Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-07-25
For the Bugle.
FOr the BuBIe.
CONCORD. New HAMPSHIRE,
july. Is, 1857,

DEAR MARIUs The brave little Bugle contin'
ues to sound its weekly blast at our doors. Some
however, we fear its note, though quite as
certain and clear, is not so vigorous as in former
years, indicating want of good atmosphere to in
fate the Lungs which blow it. Some of your
correspondents too, speak in a tone of %despond-
ing if not of despair, about its longer contin-
uance, unless its friends renew and redouble their
energies on its behalf.
But bless US, what q time is this to decline, even
in the humbiest and weakest Of our instrumental.
tiles And to dream that one of our only three
newspapers should be suffered to anguish and
die! On what could those have supped to be
visited with such visions! Four Million Slaves
in the land. and but three Journals devoted to
the only possible enterprise, which can effect their
deliverance and one of them 'languishing and
dying out while the other two, are only kept
in Existence, by moro or less annual gratuities,
made to them by tho friends of Freedom on both
sides the Atlantic! A third part of our newspa-
per ustrumentulities smitten down in q moment
like this What a ~ulflment of the Vision in
Patmos. when the fiery tail of the dragon drew
"a third part Of the stars Of Hearen" BY the
FERTILITY Of Your Judge Leavitt, by the craven
cowardice of your Governor Chase, by the hero
ism of poor Margaret Garner and the blood of her
immaculate babes, let it not be!
Slavery is now just beginning to display its
majesty and m~ight-when tho government was
formed, it was only an insignificant, loathsome,
blasted b~antling. whose name was not mentioned,
either in the National household, as one of the
family, or any part of the family furniture, or
bnurahnl1 aHacfo. or auan tfaat with fha dnnp
that kept the focks." 1t was sneaked away out
of sight. like some poor, pulling, rickety. gibber-
ing idiot, shat even its parents almost think it
would be a mercy to kill at once-And now, that
foul abomination, has grown up a devil, able abb
s~olutely, to turn the whole household out of doors
and seize the inheritance.
With infinite pains it got its right to existence
recognized Ia 1920, and its enlargement over the
state of Missouri but only with solemn guaranr
tees, that henceforth, it must extend no further
In 1874, it demanded the Massacre of a hundred
thousand Mexicans, as a penalty for having ban
ished its accursed presence from their Coasts, anC
the Seizure of Millions of Milee Of their terrific
ry, on which to rebuild its CORY affairs.
In 1850, it demanded the enactment of a Fugi
tive Slave Law, that sent a shuddering through tn
world unparalleled since the Tragedy on Mt. Cal
vary. In 1854, it snapped its Missouri ComprC
mise bonds of 1929, like a spiders web, and de
manded the whole land as its lawful prey. ]
ravaged Kansas, until its desolations were as
the whole 'seyen walls" of apocalytic wrath ha
been poured out on its fields. its towns and pee
9 Pile. Bludgeon in hand, it entered the Senat
Chamber of the Nation, fixed it's bassilisk eye o.
q Sumner, by far, "the noblest Roman of them all,
= and sent him Keeling and bleeding to the earth
, to be borne off Senseless. and to appearance. dea
9 in the arms of his friends
! 1t demanded a President, pledged to Slauer
5 Extension, by force or fraud, hlibustering, or NOR