Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-04-12
From the Libcrator.
POSITION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

/ IfUSkIlUN Ut 1dE Idh1
Extract from a letter Of Parker PaSJHy 10 friend
in Ills country ddted Manchester, Eay.l 2SM
| FEB, 1856.
| If Stephen Foster never gets further from the
truth than when he calls the political abolitionists
the greatest obstacles to the spread of antslavery,
he and shall not very soon come to blows on that
question. have always said there were good men
IN spirit among them; | never censured them in
my life without that Abatement and yet both the
old parties together do not make such loud and
everlasting professions of regard for the Union, a.
does that party while all pretend to believe,
and continually preach, that the Union is the only
hope for slavery; and more, that slavery never
be overthrown until that covenant with death is
sundered forever Even Joshua r. Gddings de-
clared, in his famous speech before Mr.. Banks was
elected TEL yoa Of tie South, you shall not DIS
solre this Union p And then, too, look at the
editors of the New York Mdependent-the loudest
braggers and brawers for the Republican party
Iapoogizng for the American Tract Society In its
expurgation of its publications from all antslayery
sentiments, and comparing George Thompson to
John n Mafit while making its infamous excuses
for the knavery of that bigoted conclave and then
publishing Mr.. Garrison as 'an infdel Of the most
degraded class and me as "A fOul-mouthed and
rockies revler,' an accuser of TIE brethren, the
! prcmulgator Of huge tGIsebooda and more, great
deal. Of the same sort! And then look at ninety
mine hundredlhs of all the ministers and church
members of theiparty, joining inthe cry of infdety
and making our whole movement as odious as pos
sible in both hemispheres ! In Kansas, the party
offered to compromise with the shareholders and the
Border Ruffans,' and to pass q law TO exclude
coiored people wholly from the Territory, If the
Shareholders would not bring them as property
! And thus onward, continually, are these men, in
the good name of ADt-Slavery, doing that to i'm
pede our progress and to battle our designs, which
4 no other people could do under heaven And what
the example and influence of the temperate drink
ers are to the success of temperance as compared
with the reeling, loathsome drunkard just that is
the infutnceof the Free Soil party, compared
with the old parties, to the of antislavery
Any other conclusion completely overturns all our
pretensions and professions about the Union, as
the vital force which upholds the slave system If
it be true that the slave system only goes down
with tho Union land what could be moreobvlous p
then those who boast most of fidelity to the Union
no matter what their spirit, must be held response
ble for slavery. And if to that they add all the
foul abuse and slander which the leaders of the
party are ever heaping upon the name and doings
of Garrison and his friends, branding them
'infdels of the most degraded class and blasting
their influence in every possible way it seems to
me we have none of us too harshly judged them ;
and l of all others, when / have always admitted
that, in heart and spirit, many of them may be
true to the slave and right in the sight of God AT
any rate, you may be assured it will take argument
and eloquence to induce me to any revolution of
my opinion.
como OF our 1TlenQS lnarVel tnat the new L 0rK
independent is so fraternal towards the New York
Observer and DR.. Adams But it seems to me
still moro remarkable that our papers, and some
of our coadiutors, should be in such good odor
with the Independent and many of the Republican
party | no more believe in the Independent than
in the Observer-in Ward Beecher as true abol-
zionist, than Bennett of the Herald. Some preach
ers and some booksellers are making flames and
fortunes out Of antslavery, now that anti-slavery
pays we'll.
Far be it from me to rail at any one in the Re-
publican ranks or to do the slightest injustice TO
any in any relation. But / do believe we our
selves are responsible for many of She apostacies
from our ranks. 1t was we'll and truly said, that
Mr.. Foster would not be able TO keep his men in a
Disunion party if he allowed them to go to the
polls in even that relation. 1t was Mr. Phillips
who said it, in his superb speech at the Annual
Meeting. But our frequent laudation of Free
Soil men, Republicans Ward Beechers, and such
like, seduces more men into voting for Sumner
and the 'Natick Cobbier,' than would ever join
Stephen Foster in his Disunion ballot in a theu-
sand elections. And the fatal cup of Circe is no
less dangerous in Free Soil hands, than would the
Transforming sacrament be, when poured out by
Stephen Foster in the far better name of a party
for Dsunion. Our motto is, without conceal
ment, without compromise. Republicans com
promise with Known Nothings, Free Soil men with
Republicans. We are in danger of compromising
with the latter, and Stephen Fosters party might
easily compromise with us, and then the lndepen-
dent with the Observer; and the Anti-Slavery
Standard with both. But our banner, and
forever, should wave high and glorious above all
that bows down to the American Church, or Con
stitution, or Union.
1t was glorious still to find the veteran Presi-
dent of the Massachusetts, Anti-Slavery Society at
his old post Will you write him letter soon,
and tell him how | rejoice at his preservation, and
give him my kndest and everything as well as
most grateful remembrance? Tell him he is well
known in Great Britain, ahd more respecting than
all the Everetts and Buchanans who ever crossed
the ocean as ministers of State or Church.
! STATISTICS OF CoLoR-TAe census Of $50, shows
that while more than one fourth of the colored peo-
ole of the North are mulattoes, only one thirteenth
of the slave population of the slave States are mu-
lattocs. Among the 3,203,-3li slaves in the
United States, 246,65o were found to have white
blood in them, and not all of these could be con-
sidercd mulattoes, while of 10000 colored people
of the free States $1,000 were mnattres; in Ohio,
out of $4,000 colored population $4,000 or more
than one half are mulattoes