Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-04-12
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES.

Presidential Candidates are numerous now. The
South Americans have reduced the number by
naming the man they most delight to honor.
Among tn Democrats, the contest now is, between
Pierce. Buchanan and Douglass. One of these
will probably he the nominee, unless some wretch
can be found more thoroughly infamous than
either. Unprincipled serviliiy and INSCRIPTIONS
wickedness, land if coupled with stolidity all the
botterl are the tests'of qualification in these parties.
None other will suit the Slave 0ligarchy. None
other can serve their worse than Internal purposes
of slavcholding, slave hunting and slavery extend
ing.
The principles Of the Republicans are not so
well settled and the mass of the party is more in
congruous, than that Of the Democratic, hence can
didates are more numerous. We have Clay
Chasc-nnd Seward, tho best among them ; FIRE.
mont, who spcnttwo years in the Senate, without
ever indicating a preference for freedom over slave
ry, who cught,so his friends soy,to be acceptable to
South Carolina, his native State.-Then there are
the Slareholding candidates; Benton, whose repeat
ed boast it is, that he procured the adoption of the
EXTREMIST pro-slavery provision of the Missouri
Constitution, Bell and Houston have their claims
and their friends. Francis p. Blair who thinks
Repullicanism will quiet agitation, and render
slaveholdirg more secure from annoyance; And
more infamous than all, Judge M'Lean, who has
personally attempted slaveholding in Ohio and
proved himself the quickest scented and most alert
of any of the pack of national Blood-hounds, and
for that reason most acceptable to Fugitive Slave
law Wings who, unrcpentant compose SO large a
body of the party.
And we confess to the apprehension that candi-
dates even in this party, as in others, have a pros
pect of success, somewhat in the inverse ratio OF
their devotion to the cause of freedom. Thus
Cassius NJ. Clay, who has emancipated his slaves
and contemns and curses slave-hunting, has far
less chance than Judge M'Lean who is most illus
trious of Northern kidnappers and shareholders,
Governor Chase, with his long service and his
character as a friend of freedom, seems quite
equalled in the race by Francis p. Blair, who has
just bolted into the Republican ring with his bill of
sale of his human chattels in his hand, and hoping
to clutch them more securely for the success of the
Republican party. We are not sure even that
Governor Chase's chances are not improved by his
late mastery inactivity" in the fugitive slave
cases. lie has by this purged himself of fanati-
cism, and proved to the immense satisfaction OF
Republicans-(a largo majority of the party OF
the stripe Of the Gdzetts Of Cincinnati and Pitts
burgh, that the cherished and lauded compromises
Of the Constitution are cafe in his hands. Vigilance
and backbone, among the old liberty party wing
of the Republicans Gratis of character not very
strikingly exhibited by them of late) can alone
secure the nomination of an avowed enemy Of
Slavery, while caution" and compromise, such as
II 49,. C.1--- r l.o C,o,lJ,,n n ~, =, an aI
at Pittsburgh the other day, will secure the nom
%ination, whether the election, or Motive can no
say, We hope not) of some dough-face like M'Lear
and Fremont or some stakeholder like Blair OIL
Bell. Who it will be, the 18th of June will tell
Who it may, is Of some Importance to the mora
character and good conscience of some who vii
sustain him; but VIC think of small Importance
to the slave, bound up as the candidate must be b,
the acknowledged pro-slavcry bonds Of the Constl
tuition.