Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-12-05


CONCORD, N. H.. Nov. 26, 1857.
DEAR FRIEND ROBINSON: DR.. Brooke misunder.
stood me at Cleveland. 1 never said, or surely
rover intended TO say, 'that the time has gone by
tor arguments to be addressed to the people," /
did say the time for arguments on the "Constitu.
hondtity Of Slarery" has gone by, and have said
so fifty times before. Slavery does not exist because
it is Constitutional" Our country has a consti.
tutional love of slavery, as the people have a cor
stitutional love of sin Of all kinds, but in no other
way legally or politically speaking; the %constitu-
ton of the United States has nothing to do With
the existence or continuance of slavery whatever.
The system has a broader, deeper, frmer basis
than that. Men might as we'll plead as excuse fer
their ten or twelve children, born of one frail and
feeble mother, that the bible authorizes it-even
commands them to " Increase and multiply" as
to argue for or against slavery, from the constitu.
ton.
And above all things, if men wish to prove the
constitution to be Anti Slavery, let them first prove
that they are not hypocrites, by letting alone can
didatee for chief magistrates, in State or Nation,
who maintain, and are sworn to maintain the very
opposite doctrine.
Did you notice the Editorial in the last Standard,
entitled Political Morality? Such an article is
worthy a place, even in your columns. Nothing
could be better sail on the last Presidential cleo
ton, or on the Republican part of it, shan this:
The last great political movement, which came
very near putting its candidate into the White
uouse-which it probably would have done had
the Pennsylvania election been fairly conducted
and returned-tha movement rested itself solely
on the permission to the people OF Kansas to keep
slavery out of the State to be created out of their
Territory, if they so pleased! A broad foundation,
truly. on which to build up a national party-tte
right of men who had shown themselves 80 base
or so ~cringing as to forbid coloured men to be mem
bers Of their commonwealth to keep themselves
from being made the mean whites, the white trash,
of rich slaveholding neighbours! As far as they
were concerned, they deserved no better fate. But
the permanence to be given to slavery and the
locking of the yoke upon the necks of tho blacks,
these things hardly entered into the contemplation
of the politicians who played that hand. The
White Men, and not the Black, were the cards that
were played out. and it has been of no particular
importance that the game was lost. But it was
another proof of the deterioration of Political
Morality.
do not recollect whether you have given an
opinion on the new "Atlantic Monthly" Perhaps
you will not thank me foy mine. The Publishers
surely will not. Simply as a Literary Question
upon its merits. have no opinion to give. My
training. early or later, had no reference to such
enquiries.
But when a new work Of such pretensions q;
this last monthly, appears, we may all ask. have
the publishers any particular message or mission
to mankind, which requires this new gospel? TIT
antecedents of Messrs. Phillips & Sam 2son, woulC
lead me to doubt whether their commission hal
anpht nf Divipitv in IL Tbav ora oartoipiu vor,
thriving publishers of books, and worthy mer
doubtless in other regards. And the New Month
ly will be a good advertising medium for theiI
other wares. But a glance through the first Mum
Der, leads one to doubt whether the world will b.
more indebted to it, than to Putnam's Picture
Books, or the gentle a0heyr curds, Weekly and Month
ly, Of the Harpers. Some of the pieces. Sally
Parsons for instance, Pendlam and the Financia
Furry, it seems to me belong to the "Comic Alma
nae" They would be quite too exalted in mos
of the Pictorials like Gleason's and Frank Leslie's
which l suppose by the places where oftenest Sc
them, are manufactured mostly for stable boys an,
others whose taste though peculiar, is not peculiar
ly elevated. Most of the remaining articles
though we'll enough written. have little in ther
original, or particularly striking, either in man
ner or matter. Both Publishers and Contributor
appear to me to be moved by a common impulse
TO gire the Country or their Patrons, not so niue
,ohat they really need, as phat they are aci7ling
take and pay for. A sad consideration truly, il
a nation reeking with the crimes and curses {
slavery. and ripening rapidly for the just judg'
ments of Heaven.
Truly yours, still hoping,
PARKER PILLSBURY.