Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-10-29

in me one case az in the other. Zachary Taylor
was a candidate for the Presidency. All the quail
6cation he was known to possess was.
tina. be was well coated over with the blood
Of men women and children, shed in
Mexico in Que of the wickedest wars which stains
the page of history. He owned likewise great
numbers Of slaves, whom he worked up into cotton
bales on his plantations in Louisiana. Now mark
the result. Friends went in a body to the polls,
and sustained their long cherished testimonies by
voting for old Zac. BAIL The stencil of General
Taylor's murderous battle field rises not more
rankly to heaven, than tho smells of that picty
goes up to tho nostrils Of God, which, pi blessing to
be opposed to all war and slavery, annually depos-
It's ballots to raise such men ito the highest Offices
in the government. Another singular fact in, this
little evil Tor devil) business is, that one takes
one, his ~heighbor another, so that in the
end, like Cowper's tale Of the M~ussulman's hog,
the whole of the evils are taken. am acquainted
with two ministers of the gospel, both opposed to
slavery, who while such anti-slavery men as Aaron
Stalker, John Russell, and Nathan Hill voted for
uilner de the least Of the evils, these ministers
very conscientionsly voted for Williams. the
opposing candidate, for the same reason ! They
had n noble reason for their vote it was to save
the Union. Their plea is quite as good as that Of
Messrs. Stalker, Russell and Hill. Q, the glorious
Union-what a blessed vocation is Union-saving-
how many patriots have embalmed themselves in
a nations remembrance by the blessed work Of
Undertaking Of late years! Yet / cannot vote for
a stakeholder to save the Union. Truth is dearer
than the Union. / cannot do evil that good may
come. II the Union is only to be saved and held
together by the cement of the blood of the slave,
then let the Union perish. If the government is
to be dissolved by the attempt to set the slave free,
then let its dissolution come in a moment, and Q
shout loud as seven-fold thunder 90 up to heaven
at its extinction. Away with the Jesui,ical doc
trine that the end sanctifes the means'--tha. it is
right to do evil that good may come. For to
choose the least of two, or more evils, is, in fact
doing evil--doing what is supposed a less evil
with the hope of producing a greater good.
Still, it is doing evil that good maycome',
Can anything be palmer? s..m
am heartily sick, wearied out with the profess:
ed friends of the slave, that they turn aside from
the clearly revealed mind and will of heaven to
follow the delusive doctrines of expectancy. II
the slave has no better friends than such, be may
we'll turn in despair from earth, and look. to God
uiuuos o Wlieb Nv tuo nuEuo Va huHT
can, found herself unable to remove the blood
from the dagger. Even so, the blood of the slave
attaches to every ballot cast for the stakeholder
Gilmer, and no pains, labor, skill, art or evasion
can take it thence. .-;.
And I sincerely hope that all such, especially as
call themselves anti-slavery men, who have in the
dilirium Of political excitement, incurred the fear.
full responsibility Of such voting, will, when that
excitement shall have subsidized, and reason, which
has been dethroned, shall have resumed its empire,
be exercised with immediate repentance, and that
they will feel within themselves q firm determines.
ton, under Divine aid, hencoforth to do works
meet for repentance.
Yours, very truly.
b. WORTH.