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

l.. A. HINE TO THE BUGLE.

as thoroughly able as he is TO maintain all his pre-
tensions, egotism sometimes becomes disgusting.
For example, when it leads him to speak contemp-
tuously and abusively of others, as in his letter
about Senator Petit, it is not only vulgar but de-
Misunderstanding to the violation of NONRESIDENT
principles. Egotism is elevated into the grand By
Homer, when he sings of Achilles and LAGOON.
LAGOON was captured by the hero, and in the most
humble manner begged for his life. Achilles
replied =" Do you fear to dicf Are you afraid
Of death ? Look at mo how brave, how beautiful
how vast an II Yet even | must perish. Apollo
wa, my father, a goddess my mother, and yet the
time must come, be it morning, noon or night,
when even | must fall by the arrow or the spear"
This is a moral sublimity.
But, speaking of egotism, reminds me that in
my late letter, your typo made me grossly egotisti-
cal in saying that " Doubtless, some of the readers
of the Bugle are rafting to hear from me, touching
certain questions that have sprung upon the pub
lie attention" The word rafting was written rl
ling, a far more modest expression. Waiting i'm
plies my impression that some would not know
how to act until they heard from me! Awful in
the extremei | am not aware of leading q single
soul except my little boy of three years old--and,
perhaps, he oftcne- leads me than | him.
regard the Know-Nothing movement as the
most unfortunate that has been attempted since
the organization of the Republic. 1t is prejudic-
ing all reform, | ecause it aims q fatal blow at hu-
man brotherhood. The sundering of the bond of
common fraternity is most destructive to all at
tempts at human improvement, because they are
founded upon brotherhood. Reformers have been
laboring to overthrow all the barriers of universal
fraternity, abolishing, or seeking to abolish all dis
%tinctions based on sex and color; but this secret
order attempts to erect other barriers, founded on
nativity and religion, and thus to greatly strength
en- the aristocratic principle. We had congratu-
lated ourselves that a mans, a Whte mans place
OF birth or religion should have nothing to do with
his political and social rights. But judging from
the universally of the present excitement, we
were mistaken. ] I'm astonishcd that genuine
democratic principles have not a stronger hold
upon our people. No longer wonder that more
rapid progress is not made in the anti-slavery
cause.
From the best information l can obtain, this or
der is itself the worst Of missionaries, a foul con-
spiracy against Republicanism. 1t is said to be
composed of four degrees or circles. l. The
crocd, into which the mass is admitted to do the
bidding of the upper circles. 2. the county circle
into which the leading politicians of the county
are admitted. 3. The state circle, into which the
most influential of the State find access. 4. The
National circle, where a very few of the leading
spirits OF the Union are guaranteed an undisput-
ed reign. National nominations are made in the
4th circle, without any voice from the lower de-
grees, the members of which are sworn to vote for
such a ticket as is made for them. The county
circle and the crowd are bound to support such a
ticket for state officers as the State Circle may Sc
lect.
Thus does this society confne all Offices and po-
litical favor to a very few individuals, without
any interference from the great body of the people,
and thus does it lay the basis for a far deeper cor
ruption than has ever existed in our politics. l
will not affirm under the penalties of perjury that
such is the Constitution of tho order, but it is
according to the best light l have. If it is true,
me Miami Tribe, of Hamilton Co., is a mere cir
cunstance in comparison.
But who are the Know-Nothihgs? l. They arc
the Orange men, who sacked the Catholic church
at Newark, without any cause of offence from the
church. Q. They are the Native Americans, who
burned three Catholic churches in Philadelphia.
o' AhOJ uiO nv hilt Il TOlcSlhnp rDDClbty, WHICH
sustain lecturers in the field to lie about the Cath
olics and excite social disorder, and create fights,
brawls and mobs. A. They are the young Fill
busters about tho country, who couldn't be salts
fed nor quiet unless they are pitching into Mexico
Cuba or Romanism. S. they are the Wings, who
have been SO often routed that they despair of
place or power by honorable means, and seIze upon
this movement under pretence of purifying the old
, parties. Very modest in them, after their own has
ceased to be a party, and been disbanded by theil
great General Horace Greeley.
Enough for this time on KNOWN othingism.-
e What is most wanted in the world, is political mel
and women pursuing a practical course of reform
e that is, uniting the practice with the theory. lie
as many of us as can withdraw from any cause O
d offence. Let us have nothing to do with augh
that sustains slavery. Let us come out from tn
worlds method of doing business, which is a mer
game of chance. Let us condemn land monopol
by both precept and example. In this is a funda
mental wrong, robbing the poor of the natura
means of supplying natural wants. Let us ceas
it to live on the labor of others which is imposin
and living upon them, and begin at once to wor
for ourselves, and to live on the proceeds of GU
ID work. No matter if some of us could make enoupI
to pay three or four hired men, we have no RICH
to live without personal labor, and if we do &c
anything for other services we have no business t
err call it our own, but must hold it as stewards 70
the promotion of human good. Such is the kim
st of practical as we'll as theoretical reform which W
e. need. ! know it seems hard to SEINE to be compel
er led to work-but let such recollect that the worI
e. must be done and they cannot be acquitted at tn
bar of justice without doing their share. know
De it is extremely difficult to keep lecturers in the fell
7e on this principle; but let all rho can put a true lf
re into practice and do what they can in promulgatin,
re the truth.
We lately had a specimen from a Hindoo, in tn,
shape of a mixed lecture on Hindostan, Hindo,
Manners, Religion, Comicalities, &c. In Theolog,
he explained some points which missionaries hav,
, misrepresented. Substantially, he said the Hindo,
moral coda wae idaptinol xr;tb thot r rL.;s,