Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-09-27

able to the abolitionists and others. that the paper
gets no better support. / saw the Bugle when il
was but a year old, and l have seen many a child
die who looked better at the same age; | have
known few to live that looked worse or even as
bad. would not have insured its life ut less than
80 per cent. premium, and, ut that, should have
expected n dead loss. But under the noble man
agement of those who have had it in charge, Is is
still surviving, and it you let it die now. and there
is any sin against the Holy Ghost, You will commit
that sin. People say "they mus. take the Tribune,
the Era, the Independent EVERY thing el,e but
the paper that tells the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth. And then when you would
have the truth plainly spoken when you would
know about Dunt's Bill. or some other highly i'm.
portant transaction in Congress, you go and Dor
row or buy a copy Of the Bugle.
You see now who tells the truth. IL was said
last night that what we asserted was false and
that som of us knew it to be false. l want thi,
understood, that we have been too long in the Anti
Slavery field to be likely to resort to misrepresen
ta,ion or fnlschood. 1t doesn't pay.-It would b,
bad economy when we have so much truth to tell
Who are WEI The Republican party numbers IL,
thousands and hopes to number millions Mt tn,
coming Presidential election, and We are but d
handful. Either Of the great political partie
could swallow us up in a mnment, and not b.
made perreptibly larger. And they would gladl,
do 80. But we survive in spite Of their power
Slavery has overthrown everything, almost in tn,
land, except the little band gathered around tt,
banner Of imm sdihto and unconditional enamel
patton. We have seen the strongest parties ftl
hefnre the slave power. Two years ago the Know
Nothing party rose up and was strong, but before
it was two years old it was dashed in pieces, anC
now Fillmore can scarcely muster a nucleus around
which to gather its remains. So Of the Whit
party. Slavery has dashed it to pieces like q pot
tiers vessel, and the fate of the Free Soil party ha
been the same. But this little band survives, anC
will suryi 5e. 1t has been proved by all the test
known to moral chemistry. There is no acid tina
can dissolve it,-no fire that can consumed it. M
famine can destroy and no food can drown it. !
seems immortal. | no more believe it can die thur
I believe that God himself can die.
While thus secure in the protection Of truth, W,
should find to our cost that to stake all in gam
of Compromise and corruption would he a sorr.
Investment. But standing on the rock of ages
regardless whether we he many or few, we can
look upon the wreck ofparties- we may yet behold
the wreck of the nation-and still survive, AM
grow stronger and stronger. And when time.serv
ers and compromisers present themselves to temp
us from our course. whether they come in the form
Of Buchanan or Fillmore, or Fremont,-or il
whatever form they may come. let our only answe
be get thee behind me Satan for thou sayorest no
If the things that be Of Cod" but Of the Cnmpro
misses Of men. Mr. Pillsbury went on to expos,
the false position of the Republican party, readin,
extracts from Republican speeches and newspapers
in proof Of his charges against them.
After addresses by Josephine s. Grifiing
Thomas Hambletcn, A, I. Foss and others, tn,
meeting adjourned.