Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-10-30
Che Anti-5laperp Bnole,
SALEM, ONO, OCTOBER 80, 1858.

"hu Oh'ioi W hepuOlCanlSm. Dut MT.
Glddings and those who think with him
are withoHt control in the party and are only toler-
atcd IN st. Their protests and remonstrances are
hardly tolerated now. Already plain hints are
given that they had better hold their peace or seek
~aiiliation with other fanatics rather than with q
conservative national party-"the only national
party" as the Era and other papers affirm. As time
passes on and the nation warns in the Presiden.
tial contest, they will not be tolerated, but will re-
ceiee the clvilier treatment now melted out to Doug.
las by Buchanan. They will he cursed as scismat.
les, and denounced as traitors to the party, unless
they consent to silent submission. We cannot give
n better illustration of our view Of the case then to
copy the comments Of the Cincinnati Gazette on
Mr.. Giddings letter to Mr.. Corwin. 1t says:
The recent letter of Mr.. Gidding s to Gov. Cor.
win is interpreted by some of our harmonious Dem
ocratic friends MS a document of great interest and
Importance. Were it anything new for Mr.. Gid.
dings to advance the opinions contained in that let.
ter, there might Se some reason in magnifying il
as an attempt to create division in the Republican
ranks. But the peculiar views Of Mr.. Giddings, it
is we'll known, have never been endorsed by the
party wiM which-to use the language of Mr.
Keitt of South Carolina, in defining his own rela-
ton to the Democrocy-he chooses at present to act,
but of which he evidently does not consider him
self an inseparable portion. He has his own in.
dependent notions, and has q perfect right to urge
them whenever and wherever he sees fit. The
creed of the Republican party. however, is to be
found in its platform, and not in the Individual ut
terance of any one of its adbercnts.
1--WE are not quite sure that Mr.. Giddings ex'
poets any special response from Mr.. Corwin to his
late epistle. If so, he selected an inopportune mo-
ment to address him, as that gentleman has been
for some time absent, and is now earnestly labor
ing in behalf Of the Opposition eau Sc, on the great
battle field of Illinois. His time and talents are
there more practically and ~usefully employed on
the stump, than in discussing distractions with Mr..
Giddings. The contest there going on, is one of
vital consequence to this country, for all the future.
The abstract questions proposed by Mr.. Giddings
for agitation will command no attention at this
time. They have all been sufficiently answered
and explained, however, by Gov. Corwin, in the
speeches he has already made in this State. 1t is
enough to know, at present that he fully endorses
the national Republican Platform, according to its
most obvious and only ineligible meaning.
"Tbose who affect to regard Mr.. Giddings as the
author and the legitimate expounder Of the Phila.
delphia platform, are doubtless we'll aware that no
such authorship or authority is anywhere recog.
nized. lie may have had a hard in drafting so
much of that platform as endorses the Declaration
of Independence and the Federal Constitution, but
these resolutions affirm no more than any North.
ern Democrat, oven, would be ready to avow. The
platform contains no Abolition sentiments or aught
that the most conservative men could not consis.
tently endorse for the most conservative States,
men (Thcmas Jefferson and Henry Clay ~included)
have emphatically declared against extending sla-
very, and against the policy which would pledge
the whole weight and influence of the federal gov.
eminent to make that institution perpetual. The
Philadelphia Platform is decided and unambigu-
Gus on these points, and it is equally SO against any
infringement upon State rights, or any interior
) ence with slavery in States where it exists.
I'VE repeat here, what we have said on a former
occasion, that the tendency of q Republican party
is not toward more radical views. Aboli,ionists
like Gerrit Smith so well understand this, that
they have set up for themselves and if the scnti'
ments urged by tho Ashtabula Sentinel in favor Of
a crusade against slavery in the States, are enter
tanned by Mr.. Giddings, he will of course be i'm
PEELED in q similar direction, rather than attempt
the useless labor of remodelling the Republican
creed 80 as to embrace Radical Abolitionism."
AN EXAMPLE FOR IMITATIoN.-Ou Our friends
at the anniversary who manifested so earn
est a determination to give efficiency to the opra-
tons of the society for the coming year, have car
ried their purpose with them to their homes and
at once set about the work of its accomplishment
As an example our friend Reuben Erwin
g. writes
D II yesterday got five subscribers to the Bugle
| think with some exertion | can get several more
when l can find time to make the effort"
One hundred and fifty such friends scattered over
the country, by such efforts would place the paper
e in an Independent position, and leave the com
, mittee all the donations to the society for the sup
port of the living speaker.
ANOTHER ViRGINIAN BANlsuED.-Captain vii
D liam Mott, a respectable citizen of Norfolk, Vir
4 ginia. a ship chandler by profession, was las
5 spring suspected on very slight grounds of giving
aid to escaping slaves, and ordered to leave the
city. He Immediately sent his wife and children
North, went himself to Richmond. and thence
wrote several letters to the Mayor of Norfork, ex
. pressing his desire ~to!submit to a trial, provided h,
could be assured of protection. He could, howey
err, get nothing satisfactory from this quarter, anC
an appeal to Gov. Wise was equally ruthless. A
q last resort, he returned to Norfork, but was re
. ceived With such hostile demonstrations, that h
deemed it e%xpedient to leave for Baltimore. II
{ now intends to institute a suit in the United State
" Court. in some other part of the State than Nor
{ folk, claiming damages against that city to tn
amount of 1926 900.
The Captain had better save his money than t
r invest il in a law suit in the federal court. A maj
> SUSPECTED of tie offence alleged against him is al
c ways condemned whether innocent or guilty.
, SHAREHOLDERS IN THE NORTHERN STATEs.-Ai
o investigation would doubtless show q large mum
Der OF Shareholders resident of non.slaveholdinl
States, and further. that they are deemed honora