Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-08-15
UNDERSTOOD.

Governor Chase's Baltimore Union saving speech
not only excited tie indispensable" appreciation
of his slaveholdIng auditors but it seems almost to
have won the friendship of his democratic oppon-
ents in Ohio. In one of the bitteres st and ablest Of
our county democratic papers, the Logan County
Gazettee we find the following:
Gov. Chase was lately at a Railroad Festival in
Baltimore, and being called on Tor a speech, made
one with his usual unques,ioned ability. Indeed,
since his mind has become fully mature we don't
know of any gentleman who can talk with more
ability than he; and we must further concede, that
when he bends himself seriously to the unaccustom-
ed task, he can speaks with n patriotism as fefyid
and comprehensive as that Of Everett or Choate.-
We incline to think, indeed, that Il it were not for
party ties and obligations if it were not that a
word of courtesy to the South, or an expression of
love for the Union subjects a man to the imputatioE
of being a doughface; if it were not for these con-
siderations, Gov. Chase would rise to the dignity of
true craftsmanship, and assume the rank to which
his intellect unquestionably entities him. At the
festival in question, he made this ill-considered re-
mark:
"In time to come, as in the time past, we cleave
to the Union as our ark of refuge, and, under God,
our surest guaranty of prosperity, and abiding
glory"
Now that sounds like tho words of some such
'dough-face' as Cass or Winthrop; and we fear it
will subject Mr.. Chase to the imputation Of def
cheney in the region of the backbone!
AT least one Democrat has for once told the
tru tn. This is exactly the Dcughfaceism Of Cass
and Winthrop and Choat and Everett. And it is
c quite as contemplate in one case as in the others.
J The LAND OF LIBERTY THE Richmond Wing,
5 of August lst., gives an item of news eminently
d illustrative of the GLORIOUS Liberty" enjoyed by
the Democrats of the Old Dominion. 1t is as FOL
i lows:
FREE SPEECH IN VIRGINIA.-John Underwood
II a Justice of tho Peace, residing in OccOquan
Is Prince William county, Va, was examined be
fore two magistrates, on the 25th ult, on a charge
oe violating the law Of the Commonwealth, which
y provides for the punishment of those who "main
q tain by speaking or writing that owners have M
e right or property in their slaves" The accused
N was held tor his appearance before the COUNTY
Court in August. Another citizen of Prince viii
:" liam is suspected of a similar offence, but has no
been arrested.
, Such outrages upon personal rights cannot b
i out done By any despot in Europe; and yet the
are of SO common occurrence in our Republic as nc
to attract attention. A man may neither speak no
write against the most disgraceful crime the worl
has ever known, without mourning the doom Of
II felon. This is the Wanted liberty of our mode
lie Republic, of our enlightenment and christianity.
err Mas. FosrER's SpEEcn.-Let no one fail to rea
it. If the spirit of devotion which pervades
til animated all who profess to be abolitionists, tn
Of slave would be speedily emancipated.
IT, ~
AN ASrrSLAvERV MEETING will be held at Ii
st school house near Robert Campbell's, in Goshel
on Saturday evening the 22d inst, commencing
6 o'clock P. NJ. Benjamin s. Jones will adore;
the meeting.