Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-12-29
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. II, 1860.

S|cHUYLKILL, Chester CO., Pa.
10th Dec, 1860.

10th Dec, 1860.
To THE EDITOR OF THE ANTI-SLAvERY BUGLE:
A friend yesterday handed me half a dozen of
the more recent numbers Of The Bugle, in some
of which ! fud accounts moro or less complete Of
The action Of several Of your Western Conventions,
the tone Of which reminds one Of those we used to
hare in the East, but which are sadly Out Of fash
ion here. 1t is consoling to fad that those among
you who are most prominent in reform still recog-
nice the necessity of ploughing deep to insure an
abundant hcrvest, and are not carried away by the
desire for what ls often called Success" but
which, when Analysed, is found to be no success
at all.
Recent events, (both of a public and private
nuture,) in this County, which probably upon the
whole comprises as much intelligence as any other
in she State, indicate anything rather than that
the success of Lincoln is q triumph for our princi-
Piles. Superficial people regard the abandonment
of the different branches of the Democratic party
for the Republican, as conclusive evidence of a
more enlightened state Of mind on the part Of the
individuals making the change. Experience has
taught me that it furnishes no such evidence.-
1t is a truth-though one which / was slow to
Acknowledgements the majority of the people are,
in times like these, s~olicitous, principally to ascer-
tain which is likely to be the successful party, and
to make all haste to ally themselves with it, if they
are not already in it; and the truth never was bet
ter exemplifed than in the recent election. There
was an instructive conviction that Lincoln would
be the successful candidate, and thousands of men
who never dreamed O! having any conception of a
) principle of any kind whatever, rushed headlong
into he Peoples party" with all the haste Of
vulgar people who ars afraid they may be too late.
. And this very name Of Peoples party" which
y the Republicans assumed in this State, is one OF
, the best proofs Of what 1 have alleged. Only think
of it! The most liberal political party in the Com
=" monwealih of Pennsylvania, in the year 1860.
afraid to assume the name which the men Of the
Revolution adopted as q generic term for the very
. form of government which they established! Isn't
this a pretty commentary upon our "progress"f-
The name Peoples party" was adopted to please
the masses" who find it very agreeable to be
courted by those they regard as their superiors--
l though Heaven knows they often make a grand
mistake in their estimate-and who, to a great ex.
" tent, are as vicious as ever in their democratic ha
~ tired of persons having the least admixture of Afri
% can blood in their veins. The Republicans simply
lowered their standard so as to entice these people
~ into their ranks.
Is In Philadelphia Mayor Henry has just beef
r. presiding at grand Union meeting made up o
"a men of all the four principal political parties, an,
40 has declared, in effect, that mob law rules in tn
- city, as he has avowed that he cannot protect q
n Anti-Slavery speaker in the exercise Of the rigt
Il of free speech, guaranteed TO him even by th
&c Federal Constitution, mean as it is,* The meetin
"a was opened with prayer by Bishop Potter, and VIZ
. in the worts of our most liberal county newspapt
To- 'the most cringing and servile meeting of the kin
ever held" This is rather mole than l should
,n willing 10 say, for have we not all been sickenC
b., beyond even sea-sickness, with the humiliatir
..s exhibitions of this kind which we have been OBJ
ged to witness before? But the meeting did pied!
~, themselves that they would see to it that our L
% ~gislature should diligently and humbly overha
-. the statutes of the Commonwealth, and, if tb
81 found anything in the remotest degree eOpfictil
with the Federal Constitution, that they shou
- expunge it Immediately. Mayor Henry, you W
remember, is the "People's!" choice for the off
rio- be now fills. Truly eve are all poor, miserat
mr. creeters."
iaE- /, for one, am strongly inclined to the opini
lee that what the Republican party haO gained
the numbers it has lost in principle, ii there was a
ORR possibility of this latter kind in a case whore t
quantity of the quality was infnitesimally sma
rse. Not that there are not hundreds, or even the
that sands Of men united with the party in the ST.
JuI- who cherish an honest hatred OF slavery Tor
its own sake, but their influence is but little felt, co
paratiyely, while the numerical majority, true
,bo their asinine propensities, drown the voices
the reasonable few with their loud and unmista'
Die bray. 1t requires more pluck than most of
ant:-siavery members of the patty possess to
counter the certain opposition Of the leaders
And then the "lenders," themselves, are led
was told, while in Centre county in the sunni
IN by a man on whose word | could rely, that he
\ heard Mr.. Curtin, our Governor elect, declare
John Brown was the greatest man the cour
.m had produced since the Revolution" And
Mr.. Curtin is quoted by the Union-savers in
city as Of one mind with themselves, This is "
l al we call Craftsmanship" and MIR Seward regl
'"''' t as the only thing worthy Of tho name, for
We genius which creates and glides the great curr
very Of thought into purer channels may be philoso
HOo' but is not craftsmanship, according to his the
'"e 1t seems to me we might make a shift to do "
'eoon out these Statesmen" pretty soon.
. Some of the Anti-Slavery people seem to be r
'"nS er too much inclined to 10 overwhelmed wi
our sense of the condesceusion of people Of this c
TO
OF q = The constitution does not guarantee even
work much it simply declares that Congress shall
asing abridse freedom o! speech leaving INC plate
liberty 10 DO 80 ED bUGl