Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-10-11
A BORDER RUFFIAN THANKSGIVING.

The Fillibustering Governor Price Of Missouri,
leads off the states this fall with his thanksgiving
proclamation. He has appointed the Goth Of No
vember, to be observed for that purpose. This
thanksgiving would be eminently appropriate had
the governor proposed to give thanks to Franklin
Pierce and northern doughfaces, for TO these, their
distinguished success in their magnificent enter.
prises of the past year are attributable, and not to
the Benevolent and Almighty God to whom Cover
nor Price proposes to render the thanksgiyings of
the rufian State.
The following extracts from the proclamation are
rather rich scraps Of reading considering the occur
rences in Missouri, during the last twelve months:
Whereas, it is considered right and proper that
we should gratefully acknowledge the goodness of
God, displayed in the preservation Of oar hres, car
cicU and religious liberties, and our republican iRSti-
tUti0HS, and for every blessing, temporal and spiri-
tual, which We enjoy. And whereas tie protection
Of the State from inSu1Tection and intestine commO,
ton, and the citizens from pe~stilence and plague,
equally demand a return OK thanks to Him whose
will has wrought this protection.
Now, therefore, under a full sense Of obligation
and duty, and in accordance with the wishes Of n
great many citizens of the State, | Sterling Price,"
&c, &c.
SOUTHERN UsTlcE,-Slaveholdors who are unac-
customed to inquire particularly into the justice of
the penalties they infict upon their slaves, adopt
the same short method with all who are suspected
lavoripg the slaves cause. a lAe Of devotion to
slavery, and even the practice of the patriarchal
virtue Of slave ownership, all goes for nothing,
when suspicion is once aroused. Mr.. William
Strickland, the Mobile Bookseller who was recent
ly expelled from that city is q case in point. lie
has written a humble letter Of defence from his
place of refuge, New York. frem which it appears
that his is a case Of clear persecution by mistake.
That his only offence was the indiscretion of sup.
posing that his slayeholding friends might be safe
ly trusted to buy and read such books as they
thought proper to order. That under this delusion
he had actually sold a few copies of books of an
abolition tendency. That he has been a slavehold-
er and always a fast and faithful friend of slave
holding. Poor fellow. lie is a victim Of the sys-
TEN he has SO long and so ardently cherished and
still desires 20 serve. This is tho reward of un-
righteo usness. lie closes his letter as follows:
"If have done aught other than what l have
stated above, 1t is unknown to me.
II challenge any proof that by word or deed !
have, directly or indirectly, in any form or shape,
attempted or desired, during any period of my life,
to circulate any Abolition document, sentiment, or
anything else which could in any way tend to pro-
mulgate AnttSlayerY views, beyond the above
facts.
My whole life at the South gives the lie direct
to any such assertion.
The ten thousandl lies and rumors in circulation
which have became engrafted on the above facts
are false from beginning 70 end.
civilian STRICKLAND"