Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-10-11
CLIENT, Columbia County, n. Y,
October 3. 1856.

October ), 1886.
DEAR MARIUs: In the report of the proceedings
of your recent Anniversary Meeting, published in
the Bugle, notice a paragraph in your speech 10
relation to Dunn's Bill, as follows: at had been
said in the meeting held last evening in the Town
Hall, that the Tribune and National Era had pub.
lished the bill. This was not so. Neither Of
these papers had laid the bill before its readers;
and so of the Republican press generally. None
of them had published it 80 far as he knew, except
some of those in Mr.. Letters District"
That an apparent error may not pass without
correction, | would refer you to the morning edi-
ton of tie N. Y. Tribune of Monday, August 4th,
in which a revised and corrected copy of the Bill
referred to, was published in full. You will find
it appended to a letter from the Tribune's Wash
iugton Correspondent, "H," in which the passage
of the Bill was announced, and the vote given.
Whether it did, or did not appear in either Of
the several other editions of the Tribune, l do
not know; neither am l informed in regard to the
National Era.
Infamous and criminal as was the measure pro-
posed and most shocking and disgraceful as was
tho act Of the Republicans land others), in voting
for it, the N. Y. Tribune has more recently made
"A bad matter still worse by voluntarily giving to
the conduct of thu Republicans on that occasion,
its entire and unqualified endorsement and appro-
val.
An editorial in the Tribune of Monday, Sept.
Doth, gives a synopsis of Mr.. Dunn's Bill, and re,
prints in full the two especially Objectionable Pro-
visos of Sec. "a; one of which provides for the con-
tinuance of Slavery in Kansas until 1858; also for
the enslavement Of children yet unborn; the other,
that the odious Fugitive Slave Law shall be in full
force for an indifnite time,
1t then says, "of course, these tro p~rorisos, taken
by Themselves, cOuld be rather a hard dose; but ia,
ken in connection with the expulsion of Slavery q
from Kansas, the overthrow Of Border Rufian
rule, and the revival of the Missouri Restriction (D
ace could s%aralloc them rather than leave Kansas
under the feet of her invading tyrants. So thought
the Republican members of the House, eighty-four
of whom voted for the bill under the previous ques.
ton, with Messrs. Harrison, Haven and Moore
(Filmore), and Wells (Buchanan(, while but a sin
gle Republican (Mr. Letter of OLio) voted with
seventy three Buchanan and Fillmore men in OPP
position"
After referring to the fact that the Republicans
had been vehemently assaulted for not supporting
some compromise proposition, and that they were
now as vehemently assailed because they had voted
for Dunn's bill, the Tribune concludes by saying:
1t is difficult in such circumstances to decide on
the spur of the moment whether to take half a
loaf or no bread; BUT WE BELIEVE THE RE-
.PUBLICANS ACTED WISELY AND WELL IN
VOTING FOR DUNN'S BILL!!!" Such is the
spirit of the boosted freedom of the Republican
Party, as illustrated by its great mouth-pi and
organ-the New York Tribune!
The enthusiasm Of the Presidential campaign
is at a high mark in eastern New York. l have
never before known political infatuation to prevail
to so great an extent.
But amid all the excitement there shall still be,
at least a few of the faithful, who will hear and
respond to the imploring cry of the d~espised and
deeply injured slave.
The heartless and diabolical conspiracy, entered
into with alacri.y, alike by FremonSers, so called
Democrats and Americans to perpetuate the bon
.dage of four millions Of our fellow cOuntrymen
must and shall be broken up; and from the grave
of the American Union will spring up and flourish,
the flowers of a truer and nobler Republic.
With a kind remembrance to my Western Anti
Slavery friends,
am, very sincerely yours.
AARON NJ. POWELL.