Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-09-15
"a coin WATER TICK Rrn


Such is the heading under which tho Cleveland
analyst places the names OF Lincoln and Itamlin.
WhyR Is it because the platform Of principles or
policy Of the convention which Nominated them,
indicates that The suppression Of lntemperance is
one Of the leading objects Of the Republican par
ty Not at all. On the contrary, there is not
there to be found the most remote intimation that
such an evil as Intemperauce exists in the
land, and still less ,bat it Is the duty or desire
Of Republicans to e~xtirpate it. Is IL because the
delegates who nominated them werO cold water
men, and because their nomination was received
rs a triumph of Temperance principles Not at
all. On the contrary, a great portion OF the dele
gates were drinking men, and unless public report
much belied their ,onduct, the ticket was chris
tened With copious libations Of champaign and
whiskey aud so far from the nomination being
regarded as d triumph of Tempora nee principles,
rum drinkers u-plenty are to be found in the Re-
publican ranks, who, in rotations Of strychnine
whiskey, wish success to Lincoln and IIamlin,
Why then call it : Geld Water Ticket p Only
a shadow Of @ reason is to be found in the fact
or the nlledged fact, for Lincoln is a mum candi
date-that the nominees are Temperance men.
Admitting that they are is that sufficient to con-
stituto q cold water ticket ? Surprising them to
be Prcsbyterians, would it be proper to head it A
Presbyterian Ticket and endeavor to enlist Pres
byterian support, While the platform upon which
the nominees stood was not only silent in regard
TO Presbyterianism, but a large minority, II not a
majority Of the delegates who made the nomina'
ton, and certainly q large majority Of the support
es Of the ticket we're Univcrsalists, Unitarians, OF
some other opponents of Presbyterianism. Il il
said that all is fair in politics, but any one whC
endeavored, in the supposed case. to win support
for the nominees because it was "A Presby tcriar
Ticket would be accused--and justly-os obtain
ing votes under false pre,ences and we are una
BILE to see how the pretence of a Cold Waite
Ticket is any more defensibie.
IT the Anylist wants q genuine cold water tick
et, composed Of men who are a~vowedly teetotalers
and who stand upon a platform which recognise
D the Temperance movement as q legitimate brdncl
Of governmental policy, wo commend it to tn,
nominees of the Radical Abolitionists, and to th,
following resolutions adopted by the nominating
convention of that body, affirming the short com
ing Of the Republican party, and indicating thei
own position upon this Question.
Resolved, That in refusing TO protect the peopl'
from the ueHOlatlnp sCouTSes VI III run tIhm
where it 1.-THE Republican, partly not only has tn
power but an admitted right to do SO, it has dem
onstrated that a party that allows the rights of tn,
black man to be outraged cannot DO relied ON 70
protection to the white population.
, Resolved, That Radical Atolitionism ~possesse
n strong temperance element and it is the desigr
of the Radical Abolitionists to recommend strin
gent legislation on this subject, and to Withhold,
their political ~sufrasS froh all the opponents o
Temperance.
We do not OppFetshd a very heavy vote for tn
nominees referred ,o-Smi,h and McFarland-fo
success, or the hope of success has a strong inAu
ence upon political Fem pgranco men as well n
political Abolitionists both classes of which ar
TO be found in considerable numbers in tho Re
: publican ranks, the che claiming that the tick
! is a cold water ticket and the other asserting tina
n it is an anti-slavery ticket. And in thus histal
ing their own desires for fa0ts, they palm rpoj
community IA counterfeit presentmcnt Of Temper
ance and Anti-slavery that will do more injury t
society than all the spurious bank bills that hay
4 been issued for the last twenty years.