Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-05-02

gress, and defeated in Kansas. 1t is only by
their private aid and encouragement that South
ern coward and assassin, surrounded by fellow
conspirators and assassins, dared to skuIk int
| your Senator's presence when alone, unguardeo
aud unsuspecting, and PROSTATE him with Q
murderous WEAPON. IL was only by their paralyz
ing and corrupting influence, that every Senator
and Representative from the Free States did moi
combine and inhict summary chastsement and
perpetual warning on that band of nssassins.
There is no depth of disgrace to which these
mDOns of slavery would not humble the honor o
the FREQ States. While the assassin Brooks was
caressed feted rewarded and unanimously re-elect
ed, in sanction OF his assassin act, BuRLlNGAME,
who, though standing on the slippery ground of n
divided constituency, and sure to be stabbed from
behind by those who should have supported him,
dared to expose and demonstrate the cowardice OF
the Southern assassin, Tas made the object of the
btterest OF lOquy by the Northern tools OF slavery
The Presidents Directors, Cashiers and COmpa.
nes of State street, ranged side by side with the
officials of the Custom House, from the Collector
down to the tide-waters and Jumpers, and rein
forced by every bloodhound commissioner, with
his marshal and policemen, and leading the spew
and spawn of the tippling shops and dance-cellars
of Ann street. rallied their shameless ranks TO the
polls to deient the representative of Northern
manhood, and elect las they near did) the repre-
sentative of Northern degradation, in the person
of Appleton, who laid down as his platform, tha
Northern representatives should so represent the
North AS to offend nobody Poor fool that he
was, not to know that the very perfection OF his
sycophancv would be sure to prove Ike offence in
the Shareholders themselves as RandOlph's lesson
to Everett, and Clays lesson to Choate, might have
taught him.
In separation is our only redress and our only
safety. In the Union, we cannot right our cause.
Our very strength is turned against us. Our
wealth fills the the treasury of the nation, and is
controlled by the Slave Power. The emi.saries
Of slavery harbor and fatten in our midst. Our
few faithful men, whom we send TO Congress must
speak our sentiments with bated breath, and wiki
much dilution and disclaimer, for they stand in
the shadow Of the bludgeon ready to fall on their
heads and thev know there is no redress. Already
the Southern STAKEHOLDER may fulfil his thr eat and
count his slaves from the summit OF Bunker Hill
ay, and in that vicinity they almost outnumber
the free men.
In this heart of the Commonwealth, tho altar.
fires of Liberty must be rekindled and its beacon
flames sent forth to rouse the land. This, l have
laith to believe can be done. have watched the
pulse of the common people, the mechanics and
mall listed farmers VI whom am one,) ano
know thut it beats for freedom. In tho late cam
paign, the speakers whom the masses heard most
gladly were those who most nearly proclaimed the
principles which we meet together to iuaugurate
The days when Mr.. Garrison and Mr.. Phillips
would DC hissed by New England audience have
long passed. Even the prnt-sellers, who gauge
the popular current on golden metre, nave founu
that out; ; and they write CHAMPIONS OF LIBERTY
over heads once denounced those OF 'hair-brain
ed fanatics and expect harvest of dollars from
the operation, and are not disappointed. They
have ceased to garnsh the ombs Of the old prophet;
for the now ones have at length aroused the public
ear. We are on the eve of new revolution, which
shall repeat the niumphs, but show the the mis-
takes Of the old Of a new confederation, which
shall not Only declare the seil-cvidcnt truths 0
humanity but abide by them and establish them
unerriiicd by menace, unbribed by fattery, unde
based by compromises.