Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-03-24

You have, | presume, read Mr.. Stewards great
speech lie is oGtea spoken Of, even by liberal
writer's, os a man who never resorts to clap,trap,
or anything of the kind to further his designs,
But cannot help looking upon his thoroughly
American antithesis, in which he opposes African
slaves to white froemen' as belonging already to
the dd cdptaadum UUigus species Of oratory, which,
in anybody else, we should set down under the
head Of demagogueism. Tho phrases, Sink you
to the level Of tho African aad desire to elevate
all ,0hite men to n comm n political elevation, ,
must be inexOrably referred to the same class.
Burns, born and bred under n monarchy, could
clearly perceive and plainly declare that,
The rank is but the GU meas stamp,
A mans a man for a. that.
American statesmen, Of the fret rank, are impress
sed frst, last and always, principally with the fact
that The black man is a negro
Think, too. Of his speaking Of the execution Of
John Brown as both necessary and Just 7 His
arrangement Of the words in the prepared motto
fjt the Republican party is ominOus Union and
Liberty !'-Union first and Liberty afterwards.
Depend upon it these things are not accidental
nothing Of the kind is with such men as he, cool,
clenr-hendod anG able-they weigh the effect Of
an arrangement as well as the intrinsic worth Of
words. His assertion, in speaking Of the various
members Of this COnfederAoy, that the State least
perfected and developed among them all, is wiser
and better than any foreign State he knows," must
lower him in the estimation of all discriminating
minds. But it will make him popular. | cannot
agree with the Republican press, or rather the
more liberal portion of it, in the conviction that
Mr.. Seward is willing to wait" All these
things taken together furnish me with strong ovi
dence that he is quite impatient for promotion
There is so much human nature in great people
after all. For oue, ! must declare that l have sci
dom read a speech emanating from a man Of any
reputation. which impresses me as so contradictory
preposterous and unstatesmanlike. All the mol
want is the authority Of such q name as Mr.. Sew
ards in justification oftheir negro-hatred and tbeiI
false and i~mpudent assumption Of national supe
riority the only question is how Mr.. Seward car
reconcile it with his conscience to furnish then
with this authority. What 4 pretty mess we arr
making of it.
You, too. have lately had some precious cxhibi
tons of this sort. What an entertaining sight i
must have been to you 10 behold the Republican
Governor Chase, p~aradiug the streets Of your me
,ropolis, sandwiched between the mau-stealinl
Governors of two slayeholding States
"Wasn't that a dainty dish
To set before a king! !"
They had been invited to your State, too, if
mistake not, by your Legislature, Republican
| believe, as the best means of exhibiting to thI
world their own servility. But, rs q Peunsylva
MIA Democrat said to me, not long since, Then
European monarchs is jist jealous of us becaus
we're on the very psnnacle Of fame |"
l cannot but believe that if the discriminating
English correspondent Of the National Anti- Slar
cry Standard could again visit this country AM
, remain awhile among US, her views of men an
things as expressed some time since through tn
columns Of that Journal, in the course of her an
madversions upon several OF the most faithful an
able Of the American AbOlitionists, would b
} greatly modified, or rather, would undergo an on
tire resolution. We, who have the perpetual bat
e tie to fight with this meanness and corruption, sc
and feel that the necessity fcF remorseleEs crit
n cism and relentless ex posture, so far from havin
e passed By, was mover greater than it is at this yer
r moment, now when the only political party mai
ing any pretensions to decency is already fairl
2 within the outer circle Of the Great MaelslrJon
l. which inevitably inguits all who venture near j
fearful eyre, and when tho omnia s~ercltcr pr
domiaatioRe Of Tacitus is about to be endued wit
a new and deeper meaning.
1t is in times like these that one feels especial
G thankful for such men as Mr.. Foster and Pillsbur
and others whom Mrs. MartineGu besough: to ceas
, their exposures OF the quscks and charletans wi
It are doctoring the body polite, taking especial cal
: of themselves in the meantime. The idea whiC
i these politicians seem to have of sta.esmanship
that it consists in adroitly taking advantage of tt
o labours and sacrifices of others more unselhs
Q than themselves, whom they ~Skilfully manage
l.. stigmatize as fanaticalo or impraci;cable. We huI
i recent occurrences will did our British friends
is attaining clearer ideas of our difficulties.
AS for myself, l can never forget the incalc
n liable services rendered to our cause in this Sta
10y the two gentlemen whose names | have me
n toned and through the early lAbors of Mrs. Fostc
h services unsurpassed in moment to US, as you you
&c self, are eminen,ly qualified to testify. II
A. splendour and earnesrncss Of Mrs. Fosters ell
Is quence, have left an indelitlo impression on Il
IT minds of those who had the rare good fortune
d hear her and | am fully convinced that nothiI
lc could be mare advantageous to the cause than
" return to this field of those most noble and sc
sacrificing labourers. But they have already il
y posed upon us "A debt Of gratitude which we q
in no wise likely to cancel.
IS Very sincerely yours. &c.
HOWARD W. GILBERT.