Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-07-14
THE ANTI-SLAvERY BUGLE.

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ny country. If success should attend them in the
now matured, and to be carried cut about the
'ides Of March next, ali, they think, will he we'll
with them. Ii, ON the contrary, their scheme
fails, and their traitorous conduct be crushed by
the power and cree Of the popular feeling, they
think they will have q secure retreat behind State
Governments, where they will take shelter to save
their necks from tho halter they will 80 richly de-
serve. For the present will not develop more.
You will soon hear it from other sources, and !
will not then occupy the position Of an nlarmis',
which you now may 10 disposed to assign me. !
warn you that we are on the eve of a disruption.
The world is rife with discomfort and revolution.
l pray that our lard may be exempt. But mark
my prediction. The sappers and miners are at
work under the name Of Democracy. ! have new
or sent you one word Of intelligence, which | had
reason 70 believe was not true; / never shall
Forewhrned, %torearmcd.
FRED DOUGLASS IDEA OF A GENTLEMAN.
Fred Doug1ass' Taper, in an article on gentle
men, has the following
GfsNt importantly seems to exist on the
question of tf5 moral character and habits of the
gentleman. A certain Captain Henry made his
WY " Wv iOOms VI AuENuGTt u ltN ulEul6
ago, and in language not by any means choice or
delicate, Informed that Senator, that he, with GER
tain associates, had come for the purpose Of cut.
ting his throat. The Mayor of Washington, net
being quite able to understand the gentlemanli
nees Of throat cutting, Investigated the matter and
insisted that the gentle Captain Henry should
apologize to the Senator. The apology consisted
in executing himself on the gentlemanly plea Of haV.
ing been drunk, and was climaxed by the esser.
ton that q stream OF gcnteel blood, three hundred
years old, flowed in Capt. %Ilenry's veins. Now, on
the supposiIion that this mans ancestors were
Thugs, trained up in the aristocratic circles of
T%hugdOm. whore throat cutting is the amusement
q! the higher classes, Capt. IIenry's assertion Of
his gentle Lineage is clearly explained, and the
Administration which continues to employ drunk
en-, throat cutting Capt. Henry in the Patent Of
flee, is not to he blamed, for he is u gentleman. al
though he does get drunk, md does threaten to
murder Senators. We once heard a Southern
clergyman eulogize Preston Brooks as a gentle
man, who assaulted and nearly murdered an un.
armed man with O club. Nay, we believe that
Sonthern ladies', in pIatoons Of crinulire, put up
whole rows of fermilliun lips for Preston Brooks
to Kiss, az a reward for having nearly murdered
one of the ripest scholars, profoundest statesman,
and most finished orators in America, thus show
ing their appreciation of this Carolina gentleman.
Senator Chestnut rose in his place the other day
aud applied to a GEotbeE Senator lahEtage so foul
and brutal thet it would have startled all Billings
gate to have heard it; but Senator Chestnut is q
gentleman. Senator Wigfall gets drunk, AID voido
maudlih hch6ente and blatphemy by tho hour; but
hn fSn 30 onpt1or,oH Tbo rN;,od n,n;,oroor
with tina; pink of ~chivalry, Roger \. Pryor, at its
head. pours out a whole 6roadside Of epithets such
as come only from an Irish fish market, or an
Alabama slave pen, upon Mr.. Lovejoy, who is a
clergyman; but these Democratic Congressman
are all gentlemen. The standard Of Gentility in
the South is the number Of black men and woman
who have been robbed and plundered by the can.
didate for sociS! distinction. Up here a, the North
gentlemen are so far behind the times as to pay
their hostlers. In the South, no nah is counted
a gentleman who does not steal his hostlcr, wage:
and oil. Here, when gentlemen eat a dinner, they
are so Vulgar as to pay for its having been cooked
There, the more aristocratic practice of taking
another mans wages to buy the raw material, ant
then hunting q cook with dogs and guns, to drest
the dinner generally prevails in the best society
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perism; but in Tennessee, hanging upon tie skirt
of a dozoh poor negroes, as the only means o
5 getting board and clothes, is the very height 0
%gentility. In the North, gen tlemen rely on fact
and arguments to carry their point 10 debate; hu
in Virginia, the revolver and the tar bucket ar
the highest style of gen:lomanly logic.
SECRET ABOLITION SOCIETY OF A~LABAMA.-Th
+ NJ 1 IL J---- Il at IL.
allusion to the suspected existence off secret Abc
lition Society in Choctaw county, Ala:
S We have been hearing rumOrs for several day
9 of the discovery Of a secret organization existinI
in the southern portion Of Choctaw county, sus
pected of having abolition tendencies, which va
y creating some excitement. We have been place,
c in possession Of facts which leave no doubt Of al
e organization in that region, which is, in some sort
g iniIiical to the institution Of slavery. 1t is headet
d by a preacher, who is at the same time q doctor
J, and has existed some three years, 8rd ga,here,
= within it's folds over a hundred members oil pied
s ged against lighting to protect the rights of ricl
q men. 1t purports to be some sort Of a poor man
e organizations, and the pledge above mentioned i
e believed to be intended to have special reference
to slave property. The ringleader is suspected o
@ ocing an Aoolltlonlst' ana mas lnVelgled a mum
q Der of honest and true Southern men to oommi
themselves to what somo of them have repudia,eC
o when they came to see the real drift Of it. An in
q vestigation has been had by a committee Of citi
G zens, tut no sufficient proof elected to Warrant
o summary dealing with suspected parties. There
is something in the rumor more than we have
o been able to arrive at, but we shall get the pGrtic
ulars soor.
= A Douglas Democrat, lamcntiDg in q circle o.
bystanders, the disruption of the Democracy
exclaimed
s What a spectacle does the Democratic party
# PRESENT.
= BY jabet5, d pair Of spectaclss ? responded q
jolly Hibernian.
The following was received by Harper 4 Bros