Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-03-21
Correspondence
For tina Bugle,
FROM
ScuUYLKlLL. Chester Co, Pa,
March 9th. 1857.

ScuUYLRILL. Chester Co, Pa,
March 9th, 1857.
MY DEAR FRIEND: Since my return to my ma.
tive State 1 have observed here the same redoub'
ling of exertions on the part of the friends OF dei-
potism in America which is visible in your own
State of Ohio: in proportion to the multiplication
of the trenchant and memorable strokes of the alb
olitionists is the eel-like squirmirg Of those they
are haying alive. Nothing, it seems to me, is
more imperatively demanded, on the part of those
who are conducting this enterprise of enterprises,
than that keen discrimination. which cannot be
deceived OF misled NOT even that integrity which
cannot be tribed.
Here one OF the most plausible Of the Protean
guises which slavery assumes is that of patriotism,
its means are eulogy of the fathers of the rev.
s%lution" and fulsome fattery Of natiocnl vanity.
The Philadelphia newspapers, even those which
did net ostensibly support the election OF tho
head.demagogue who now occupies the presider-
tial chair, and what is worse, those which openly
opposed his election, are filed, now that the inau.
g%uration is over. with nauseating euloGies OF his
dignity" and the grandeur of the OCCASION" p
of the dignity of the man who drove round through
Lancaster county. depositing five dollars here and
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fence of thuse numerous friends" of his who were
addicted to drinking; who invited the DULLES and
rowdies of Lancaster to Wheatland to a drunken
carousal which enduJe ed till near morning; who
formally visited the Catholic Chapel to hear Bar
ney Keenan's choice brogue in the holy mass, and
all for the sake Of securing his elevation to the
dignity" he now enjoys;-and of the grandeur
Of ibe OCCASION on which this low demagogue is
iadacieA into bic contemplate ofhcel
30 proof could be more satisfactory of the over
vts.aing control which slavery exercises over the
'ffss States" so called, than the fact that every
where. more or less, even the children Of families
which are traditionally anti.slayery are drawn ir
resis,ibly into tie pro-slavery eurr,nt and hnrrie'
on into the abyss in which are mingled indiscrimi
natsly. parish pes and pertifoggers. military ad
yertuTeYs and moral eogards, newspaper EDITOR
ssS ali the narseless nOndescript', who either vol
nsEsTiig or under eornyulsiOn, are arrayed on the
side Of slavery. The con Of DATid Paul Brown
Ia head sisys-eaicaer 10 Philadelphia at this mo-
nent, and Ar. Brown, himself, has lately discov-
cred thar his love of constitutional freedom" is
"second" To- his attachment to our glorious union"
What an intense love Of freedom that mast be
which is second to ene's love of such constitutional
freedom" as is allowed in these blessed United
Statesi 1t is revolving to witness these palttrer'
assuming the name and character of men. JohT
Sergeant acquired an honorable ard lasting fhm'
through his speech on the Missouri Compromise
his son supported tins .leader of the fiiibusiei'
lie would 10 better to say their tool, for the Pres
ideney. at the last election. Tbns is the cringin,
Nersh sweryed aad controlled 10y her master tn
lordIy South.
One of the most striking features in the AmeFi
can character is its cool impudence. In the ok
ludependeucs Hall in Philadelphia, they hav'
erected Q pedestal cpnssived and executed In tn