Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-07-28
FOR THOSE WHO HAVE EARS.

10 De sent them as above stated, for three months:
FOR THOSE WHO HAVE EARS.
1t would be unfair for the Douglas Democrat. 10
represent their candidate as opposed to wha, ia
technically called squatter sovereignty for the
friends of breckenridge to claim that be was an
advocate of the principles Of the Wilmot proyisd:
OF for the supporters Of Bell to insist that theit
nominee was a Disunionist. And it would be un-
iair' not because these things are good or bad but
because to do so, would be gross misrepresentation:
1t would be equally unfair for the Republicans to
mlsrepresent the position of Lincoln, which we are
sorry to have to s6t the moro progressive portioi
oil the party unquestionably does d charge which
cannot be brought against the conservative; BRO:
slavery, wing.
Those who desire to learn the views of tincoln
in relation to the great questions Of the day: NAV
not hope to obtain any satisfaction by an epistola:
ry correspondence with him, for letters from pres
identiHl nominees have come to be regarded as
dangerous to the writer's, and no more to be IN:
dulged in than the 'basty plate Of SOUP which
zen. Scott once unfortunately ate; they are there:
fore referred to Mr.. Lincoln's public record. Up:
on that and upon the testimony of his friends
they must rely for information.
An immense Lincoln and uamlin meeting WAS
recently held 10 New York city, with one hundred
and fifteen Vice Presidents, and twenty seven SEQ:
%retaries, at which various letters were read and
sundra speeches made. Although the proceedipos
were reported in full in the n. y. Tribune. Wa
shall take the liberty of selecting, and presenting
in our columns a few points which re feat some OF
the anti.slavery readers of that print NAV oyerlooE
in their desire to see nothing calculated to lessen
the anti-slavery estimation in which they wish I'd
hold Lincoln.
LETTER FROM J. o. PUTNAM.
The writer declares himself to be of tho CON:
servutive school, willing 10 follow where duty and
patriotism lead whether under a Clay.a Fillmore;
or a lincoln lie says, The friends of Mr.. CLAW
VINO sustained the compromise measures of 1850,
: naturally yielded their support to Mr.. Fillmore in
l 1907 whose administration was distinguished for
T Its fidelity to these measures Where now shall
these friends Of Mr.. Clay 60 7 is a Question which
' Mr.. Putnam asks, and be answers it by showing
that as in 1856 they naturally supported Mr.. Fill
. more, in 1860 they will as naturally support Mr.,
Lincoln. The tShole policy Of the Republican par:
o ty, he declares to be. to preserve to freedom terri:
0 tories now free,' and this assertion is correct. lie
T admits that the Republican party has some aboli-
tionists in it, but what Of that ? so had the old
n Wing party He affrms 1t is not more an aboli-
ton party than was the old Wing party, and froml
the strong conservative elements in it,can no more
become so, than can the Baltimore Un,on Party.j
9 As for the candidate of that party, Mr.. Lincoln
20 is no fanatic, bawling after equal, social and polit.
ical rights for the negro with the white race He
. is opposed to slavery eztension--so was CLAW Ia
" hopes to see slavery extinguished by the parties
% interested, and In lawful and proper ways'-so did
Clay. On the whole, Mr.. Putnam appears TO "a.
gard Mr.. Lincoln as occupying politically the
ground upon which Mr.. Clay stood and tina,
J those who Sustained the latter in the adoption of
J" the compromise measures of 1850, and who stood
II by Willard Fillmore in the execution OF them. are
y just the men who will find themselves suited with
II a candidate in the nominee of the Chicago Con.
u vention.
y Horace GREEIEY's tPEEcH.
u Mr.! Greedy de6es any man to show that A6ra-
ham Lincoln id any act Of his life, ever went an
u inch further in this direction Il. E. against slaSerS
and slavery extension) than did the Wings of New
York in their State manifesto Of IS47. And Ia
show how conservative he is by his Congressional
record, he adVerts to the fact that when a bill was
: introduced in 1913 to abolish the slave trade in the
District of Columbia, Lincoln voted with the South
Is on a motion to lay the proposition OH the fable,
IN and against Greedy, Giddings, & Co., and that mo,
ton not prevailing, when the vote was taken upon
the original question, Lincoln again voted With tie
South, and against Greedy. Giddings & Co.
p After referring to other votes moro anti-slayery.
~ wise, but which Mr.. Greedy claims were in accord
y ance with the old Wing doctrine, he asks 'Why I,
It those old Wings (James Brooks and others) turn
IN against their old Wing brother, but because b,
be stands up to his principles, and they have desert
o. ed theirs p
IL RtFts 8. Andrews.
C. This gentleman proposed to show that ID regard
in to the slavery question, Mr.. Lincoln holds tn,
OF same sentiments as those entertained by the fouu
r. ders of the government, and which were acduiesc
H. ed in and adopted by Mr.. Clay, and Mr.. Webster
u and the Wing party, of which they we're the ao
khowlcdged leaders, lie shows, as did the othe
speakers and writer's, that Lincoln is anti shaver,