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

# course, discussed Buchanan's rascality, as he
Ieems posted on that. Mr.. Howard said he was
he man in the district, in Michigan, where the ro-l
party was invented or baptized by that
name, and was the first man elected to Congress
by that party. And, he added, very omphatically.
is not, nor never was the object of the part y to
with slavery. Mr.. Blair preached tho fu-
neral of democracy. Mr.. Burlingame seemed the
nearest to anti-slavery, but qualified his portion
by saying that he was q Know Nothing, which
elected loud applause. Every speaker c~ulogized
Clay, Webster, and other defunct, ancient wings.
The Bellies ratified, not long since, having
present as the high priest Of ceremonies a rospect-
able looking gentleman calling himself tho grand
son of Patrick Henry. / think as an orator, the
grandfather, though dead, is more honor to the liv-
ing grandson. than the grandson is to the grand.
pa. Mr.. H., like the other speakers, regarded
that hidra monster, abolition, as The terrible Apol-
yon, which, like Greatheart, it is their mission
to Stay, or this glorious Union would be colored
red, very rcd, with the blood Of in.ernicine war
How those old chaps do try TO cry
Saturday night the Seventies had n r~dt-ifying
time in Independence square. 1t sounded rather
funny to hear their speakers. Here was a Louis
ldNdi, l"O AidDhuh mum u NCh AOihVir NJ NO"o
man, and others. Abolitionisra was their Diggest
devil Breckenridge, Buchanan, Yancey, and
Gushing, smaller imps, who have all been playing
devil by falling from democratic grace and abus'
ing tho tho brief legged Stephen, the model giant
Of the Egyptian part Of Suckerdom. This Stephen
was their i'm personatiou Of all the beatitudes Of
political goodness and greatness, md to innpNte
evil to him is to be guilty of an objectionable sins
and worthy of death without the benefit Of Office.
But it was richNto hear these southern orators talk
ing Of liberty and old Independence Hall, as if
they knew what they said.
l admired one of their banners very much, on
which was inscribed, in great letters, Union and
Harmony.' 1t was racy to read that, and then
hear the speakers damn Buchanan, denounce
breckenridge and give Cushing--Caioo.
And with this harmony they all and each elect
ed Douglas, easy,s they diG-in words. Another
amusing feature was, to hear eoteries of Buck:
and Dugs tongue-lasbing each other about thoii
political orthodoxy. What q happy political fam
lily
Of course The speakers oil were for squatter SOW
%ereignty, and on the slavery question they ar
sovereign squatters. Mr.. Douglas, himself, dix
not arrive in the city ill after IL, and made but
very short speech at the Girard house. lie sale
Congress had other matters to attend to beside leg
is!atng on slavery. l wonder if he thought g.
about the time the Infamous fugitive slave law wa
passed, and when the Missouri Compromise wa
repealed.
Ono evening last week, the people-not the re
publicaus-held a meeting in Camden AmonI
the speakers was Nj. Mc'Michael, editcr.inAchie
Of the North American. an old whig paper here
Mr.. NJ. is reported to have used the words, til
eternal and the internal niger And in his dali
{ of the 2Sth ult, he states that Mr.. Lincoln is no
obnoxious to conservative voters, FOR he says tina
"he has never in this matter gone half so far,eith
err in words or action, Gs Thomas Jefferson, uenr
Clay. or Daniel Webster. lie mas proven, by tet
vUtes in Congress, that Washington Hunt and d
r. Ingersoll, old Wing companions with him, an
leading spirits in the Union Convention at Bait
more, voted yea and he voted nay for the abb
iition Of slavery in the District Of C%olumbia,u r
less tho people were consulted and the owner
paid. lie took the same ground taken by Clay.
Now where are our abolitiohists who once tougl
" Clay, Webster, aud the old Wing party on accour
n Of their pro=slavery proclivities ? Who has chan
ed, they or the whig party7
On Monday night the Brecks, Tor Breckeu-idl
> party had a ratification. A concourse of sou
ten thousand were present. Manifestations of di
order were significant and numerous, but no &c
eral outbreak occurred. In relation to the Brech
and bugs. the forhet certainly acted much Il
most gentlemanly, and the latter the most ro%d
. ish, for they tried to break up the meeting
Monday night while the Doug. convention on 81
uftay night was undisturbed.
~ Among the speakers on the stage we're d N
40 Wright, 10. Lane, Mr.. Marshall, Of Ky. and Gle
Waul, of Texas. Gen Lano, the candidate I
,e Vice presideht,is d respectable looking old gent
al nah. an indifel ent orator, and denounced SOU,
ter sovereignty as a humbug. Mr.. Marshall is
or rather furcible, deliberate speaker, and NO to {
h. fellow who undertakes to interrupt him-he is C
70 AN to shoot back. As did the Republican orato
, so did he-he praised Webster, Clay, Benton a
n. other pro slavery men-and was decidedly do
h, On the homectead bill. But Gen. Waul Of Tex
Ia was the hero of the ovohing in tho way of dent
en- citation. He spent nearly all lis time dissecti
be Douglas aud his leading friends--and justified
~ course of the seceders at Baltimore and Charl
a ton. lie is q great big strong looking man a
as made his fists fly rather menacihgly when
es pitched into Forsyth, Heron and other eoutht
tn Dougla; ORATORS that spoke Saturday night. A
~ all these speakers elected Mr.. breckenridge j.
rf as certainly as November follows October.
NJ. To me all this Babel confusion ausefs favora
Ia 10 liberty. When these pto'sldvety men quar-
ifo dthong themselves they DIRE more than half beat
If Heretofore they stuck together and niumpb
,st May they quarrel on until tho slaves all run OF
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