Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-11-26
REJOICE, AND BE EXCEEDING GLAD.

REJOICE, AND BE EXCEEDING GLAD.
Who should %rejoiceY And ,chy should they be
exceeding glads The members of the Federal
government should rejoice, every man of them;
and be exceeding glad. because with alacrity they
performed their constitutional obligation to PRO
tect Virginia against domestic violence;" and did
il too, without any great outlay of money, or any
great sacrifice of human life. A few only fell
upon the battle field, and only q few more are
doomed to death upon the scafold. And what
was the murder Of John Browns sons and two OF
three Of their companions, and what's the strapg-
ling upon the gallows of the old man and three or
four of his fellow c%aptives, compared with the
salva ton of the Union, and the right Of the South
to whip piggersf Democrats should not be per-
mitted to monopolize the entire glory of the active
ment, for Republicans are equally entitled to the
honor of fulfilling constitutional obligations at
Hsrper's Ferry. Some of our over-sensitive Re-
publican friends, who think they are able TO per-
ceive in politics a vast difference between tweedle-
dun and tweedledee, will perhaps feel a little
o griev,d by ,ur opinion Of the just distribution OF
the honors which have accrued from the Harper's
Ferry victory; but the consistent and conservative
members of the party, know that we speak only
the truth-that we accord TO them only what they
claim as justly their duo.
And now to the law and to the testimony. l. is
true that an administration chosen by Democrats,
did the Harper's Ferry work; but they did it, not
as the re representatives. Of the Democratic party,
but as the representatives. as the sworn and paid
agents of a Government composed equally-or
paorly on-nr nap,nnrots und Rppuhlionpa Tbpy
did it in view Of the binding Obligations of their
constitutional oath, which the members of these
parties unitedly required of them as a moral bond
for the performance Of their official duties.
Some Of the Democratic papers-perhaps m ost
of them-claim the Virginia triumph as belonging
exclu,ively to she Democratic party. and assert
that q Republican administration would have been
less prompt, and less willing to protect Virginia
against domestic violence" The Washington
Republic, claiming to be the pational organ of the
Republican party. Indignantly denies the charge.
and says,
seriously, the assumption that a Republican
President would not as promptly and as Willingly
put down any such insurrectiunary movement as
a Democratic President, is too malicious and too
ridiculous to merit q grave notice."
II is to be hoped that hereafter no anti-slavery
Republican will be so ridiculous" and SO mali
cious" as to assert the contrary. GA n
The S. Louis Eccniag Neus, q Republican pa,
per, recently published an editorial which will be
found on our first page. We copied it from the
Ceceland Leader, which gave it as an explanation
and vindication of the Republican party. and
without expressing dissent from any of its posi-
tions. The editor of the Neus-it will be seen
--Is.-z-z A. eLa,r kLa la.napk,hla roor1t, uh,at
would follow from o belief in the assertions of the
Democratic press, that the Republicans were IA
vorable to the Harper's Ferry attempt. lie as
sumes that a Republican President will be elected
in 1860; and the slaves, having heard from Demo
cratic lips that the Republicans were their friends
" The credulous and doomed creatures will be-
lieve it all-sad, fatal, hell born lie though IL be
and they will dance with lrenzied joy around tbeiI
camp fires some night, and meet a dreadful and
extermina ting slaughter before the setting of the
next days sum-"
What can the South ask more than that? What
o. McDufee required To what greater degrade
tion can any party descend?
The millions Of our couutry's embruted bond
men, struggling against the crushing weight oil
American despotism, see, in the success of the
Republican party, the bright and morning star, the
herald of approaching day. The weight is lifted
from their hearts; the Spirit Of Freedom hat
breathed into them tho breath Of life, and eaot
slave has become a living soul. Their hope was
delusion-a 'sAD, FATAL. HELL-BoRN LIE" Bal
led by this delusion, ":hey dance wiM Jrenzied jog
around their camp fires ONE Might" husbands
and wives, parents and children are rejoicing il
the new life which God has opened before them
their tumultuous joy browns the heavy ramp o.
the approaching hosts Of Republicanism, and theiI
shost-lived freedom is exchanged for "a dreadful
and erterminating" slaughter. The next day'i
Sun locks sadly down where lie heaps upon heaps
of mangled fOrms-infancy aud age, man in hit
strength, and woman IN her weakness, indiscrimi
nately slaughtered. Whole hecatombs are there
sacrificed to the Demon of American Slavery
whose officiating high priest is the Republican
party, and whose glory and reward it is to receive
from the South the commentator of "Well done
good and faithful servant"
Such is a picture of Republicanism as recently
drawn by one Of its own artists. Friends OF thu
slave, how do you like ity
'8bifr WORKS OF IMAGINATION.