Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-09-13
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New BRlauroN, Aug. &c, 1856.

New BRiGuroN, Aug. &c, 1856.
FRIEND BRADroRD / have just risen from the
perusal Of your article, taken by the editors of the
A. S. Standard of the 23d, from the Free Presby
terrain. Whether you are earnest in your estimate
of Jesse Fremont, | know not. She may DO very
intellectual, moral, refovmatory and influential, or
she may be the contrary for aught | know. If she
is the first three, | doubt not she is, and will be
in whatever sphere she may move, tho fourth, on
the principle that no healthful influence is lost
more especially when WELDED by females. In the
name Of humanity, | thank you for outspoken
words, Understandings uttered, for the benefit OF
Freedom and the cause of Reform, in every depart
ment, when you assert that Woman has the ablli-
ty to participate in every good work Man should
Get about elevating her to an equal position, and
she should heartily and actively cooperate, in
bringing about a result which the best wisdom,
and highest benevolence must sanction. Thus far,
unqualified approval.
Your logic in the next paragraph | am not pre-
pared to endorse. / can conceive if possible that
the very opposite of that which you confidently
anticipate may happen, whether Buchanan, or Ere
mont is ele, ted. My difficulty in the matter, arises
in part from ignorance Of political sinuosities;
anu partly from ulSlIuSl III polINlClduS' L SOO
them Alright, they are more than any other class OF
men, tempted to veer about, from the operation OF
causes pithOut themselves OF all men, it most
behooves them to keep an eye on the vane of pop
ular opinion in their party, and particularly in
their respective constituencies. a few have had a
secret cord by which they could cause the vane to
change its direction to suit their purposes. James
Buchanan has eYinced prominent skill in this
stool pigeon play. The multitude saw the bird
turning, or turned, and without ENDURING the
cause of its changed position, having taken it for
their infalliable guide, they very naturally pointed
their beaks in parallel lines with it. ! know not
that John c. Fremont is a proficient in the use Of
political tact and intrigue; if not, unless he has
skilful and numerous stringpullers, his is a hope
less case on the Presidential race course. | shculd
regre' to recognise Arthur b. Bradford Juggling at
one Of the strings, for the single reason that deem
him capable of better work.
1t were u ridiculous waste of words to tell ~. g..
b. that the Philadelphia platform has not an item
of Disunion, Liberty party, or Free Soil abolition
ism in it:-all whitfield away, and used for kind
lings to fire uu the Republican cauldron.
If you have not done it, l ask you to compare
the arguments in favor of Fremont's election in
the New York Herald with your own in the Free
Presbyterian. You will find that though the con-
illusions are identical, the data, are Numerically
opposite. They are as a~ntipodal as their authors.
To conclude, it p~erplexes mel am confused
stulti6ed, when l see men of conflicting opinions,
professions and principles; standing on platforms
to accomplish an end by the use of couhter forces,
habitually excited by t~hem;-when l see them
standing before the same political altar, partaking
of the same political sacrament, l almost refuse
belief when l am told they are Arthur 3. Bradford
and George Gordon Bennett.
AMOS GILBERT.