Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-10-04
New YORK, Sep. II, 1856.
NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN LITERA-
TURE.

"On the 10Th instant the Grand Jury of Shinn-
ston, IVA found Il true bill against the Postmas
tor of that ciiy for circulating, by delivery to SUB
scrbers, copies Of the New York Tribune. A Mr..
George SIocum preferred the charge and made
affidavit that the Tribune was an Abolition docu
ment.
"Qucre-May not the New York Herald, as well
as the Tribune, be treated in like manner in Co.
lumhia?"
We copy the above from the Columbia Times
in order to show that there is way to prevent
the Northern Abolition periodicals from overrun-
nlng our State, together with the whole South
There arc some among us who pay regularly ()
their eight to ten dollar subscriptions to Northern
Journals or magazines who, in return for their
lberalty, defame the character Of the South the
character OF its citizens, and bend their whole
weight to the total destruction of its institutions
The subscribers to the daily Herald Tribuae &c,
pay ten dollars to themselves insulted and de-
famed in three hundred aid sixty-fve different is
sues. This is very strange, indeed. Again, the
father of imily in order to instruct his children
takes the vile sheet, the ',Sat,trday Eeening Post"
and gives tito them, so that they can read of the
'hurr.rs of slavery" the "cowardice of Bully
Brooks" and such like editorials together with
the low, vulgar jeSts with which it pampers he
appetites If the ignorant. Nor is the Past the
only specimen of the Southern supported Abolition
,heets. Putuam's and Harper's Magazines, tu-
gelher with all the English RcuieWS. aud that soe-
cies of light and literature that creates morbid
appetite among the young for something "ove
sick" thrilling, Sc.
! All these have more or less weight; for we be
| lieve the least article in any newspaper has it,
corresponding influence. We thank our Virginia
| friends for pointing out the way To obviate thi'
difficulty and now sincerely hope that other places
besides ShinnstOn will take the matter in hand
| In the South there periodicals and papers just
MS ably conducted as at the North Where is there
| Il Harper. Putnam or Graham that will CON pare
in point of talent with the Southern Literary Mes
senger? The tone of the Messenger is higher
and its contents preserve dignited bearing worth
of the Old Dominion. Ii the people Of South
Carolina wish paper to amuse and instruct, there
is the Examiner which will not pullotue yonr chill
dreu's s minds and lower than their sense Of right
and honor And where is there q "Review" in
, existence that can compare with the Southern
Quarterly Review" chat noticed some weeks
ago? The Gaily papers of the South can well
, com pare with any Of the North. Yet the cry is
"our papers do not equal those of the North" Let
, us give the reason: You do not patronize them
that is the cause; you send your money of, where
, AS, in your own midst you have all the materia
, necessary Reflect and remedy Cheralo Herald
Col j. 3. Thornton, in a speech at Memphi
lately stated that there were three hundred Ere
mont men in that city. for which be was vehement
ly denounced. Tuulke's Financial Express, a non
political paper pahlished at Memphis expresse
its honest and fixed conviction that there are i
Memphis $40 voters in the city and County VIII
D would vote for Fremont if there were Fremor
La l.