Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-12-04

fIsANbIAL Asfi'SLAvERY FssrlvAL.-our fssd-
cts are already informed that the Boston Bazaar
Is tfid year to be discontinued aud in its place 10
to be held an Anti'Slavory festival, a reunion Of
the friends of the slave, who are invited to bring
with them,or ii theyscannot come to send up their
annual contributions to the cause. In n commu-
nication to last weeks Standard and Liberntor
Mrs. Malta w. Chapman speaks most encourage.
ingly OF the prospects Of this coming occasion.
She says "Tho friends of the cause abroad are
already at work and will be present in spifh at
this reunion"
says;
1T will be an occasion for conversation, consul,
tation and mutual aid for the social and festive
congratulations Of the Few year, as we'll a. an op.
portunity for the discharge of our pecuniary debts
to the Cause, according to the full measure 6f
pecuniaty ability, whether /, be positively great
or small, or that measure made great by It's grand
secoiii pahihient of a devoted life which has cut
down it's amount as a sum of money"
The friends of Anti.Slavery III the West are
strainfhg every nerve to sustain their own opera:
tons, nevertheless we will hope that out of our
poverty there, be made some manifestation Of
sympathy and cordial cooperation with our eastern
fellow laborers in this common cause. To them
we are hugely indebted for past aid and such m
acknowledgment of its value would be eniinohtit
appropriate and encouraging. When the acknowi.
edgment Of contributions is made we shall hope to
see many western names on the list.
The festival is to be held 10 January. The day
to lie hereafter announced,
AN ABsTRAcTIoN-A RHETORICAL FLoUKisK.-
nat prospect; the moro thoroughly antislavsry
men among the Republicans have, for the consu.
nation Of their hopes, that Stewards Rochester
speech may become the basis of their next presi.
Dental platform, may be gathered Srom the Gin.
cinnati Gazette. 1t utters the opinion of the con-
trolling influence of the party. Speaking Of the
speech it says
Those who regard it with unprejudiced eyes see
nothing about it to startle or alarm responsible PEG.
Pile. His rhetorical flourish about the antagonism
Of free and slave institutions contained, at worst,
Il mere abstraction, involving no new line Of 40.
ton. and having in truth, ESPECIALLY when guard.
ed and justified as it was no novel practical
bearing.
The views we expressed on this matter, some
days ago, are substantially re affirmed by tho
Louisville Journals paper thoroughly imbusd
with Southern sentimeDts-and appropriately sx,
tended to the extravaganza Of Senator Haru-
mond."
If the Gazette is right there is but triAing dit,
ference between Prentice and even Hammond and
itself, the organ of Republicanism. They arc
certainly united in practically repudiating all
rhetorical hourishes," 'abstractions" end glitter
] ing seneralities," from Jefferson to Seward.
1t becomes on important question what shall We
gain, what will the slave gain by Republicsn sss-
! cess, when the most radical of its anti slavery
3 paper authorities to mean nothing more than the
s rhetorical hourishes Of Clay. Webster, Prentice. and
hammond. Here is what Prentice said on the
S subject. M
o THE proposition is perfectly innocent. II 10,
in fact, but the reproduction in somewhat shar per
form of a pet opinion of My. Clay's. Nothing
e could be further from the narrowing import with
which distempered or designing fancies havo in'
q vested it. The notion belongs wholly to the
. realm Of ideas. 1t does not contemplate a plan
i of action, but merely a scheme of natural deysl-
q opment. 1t is q speculation, not a project-ths
outline of q conviction, not Of a campaign. It il
a mere forecast of events. 1t is Mr.. Stewards
theory of our national progression. 1t 10 his
r Judgment as to what will happen in the ordinary
course Of things.
speaking of the atrocious efforts of the Marylanr
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