Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-09-22
Che Anti 9laperp Bn9le,
SALEM, ONO, SEPTEMBER %, 1856.
ABOLITIoNIsM AND THE PRESS.

One of the most considerable reasons why the
principles OF abolitionists are SO slow to operate
upon the masses OF the people, is tao fact that the
Newspaper press has ever been especially careful
to keep them from the knowledge of the people.
Anti. Slavery facts as well as principles have been
passed by in silence, and no intimation of their
occurrence has been given by the partisan and
~sectarian presses of the country or, if referred
to, it has been in the shape of misrepresentation
OF gross caricature.
We are told now that the North has become
antislavery, and that tho anti-slavery North is
speedily to triumph through the anti-slavery Re-
publican party. And yet the newspapers of this
samciRepublican party, little more than the Demo-
cratic party of tho present or the Wing party of
the past, see fit to inform their readers Of n class
of anti-slavery facts which are occurring around
them. For example. a three days convention of
abolitionists was lately held at a central point in
this region. Its sessions were numerously at
tended, numbering, some part of the time, somo
four or five thousand persons-cortainly, if we
have any gift Of comparison, far more than doubly
o%utnumbering the Republican Convention at New
Lisbon, whiclIs has been reported all over the
country as having been attended by Z" from five to
~ th'uoahu POioOho Nito
able and most intensely interesting. They related
to the topic which is swallowing up all other po-
litical considerations and yet not n Democratic
or religious paper in the country has noticed the
fact that such a convention has ever been held, to
say nothing of the principles it announced or the
measures it advocated. And the same moody
silence broods over the majority of the Republican
, presses, and when noticed it has been in a para
graph OF misrepresentation. Such is the fidelity
OF newspapers in giving the current news of thu
day,-such the fidelity of anti-slavery newspapers
in giving the anti-slavery news Of their immediate
neighborhood.
The reason of this is as obvious as its honesty il
questionable. These papers have their candidates
to elect and their party to maintain. Nationa
5 Democracy arrays itself with the master agains
the slave. 1t would therefore silence the voices o.
abolitionists if it could. So far Us it has the con
troll of the vehicles of public intelligence, it viii
not let it be known that such men live and labor
Silence is the demand of the stakeholder
Silence! practically echoes his ally, the Northern
Democratic editor.
The Republican party is against the slave mas
ter on the point of slavery extension; but it il
with him and against the slave in reference to thu
constitutional and politically unmolested existence
of slavery in the States, and therefore practically
the Republican editor too, echoes the stakeholder
r cry of silence. These Republicans would be gla'
/ : to see the c~rotchety and impracticable Garrisonian
abandon their abolitionism and vote with the Re
Y publican party. No better plan could they ador
than to keep such if possible in ignorance of tn
N fact that abolitionists were still alive and vigorou,
y at work. We'll, doubtless by this trick the
will deceive some and by other wiles others sti
may be b~eguilod but when their work of tempt'
&c ton is successfully accomplished, we ask them an
It. request their victims honestly to enquire whethC
they are more uncompromisingly the friends
justice and truth-more self-sacrifcingly and d
votcdly the friends of the slave. We can point
oh facts, most conclusive, to show that the departu,
from Abolitionism to Republicanism begets l
new zeal, no new conservation to, or activity in IL
slaves cause.