Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-01-02
B. S.. j.


CONCORD, N. ii. Dec. 2lst, 1891.
DEAR FRIEND ROBINSON: 1t is COMMERCIAL
CRISIS" now, and there is not much material for
letters. 1t seems u sort Of continued funeral, and
though no one is dead, there are many mourners
going about the streets. And the mourning seems
real, not hired nor pretended-more genuine even
than most we saw, when cholera was sweeping us
down, like the Angel of the Lord, the hosts Of
Senacherib.
Many say "we'rs ruined ; we've lost half a mil
lion dollars, more or less !' we're ruined torerer !'
Ruined, because, not they themselves, but some
thing altogether outside of themselves has vanish
ed-disappeared. Ruined, " because certain tons
of gold and silver. they called theirs, are theirs
no more. If this be ruin to them, let them De
ruined. 1t is no loss to the Universe. The golden
calf at the foot OF Mt. Sinai, might as we'll blase
about ruin.
Probably, such men we're ruined before. And
this which they call ruin, may be their first sign
OF hope Of recovery. If \ man is ruined, merely
because he has lost sundry dollars then VIC are all
ruined, are we hot. who have not tie almighty
dollar! The man who thinks he is ruined by the
loss Of money, either 10y it; or by the getting OF
it-and so are oil they, (rich or poor who think
so with him..
And this, it is to be feared. is the condition Of
most men in the community and country, So that
after all, the commerce. crisis" is no calamity,
but the greatest blessing a beneficial God could
oestow.
You cannot be Indifferent to the present inter
estiug moves on the political chess board. But
the revelations come SO thick and fast. that those
e of to-day will be forgotten before this letter reach
P es your readers, or yourself even, SO it will b,
t useless for me to dilate upon them.
We must admire the wondrous forbearance o
e the Republican Party Leaders and Editors ant
{ their forgetiulness of the past towards their for
mer foes. They seem more than ready to for
y give, at the first symptoms of contrition On tn
u part of the worst of them. They are rs tende
all at once of Senator Douglas and GovernO
e Walker. as Methodist ministers are Of young me
and maidens whom they have frightened to tn
I ANXIOUS seat" Verify their charity is almo'
%infui,e! 1t covers a multitude of sins, and
sinners TO boot. Probably they have visions
d 1860 before ihem-so also have Senator Dlugla
Il and Governor Walker Caleb Cushing ard JUDI
e Loring and they are rapidly repeating again,
e that evil day. Let us pray that the latter NAV nj
be discouraged in his hopeful course, by any IA,
sep on the part of the Massachusetts authoriti'
to eject him from the office he holds, though il
lr in defiance of law and right. What can Mr.. Gil
's dings mean by his letters to the Ohio Statesman
:, copied into "a late Bugle? Can he suppose Il
IT South can do aught but laugh at such empty iu
minations? Was there rot a western man on'
y whl said Of Musquetoes. their buzz is rorse la
* -, rat - ~, ,hinG oF man p,ntinr n anla,u
of league and Union Of States, half to hold slave
'e with the other half TO help them, first, by makir
he slavery respectable, honorable, patriotic al
Id rious. and then by armies ana navies to hold Il
ut slav 8 in subsection, to think of men deliberate
E. and cordially doing this, and then coolly yotiI
Ii themselves SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS APIECE OR NOR
II, AS compensation for n couple of visits, or visit
E. tons, rs the case may be. TO Washington, al
then to talk Of hanging one another for dol
We what all have agreed may he done, and what
" are pledged to help do, directly OF indirectly,
in this is surely II spectacle not often given mort
bt eyes to behold!
ID But for the Onion, the South could not do one
p those deeds for which Mr.. G,ddings would put
e. many to death. | should he unwilling to ha
10 any body. But the sworn and pledged supportt
as of the Union and Constitution here at The Nor
OF are to my own apprehension, the men of all othe
IN who deserve the halter. Most certainly, they y
ed late all good taste, IA well as sound morality n
as Justice, when they threaten to inflict death on
iy principal in a crime which could never be co
mitted, only which they themselves act directly
to the accessosies.
ng Yours aud Your Readers.
PARKER PILLSBURY
For tta Ruvls