Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-07-07


Tnr kSow-NoTHISos,-We have been watching
with interest tho movements Of the Know Moth.
ings, since the Philadelphia accession. Neither the
power nor purpose for mischief is yet passed with
this organization. 1t still maintains its n0toiG.Iiy,
and still intends, SO far as We can Judge to appeal
in the next Presidential contest and thus prevent If
possible, that desirable state of things to which
the nation has been ~verging, when there shall be
but one issue-Freedom or Slavery. Already it
finds adherents in the north. The Pennsylvania
State Council has decided for it, and New York
and even Boston furnishes it friends and defend
ers, Notwithstanding its atrocious platform. The
National party will therefore have its influence
and adherents at the North and thus on the ques-
ton Of freedom it will be the legitimate successor
of the departed Wing party. The only way to
prevent this is the entire abandonment of tho Or
ganization at the North. OF this, evidently there
is no prospect. Even the Massachusetts Council,
the most favorable to freedom, only asks for action
against the Nebraska bill, and couples that with
its comparatively Insignificant Americanisms, and
asks all men of the commonwealth who are for
freedom to unite with it on that platform.
CoNscIENTIoUs.-Thomas ii. FORD, Of Ohio, in
his speech ut the Know-Nothing Convention in
Philadelphia, illustrated The recent discovery Of
the South, that the Missouri Compromise, after
thirty years existence, was in violation Of the con
stitution, by a little personal experience. lie said
"he had once n similar case of conscience happen
to him. lie sold a horse to a man badly in want
of one, on the Sabbath, and took his note. The
man made $50 on the trade, and repudiated the
note, because IL icas made on the Sabbath! lie was
n conscientious man, but preferred to enjoy his
%scruples at his neighbours expense"
Mr., Ford closed his speech as follows
already the voices of Freemen arc heard, mar.
shaling their forces for the contest: the fires of
Liberty are now burning on every hilltop and in
every valley throughout the length and breadth of
the land, and may they continue to burn until lib
erty shall be the birth-right of every American;
until we have a Government without a Despotism;
a Religion without a Pope, and an Empire without
a'Slave !"
HILLsDALE COUNTY, MIcnIGAN.-From a private
letter from the Grifings, we learn they have re-
Gently held several meetings in IIillsdale county,
Michigan with success.
'Tho people came out, "NIrs. Griiing asserts, +"
as though a menogery fresh from the desert or wild
forest had been on exhibition-listened attentively
and treated us and our opinions ore''hospitably
than could have been expected. The pro-slavery
part of the church, however, made the marvellous
discovery that we were infdels, as soon as we com.
menced an examination of their respective bodies,
and fastened to make a public exposition Of this
fact, which, aided as it always does, the i~nvestiga-
ton so much needed. There is in this and the
adjoining counties a wide and fruitful field for Ia
Dor and that labor was never so much demanded.
But the laborers-where arc they ?"
The UNION TO DE DIssoLvED.-Thc Governor
(Jobnson) of Georgia is going to dissolve the
Union and no mistake, if Congress shall refuse to
admit Kansas into. the Union as a slave State.
Hear him:
"If Kansas should be thus rejected ! would feel
bound to take such steps rs would elicit the action
of the sovereignty of the State in execution of the
Georgia Platform. Indeed | shall bring the whole
subject before the next Legislature, apd recon-
mend to them to provide for the calling of a State
Convention in the event of such rejection to deter
mine the time and mode of the disruption of e-
cry tie that binds her to the Union Whether
elected or not, this much | shall do in my Message
to the General Assembly; and if elected, and the
emergency shall arise during my Executive term,
| shall unhcsitatingiy act as above indicated"
The North now boasts that she does not care
for this threat, bnt let the time of trial come :and
we shall see. We shall see too, how many of
those Republican representatives Of Ohio will
stand firm then and defy this old and foolish bug
bear.
ELECTIONS IN THE SLAVE STATEs.-Elections are
to be held within two or three months, in several
of the slave States. The great question in them
all is, fidelity to slavery. This issue absorbs every
other and the candidates are all busy affirming
their devotion to the system and dcnouncing their
opponents as abolitionists or the ~favorers of abo.
litionism. Thus the agitation RACES everywhere,
controlling national, State and local elections. OF
course the anti-slavery sentiment which is secretly
cherished in these States will not nppear-it will
be crushed out for the present. Nevertheless the
universal agitation will help to develop it, and give
it form and character. A late Kentucky CORES
pondct of the n. Y. Tribune says;
"lf we had a leader of nerye,s a natiye-born
Kentuckian Of acknowledged ability-such, for
instance, as c. NJ. Clay-"Old Ashland" might, in
the midst OF fierce foes, give five hundred to one
thousand Free Soil votes; and if the great body Of
the people could be brought to think, or to act up
on even their present convictions, those now in the
field would have no Insignificant foe in the Free.
Soil array that would be brought to bear against
them"
FEMALE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA
The Sixth Annual Announcement of this i~nstitu-
ton, represents it as in a most prosperous condi
ton, and also that its previous graduates have