopted, by the President
The meeting then adjourned to another time AID
place.
KANSAS EMIGRANTs.-Tho EmIgrating party,
left New York on the Goth of August, for
arrived at their destination in good health
spirits, in seven days from their departure.
Emigration to this country this year will proba-
bly, reach 100000.
A third party for Kansas will leave Massachu-
sets on the 25th inst.
The price of Flour is less in Liverpool than in
New York and less in New York than in Salem.
THE PEOPLES JOURNAL has been united with the
AMERICAN. This is among tho most
valuable papers of the country.
Butter retails in New York City at 81 cents per
pound. 49,