Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-01-09
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.
CONCORD. n. II. Jan. 1853.

For the Buglc.
CoNcoRD, n. ii, Jan. 1858.
DEAR FRIEND ROBINSON Since my last writ
ing, events have multiplied about us, thick and
fart. Kansas, Utah and Central America arc all
now pressing their claims upon the public atteu.
ton, must irresistibly. This is we'll. l hope our
government will have no peace, allow Of no
peace, while Il slave wears a chain, or q rood Of
slave territory exists, throughout our whole do.
main.
If we must have blood, then let blood flow.
Before this is printed we may hear sad tidings from
Il lnsas-GLAD TiDlNGs they will be to me, IL at
any cost Of blood and life, the reign of rufiapism
is ended there. Fighting would i'll agree with ire.
Both courage and conscience would cry against it,
ia ninety nine cases out Of the hundred. But the
hundredth might come, and then only courage
would protest, And were | in Kansas to-day,
there seems to me, at this distance. no service |
could render to humanity, more praise'wortby in
the sight Of God and godly men, than to drive out
with bullet and bayonet, every wretch, whether
q Missouri Rufian or United States soldier, who
is seeking to plant slavery in that i'll fated terri
Tory. And l find my respect for the brave old
Brown, of Ossawatomie memory, daily more and
~ ihNiNbSlhks Il u NbTS Nv
thousand just such as he, in that territory to-day
There need be then no toubt as to results.
Only men, that are men, are wanted in Kansas,
There has been altogether too much talk and at
tention, relative to the state Of things there. For
one, | confess to being quite tired of it. The
Free State men are not half 80 brave as the Border
Ruffans and the slavery men. They have moi
half the pluck Of the Mormons, with o cause rs
much better, as purity is better than pollution.
They pretend to be the friends and protectors of
freedom against tyranny, and Of virtue against
villainy. And they boast Of being fire TO one"
over them, both at the polls and in population.
Why then, in the name of ell right AMI reason,
do they not act like men
| hope we shall hear no more such talk and
~twaddle, as have stunned us for the last two years.
| had rather every mouth were stopped there. ex-
cept the lannon's mouth.
y 4 = II would have rather, the rak-
ing of the guns across the world, and shrieks
against Heavens architrGye."
While we are seeking IN Ii, government, to ex-
tend and perpetuatc slavery, there are others, and
their name is Legion, North, as we'll as South, who
are extending and establishing, as an Institution,
and as Lawful Commerce, THE AFRICAN SLAVE
TRADE. l enclose you q few items from the Bos-
ton Journal on the subject which you can publish
if you do not receive more important intelligence,
Before the East India war broke out, Lord
Brougham had begun to wake the British Lion
against the diabolical brokerage, and the English
squadron on the African coast, and iu the Congo
river, was already REINFORCED, though from latest
accounts. it would seem, to little purpose. The
new French system of Free Emigration" has
given new life to the system T; and under its shield,
myriads of the poor sons and daughters of Africa
will lie made TO drink tho Interest sacraments Of
slavery and dying leave the same to their chill.
dren and children's children. One might suppose
a subject of SO fearful import, fraught with such
awful coz sequences to humanity, would receive
some notice in our National Congress-. But be-
tween Central America, Salt Lake and Kansas,
the whole attention is absorbed. And so it must
be, for the present.
Possibly, when slavery shall have been well es-
tablished ia Kansas, and the public mind is as
much at rest upon it, as it is now on Texas and
the Fugitive Slave Inv, that it may do as an
Issue for some Republican Party" whether the
whole African Slave Trade. with all its uncounted
horrors, shall be re.established the church mean
while, advocating it, as one Of Gods own arrange
ments for the conversion Of Africa, and the bring
ing in of the Millennium.
The Boston Bazaar, considering the state of the
times, must be set down as a triumph. 1t closed
last Saturday its receipts | believe, reaching
three thousand dollars. Six thousand, in ordinary
years, would hardly have been 4 more signal sue
cess. | looked in but once only, and that Oh The
last af ernoon. Amcng the visitors, Ralph Wal
do Emerson, Senators Sumner and Wilson, Rev.
Mr.. Alger, Rev. Henry Giles, Sydney Howard
Gay, aud of couis 50 most Of our friends in Boston
aud vicinity. IL was very gratifying indeed, TO
see that one Of the the most elegant tables, was
furnished by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, and
gracefully attended by herself and daughters.
Mr.. Sumner gave me a sad account of his
health. His constant experience, confirms the
counse! of all his medical advisers, on both sides
of the Atlantic, that it is at his peril, if he enter
upon any severe mental labor, excitement, or Ge.
liberation even on any important or public topics
no matter how irresistible his inclination, or, how
imperious the call.
o, what a fearful loss! not q lose to a Party,
or to Congress, or q country, but to universal
man. Wo to those who are responsible for it!
I~remain, your readers and yours.
PARKER P~ILLSBURY,
Sa1~Our friend PARSER PILLsBuRY. we learn. is