Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-06
FROM DIANA.

LEXINGTON, Ind. Nov, 81, 1856.
DEAR FRIEND ROBINSON Thank God the pres.
idential election is over, and 1 could almost wish
that another might never occur. Certainly hope
that such an election may never again curse any
people. And l say this, not only with regard to
the result of the election, but with equal regard
to the principles on which it was conducted.
OF course every body expected that the demo-
cratic presses, would fulfill ,he prediction of Hen
ry Ward Beecher, and rain and hail storms Of
lies, "-Tha all the crimes known to political cam
paining would be resorted to by this foul party to
make sure the triumph of the slave power over
all the land. Of this l Go not complain. The re-
suit could rot have been otherwise. Tho coward.
ice and t~reachery of the wolf is as natural as the
boldness and magnanimity of the Lion. But l do
complain in bitterness of soul, of the shameless
disregard of principle with which the Republicans
prosecuted their campaign. In their ardor for
success they compromised every principle of liberty,
and abandoned utterly the cause of Human Rights
Mr.. Banks. one of their most distinguished lead
ers declared that the party is MOI an anti-slavery
party-that it goes for the union as it has been,
and he hopes in God it ever shall be. lie pledges
his party to the Measures of 1920, and 1850 which
he says, gave peace to the country" and which
the country fought to make good." lie even says
that the question presented by the republicans is
not whether slavery 10 the future shall go into the
territories of the United States. but simply shall
slavery go into Kansas.
know indeed that a great number of the re-
publicans were exceedingly mortified and grieved
at this miserable twaddlc of Speaker Banks, yet
the party adopted it. They went into the can
vass upon its doctrines and Whatever were the
deservings of others they richly deserved de-
feat. / know indeed that much anti-slavery truth
has been uttered by some of the Republican
speakers. But take the campaign as a whole it is
precisely after the pattern of U. ). Constitution.
Human Rights asserted-as Rufus Choate saws
in "gIittering generalities" and then sold for the
mess Of pottage.
You know quite well how dificultit was dur.
ing this campaign to get the ear of the people
at all, for the cause of the slave. Go where you
would at what time you would Sunday excepted,
and you would be quite sure to find time and place
occupied by a political meeting.
You remarked to me, at the annual meeting Of
!. the Michigan A. S. Society, that we should be
a able to reach the people after the election. So fal
III 10 my SApSilShCC HOGo ~ ICSuII .JuStlUtS NOul
d judgement.
!. have recently held some very successful meet
@ ings in the towns of Fremont, Orland and Licking
Y ton, Indiana. l held three meetings in Fremont
n three in Orland, and three in Lexington.
AT Orland two years ago, when on a second Wis
it to the place in company with c.. S. s.. Grifing
both the meeting houses were closed against us
We held II meeting in the Seminary which wa
4 largely attended. A faithful and clear exposure O
the falsehood and d~uplicity used to procure III
closing of the houses against US, was made b.
friend Grifing; and a word OF rebuke and exhol
:, tation administered by myself, the last fall GU
i friend Stephen Foster, was there, and both tn
churches wee opened to him. The fact is, til
/ brave and; faithful la5ors of our friends Fox, an
:, Carlton and others, has conquered Freedom {
,o speech in Orland, the ministers are hostile as ever
=, but the people have left them nearly alone in thei
ID glory. | spoke Friday and Saturday evenings i
=. the Baptist house, and Sunday p, NJ. in the Coz
. gregational House. All these meetings were we
7 attended and the collections amounted to twent
! une dollars aud fifty one cents.
he The present time seems to mo to be very ausp
RS cious for the prosecution of Anti-Slavery labor til
ms political SOP, which drinks up so much ant-sli
is very sentiment, to no good purpose, is laid up f
D. the present. The people will mark, the differenc
III between those laborers who have a six week
nd spasm each year and those who are ever at tn
no work, in season and out Of season, as earnestl
ce the day after election, as the day before. | hay
"a standing challer ge for the Indiana Republican
1t is this: That if they will give the America
,b y. S. S. Society during the next four years, one ha
: tho amount of money. which they have expended
this state, during the recent campaign, the Amer
can Society, will faithfully criticise their wick
III position, induce all they can to leave their part
Pc, Tor a higher position, and then, secure them Il
Vi state, for the Republican candidate, for the pre-
III dency, in 1860 by 10000 majority and in proof
,,e tho s~ociety's ability to make this pledge good
NC refer them to the results in Massachusetts and ii
'r' other New England States-to New York, al
"e Ohio where the s~ociety's labors have been mo
oo abundant.
its
=, am receiving many invitations to visit impol
80 ant localities, and the prospect of a successful wi
! > ters labor is quite encouraging.
or Our convention at Angola on the first Saturda
and Sunday, and the succeeding Monday, in De
promises to be a grand meeting.
IN Yours for truth without compromise,
ey A. I. F0SS.
1t KANSAS.