Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-08-04
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LETTER FROM NEW ENGLAND.

LINN Wass', July 70, loOO.
To THE EDITOR: So the "Children of light" are
growing as wise as ''the children Of this world"
contrary altogether, 10 express scripture declara-
ton. Aud the Bugle has become for the time
beipg, "a Campaign Paper"
The thought was a happy one. While the poll
.icsl pot is boiling with death 10 il, more terrible
than The Hebrew prophets at Gilgal, there is need
Of your restoring handful of meal for the gener.
al preservation. Most heartily do l unite in
your hope expressed in the last Bugle, that the
Campaign acquaintance may ripen into q long
friendship on the part o. many thus newly intro
duced.
A thousand things have occurred here in New
England since last l wrote for your columns, 0f
great anti-slavery interest; but l have forbone all
correspondence of late. except the indispensable,
os one means Of recruiting my energies for the
autumn campaign. And it is only within this
month, that ] have had the least hope that l could
again this season, encounter the long jOurneyings
and great fatigueS os q Western tour. But my
prospects at present, are more favorable.
The approaching Presidential O. ntest will be
one of great ferceness. History furnishes no in
stance of a nation so divided. Four Candidates
are in the field, each claiming the prominence in
devotion to what is called Nationality and the
Constitution, though those terms are really under.
stood by all parties, 60 mean 70 More than fidelity
to the demands Of the slave power. On no other
que stion has the loyalty or patriotism of any of
the parties been doubted. And it is the great,
grand work of the Republican party to show AMI
subs,aniiate, that whatever pledge or promise
Douglas, Breckinridge. Bell, or Beelzebnb will give
TO Shareholders Vherc they are, and to Sld0ery chere
ii is, their candidate, weighed in the same balance
shall not be found %wantingl
Nor is this all, For Mr.. Lincoln tells US he sees
not how he could withhold his vote for the admis-
sion, fairly asked, Of New Slave States. He de-
clares himself opposed to the abolition of Slavery
in the District of Columbia, without the consent of
a majority Of the voters there, and unless compen-
'ation be given to all the opponents of the
measure. lie says he is not sure that Congress
has the power to abolish the International Slave
Trade; but il it have, be is opposed to its uncon-
ditional exercise! And ae also declares his belief
that 1.-THE South has a right to a Congressional
Fugitive Siare LdW;'' and though the present act
is open to some objections he would do nothing to
impair its e9Sciency.' And his Platform moreover,
virtually pronouuces John Brown one of the gray
est criminals who ever died by the halter !
For all these, and many more similar revelations,
l am indebted to the Boston Edition of the Life
and Public Services Of Hon. Abraham Lincoln
now flying like snow fakes through the country.
And Jet, strange to tell, Mr.. Sumner in a four
hours speech in the United States Senate, endeav.
orsd to show that the -four headed hydra, Slavery
had not one semicolon, comma, nor even parentha.
sia in tho uhola Copnt;tnt;ont Ao3 - No. vi,
before a vast assemblago, he vindicated the same
doctrine, and then closed, by laying himself and
all his gospels on the altar of Republicanism, and
prouOuncing q fulsome Eulogy on Lincoln and
Hamlin, both Of whom would spew such an inter-
probation out of their mouths. Could double-deal.
ing demagogueism further 60?
/ saw a man yesterday raising q Republican
Flag Staff and banner. When l told him, if that
is The very bes: you can do, do that, he asked,
did you ever see so double-dealing O devil, az
Douglas'2 l said No, unless Lincoln is match of
him.
Was that too severe? Let US see. Have not
Giddings nnd Owen Lovejoy within a year, pro-
claimed the same sentiments OF Sumner, in letters
of cbain-lightning, and word, of devouI;ng fire?
And have not the multitudes responded to them,
va opVldu5e Ieut Iue neateu5 anu bnOOk the
groundH And then do not these same Summers
L~ovejoys and Giddingses ask and expect the PEG,
pie to give their votes for Lincoln, on a platform
solemnly sworn to respect and support the four
headed barbarism,' as long as the forty fold barba.
rians wish to carry it onl
Should oil who profess to agree with Gerritt
Smith on the Constitution, vote for that gentleman,
he would lead all the other candidates by immense
numbers, if he were not elected president. But,
so stulti6ed are the people, that double.faced dema.
.gogues thus mould them at their pleasure; though
vast multitudes of them, really hate slavery at
heart, and would die in a pitched battle for its
determination.
But my letter will get too long. We will meet
some of these questions soon. on the field of fair
but bold discussion. Indeed, the work is we'll be-
gun. We hear good accounts of Mr.. Campbell
and Mr.. Foss in States west of you, and of Mrs.
Grifing and others in your nearer vicinity. And
the grand peal of the Bugle also comes, with full
assurance that the cause in the West, 'stil! lives;'
and shall liUc. We are confidently expecting to
bring into the field during the autumn, some new
auxiliaries, whose circumstances heretofore, have
not been favorable to much public labor. So that
while the enemy seems coming in like a flood,
VI shall still be able to bear upward and onward,
tho standard Of Gods Word and Spirit.
Yours in foil expectation and hope,
PARKER P~ILLSBURY.