Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-03-17
THE ANTI-sLAvERY BUGLE.

70 obey tho mandate, and IL is surprising to see the
aiacrity with which they proclaim their own dis
honor, deny themselves, betray the GAUGE they
have protested to love, and lick the very dust that
that they may secure "a listle brief authority
and are willing to sell themselves and the cause
they have pretended 10 serve, for this putrid mess
of pottage.'
loo often the ~profsssed chan 2ious o. liberty are
eloquent only in cordS-tbey make loud prsten-
tions-lOng speeches full Of high sounding phrases,
but when the moment Of action comes, they are
beautifully less or minus quantity-a moral fail.
ure. Thus II has ever been-and We cay il more
IN sorrow than in angor'-with the only political
party that has the grace even to claim any anti.
slavery sentiment, The living elOquence tina, 6Eds
a voice IN acts, lie a degree OF grace to which they
have not yet attained, and to judge by their con-
duct for which they have no aspiration. Success
is their watchword, and to purchase a triHing.
temporary success, they will part with principle,
when even the victory gained reminds the locker
on OF the remark of a famous general, when in
formed of the particulars Of a recent victory, won
by his t.oops-'twO such victories are equal to a
defeat
And sometimes we think they have never learn
ed to discern n moral success in defeat, and vice
versa. Flee they never would have sounded the
peans of victory over their so called triumph in
electing q speaker, whose anti-slavery sentiments,
Notwithstanding his boosted Republicanism. seem
to be very popular among Shareholders and their
apologists. And The loud cries Of cheers, cheers,
that greeted Mr.. Shermun's speech on that memo
rable occasion, even from slave-holding lips, must
ha Avn haan n haolin0 hahn IN hia anirit affar tho
many sharp thrusts aimed at him, during the terri
BILE war Of words, (almost equalled by the famous
encounter with the windmills, 30 thrillingly des-
cribed by the knight Of La Mancha), and his sud
den popularity was probably very gratifying, for
he had certainly stopped loo enough to merit it,
Who would suspect, upon reading that spontaneous
burst Of eloquence that gushed from his lips in
the hour OF O party Success,-a success that con-
tanned every element of defeat but the name,-that
he possessed a single snti-slavery sentiment The
apparent satisfaction with which he announced
the triumph of his party, and the equally crafty
ing fact that the value of slave properly remained
unchanged forbids for an instant the thought that
he has any wish, to change it's value or render
the image Of God in ebony a thin TOO sacred
TOR merchandise; and his prophecy for the future,
that so it will be when a Republican PRESIDENT is
elected is significant, not merely as an expression
of individual opinion, but as the sentiment Of the
party, which, in a measure he represents.
And though we should have rejoiced had be
proved himself 'oorthy of the honor which the
fierce opposition of shareholders for q time bestow-
ed upon him, liks the false heroine Of Harper's
Ferry, he has deliberately 'uncrowned' himself.
cast down the budding laurels from his brow, and
stopped to win the applause of the oppreSsor.-
And n anti-Slavery man should tremble for the
purity of his creed, when slavehoiderS applaud
We have q faint impression that it is written in an
ancient book Blessed are ye when men shall hate
ye,' &C., and also, 'Wo unto you when all men
shall speak well of you, for so did their fathers of
the false prophets and we have a fancy that those
old truths have not lost their vitality, but are sp-
plicable to men and women at the present day, in
public and private life, and full of comfort must
be their mission to the heart of the earnest. honest
one, who is fearless and firm in the right.
CELESTIA II. COLBY.
Cherry Valley, AshtabuIa CO., o.