Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-09-22
SHEARS.

Shears Is an instrument to cut with. There arc
certain places both in this country and Europe
where such articles are made on an extensive scale
In some of tho iron manufacturing establishments
it is said they have such largo and powerful onoy
as 20 sever bolts of iron the size of a mans body;
and they work thom by steam power. But thcro
is n company in this country which is making, or
has norfected, a much larger pair of shears than
any we read about-and they propose doing great
execution with them. The handles, or levers e.
tend from the farthest end OF Maine, to this side
of Kansas, at which place is the fulcrum, and
over in Kansas are the jaws, or cutting part. A
nretty extensive pair of shears: but how are thoy
to be worked, and to what use will they be applied
| shall ondeavor to describe.
They are to be moved by the power of gravita-
ton. On the upper shank, amid much fusion and
confusion, those who propose to manage them are
suspending little platforms-generally worry con-
tracted-on which certain men ire to Jump stimuli.
taneously, in order to make the Instrument close
on the object, and sever it in twain. A large num-
Der OF whetters are now at work, sharpening their
engine to its utmost keenness, and persuading all
they possibly can to scale the platforms at the APP.
pointed times, so MS to make it 60.
As to the object, or o~bjects-for there seem to
be sevcral-in using this ponderous machine. A
goodly number expect by jumping on those plat
forms to get a fine fat Office, but the make weights
are trying to be persuaded that the great Mad
Dog, slavery, will be cut in two, some,ehcre, by the
operation. For that reason some antislav0ry men
want the shears SO placed as to cut his tail of d.
rcctly behind the ears; but a large majority of fu-
: sion says, that will never do; it is unconstitutiona
and il the animals head is cut off tho Union
will bleed to death So they have adjusted their
ponderous shears to do the animal as little damage
as possible. They are moving heaven and earth
5 to get freesoilers, hunkers, X. Ms, temperance
men, &C., &C., to mount their tiny platforms, and
, all for what? People over an area of earth some
5000 miles in length, and hundreds of miles il
width, are to be wrought up to a frenzy of excite
: ment in order to cut-off-the- e~nd-Of-the-maC
f
Tremendous II Won't that be n magnificent
, achievement? Won't all fusion make the heaven
roar with shouts and songs of triumph? Whatle1
~ultation, what ecstacy, will rise in one loud, long
u thunder of triumph, saying, "See what WE hav
done OF course fusion will be through with III
perfect work the end for which it was created
u has been accomplished. The end of the Mad Dog
n tail is cut of-slavery won't spread itself an
II more-and fusion may quit fighting slavery. True
three or four millions Of bondmen are yet in chain
the Mad Dog yet has not only nearly all his tai
n all his legs, all his teeth, and oil his bloodhound
internal disposition; but all his power to tramp
N on the rights, the liberties. and even the lives
millions of American bondmen What then, hs
been gained to humanity, to the slave, by fusion
What has been gainedf Why our party has Il
IS Offices, and isn't that something i-Aurora.
The Aurora has rather a fanciful way of gettir
off some of its thoughts, but the above 40,
straight 20 the point. Its truth is important OF
deserves the careful consideration Of tho anti-sl
very fusionists just now.