Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-07-14
MORE OF THE NEW LISBON C0NvEN.
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uOcS u HTeteHu w ueny IHNI MI We Stlu ~
week in reference to his strenuous efforts at fault
finding with the proceedings and resolutions of
the Republican Convention Of tho ODD ult., was
perfectly correct. lie Gays "the article was Of
such a character that he has no disposition to re-
ply to it," Quite likely. We have no doubt that
lie would feel considerable dclicacy in denying the
truths therein set forth. We have known men be-
fore, who. rather than acknowledge they were in
error, even when convinced of the fact. would i'm
mediately lei themselves docn on their dignity, and
pretend they had mo disposition to reply" to
their accusers. Such persons generally have
more disposition to defend themselves, than they
have facts wherewith to make a strong case
Hence their suddenly accumulated amount of dig
nity.-ColumJiand County Republican. July IN.
With regard to the Convention, thore was moth
ing for us to deny. 1t made no issue with us in
regard to the facts We recorded Of that Convention.
We only published the resolutions and narrated
some of the facts under which they w,re adopted.
When these facts arc questioned it will be time
enough for us to deny the statement That the
facts are not as creditable to the Convention Us
they might be, or that they do not tend to the nd
yancement Of its anti-slavery character, is no
fault Of ours and no reason why We should have
suppressed them.
The following specimen brick" from the Re-
publican's article will inform our readers what
are some of the truths which according to the
Republican, VIC feel a "dclicacy in denying"
We intend generally to fight our own battles,
when they seem worth fighting, but as we have
already declined this, and the Republican man is
so anxious for a spat, we will for his qualification
let Brother Frost, of the Aurora, into the ring.
lie says:
"The wing paper at Salem-selEstyled 'Repub-
lican'-seems to be in a terrible 'swither' at what
the Bugle says of the great Convention Of the 23d
nlt. A Specimen brick or two will show the char
;actcr of the structure"
Quoting from the Republicans %article.)
'Of course, it could not be expected that our
contemporary, 1.-THE Bugle,) would see any good in
a meeting Of any kind, whether religious or polit-
ical, that did not open by declaring that "the U.
States constitution is an agreement with death,
and a covenant with hell" and then proceed to
assign to every body who chooses to vote under it,
the place and character of Shareholders, and finally
close with the usual benediction, that this Union
should be dissolved in the name Of Garrison, Phil
Ups and Sojourner Truth
THAT sounds q good deal like the language of
such papers as the Richmond Enquirer and
Charleston Mercury, and other Calhoun papers
down south, when they condescend to refer to this
class of sincere anti-slavery men and women
How manly it is to sneer at a woman who happens
to be not of dandy wilderness! Is this q specimen
of the new-fangled republicanism? If so, it is
nightly southern. They are the sort of Chaps to
demand the overthrow of slavery! OF course
they are."-Aurorao Of Tie In.
But then if we have discredited the anti slavery
of the Convention, we will Offset that by a certif-
cate in its favor. The very refined, patti 'o':c, but
hitherto, pro-rum and pro-slavery Palladium, in
the zeal of its first love, defends it in its own pc
.culiar, classic American. In reply to a statement
of the Aurora, that a part of the Convention was
VIGOROUSLY pro-slavery, the Palladium says:
"All this is false as the father of lies. There
was not a proslavery man in the whole crowd, I'M
less it were himself, and we are charitable enough
to presume that all he has or may hereafter do
may be attributed to his insane Ignorance Of the
cause he has assumed to espouse, which is unmis-
takably stamped upon his every issue, for the Ne
braska slave Democracy suits his genius best; and
if brother Robinson of the Bugle looks through
the same green-eycd spcctacles, it certainly is no
fault of ours. Go on Bill y-gingerbread and sas-
sengcrs for two. Who's afeared of consequent
-ceJ ?"
We add too, the following additional certificate :
"Th Republican Mass Convention of Columbi-
ana county, was held at New Lisbon on Saturday
the Odd ult., and it was largely attended. The
best feeling prevailed, and the resolutions are OF
the right stamp, and fully up to the spirit of the
times on the Slavery question:"
"Thus speaks the Chardon Democrat of the
'Columbiana Convention. So would the Aurora
IN DuBle Spcuki were llCy ulSIUSCu " Icpurt
correctly"
"Thus speaks the Republican of this week.
That settles it. The man up in Chardon must know
all about it.
There is another mixture mot fusion, which
gives comfort to some of the Republicans amidst
the trouble we have occasioned them, while it seems
to distress others. 1t is that our article is copied
by the pro-slavery, National Democratic Patriot,
of New Lisbon. 1t is, we confess, about as re-
markable that the Patriot should approve anything
in the Bugle, as for the Republican itself to do it.
But, as VIC have said above, that is no fault of ours
We could not make the history of the Convention.
We only recorded it. Had it been permitted us to
bear n part in its proceedings, we would have
given Mr.. Colestock a helping hand to make it SO
decidedly anti-slavery, that the Democrats would
have quoted no word of its record for any of their
pro-slavery purposes. Such, we are assured by
some of the anti-slavery members of the Conven-
ton, was their intention, and we have no doubt of
it. No more doubt of it than we have that others
had other and quite different purposes, and that
these last made their impress most manifest in the
conduct of the meeting. The Patriot uses the
portion of the article it publishes for a most un-
worthy and wicked purpose-to deceive that por.
ton Of the Democratic party who are anti-slavery
in their convictions and impulses. 1t would per
suadc them to remain in and support the party, by
the representation that the Republicans are nc
better than they themselves ON the slavery ques
ton. Hence it fails to represent the case as it is
Gives currency to its short comings and misdoings
dat fails to report whatever it determined on which
which was right or true. The resolutions Of thu
Convention, therefore, such rs they were, found
No rIooo in tho Dotriot Ard euob Of ;Is ,ooJo,,
AS depend upon it for information of what "Repub
aicanism" technically is, will remain as thorough
ly misinformed on that subject as will the exclusive
readers of the Republican of the character and
purposes of the Abolitionists.