Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-02-10
WHERE ARE WE DRIFTING.

We are marching straight upon disunion as
ever people did and bllndioded. For peace and
Union sake, we are giving the south an advantage,
which, when once secured, they will use to goad
the North to inevitable rupture. Those who
counsel peace and acquiescence now counsel dis.
union and belligerency hereafter. Their words are
smoother than OIL but the poison of asps is under
their tongues. 1t is always so. Men will not
iorsee; our fathers did forsee; their children
have not the gift. We shall probably 90 on, and
when the work is done, and every omen and
sagacious prediction comes to pass, then we shall
wonder, and repent and build the sepulchres of
the men that now we cxecrate.
The facility with which the aroused Indignation
of the whole North has been extinguished by the
miserable peredty of the socalled American party,
is mortifying, and sorrowfuly prophetic. BY
years of persistent labor. the conscience and honor
of multtudes Of the North had been aroused
They began to see and value the real principles
fundamental 10 American institutions. Under TIE
shallow pretense that Know-Nothing lodges would
by-and-by, become the champions of liberty,
now they are of the Prostant faith, thousands
have been inyeigled into these catacombs Of free
dom. One might as well study optics in the
pyramids of Egypt or the subterraneun tombs of
Rome MS liberty IN ,cret conclaves controlled by
hoary knaves yersed in political intrigue, who can
hardly enough express their surprise and delight
| to find honest men going into widespread system
Of secret caucus-s. Honest men in such places
have the peculiar advantage that flies have in
spiders web-the priviles of losing their legs, of
buzzing without flying, and of being eating up at
| leizure by big-helied spiders.
We are heartily agreed with the original movers
of the NnOw Nothing enterprise, that the foreign
population require special attention. Their ma
| turalzation should be after longer probation I;
the Offices State and municipal should not be filed
up with hungry foreigners; the American Ian
guage should be the only one in which public
documents should be printed, and every means
should be employed TO break up distinctly foreign
organizations in our midst and to promote speedy
absorption and digestion of the whole foreign ele-
mant But while these ends command our appro-
val, we disapprove of method of accomplishing
them which is at variance with the whole spirit of
our Institutions and which enables crafty polit-
clans to turn tile organization into tool for
purposes of private ambition and of Southern
domination.
Already the enthusiasm of the north burns alike
hame-amephitc gas Strong men are weak.
many Sampson has arisen from the lap of this
Delilah, shorn and weak. 1t only remains that
they should carry out SIMPSONS history, grind
awhile i'll eyeess solitude, and they will be ready
to free themselves and destroy their foes, oy bow
themselves upon the very pillars on which our
J temple of liberty stands, and gain their release
amid the ruins Of the Union!
When wi | men understand that simple, open
integrity, an unfinching adhesion to PRINcIPLE,
is the peculiar advantage Of Truth and Liberty 7
All that the Right asks is air. light, an open
enemy, and room TO strike. 1t is Wrong, that
sneaks in the dark, and gains by the stiletto.-
j Henry WARD BEEcuER, in the last N. Y. hide
pendea
The popular branch Of the Illinois Legislature
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