Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-04-18

There is no use crying over split milk, or split
ink either. The Blair. wimer-B bernstein in Brown,
dnti-Benton. Black Republican, Abolition. soi.
d,sdnf Emancition party, have carried the city by
about 100 majOrity-and much good may it do
them.
The press most prominent in the advocacy Of
emancipation measures is the Democrat, which is
denounced by opponents as an abolition sheet"
This paper speaking of its position, bravely says,
in its structures upon the pro slavery letter of Col.
Benton
"For our own part, we have only to say thai, in
conjunction with tho Democracy here, we have
been battling in the past for great principles. The
rights of the white man are dear to our heart
The cause OF white labor is the cause Of our own
citizens. The progress and growth of white pop
ulation is an essential element in the coming gran
deur, not less Of Missouri than of st. Louis
The meridian splendor of these Western States
with the lofty part they are hereafter to act in the
affairs OF this nation, must rest upon no policy of
Slavery Extension or Slavery perpetuation. For
these things we have staked everything in peril
Gus times that have gone by, and these things we
do now pledge ourselves never to forsake in the
future. Others may abandon the field, and forget
their faith, and shrink from the issue but we are
not of sach stuff. The banner has been unfurled
too long to be stricken now it is glorious with too
recent a victory to be trailed in the dust at this
day I; and we proclaim it, therefore, that, come the
assault from what quarter it may, and be the OPP
ponents whoever may set fit to engage, we shall
stand to those colors as long as q ribbon of them
hutters in the breeze"
Since the election the same paper says:
The returns of our charter election, which we
publish this morning, will show q noble and pro.
life victory achieved by the free white working
men of st. Louis. We call it noble, because it
has vindicated the rights and dignity of white
labor we call it prolific, because it is but the
precursor Of many others that are to follow
After an animated contest, with all the engineering
Of consolidated party drill against it, with all the
stereotyped traditions of past politics to encoun.
ter, and all the force and Animosity of slavery
prejudices and slavery timidities hanging as an
incubus upon the movement, the cause of the
white man, the free man. the laboring man, has
been the successful cause.
This victory likewise is the more gratifying
the more to be rejoiced at-.he more to be sol
emnized in the after-inasm as the tri.
umph has been achieved by no evasive canvass
no concealment of principle-by no false preten-
ces or questionable doctrines. The issue was
boldly made by the Nullifers, and is boldly met
Free Labor was assaulted in its stronghold, and
Free Labor stood up for its rights and INDICATED
its dignity not less than its authority. The quaint
let was thrown down by the advocates of slavery
7 erpetuation, and it was manfully taken up BY
NV DOuioOiaOy wv ny tuooc VIII v W
ultimate emancipation as a coming and a passing
necessity of state policv. Violent and denuncia-
tory attacks upon free speech and a free press
were met by still freer thoughts. and still more
emphatic utterance. And the result has answer
ed the expectation of the most sanguine. From
fifteen hundred to two thousand majority over the
acknowledged champion of the opposition is what
we may claim in point Of numbers, and in point
of prestige we may claim every thing.
1t remains to be seen what use the great party
which has just achieved a victory SO unlocked
for by the country-so confidently expected by
themseves-will make of their triumph. Will
they encounter the fatal delays of Canine? Will
they give up the ground they have won, and re-.
turn to their tents with no longing for conquest
We trust not. We trust that what they have now
done for themselves they may hereafter be induced
to do for others. We trust that as they have gain
ed a battle in their own persons. they will not hes
itate, hereafter, to aid ir leading their strength
to gain a battle tor their friends in the State like
wise. Push on the phalanx of victory. Null
ret,0rSum r~eStigid."
The Mteligencer, the American" organ says:
We have at no time doubted that St. Louis is
Free State" in sentiment, by a heavy majority,
This fact has long been notorious here. 1t has
been the case for years; but the proverDial sensi-
tlveness of a Slave State community to any dis.
cussl0n OF Free State principles, has heretofore
kept the Free State feeling in allegiance. 1t has
been evoked at last and rises at once into political
ascendancy. This ascendancy, it strikes us, it is
likely TO be permanent. For. while it is true that
hundreds of men voted for Mr.. Winner, who are
not in favor of Emancipation, it is also true that
hundreds voted for him, who are thorough Eman-
cipationists in sentiment as he is.
The election of the Winner tickle. is, therefore,
only the emphatic declaration of the city of St.
Louis, not only on the expediency but the certainty
of the early extinction of Slavery in Missouri.
For it were very foolish in St. Louis to proclaim q
policy that was of doubtful strength, and thus
provoked isolation to herself from the rest Of the
State.