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Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-07-23
THE BATTLE.

Freedoms battle can be begun 10 be fought in
all the distant provinces of the empire. 1t is not
necessary that we should meet in common conflict
Slavery has intrenchod itself here. Slavery has
SET up it's fortresses and its Businesses in all the
Free States, and those fortresses we can storm,
those Qualifications We can carry; we can spike
those guns we can declare our independence.
Why. sir, we almost did it last year, and if we had
not had a Presidential baby at nurse, we should
have done it. daughter and applause.) If we
had not been obliged to take care of ourselves, to
tread, as it were. upon eggs, lest we should, per.
adventure, damage Mr.. Banks chances for the
Presidency-whicb, thank God. are now utterly
annihilated (applause)- If it had not been for that
we should have had q Personal Liberty Bill which
would have rendered the execution Of the Fugi
tive Slave Law and the recapturs of slaves in thi.
State impossible. We were not very far from it il
New York, aAd we came within sight of it in
Maine and New Ham pshire. In two States, The
work has been really begun. In one, by the de-
cision Of the courts, and in the other by the legis
latiye expression of the sovereign will of the peo
pie, the Fugitive Slave Law is annihilated. NJ
slave. if the will Of the people and the law of tn,
land are executed, can ever be taken from Wiscon
sin or Vermont. And what a glorious opportuni
ry had Ohio just now to do the same thing! Tn,
Republican party, which now holds the politica
destinies of that State in its hands, might, in thu
constitutional exercise of their power, BY the cleo
ton Of such judges as would represent the min,
of the people, have repealed. annihilated, nullife,
cit is q good word)-nuiyied those ~atrociou
Jaws of the United States Congress. And VIII,
was it not donei Because they have there a poll
tical h~uckster, who hopes to carry bis principles :
the Presidential market next spring. / thanl
God that his chances are quite as desperate a
those Of our present Governor. Yet lest, perad
venture, the chances Of Salmon p. Chase nigh
be hindeied in the Republican Convention Of 1860
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-07-23
THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE.

Occasional" writes as follows on this subject,
to the Philadelphia Press:
II wish those verdant politicians who are con-
s%tantly declaring that there lie no serious purpose
to reopen the African slave trade, could be here
in Washington and hear the Texan politicians
talking on this subject. A very large portion oil
these men are in favor of the re-opening of the
African slave trade, and this issue enters
so extensively into the canvass for Governor,
and for members Of Congress, to be decided
in a few weeks, in that State, that every
thing else seems to be lost sight of. If you will
pick up the Texas papers now, you will find ar
guments pro and con on this issue, that will al
mos, lead you to believe you are reading Northern
journals. The truth is the EXTREMIST slavery
sentiment has been taken on the plank by thu
Germans, who are colonized in Texas in vast mum
bers, and who will insist at oil hazards agains
every thing like q re-opening Of the African slave
trade. They feel that tho introduction Of barbar
GUS negroes into the fair and fertile feldSof n re
gion recovered from military Mexican misrule b,
white men, and which they, the Germans, are rap
idly giving to civilization, is neither more nor lesl
than an insult to them, and an outrage upon tn,
sentiment Of Christendom; and it il a little curiout
to see how they have taken the starch out of tn,
fre-eaters,"
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-07-23
JUDGE GKOLSON AGAIN.

We are glad to see that some members of the
Republican Party, are not willing to accept Judge
Gbolson as the immaculate abolitionist which 9TH
ers affirm him to be, and are not prepared to look
upon him as one, who-if elected-will ever have
before his vision the ghost of the Slaughtered
Swan" and with fear and trembling so frame his
decisions as to avoid the rock upon which the pres
emit incumbent made shipwreck Of his political
hopes.
A recent number Of the Cleveland Leader con-
tains an account of the Oberlin reception of Bush
nell on his return home. Among the speakers
was A. G. Riddle Esq, and We presume that just
at that stage Of the proceedings when his speech
was made. tho reporter was exceedingly weary for
his report of Mr.. RS remarks does not quite fll
six lines. Some persons, after reading the subse
quent remarks of Mr.. Giddings may be Ill natur
ed enough to attribute the suppression of Mr.
Riddles speech to other than fatigue on the par
of the reporter. Mr.. Giddipgs. we are told, said
"He thought it i'll became one Of the previous
speakers (Mr. Riddle was meant) to detract from
the State Convention which nominated Judge
Gholscn, who would 60 for the executi IN OF the
Fugitive Law, when that same speaker, rather
than 90 to the Convention himself, sent a delegate
who went himself for the execution of that law
and for Democratic Principles. lie then proceed
to exonera:e Judge Gholson from the charge OIL
treachery to the pledges he made at The Convention
TO carry out every part Of the Republican plat
form. Mr. Riddle had told his hearers to vo.s
for Judge Gholson as a man who was not pledged
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-07-23

but he should vote for him es a man who 'rds
pledged by all the promises and oaths possible TO
carry out Republican doctrines,
We ars fttiher Informed that,
"Judss Sfalding remarked that If Judge Ghol.
son was not right on the slave question, he should
not vote for him, and many more would not"
Mr.. Giddings may talk rs much MS he will about
Judge Gholsoh being "pledge to carry out Re-
publican doctrines" such pledge amounts to but
little, fer the t%latForin is exceedingly narrow.
Judge Swan carried out Republican doctrines and
if Judge Gholson goes as far, the pledge upon
which Mr.. Giddings would have the party rely, Il.
redeemed, and the anti-slavery voters, every man
Of them, are thus deceived by their LEADER.
A son of Judge Gholson, writing to the Oxford
Miss Mercury upon his fathers nomination,
says,
personally, my can't get-overa5le and foolish
sectional prejudice would lead me to regret his
nomination by the late Convention at Columbus;
and that he did not adhere to the resolution he
formed some months since of returning to the
practice of his profession but, be it as it may I;
| would willingly stake all | bold dear, dearer than
life itself, that. If elected, he will perform his du-
ties to the true letter and spirit of the law, even to
the remanding of a negro lawfully claimed to his
master, without deviating to the right or to the
left. for or against the rules, regulations, tenets,
doctrines or platforms of any faction. sect, party
or organization under tho sun. His oath Of office
would oblige him to do this, if his sense of hon
or and his duty to his fellows did not likewise
render it obligatory and, sir. there is still q lit.
tie honor left in the world-yes, and in Ohio even,
though politicians are h~ustling it out as fast as
they can.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-07-23

less attacks until the landlords we're beaten into.
submission, until The great tori the ex-colleague Of
tho Iron Duke" confessed on the 1oor Of the
House OF Commons, that free trade, the bug-bear
OF all country gentlemen, the sarest ruin which
had ever come upon the oft-ruined EN- pire, was not
the work of his own hands, or of the House itself,
or OF the asistocracy, or Of any great body Of ,hc
state, but Of this plain Manchester manufacturer.
Since that period Cobden's position has in no
WY changed, lie has continued to assail the
privileged classics as much as ever, to preach
against the army, against the church, against war
and conquest, against the restriction of the fran
ohise, against restrictions on the press, against ev-
s~rything. in short which tho governing classes,
whether wing or tory have hitherto held in creates,
respect ,ormost feared to touch. And finally without
any modification Of his principles, an iota Of eonces-
sion in bis practise, without intrigue or solicitation
during his absence from England, he has been
placed in the ranks Of a ministry which probably
combines a larger amount Of force and ability than
has ever been brought together since the days OF
"all the talents. With such q cabinet in England
and a French army formally and solemnly COM
misted to the vindication Of the freedom Of q for
eign and oppressed people. we think it can hardly
be said the world is making no progress.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-07-23

cannot colonise new regions unless you have men;
you cannot make new states without people aud
you cannot have people for new slave states ex-
cept they be brought from Africa. The condition
precedent Of all progress and expansion on the
part Of the South, then, is q large importation OF
Africans, and Of course, the repei! of all the silly
obstacles in the way Of law which the general gov
eminent and the universal sentiments Of humanity
have erected against the traffic in men. 1t is no
longer noedful or polite to disguise the fact, and
the whole South should unite as one man in the
prosecution Of tho evil.
This is frank and explicit the policy Of the
South is declared. Such men as Mr.. Stephens,
men Of large experience and caution, who weigh
their words, are not ap. to run inter will-o'-the-
wisps, and when they state what they mean, VIC
may know that i. has been determined upon. A
few Of their coadjutors may reluct at the course
proposed, and hold back till tho indications Of
public sentiment are more unequivocal, but they
cannot avert the inevitable course Of things. In
the general public gatherings of the South, also
its views may be expressed with u more calculat
ed vagueness, in order not to repulse too perempt
orily the feelings Of their humble followers of the
North but it is mono the less the settled dosigr
Of the southern party, which here takes the NAM
of the democratic party, to insist upon the enact
ment Of a slave code for the territories, and thu
abolition Of the laws which brand and thwart thu
slave-trade.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-07-23
LET THE RECORD BE CORRECTLY
KEPT"

We are quite as anxious as Mr.. Giddings is to
preserve a correct record; we therefore hardly feel
feel at liberty to publish the piece we have copied
upon our first page, entitled ''The Finale of the
Kidnappers," without making a few mments.
The Leader italicises its assertion that THE
Kidnappers are clearly guilty and would have
beer convicted" as if that matter was settled be-
yond a peradventure. If 60, the formality and ex-
pense Of a trial would have been utterly useless.
We are not of those who examined the indictments,
and are probably not acquainted with moro than
the gen eral facts Of the case. Our knowledge,
however, leads us to believe that Jennings & Co.,
were not legally guilty Of Kidnapping, nor do we
believe they would have been convicted, except
upon the principle on which Sickles was acquitted,
and which led the jury to disregard, in his case,
both the law and the testimony. Admitting for q
time, the truth of the Leaders assertion, we are
not able to find much consolation in q remem-
brance of the fact, that four men legally guilty Of
kidnapping, whose conviction upon trial was Ger.
tain, and whose punishment was necessary for the
protection of the colored men Of Ohio, have been
turned loose upon community for q consideration
NOT known in law, and q thousand times too dear
at the price which was paid. The Leader, howev-
err, tells us by way Of comfort, the Lorain author
tiles will prosecute if another kidnapper comes
within their reach" How do you know that. Mr..
Leader? If your affirmation covered more ground
We should consider it more reliable; If you had said
they would prosecute or snap, we would have in
clined to agree with you. But if We are TO judge
Of the future administration Of justice in Lorain
by its recent dickering, we have no reliable assur-
ance that any scoundrel will DO prosecuted, pro-
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-07-23
THE 4TH OF JULY.

l do not think that, when old John Adams said
that this day would be welcomed by the ringing Of
bells, the pealing of cannon, and the shouts of
rejoicing multitudes, this idea entered into his
mind as one of the elements of his proposition. !
do not believe that he wished the cannon to peal,
the bells to resound, and the shouts of men to 60
up, because this was to be the day when more
slaves were to be sold under the hammer than any
other; and yet, such has been the Inevitable Sc
quence, the logical necessity of the state of thinss
which they left-not on the fourth ofJuly, indeed,
but in 1887, in the next step Of the Revolution,
when the people came together to knit up the raw
elled sleeve of their political institutions, and to
make out of it a girdle which was to bind togeth-
er the sovereign States into q common empire.
They listened to tho temptation Of the devil who
then solicited their ear. They listened to the dew
il Of compromise, and they consented that slavery
should enter into the elements of their Constitu-
ton. If the men of the North had had the virtue
and 6rmness to say to the South, we will form
no Union with any States in which all the inhabi'
tants are not as free as we ourselves there would
have been a conflict, not of arms,-I think that
would have been impossible,-but there would
have been a conflict of opinion, which could have
had no other end than the emancipation of the
slaves Of the South. But they let that golden mo
ment pass. They took the little egg of slavery in
to their bosom, hoping that the serpent which il
produced would die a natural death ;-as if tina
were the normal way in which natural history op
crates But, instead of dying a natural death, j
has grown up into a dragon, which now threatens
to devour their children, and all their rights.-Ed
mund OuincU.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-07-23
From the Cleveland Leader.
AN 0BEKLIN CASE IN KANSAS.

Our readers will reeollect the rescue of a colored
barber named Charley Fisher from the slave catch
ers in Leavenwcrth City, last Spring, and his es-
cape from his pnrsuers. A Missourian named
Hutchinson claimed him as a fugitive from service
and at his instance a dozen or more of the citizens
of L%eavenworth have been indicted in the United
States Court for violating tie Fugitive Slave Act
Among the arrested is Champion Vaughn, editor
of the Daily Times. Charley was believed to be
free by everybody, and he was set free on a writ
Of Habeas Corpus. Most of the citizens of Leav.
enworth arrested are young men, whose industry
and character are above reproach, and at their head
is Judge Gardiner, a judicial officer elected by the
people of Leavenworth county. who issued the
writ of babeas corpus. He too is indicted, and in
legal phrase declared a felon The Times says;
This is monstrous. All the country over, and
in every State of the Union, the acts of a Judge,
allowing legal process of law demandable of rights
are respected, aud his official conduct held sacred.
Yet here in Kansas, and under the Fugitive Act,
Judge Gardiner for obeying or seeking to enforce
the statutes of the Territory, has been indicted by
the Grand Jury, and is now proclaimed to the
world a felonl
"We mean to obey the law and make our fgh
inside of the law but we warn the powers that b
of the peril before them. They may pack juries
but they cannot pack or blind the masses. The.
may by legal machinery annoy and harrass goo
citizens, but they cannot drive or chain the people
These will not do wrong, or submit to it the
will not see justice overridden, and injustice don
to men who have stood by the rights of Kansas
under its own law, and who will stand by thes
rights to the end"
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-07-23

out. But the greatest objection offered is that
such admission would 10 wer the standard Of scol.
arship." The Adelphi Society has done more to
lower the standard Of scolarship" in this bigoted,
manifestation, and in the passage Of these re-
solves backed by no arguments or Logic, than oil
the Michigan or any other institution will evbI
suffer by female students. The University would
not be seriously injured IL "some of the Faculty
and many Of the students" did withdraw, and
females took their places, if the hackers Of sucl
resolutions are specimen-brick s.-Analyst.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-07-23
COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENT.

AT the last meeting of the Executive Committee,
the following named persons were appointed to
make all necessary arrangements for the next an
nual meeting Of the Western Anti-slavery Socie.
ty: Kersey G. Thomas, Abram Brooke, Humph-
rey Hoover. j. R~idgeway Haines, Lewis Morgan,
Ssml. Harris, Enos Hills, M. r. Robinson.
They will please receive this as an official notice
of their appointment.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-07-23
PRINTING FOR THE ARMY.

Accompanying the French army in Italy. and
forming part of its equipment, is a cart. solidly
built, and drawn by four horses, containing q
small hand-press, with ample supply Of paper,
ink, type, and everything else necessary for prin-
ting the bulletins, p~roclamations, and orders of
the day. Such a thing in connection with the ar
my of Alexander, Caesar, or Hannibal, or even
Washington, would not only have condemned them
as crazy. but in the age and condition of the world
then il would have been impossible. The world
moves. We hope the time is not far distant when
all the small and great battles of earth shall be
fought with the Printing Press. Its messages
would be less deadly and destructive than those
which issue from the ~cannon's mouth.
The art of preserving life and making %nations,
kingdoms and empires happy, and of creating new
and more bountiful blessings, shall yet be the
study Of mankind. Then the nations shall learn
war no more, the swords shall be turned into
plow-shares and the spears into pruning-hOoks.-
Randolph Co. journal.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-07-23

In BAD WAY.-The Adelphi Society, of the
Michigan University, have recently passed a series
Of resolutions against the admission of female stu
dents to the benefits of that institution. They
declare that they ought not to be admitted; that
some Of the faculty and many of the students will
withdraw if they are admitted; that to admit them
would destroy the efficiency Of the institution. and
similar ,ery powerful reasons for keeping them
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-07-23

THE BUGLE can be obtained every Friday, of
Isaac Prescott. at Steers Book Store on Main
street, Salem, Ohio.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-07-23

Ea-FRANcEs ELLEN WATKINS is authorized to
for any monies paid on account of the paper:
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-07-23

q judge known to hold the pro-slavery opinions Of
a majority Of the court Judge SWAMI wac elected,
Edmund Quincy.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-07-23
Che Antt-9laperp Bugle

SALEM, OHIO JULY %. 1859.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1859-08-24
THE YANKEE LOVERS SOLILOQuY.

AS poor as o Ratchet I've grown,
As poor as Jobs Turkey, by Golly
stand like scare-crow, alone
Sad victim of loves melancholy.
feel most confoupdedly blue,
Life's rose is turned into thistle;
My sweetheart has turned out untrue.
And sacked me as slick as whistle, -
Though lively and keen as a rat,
And playful as any young kitten,
She has got the sharp claws ola cat,
And shows em to me through the mittep,
Vi our village girls she is the belle
As plump as partridge she grows,
Her hips for two cherries would SELL
Her cheeks are OF red as q rose,
Like two bran new dollars her eyes
Her figure is neater than wax
In beauty, with Venus she vies--
Her hair--it is finer than fax,
icourted her day after day,
Expecting a wedding to follow,
Alas J for my love thrown away
Her heart, like pumpkin was hollow!
As thin as Ratchet I've grown,
And as poor as Jobs Turkey, BY Golly
stand like scare crow alone,
A victim of loves melancholy.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1859-08-24
Political Movements.

The editorial letter Of the Baton Rouge Advo.
cate dated New York Aug, says:
As the time approaches, the question of the sue
cesson to the Presidency assumes more interest
In this political as well as commercial centre.
Gov Wises last letter Tor what was his last up to
July l5 alternately admired for its brilliant in
genicusness, its great inconsistency with his posi-
ton assumed during the Lecompton controversy,
and lastly for the perseverance which it exhibits
On the part Of the author to win the great stake
Tor which he has entered. People laugh at the
Governor, read his letter with great relish and
Avidity and invariably come to the conclusion that
he won't do for the Presidency.
The Herald gives out that Judge Douglas has In
preparation another Presidential manifesto |: one
that Is either to make spoon or spoil horn y
before the Charleston Convention. He has eyi.
IDENTIFY lost his hopes for the Southern vote, and
aenceforward his game. is to lead big trumps from
ashe North. The two-thirds rule, however, withstand
IKE mountain in his way TO success and while it
stands our section viii take tricks enough from the
ooard To prevent the Little Giants hand from win
ming.
The letter Of Mr.. Buchanan declining the use of
nR name for denomination at Charleston evidently
makes the friends Of many small aspirants breathe
mofe freely. Mr.. Buchanan has thus honorabiy
carried out the intention he expressed In 1856, and
trust every Administration that may come after
a'm VIII lind in his course an example worthy Of
following tits said that our venerable Executive,
Stser us ume shall have expired, will retire To-
"hea.lana and prepare an elaborate defense ofthe
treasures OF nus Administration. If he does SO, the
s;s men WIN undoubtedly take its place side by
. .us xsa .ne aoless papers issued by our former
~, ven simon Cameron is in Philadelphia end is
Aia to be playing most sklllully for the BLACK Re.
PUBLICAN nomination He will nroye . dangerous
antagonist to Seward, besides whose absance ma
u MS hrst lieutenants, Horace Greedy. is ont West
sssSins his leaders interests almost upnrotectea in
@s powerful seat of corruption. Tharlow Weed
as' nave Horace at his post, or the game il nm
", Nsa seward Nothing can be accomplished among
y. nocky Mountain goats Master Greedy, SO you'd
'f''e' ses your face homevard in quick order.
Yours T
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1859-08-24


The death Of ]. B. Steel, SO long and fayorably
known in this city occurred at Black River in this
State, few days ago, is an event that has excited
great regret among a large circle Of friends. His
many excellent personal qualities endsared him to
everybody, with whom he held intercourse. A
the founder Of the house Of J. B. Steel 4 Co., one
Of the largest and best conducted book and station
airy establishment in the South, he was vellknown
,througheut the Southwest. That establishment
has survived him, and il now conducted at the
same place on Camp street, by his long associate,
Benz. Bloomfield, Esq, and by Edgar Steele, Esq,
brother or the deceased, gentlemen eminenly
qualified to sustain its reputation and enlarge its
business.
Mr.. Steele WAS native Of Hudson n. Y, was
fifty years old At the time Of his death, and resided
in this city twenty-five years.
delta Of 10th instant.