Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-10-16

STATES WHERE OUR FATHERS LEFT tn
But then If we were not implicated By the perner.
nj oovernment in support Of slavery as we nre. st,lI
Governor Chase has no right thus to nledpe him.
sell not to interfere for the redemn,ion os hi.
brother. 1t is n pledge not to stand bx God,s ,.w
OF human liberty rs he has himself shown I, !,
an avosa u of bod, practical atheism ,bo, - = s,L,
Ject OF the divine law has a right to mako and os.
fecially to couple with an ACKNOWLEDGMENT of ;,s
authority.
But this all comes from the. continual n,..o
to remain in loving fellowship with piratieal slave
holders.
OUR PLArroRA.'-Our readers wilrrccollsc, ,,,.
TWO or three weeks since We copied from, tho Nj.
I'"e american, n political platform of unusuollv
comprehensive character. The last 1me,icou CON.
'a'ns the following paragraph:
1.-The Bugle, at Salem, Ohio. publisbod , ,..
form OF principles entire, but it does not saw who,
il thinks of it,"
True. We published for the information of oh.
7 ""u III" 'hey might have opportunity to form
thor own opinion. As to the opinion of the R,,
s'' VIC " 'say thas 1t agrees with all the state
"s"''oi 'he platform or comedies with al. its opin,
III nevertheless IRON its stand point It is radical
''o'ough anu good 30 good, indeed, that there
seem 10 DC no politicians good enough to get onto IL,
~ mat II seems likely to stand on unused strue.
.ue' Dut then 1t is perhaps best it should stand
VI 'e"Fle TO look at and sometime or other ner4
maps 'ney may begin to climb up on it. and IN i'm.
p'o'o"s iaulty portions. Yet such prospect is not
'0'y natefing' since the man who made !, and
s'S'esH Our Platform" has not enough Of 20.
spect or paternal regard for it to stand unon ia
h'mseil. lie writes and publishes the p~latforp and
'heh eiectloneerr, and we suppose votes for the
'"e Republican party, whose platform of
principle is as really opposed to it as that of
'ne cincinnati structure itself. lie prints
Our Platform" every week, and along s;de
OF II the names of the Republican candidates and
noiumEs OK electioneering matter in their behalf.
% mat the poor platform seems ONLY Gsesicnet to
oe gazed at The Americans editor =, INST have
some novel views of the use Of Platforms. thus Il,
treat his own. We supposed tina. platforms were
nothing more nor less than announcements of nroc.
teal principles and that whoever aIopted the n,at.
form pledged himselfto stand by those ppinoinlss
especially the radical and important ones VIII thar
the majority shouted for them, or scorn and scofFed
at them. But evidently our eotemporary does not
so view the case. for he publishes "Our Platforms
and then spurns it with most utter practical con,
tempt lie labors for the success Of . party which
scorns and contemns its principles. 1t will be a long
time before sdch a course will elect a President OF
even a constable on any platform.
The FUTURE OF TIE REPUBLICAN PARry-We
nave often had reason to present the short COM
ihgs ana offences of the Republican party, and
probably we shall have it to do again, as we see
no prospect of its repentance or reform: peyertbe
less 1t IL entitled to a fair hearing, and as Republ;.
cans rarely avail themselves of the offered p.e os
our columns, for the vindication of their pariv, 20
are compelled to select the best defence we can find
elsewhere hence we publish the article from tho
1r'o"ne on our first page. This article sets forth
what claims to be the practical position of the
party as distinguished from both wings of tho
Democratic party. 1t sets forth the real purnose
OF all IN that party who have enough Of heart to
care at all for the slave, OF have any other purnose
than that OF successfully Selling upon Office and
power; with this purpose the restriction Of Slavery.
Of course we have never found fauIt and we honor
the impulses which prompt to efforts in it's hehaIf
We only quarrel with the party that to s.cure, h;.
end, they sacrifice the moral prnciples that ,e q,
the foundation Of their effort. and conse,t 20 ~.
existence and even protection of that which thew
condemn and seek to restrict. because II ia. ,rss,
pecuniary political social and moral evil Wbotsver
CApcCtcu ITOm THIS cons
promising eourse,it is not for one moment to be lust.
ihed ii there exists in the universe INV such tbipc
as liked moral principles. The mo1a al world must
be a chaos, and what are called principles. mere sc-
cidenss which turn up at hap.hazzard, in order to
justify the means which Republicans adopt to ae-
complish their purpose. Thus much in a word.
Tor The logic of the case. Practically it /. no better
than we should expect to find it. This plan of co.,
J ceulnD the RIGHT nf cla orr 30 -: -
to restrict it is no new plan, as Republicans tell
us. 1t was the policy of the fathers, and under the
rule OF this policy slavery has grown and
{ spread from its small beginnings undor the
fathers to its present wide spread TERRITORY and
enormous power under the rule of their degenerate
sohs. we need not say it has done nothing, and
yet 1t has been a hilnre,a as Florida, Alabama Miss
isiPpl' Louisiana, Missouri, Arkanas and Texas
'eshiy' why should we repeat an experiment which
i 'hree quarters OF a centurys experience has proved
shaVa'ing' And besides it is Of little consequence
TO the four millions of slaves where the Republic
can party SO calmly consigns them to interminnble
bondage whether in the present slave states, or
whether they are robbed and murdered in Missouri
or Kansas, in Arkansas or Dacotah, Il ia
monstrous I'M justice TO be perpetrated against such
multitudes of inocent individuals, which no hone Of
benehttlng theirsposterity can justify. Therefore il
seems to us that whether we look at the question
theoretically or practically our demand should
be- not no more stare territory nor even no more
STAGE states, but no more slavery.
"A. T. Foss.-We learn that A. 7. Foss has mass.
ed through our state on his way to his field of labor
In the west. A correspondent from Ashtabula
county wrltes-"Our friend Mr.. Foss has paid our
"benighted" county another visit much to the re-
greet of the orthodox, who seem to fancy that no
good can come out of Nazareth OF from the inf.
dels as we eomsouters are called"
Mr. Foss is the terror Of proslavery men whether
orthodox or infdel, and such the people of Hi.
nois will find him. where we understand his labops
are to be mainly oxpended. He ooes out M ,ha